FOREIGN SUPERMARKTS
One of the great joys/challenges of doing what I do is negotiating foreign supermarkets. Or markts as they seem to be called in many countries in Europe. My friend Robin has an apartment in Amsterdam that he rarely uses and has kindly allowed me to stay here. It’s like having my own swingin’ bachelor pad […]
Hello From Rotterdam
Two days of day-long zazen retreats are done and all participants survived. On Saturday I was in Bonn, Germany leading a day-long retreat on a street called Adolf Strasse. I did three and a half hours of dokusan (private one-on-one talks) in a single straight sitting and came back to tell the tale. It was […]
Me & Steve Jobs: Three Degrees of Separation
Today I’m headed for Bonn, Germany where I will lead a one-day zazen thing at the San Bo Dojo. I hear it’s a sell-out crowd. But if you stand around outside in the rain and wait, maybe I’ll wave to you as I pass by in my limousine. OK. It’s actually a pretty small room […]
The Current State of Zen in Europe
Here is a photo of me in Amsterdam lamenting that reality is based on space and time. Or is it… ? I recovered from the recent hospital stuff and now my European tour 2011 is well and truly on. The first date is in Nijmegen, Netherlands (where I am writing this) tomorrow at 7 pm. […]
JUGGLING (the whole article reposted)
Here is the article I put up on Suicide Girls a few days ago with a little bit of bonus mnaterial at the end: A guy named Brian who posts on my blog (hardcorezen.blogspot.com) asked: “I’m wondering how you feel about stories of Zen masters who endured what would normally be insane levels of pain […]
