Tuesday, December 21, 2010

How Many Ww Points For Kettle Corn

Bodhitag? Schmodietag!

Thursday 09 December 2010

One of the favorite bands of American Hardcore -author Steven Bush Zero Defex from Akron, Ohio! click on the sentence to read what he has to say!

I also have now a f RENCH author page . So go and look at you when you French or Canadian or Ghanaian or whatever else you're always a-ere where they speak French.

is also part two of my interview of Dr. Dick's Sexberatung now online. So you will let you go listen.

Yesterday I am on the 30th Anniversary of John Lennon's death went to the John Lennon memorial in Central Park. I have not included this video. But it is a visual report about what I experienced there (you have no idea how damn cold it was):


I think I'm some taken hours after that of this video has arrived there, but it was basically the same scene. And I'm just stayed for about as long as this video is running. I think three or four songs I've heard. I could see the musicians as little as one who has taken on this video. I think they were somewhere in the middle of the circle. There was a trumpet player who is entered with from the moment I got there. I have no idea how anyone could play guitar in the cold. Then again it was freezing cold when the Beatles played on the roof of the Apple offices, their last concert (which for the film Let It Be). written

When I do something on Facebook have, some people were surprised about the fact that I would write something about John Lennon's death rather than to Bodhitag, the supposed day of Buddha's enlightenment, which is also on 8 Decemeber is committed. has

Bodhitag But I never meant so much. None of the teachers with whom I have ever sat a big deal made of it or Rohatsu Sesshins held that the common practice in many Zen centers around this season. Nishijima Roshi was always a bit grumpy about everything that was even a little ceremonious or superstitious. I think that it was the idea of a special Sesshin in one day to the Buddha probably did not really enlightened pretty ridiculous occurred.

I do not think it particularly important. Sometimes you get an arbitrary date out for a cause and a Sesshin around 8 December is as good as any other day. So why not? I plan on a Rohatsu Sesshin here this weekend to participate in New York.

But I tend to share Gudo Nishijima's attitude to which certain days as "holy" to see than others. I mean, I love Christmas even though I am not a Christian. But it is not more or less sacred than any other day.

The idea of such things as einn Christmas truce in the war has always puzzled me. I mean if a cease-fire on 25 may have December, why not stop shooting each other with the same all over? Makes no sense to me.

I sit zazen every day except any really tough circumstances prevent it. That's the most essential part of Buddhist practice. aufzusparen All your zazen for a Sesshin early December is for me just as much sense as a fire break at Christmas. It is about the same setting, actually. Of course, it is a less violent expression of this attitude. But it comes pretty much from the same direction.


Kates Playgroundfeets

New Suicide Girls column: Live simply

Monday 6 December 2010

OK, I have a new Suicide Girls blog yet. It says Living Simply [in the sense of "lead a simple life"] and you can find where you on the words " Living Simply clicking. Is not that simple? And it is the "safe work" page. necked No breasts or ass!

I did last night a Skype call from a friend from Japan. They just came back from a 5-day Zen retreat in another tradition which is to remain unnamed, but rhymes with Barada Basutani. She showed me this big fat wounds on her two shoulders of violent blows to the kyosaku [Department of Compassion]. She said not once heard a beat on her when she screamed. cried types in the Zendo "Mu! Mu! Muuuuuuu!" while they were sitting. Apparently three people from the group gained enlightenment. She was not one of them.

The whole thing sounded very strange and even ridiculous. I'm glad I've never been to such a Zen retreat. I would have immediately rejected. Maybe if I'm not so tired I sometimes write an entry about why I find this type of exercise so incredibly silly.

Right now I'm just puzzled.


Deck Snowmobile Truck

podcast Often Awesome, urban Zen and the right attitude (again)


Wednesday 1 December 2010


First, the Hardcore Zen Podcast was just upgraded. It's all about SEX! So go ahead, stop it out!

I am now on another podcast: Dr. Dick's Sex Advice

Second, now there is the Christmas time there, I would like to draw your attention once more on Often Awesome , a group of friends of mine who have joined forces to bring her boyfriend Tim LaFollette in his fight against Lou Gehrig's disease support. It's a damn shame to live in a country where the only way with which someone can he get the help he needs is to be begging strangers. But that is the USA. Leave me alone ... just what Donation!

Back to questions of readers. I have no special e-mail for my first question. It's just something that comes up again and again, right now I'm moving to New York. The question goes something like this: How can I practice in a city environment, with all the noise and anger and pace and distraction?

