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My Epic Battle Against Intolerable Evil

So I’m sitting there on my couch and it’s late and I make the mistake of opening up my laptop and looking at some YouTube videos. And I get sucked into one of those rabbit holes that one often finds these days of YouTubers ranting about all kinds of things that are supposed to scare […]

Retreats for Nuthin’ and Your Zen for Free

Recently Lion’s Roar put up an article called What About the Cost of Retreats?  by Pamela Ayo Yetunde. In it, Yetunde bemoans the often high costs of Buddhist retreats and says, “let’s look beyond class and invite new people into our healing environments while simultaneously making it possible for them to actually be there.” Yetunde says […]

Multiple Worlds, Fake News, Rick and Morty, Trump, and Reality

Tomorrow, Tuesday December 13, 2016 at 4 p.m. Pacific Time (7 p.m. Eastern)  on Angel City Zen Center’s first ever live streaming webinar I’ll be giving a talk and answering questions from listeners/viewers afterward. You can sign up to join here: http://www.dogensanghalosangeles.org/dharma-chat-with-brad-warner-13dec2016/ Here’s a taste of what I plan to get into tomorrow. The election of Donald […]

Zen in the Age of Fake News and Trump: A Webinar

The Angel City Zen Center is hosting its first ever live streaming webinar on Tuesday December 13, 2016 at 4 p.m. Pacific Time (7 p.m. Eastern). I’ll be giving the talk and answering questions from listeners/viewers afterward. You can sign up to join here: http://www.dogensanghalosangeles.org/dharma-chat-with-brad-warner-13dec2016/ The title of the talk will be “Zen in the […]

Fake News

The latest example of obsessive dot-connecting is Pizzagate. If you haven’t heard of Pizzagate, my best advice is don’t even go there. It’s yet another example of the entertaining things you can do with your brain by trying to connect up unrelated pieces of information. Of course, the big problems come when you take that […]