Is Zen Ambivalent to Meditation?
Here’s another essay I found in my file of unused essays. I’m not sure when I wrote this. It must have been a long time ago because I don’t even remember doing an AMA on Reddit! But I must have because I wrote about it. In any case, I think the message of this essay […]
BUDDHA IN THE MONSTER WAREHOUSE (Zen of Godzilla Series)
Here is another chapter written for my never-finished book The Zen of Godzilla. As I said in an earlier installment of the series, the problem with this book was that it was really hard to connect Godzilla with Buddhism. Case in point: This chapter doesn’t mention Godzilla at all! But it does mention the company […]
SHOULD WE BLAME GODZILLA OR BLAME TOKYO? (Zen of Godzilla Series)
Here’s another chapter from my never-finished book The Zen of Godzilla. This chapter is about karma. And karma is a difficult concept. I feel like what I’m saying in this chapter can be easily misconstrued. But I think it’s important. This chapter is the best example of what I wanted the book to be like. […]
A LITTLE GODZILLA INSIDE US ALL (Zen of Godzilla Series)
Here is another chapter of my never-finished book The Zen of Godzilla. When I write a book about Zen, I don’t write the chapters in order. Instead, I write a bunch of essays based on the theme of the book. Then later on, I try to figure out what order to put them in. In […]
THE GODZILLA KOAN (Zen of Godzilla series)
NOTE: This was going to be the first chapter of the book The Zen of Godzilla (see my previous blog for an explanation of what this never-completed book was proposed to be) . I wrote this in 2012, before the first Legendary Films Godzilla movie was released in 2014. I think the Legendary Godzilla series […]
