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 […]

Interview With Tricycle Magazine

I’m on my way to England tomorrow. But here’s an interview I did with Philip Ryan of Tricycle magazine for your entertainment. Who is that guy on the cover, though? That’s not me! I’m gonna get my agent to speak to them… Oh wait. I don’t have an agent. Poop.

Sitting In Chairs Is Not Zazen (part one million and seven continued)

First I’ll tell you a story. About three years ago I started getting emails from a guy I didn’t know. He’d read my books. He said he was interested in Zen practice. But he had Multiple Sclerosis (MS). His disease had progressed to the point that he had lost most of his core body strength. […]

Sitting In Chairs Is Not Zazen (part one million and seven)

My interview on conscious.tv is up. But it’s kind of hard to find. First you have to go to this page: http://www.conscious.tv/nonduality.html Then you’ll get a screen that looks like this: See how I’ve circled where it says “traditions” and put an arrow showing where it is? Click there and it takes you to another […]