Brad Warner

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March 05, 1964 in Hamilton, Ohio, The United States

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http://hardcorezen.blogspot.com/

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Brad Warner is an ordained Zen Master (though he hates that term) in the Soto lineage founded in Japan by Master Dogen Zenji in the 13th century. He's the bass player for the hardcore punk rock group 0DFx (aka Zero Defex) and the ex-vice president of the Los Angeles office of the company founded by the man who created Godzilla.

Brad was born in Hamilton, Ohio in 1964. In 1972, his family relocated to Nairobi, Kenya. When Brad returned to Wadsworth three years later, nothing about rural Ohio seemed quite the same anymore.

In 1982 Brad joined 0DFx. 0DFx caught the attention of a number of major bands on the hardcore punk scene. But they soon broke up leaving a single eighteen second burst of noise, titled Drop the A-Bomb On Me, as their only re...more

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TOUR 2012?

I had thought that my previous post would be the last actual post on this blog. But I met with the guy who is working on my new website yesterday and it seems like a few more things have to be fixed before we can go live at the new website. So I'm going to leave you with at least one more thing here. Which is about my upcoming travels.

The map above is the basic route I will be following when I... read more »

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Books by Brad Warner

Average rating: 3.95 · 2,809 ratings · 351 reviews · 9 distinct works

	Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality 4.06 avg rating — 1,473 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye 3.96 avg rating — 711 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma 3.69 avg rating — 430 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Sex, Sin, and Zen: A Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything In Between 3.66 avg rating — 191 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Zen Wrapped In Karma Dipped In Chocolateein Bittersüßer Trip Durch Tod, Sex, Scheidung Auf Der Suche Nach Dem Wahren Dharma by Brad Warner, Rainer Scholz (Übersetzer) 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	My rating:
	Death To All Monsters! 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika by Nāgārjuna, Brad Warner (Commentary), Gudo Wafu Nishijima (Translator) 4.27 avg rating — 230 ratings — published 200 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika by Gudo Wafu Nishijima, Brad Warner, Naagaarjuna 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	My rating:
	Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: Ein Zen-Trip durch Tod, Sex, Scheidung und die Suche nach dem wahren Dharma by Rainer Scholz, Brad Warner 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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“You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.”
― Brad Warner, Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma

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“The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself.”
― Brad Warner

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“If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise?”
― Brad Warner, Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye

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