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 […]
Dachau Blues
A few days ago I took a tour of Dachau. This wasn’t one of those outings where a bunch of Zennies go meditate at a concentration camp. I just took the tour that tourists get. They take you on a train and then a bus and they lead you all over the memorial site and then […]
Is Zen Enough?
I just finished my first European gig of 2015, a three-day non-residential zazen retreat in Munich. The question that kept coming up in different forms during the Q&A sessions and dokusans (private meetings) was “Is Zen enough?” At first the question confused me. Enough for what? It seems that a lot of people expect some […]
That Moment When You Realize You’ve Had a Moment of Realization
I’m on tour and haven’t had time to write anything new. Here is a blast from the past, originally posted in July, 2013 * * * So I’m in my car yesterday with a friend and she asks me something to the effect of, “What was your enlightenment experience like?” This is someone […]
