The Source Family
Three years after this article came out I heard from someone who was a member of the Source Family who says the documentary I review below was totally misleading. Here is a link to the blog she established to counter what is in the documentary. Last night I went to the Texas Theater in the […]
Happy Mother’s Day and My Movie
Happy Mother’s Day to all moms! I’m down in the suburbs of Dallas helping my dad get his house ready to sell. Anybody wanna buy a house in the Dallas suburbs? Yesterday I watched a rough cut of the documentary Pirooz Kalayeh is making about me. It looks pretty darned good! I think it will […]
Caught in a Reflection
If the following article isn’t Zen enough for you, you can go look at the article I wrote for the current isuse of Tricycle magazine (at your newstand now!) called When Your Guru Goes Bad. The new Zero Defex album, Caught in a Reflection, is now available for downloading from iTunes! The video posted above […]
Mount Baldy Retreat Report
On April 26th, 18 brave souls ascended Mt. Baldy to join me in the first ever Dogen Sangha Los Angeles Zen Retreat. I’ve led retreats before. But they were always someone else’s retreats. In Japan, I led a number of the Dogen Sangha retreats at Tokei-in temple in Shizuoka. But that was something my teacher, […]
That The Dharma Should Be Given Freely Does Not Mean It Should Be Taken Freely
First there will be no zazen tonight at Yogavidala and no zazen meeting on Saturday at Hill Street Center in Santa Monica. This is because I will be leading a retreat this weekend at Mount Baldy. Amazingly, you can still sign up for it. But you’d better do it quick because as of tomorrow morning […]