I did last night in an Shohaku Okumuras Realizing Genjokoan: The Key to Dogen's Shobogenzo [The realization of the Genjokoan: The key to Dogen Shobogenzo] and met with the answer. Okumura says the old Japanese folk tale of the rabbit in the moon. The story I of I this site copied and pasted, goes something like this:

" The old man of the moon one day looked at a large forest down to the earth and saw three friends sitting together around a fire. There were a rabbit, a monkey and a fox. Surprised such a group to see friends, he drove down to earth and turned into a beggar. He said the three friends that he was very hungry. When they heard this, they were all going to get him something to eat. The monkey brought the man a lot of fruit, and he came back with a big fish. However, the rabbit could find no food for the man and asked the monkey to collect firewood and the fox in order to foment a big fire. When the fire was burning very brightly, said the rabbit to the beggar that there was nothing he could give him, so he would jump into the fire and when he was roasted, the beggar could eat it. Just as the rabbit to jump into the fire, was transformed back to the beggar to the man of the moon and the rabbit said that it was very friendly, and that it should do what it could not hurt. Because he found that the rabbit was the friendliest of the three animals, he took it ascribes to the moon. "

Okumura, that he often as a young Buddhist monk like this Rabbit felt. He was ordained at 21 and began to live off the donations of others. He says he never developed because of skills that would enable him to engage in normal work. He often felt guilty for getting contributions from people that "real work" carried on without them return something. All he had to offer was his practice. He says: "I tried to practice zazen, like I would offer my body and mind all the Buddhas." And of course he means by "all the Buddhas" every human being.

In New York City is like the people to honk. It is not so bad as in Cairo or Jerusalem because here you have to actually pay for unnecessary honking, a fine, if you get caught. Although I doubt that anyone will ever be punished for it .. Whatever the case, every time I hear some asshole honking without good reason *, I remember that I am doing my practice for him. I train themselves to be better able to stress and frustration contribute nothing to the guys like him get to vent his anger on others. Every little bit helps.

FIRST E-MAIL QUESTIONS FOR TODAY:

typed A great friend of mine this question for me because I now 'm in prison. In your book "Sit Down and Shut up [sit down, shut up]" You say that Buddhism Dogen said not to study without a teacher. But what if you're in a place where there are no teachers? I have read all your books more than once. I have read books by Gudo Nishijima, drugs, etc. I take time every day for zazen. What more can (or should) do I do? Is there a way to study Buddhism without a teacher?

MY ANSWER:

I get many questions in the way "How can I study Buddhism when I'm so far away from a teacher, poor me". And I'm not terribly sympathetic because I've managed to find a teacher in Kent, Ohio in 1983, a time and a place where no one would have to be there to teach me Zen. I know of excellent teachers in such remote places like Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Helsinki, Finland. There are incredible teachers at every corner when you nachsiehst only once. Many people who ask this question are either too lazy to look around or too fussy to find a teacher who reflects the way they pre-image. If I had been waiting for a teacher's right for my ideals of a teacher, I never would have learned from Tim McCarthy and Gudo Nishijima.

But some people like the guy who wrote to me, are really in a position where is simply no teachers. To which I say, they should simply continue their practice. There are times in practice where you really need the opinion of another. can happen as an example what if you're trying to meditation to teach myself, I often tell the story of Shoko Asahara, the butthead who said he was enlightened, and that meant it was OK to anticipate the apocalypse by Tokyo's subway with poison gas fully inflated.

This is a very extreme case. You'll never do what likely. I hope. Most likely, your zazen is kinda boring and maybe a little confusing. You might sometimes feel have to give up. But you'll be all right. Wait a bit and you'll find in the vicinity of a teacher again just at the moment when you really need that. I really believe in the old cliche "if the student is ready the teacher appears."

types who try to solve the problem of students who think they need a teacher NOW NOW, by being readily available to do, probably no one a favor. The difficulty is linked to this is to find a teacher often part of the process of ensuring that you are ready when you finally find one.

As for things other than what you Zazen and reading can do ... I do not know. That's all I've really done for my practice to speak out with my teachers. Joshu Sasaki says to read many good books. I liked this advice has always been. I made my own website Zenbücher of which, I believe that they are not crap .

SECOND E-MAIL QUESTION:

I have your excellent book Sit Down and Shut Up read and have a question about the chapter "Proper Posture Required [right Attitude required]. " It is out of the way in which the chapter is written not clear how zazen your opinion, is possible in other positions. Although I have learned that the attitude is very important, I have also learned that it is possible to zazen practice by kneeling on a bench, sitting in a chair, in walking or even lying down, as long as the practitioner of body posture enough keen interest. Currently I have not the elasticity to practice in the prestigious Lotus attitude, so I use a Meditationsbänkchen. Do you think my meditation practice complete crap is that? Because - I do not think so! However, I'm just not a real Sangha, to the I could go and ask questions.

