What’s True?
Dear Marky, I would love to find a book, or a YouTube video, or a podcast, or a film that could convince me that UFO’s are actually alien spacecraft and that aliens are present on planet Earth right now. It doesn’t really matter to me if this is actually true or not. It wouldn’t make […]
How Can I Join a Monastery in Japan
People often ask me how they can join a Zen monastery in Japan just like I did. First off, I never joined a Zen monastery in Japan. I lived in Japan for eleven years. For ten of those years I worked full-time at Tsuburaya Productions, the company that makes Ultraman. For my first year in […]
What You Don’t Speak Out Against You Co-sign?
I don’t usually look at people’s reactions on Facebook to my blog. But today when I thought I was clicking on something I else, I saw what a friend had said about my post, “What Buddha Said We Shouldn’t Talk About.” He said, “Brad is full of shit. Morality and ethics matter. What you don’t […]
What Buddha Said We Shouldn’t Talk About
It seems that I am being talked about a lot at the moment on a Facebook page about Zen Buddhism. The subject of the discussion seems to be how awful it is that Brad Warner won’t take certain political stands that the American Buddhist “maha-sangha” has collectively decided all Buddhists should take. It’s funny to […]
Sit With It
At every retreat I offer what we Zen nerds call “dokusan.” It’s a private meeting between teacher and student — or between retreat attendee and dumb ol’ me, as the case may be. During these dokusans I hear all kinds of stories, ranging from tales of the lovelorn to heartbreaking revelations of recent deaths of […]
