I (DON’T) WANNA BE SEDATED

I’m gonna go to the hospital in a few hours and be sedated. I do not want to be sedated. The last time a doctor recommended a procedure for which sedation was required, I cancelled at the last minute. Actually, at that time I didn’t know sedation was required. As soon as I heard it […]

Bliss

Well, I give up folks. They’ve now made a drink that does exactly what Zen practice is supposed to do. I’m just gonna buy that stuff from now on. Lots easier! http://iambliss.net/ According to the website: When your mind is both calm and clear and your body relaxed, you will experience that sacred state of […]

The Making of Buddhist Modernism

I recently bought a book called The Making of Buddhist Modernism by David McMahan. It’s a pretty neat book about the way Buddhism has been transformed and “Westernized.” The author also contends that this process of Westernization is not confined to Americans and Europeans who have misinterpreted Buddhism through their own cultural conditioning. It also […]

Interview With David Chadwick

Yesterday David Chadwick, the author of the books Thank You and Ok!: An American Zen Failure in Japan and Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki was in Akron, Ohio and we hung out. I video recorded some of our conversation and here it is as my first ever video blog. If […]

The Dharma of George Carlin

The other day this video popped up on my Facebook page: Those of you who aren’t seeing that link, click here or type http://youtu.be/R37zkizucPU into your browsers. The clip came courtesy of Waylon Lewis who posted it as part of this article in his online journal Elephant. Lewis drew the connection between what Louis C.K. […]