MY ANSWER:

As I have said many times before, to the holding in zazen is arbitrary. It is part of the practice. Yoga is not a real teacher would sit a normal, healthy person in a chair and lean forward slightly can to tell them they would have taken the position "down-looking dog" just like everyone else in the course. But if this yoga teacher sees that prevented easily on a chair, the best approximation sit at the attitude of "down-looking dog, he would do his best for that person to help take one day with a little practice, the right attitude to.

I think Zen teacher her students do not have big favor if they tell them that on chairs or benches to sit or even lie on the floor was the same as cross-legged on a cushion to sit. Yes, I know that the full lotus position is hell. YOU DO NOT HAVE THE FULL LOTUS POSITION TAKE! I do not know why every time I say something the right attitude one million commentators immediately assume I mean the full lotus position and get over it a bright red head and angry.

But unless you can really, honestly, no crap, absolutely not on the one or the other way kreuzbeinig then sitting on a cushion you have to really kreuzbeinig sit on a pillow to practice zazen correctly. Gudo Nishijima here describes how to do it .

your meditation practice is NOT complete ass, because you operate on a bench. Do I have to say that again? Perhaps already, because so many people seem to miss it when I make such statements. So here again:

your meditation practice is NOT complete ass, because you operate on a bench.

This Kniebänkchen get a usable zazen posture close to some extent. But it's still not the same. I would continue to work on my flexibility. Try some yoga classes. They'll do well! You might even get to know because some sweet people! Then, after a while, you can do the bench away to the time when you are old and arthritic and no longer the position fix. Then if you really need the bench get it back out and use it.


* And I do mean "assholes the horns, without good cause." I am here once in the 1.7 seconds it been honked at the car needs from neutral to first gear to switch. I have also heard how another was honked because he had refused me to go, as I crossed the street in front of a car in the front of him went (I had way green on the pedestrian traffic lights, as if that would ever make any difference).


Thursday, December 9, 2010

West Bend Stir Crazy Tough Popcorn

The death again


Sunday 28 November 2010 asking

Eric:

" Although you have spoken in all your books from death ka I nn me just remind you that once the fear've mentioned before death to finally say: Buddhism can not do anything against our fear of death. And our lives would not be shit without them somehow? I disagree. If I could spend the rest of my life without this bloodcurdling fear of nonexistence, I would be much happier. When I read that I assumed that you are referring to us on the evolutionary biology's inherent fear that most of us saved from things like Russian roulette with a full magazine to play or pipe cleaners, drinking contests to hold with his mates. If that's what you mean, I'm full of your opinion. But what about the essential existential fear - or nausea in Sartre's sense - that arises at the thought of his own death. If I seriously confront the fact that my consciousness in a few decades - not more than six or seven - will be wiped out, the last one for me) to keep from sleeping, and 2) to make me really depressed. Now I know that Buddhism says that we die all the time. I know that there is no essential self that over the years of a life is a constant unit of time. However, it is damn scary about the Nothing to ponder. So, Zazen provides a remedy? If it does, great. But if it does not, why one should rather practice zazen as to extinguish themselves with video games, wild sex and Alk. Or whatever. To say that was the practice their own profit is quite fine and nice, but where's the sense when we still will turn pale with fear and sadness, given the omnipresence of death "


Brad says?

Zazen is not free you from your fear of death. Or maybe. But Alk, wild sex and video games are not. not least this far have I heard. Although I've never really played video games and I do not like to be * drunk. As for wild sex I'll leave that to other bloggers to speculate.

But I guess you mean more general distraction to you is to help to forget about serious matters. So in my case are the more Gamera- films , Pad Thai and ... uh ... wild sex (as ob ..). And you ask yourself if your fear of death Zen practice in a way will finally extinguish as such temporary solutions do not.

I can not tell you what it will do for you. I will give no guarantees or promises at all. I can only say how it worked for me.

How did I found that I was terrified of death. When I was a teenager I realized that there was a terrible genetic disease in my family that often people crippled and / or killed before they reached the age that I have now. I thought I would not live long and have made me with fear in his pants.

But for whatever reason However I did not my search designed as do most people. I was not looking for an escape from their lives. When I was interested in religion was all about escape. They offered opportunities of which they said they could escape from this life to a life in heaven or Krishna Loka or many other places. They did not deny death. They were obsessed with death. But they denied life. What they said sounded to me something like "swap your current life for a chance at something wonderful after death".

