Sunday 12 December 2010
The sexy site Lucrezia Magazine has a few things from my new book Sex Sin and Zen published.
Here their review .
And there is an excerpt from the book .
Thank you!
And when speaking of books, I have 6 copies of Sin Sex and Zen , maybe eight of Hardcore Zen and a few Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate but no of Sit Down and Shut Up (sorry!). So, for a short time, I sell you to me personally signed copies for only $ 25 (that's rip-off! You can use them for much less without getting scrawl of someone inside the inside!). Send me a donation and write me what book you want and for whom you want to have it signed and the address where I send it out to be. I can not promise that they arrive in time for Christmas, but I try my best. If I get orders after the books are gone, I will refund your donation.
Why am I doing this? Because New York swallowing all my money like a giant vacuum cleaner - though I have the incredibly effective rent which you can imagine.
So I thought it would be the time to write an article about which I already have a some time thinking. I call it "The Economics of Zen". However, it is more the economics of Brad. However, I think there's a lot in my personal experience that many people in this industry concern. I hope this post does not come off as a single Rumgeheule, but somehow instructive and meaningful.
Before I start I would like to clarify something. Although I like some future presentations that I am just referring to the arrange, should nothing of what I say here the same as any veiled message to those with which I organize these performances to be understood. All you had to say I have you I already said and I will leave directly. But the examples are too good not to use them. So I will use it. Only interpret anything into it. OK? Thank you!
OK. I often get to the inviting of cool, exotic places to speak. And I love it to cool and exotic places to speak. This year I was in Tel Aviv, Warsaw, Helsinki, call Belfast, Wuppertal and Cedar Rapids (Ohio) by only a few! It's great!
But I think some people who know me say invitations not really what it all entails. Many People take only a moment that I can lead off the royalties of the book sales to ordinary life. Which is not so. What do I get in royalties alone keeps me still below the poverty line. It would be impossible just to live off the royalties except maybe I would move to a corrugated cardboard in the basement of Shinjuku Station or something like that. Seriously, I was looking for a place to live in the U.S., I could afford only by book sales and have found nothing. Not even in Akron, Ohio!
Like almost every writer I have to supplement my income somehow. What I have tried the past two years to do is do what many writers, namely to keep my book supplement income from speeches.
Let's say you invite me to speak in Bloomington, Indiana. You hire me for two days. You offer me generous $ 200 Hey! That's $ 100 per day. Not bad! And really, if it so provides, it is not.
But to Bloomington, Indiana will cost me to come three or four days for the arrival and departure. And to be able to for a speech in Bloomington to be available, I can not five-day-a-week, investigate 9-17 clock job. No job I can think would be suitable for that I am away at random intervals for a week.
I therefore ask for usual speech about travel costs and a fee. My fee, incidentally, is from what I have so learned of other authors and Buddhist teachers, really low.
Some people invite me and I can say donations (Dana) collect and sell books. That's OK. But sometimes I go to one place and sell three books and Dana are then so $ 75 It is too risky to other potential sources of income (like a 9-17 clock job, for example) because of something to put at risk.
remember, it is there and no pension, no health insurance. Then use the car and the insurance for it. This must all come from my pocket.
Several people from the business of the Buddhist teachers I have met, or that I have read have different methods to deal with it. Many are members of larger organizations that have a network of temples and can provide assistance, should not enough donations. A guy, a Canadian, I 've met in Japan, was of a sect that did not allow him to handle money. But I found his tactics a little suspect. He was very crafty when it was that people should pay around him for all the things I could not afford it - - and I had a real job at this time. I would not feel so well at something. Maybe I'm too proud and midwestern [from the Midwestern United States]. I could pull off the Genpo Roshi number and $ 50,000 for five days with me to demand in a luxury hotel. If anyone wants to make me this offer, I am ready to talk. Yes, logical.
I said with a Zen teacher whom I respect in California who told me that he is a "minimum-Dana" demands. I have not tried it yet. But maybe I do.
So and now I think about it what do I do next. The whole Rumgereise I do is quite funny, but it has one around zipper. It also covers my basic living expenses only barely so. I'm really grateful for the donations and the like that I got. It is a beautiful thing. I can not tell you how wonderful. I know that some people resort to please me deep into the pocket. It is a great thing. But at the level where I am now I would have to move the whole time travel to make ends meet.
2010, the thing I've run so that I did not have her own apartment and simply to have trusted that it would just work already. That it has. But being homeless is hard. Think about it. Where do you bring from your post? I had about six temporary addresses of this year. Many important things have been lost.
I cover appearances in February and March are likely to come up close my rent. Hey, maybe is even a little bit about. But then I am seriously considering the whole traveling to tick author / teacher and subject myself to get a normal job. That is, if any, then even exists yet.
I hope this does not sound too whiny. Sometimes the people understand what it all means these things too personally and believe I moan for her. Which is not so. Or others lament in their comments that I apply my books and other things. Yes, I do. I have to. No one else does.
I am not complaining really. My life is good. I think only because I constantly get so many invitations, it's good to let people know what they ask me if they invite me to speak somewhere. wonder
And for those who find the "Dharma" is, well, that's it. Many people do not talk about that side of things. But it is there and it always has been.
Thanks for Z uhören !
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