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Dogen For Punks

I’m on retreat and can’t post. The following is a modified version of a speech I gave at the Dogen Tanslators Forum in San Francisco on November 5, 2010. *   *   * This summer at Tassajara Zen monastery I met Kazuaki Tanahashi, the translator of a number of books by Dogen Zenji, the 13th […]

Zen For Business Samurai

During dokusan (private interview) at one of my retreats on this current trip through Europe, someone brought up the historical fact that samurai warriors used to use Zen practice as a way to hone their fighting skills. Later on I started wondering if maybe, in the future, people will look upon the way meditation is […]

Orgasmic Meditation?

(FIRST PUBLISHED: August 2015, written in 2011 or 2012) I’m on retreat right now and can’t post. But here is an article I wrote a few years ago and never published anywhere until now. It’s kind of long. Sorry. *   *   * You’d think that an organization whose aim is to convince people […]

Success is Not Success

I’m on retreat right now and can’t post. Here’s a fragment of a self help book I started to write but never finished. I was getting sick of being poor and thought, “If Deepak Chopra can make a million from writing shitty, useless self help books, maybe I can make a quarter million writing a […]

Dachau Blues

A few days ago I took a tour of Dachau. This wasn’t one of those outings where a bunch of Zennies go meditate at a concentration camp. I just took the tour that tourists get. They take you on a train and then a bus and they lead you all over the memorial site and then […]