They did it sound as if the exchange was reasonable. I may live only a few decades in this world. But it changed his life, they said, was for all eternity. So should I now have a bland, boring, limited bread and butter-life periods in the hope of a really super fantastic future in the afterlife that would last forever.

The problem was, I was able to give life after death, no belief. The evidence for the existence of which were not at all convincing.

But I know I am living this life. So my quest was about how I could make this life better. It seems that most people who look after this life to improve, go on the hunt for hedonistic fun. Drugs, sex, money, material things ... these seem like the path of worldly happiness without consideration of any belief in life after death.

This worked for me from the mostly the same reasons, also not. There are not very much evidence that money, power, sex and the like do more real satisfaction. I was well aware that the excessive life of such people as Elvis Presley and Howard Hughes gave everything they could want and yet they were unhappy. Later, Kurt Cobain did just that by the I hoped that I could do it, it will turn a crappy paid career as an indie-rockers of a super-famous-being. What has he brought? Then I started working in the film industry and to regularly communicate with famous people who were absolutely stuffed with cash and I saw that they were as unhappy as everyone else.

The Zen practice turned to this life and how you could do better. It offered no magic solutions, what appealed to me because I did not before the. It does not deal with questions of the Beyond, which was great, because I did not believe it. She demanded a fair Degree of deprivation, but not because you deprivation today for a future of wonder in paradise traded. She recommended a degree of deprivation as it is, chasing after money, fame, sex, property and power, her only bring unnecessary stress to their lives and it would not pay if you attain these things. I knew that this is true. I could see it myself.

But what is in front with the fear of death. What with the fear of future extinction?

I have learned through the exercise to better understand this fear. I began to see that the root of this fear is a projection of my imagined even in a future. I began to realize that there is a fear of things that are just here and now are not real.

This alleviates the fear of death, not necessarily. When I think of the possibility of for-always-disappearance of Brad Warner, I do not like that really. But I also understand that this fear is completely irrational.

What I am about to say may sound like mysticism, but nevertheless. Once you start to take this moment for what it really is at this moment, you begin to understand that one can never be extinguished in the sense of really how it has previously presented. What am I for "Brad Warner" think is a construct of my thinking. It is not real But there is a real thing, the mental on a construction of what I "Brad Warner" call-based. This something can not really die because it was never really born. At least not in the sense that we usually mean that things born and die. Yes, Brad Warner was born and yes, Brad Warner will die. And yet he is not only an individual being. He is also a temporary phenomenon of something so vast and unknowable Barem that it has neither beginning nor end.

Stranger shit, what? Excuse.

All right. I'm still afraid of death. But not very much.

I forgot whether it was Shunryu Suzuki or Dainan Katagiri, but both died of cancer. One or the other of which said toward the end of his life "I will not die.".

I've heard that this statement could freak out some of their followers. It implied that either a) an enlightened master still afraid before death or b) the master was not really enlightened, because an enlightened master can not possibly be afraid before death. None of these options was particularly attractive to those who had placed their trust in these masterpieces, which they thought he was enlightened and accordingly able to redeem them from their fear of death.

But I do not think that the statement implies a fear of death. It implies only that the teacher would have liked to have lived longer. That's not really the same. And even if it means he was afraid of death, what's so wrong with that? I am afraid of dentist appointments. But that does not mean that I'm afraid to exist any more.

I've ever had because of the fear of death from insomnia. It has annoyed me endlessly. Today it is about as frightening as, say, the idea of a root canal treatment. There is nothing to go through what I want but it cost me any sleepless nights.

You must understand, however, that what level whatever I may have succeeded to overcome my fear of death, I owe the years often difficult to practice. It does not overcome his fear of death in which one simply decides not afraid of death more have to. It is not that simple. If it were, everyone would do it.


* Am I the only person in this world to be drunk as a most unpleasant feeling feel? I have nothing against the action of a glass of wine or beer, but to be really drunk feels horrible for me, such as be sick.

