Reader Questions
Hello, readers. I thought I’d waste your time with a few questions from people who read my stuff along with my answers to them. Dear Brad, I have been trying to develop my Zen practice since about a year ago. I looked around for a local group but couldn’t find one, and so got some […]
Crazy Wisdom? Or Just Plain Nuts?
I just posted a new article on the Suicide Girls safe-for-work blog. It’s called Crazy Wisdom – The Story of a Drunken Sex Pervert Who Revolutionized Buddhism. It’s about a new film called Crazy Wisdom. It’s a documentary about the life and times of Chogyam Trungpa Rimpoche, the controversial Tibetan master who founded Naropa Institute […]
Apology to Jay Garfield
A couple days ago I wrote to Jay Garfield and said, “When I submitted Nishijima Roshi’s translation of Mulamadhyamakakarika to Monkfish Books, the title was Mulamadhyamakakarika. Nishijima Roshi had translated this as Song of the Fundamental Way. Monkfish Books said they didn’t think that was a marketable title and asked if they could use the […]
Dave Materna for President
My upstairs neighbor Dave is running for President of the United States of America. Please lend him your support. Thank you.
Trashed on Amazon
I’m in Manchester, England now. I’ll be speaking here on Friday evening and running an all-day zazen on Saturday. You can find the relevant likes by clicking here. Gudo Nishijima’s translation and commentary on Nagarjuna’s Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way is finally out and available now at decent bookshops all over the USA as […]
