Brad

THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

I try to space these postings apart, leaving at least two or three days between them, so as not to wear people out. Last week I started uploading the new audiobook version of Hardcore Zen (see the cover to your left). My plan was for the next posting (i.e. this one) to be all about […]

Zazen is a Balance Pose

Someone wrote me this: So I have a question relating to proper posture. I graduated from massage therapy school about a year and a half ago. It’s taught me to be much more aware of my body, more cognizant of what’s going on. Recently I’ve noticed some unhealthy things going on with my zazen and […]

Spiritual Tourism and Spiritual Journalism

I’m almost done with an e-book that will be titled Hardcore Zen Strikes Again! and will consist mainly of articles I wrote back in the early 2000’s for my first website. Most of these articles haven’t been available since around 2003 when I took them off the web in anticipation of the release of my […]

Why All Spiritual Teachers Other Than Me, Nishijima Roshi and Dogen SUCK ASS!!!!

My Facebook page gets all kinds of goofy ads for just about any vaguely “eastern spirituality” related thing that advertises on Facebook. I often wonder how FB knows to target me with these ads. It’s kind of scary. I certainly didn’t call Mark Zuckerbeg and tell him I was into that stuff. The Facebook folks […]

JOHN CARTER and HUNGER GAMES

I saw two movies this week and if I blog about them I can justify writing off the ticket prices (and the nachos!) on my taxes. So here goes. On Wednesday night I saw JOHN CARTER. The one thing most people seem to know about this movie is how badly it’s done at the box […]