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Movies Naugty America Media Fire

Report by Elke

The last post we had written on the applications for permanent visas.
short: SUPER went. All documents arrived on time in Recife (via the detour of Curitiba, where translation, according to friends by Pastor by plane Recife). On the first day could make together with our colleague Elke Anke all necessary documents to the Polícia Federal (Federal Police). There was nothing, it had nothing to be corrected. That was very unusual. Now we can wait for approval, but that's not the first time that important. It must now take quiet for so long that I-Thomas-as far back 'm healthy, that I may receive a permanent visa in person, at least this is our wish.
Meanwhile Elke for me at a Brazilian Hämatologin to inquire after the medical options for me. She met a doctor who asked very competently by the disease and could tell you exactly how to care and, where appropriate, a treatment could be carried out there. She could confirm that the public hospital in Recife very good treatment options exist and that there are in serious condition and no waiting. They also touched on very specific areas of the disease in Brazil losing is routinely made in recurrence of the disease at any time in case of a repetition of which was here in Germany the question. Here you catch it at first, when necessary, which would mean possibly several months.
Another: is perhaps in the vicinity of the project a favorable place to live, from which we can then look for a permanent home. The planned apartment / house would be ideally suited for it and very cheap.
Everything can be reinforced to us with confidence and continue to wait for us again when God granted the release, that we can go back again.
PS: I am a little jealous of Elke! ;-)

Thursday, December 2, 2010

What Color Are Acute Hiv Rashes

beautiful music for Advent

you look out this video on Youtube: It is a ship loaded I find something special.

Television Prices After Superbowl

Happy Thanksgiving America and Zen, which is not named Zen


Wednesday 24 November 2010


First: The Suicide Girls radio interview I've made is now online. Enjoy it on you, here you go by:

http://blip.tv/file/4402557

I think it is better with increasing time, so jumps quietly a bit backwards.

Next: My good friend Marrrrrrkus from Finland (home of delicious Pippari) told me a couple of articles about me that I had not seen before:

The Brad Warner Paradox [The Brad Warner's paradox]

Brad Warner Vs. The Dalai Lama [Brad Warner against the Dalai Lama]

I do not even know what "Brad Warner against the Dalai Lama" has anything to do with me, apart from the opening quotation times. It is mostly a discussion about God.

Then there is a nice review of my book in the Elephant Journal . The new book is, of course Sex, Sin, and Zen: A Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to polyamory and Everything in Between . It is selling like sliced bread here in New York City. I wish it would sell like books ...

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and then my sister is on the way to New York City, so we can watch Macy's Parade. Yikes! This is my second Thanksgiving this year because I was in Canada last month when she celebrated it there. I think up there, they add the word "Thanksgiving" a "u" to, but I'm not sure.

A guy asked me the other day after what he called the "Microsoft-ization" of Zen. I'm not sure why he used that term. He said the way in which people out there peddling the products in the core Zen, but they do not call it "Zen". They carefully avoid to use words like "Buddhism" or "Dharma", even though they have most of their scam from Zenbüchern. Sometimes directly from my Zenbüchern.

I have also noticed and it bothers me. I am very well aware that the use of words such as "Zen", "Buddhism" will reduce or "Dharma" your potential audience at least by half. Shit, when I go to these sites here bring the slightest mention of Dogen, I get half a dozen comments, I would only be the "Doge's cult spread, instead of" true Buddhism. " I will try to raise this issue at another time.

But peddling all these guys out the Zen, but do not call it Zen, why should I interfere with that? It bothers me because they want to believe in a can, could you just decide, "more in the moment" to live in and it happened. Or they offer a new miracle method up the "fast, easy and effective," there does (which literally is a statement of such a method which I have just come across which). These methods do not work of course. Although they could perhaps bring some short-term thrills.

It is as if you'll wake up one morning and find that you're fat. Not only will you thou clear that your entire company consists almost entirely of people who have at least 100 pounds overweight and that every service, every conversation, every profession, etc. in the whole of society is only there to make fat people fatter . You could make up your mind in such a society not just do not fat to be. You'd have to spend a lot of time, perseverance and energy, only to find out how you can lose. Your senses may be dulled by your environment that you'd be unable to get someone to see at a healthy weight. Your friends would call such a person sick as serious.

methods of the variety Big Mind ® seem to me like the plain cake diet of this fictional society. Some wobbly type tells you the best way to achieve a healthy weight, eat as much cake as possible, because all you really want are not 100 pounds overweight, but 150 or 200 pounds to weigh more than now.

Anyway, yes, this whole idea to steal from Zen, allowing it to understand and to hide the source of your inspiration then, because it may discourage paying customers annoys me. And I admit, one of the reasons is that I do not own and can make so much less money than people can do it. It would feel too insincere. Which minor insights whatsoever I have, this I have gained through Zen practice. If I denied it, I would cheat.

Anyway, I think many people do not have any insights. Yesterday I received an email in which there was, "You think only of yourself and have no wisdom to offer, "Oh, thank you. That's nice.

OK. So whatever.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving, America! I see you at the parade!