Message from the Darkness
While I was in Germany on my current European tour, I found a special double-disc edition DVD of the Godzilla movie commonly known in the US as Monster Zero. This version has a bunch of extras available only in Germany and I’m a geek so I bought it. In Germany the movie, originally called Kaiju Daisenso (The […]
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 […]
