Brad Warner's Blog, page 20

MIDWEST TOUR?

Sometime between August 2 and August 7, I will very likely be passing through the following cities:

Lexington, KY
Indianapolis, IN
Champaign, IL
Bloomington, IL
De Moines, IA
Dubuque, IA

And possibly Cedar Rapids, IA, Iowa City, IA or even Cincinnati, OH.

This would be on a drive from Knoxville, TN to Eitzen, MN where the Great Sky Zen Sesshin will take place (sign up now).

Is anyone in any of those cities or in any cities near those or along the route from Knoxville to Eitzen (it's near La Crosse, W...

Buddhism Isn't Buddha's-ism

Hasn't anyone listened to the Podcast? The end of it is really good. It's at this link. The URL is http://hardcorezen.libsyn.com/

Here is an odd email I received this morning:

Last August in Finland you had an interview with yoga mag called "Ananda". In the interview journalist asks, "Are you married?" and you answer something like, "No, I'm a monk and that's why I'm not married." (I'm paraphrasing). This caused some debate when people read it because you were married before. And Japanese...

ISRAEL IS REAL

First and foremost, please check out the brand new HARDCORE ZEN PODCAST. This was put together by John Graves of Dogen Sangha Los Angeles. Be sure and listen all the way to the end, or better yet, skip directly to the very end of the Podcast (after the closing theme & thank yous and all that) to hear the best part.

The featured talk is from my tour of Finland last year. John decided it was best to go with a very basic theme for the first episode. So he chose a talk in which I pretty much give ...

MORE INFO ON ISRAEL GIG

Here's the flier for the gig in Israel. I can't read it. But I'm guessing the complete location and suchlike are contained here.

RAMAT AVIV not JERUSALEM!

Here is a photo of me in Jerusalem touching a rock that I think maybe Jesus was supposed to have prayed on. But I'm not entirely sure I got the right rock. It's in the Church of the Holy Seplucre. I'm not sure what the deal is with my eyes in this photo. The Power of Jesus was messing with them, perhaps?

I am slowly acquiring dribs and drabs of information regarding the location and suchlike of my talk on Saturday. The Book Tour 2010 site has been updated with the most recent information I hav...

ARRIVED IN JERUSALEM

I just arrived in Jerusalem and am piggy-backing on a WiFi signal I shall surely lose in mere seconds.

Just enough time to post the photo that should have gone with the previous posting.

This is some graffiti I spotted in Belfast.

Ironic, n'est pas?

NEXT STOP, ISRAEL

This may be my last posting for a while. I'm at a hotel near London's Heathrow Airport. Tomorrow morning I have a 7 AM flight to Tel Aviv via Leonardo Da Vinci Airport in Rome. There's a link over to your left that will tell you where and when I'm speaking in Jerusalem. I've yet to get the full address and whatnot. So you may have to look it up. Sorry about that!

It's been a long strange trip through Europe. I've been to France, Poland, Germany, Finland, the Netherlands and Northern Ireland. T...

NEX STOP, ISRAEL

This may be my last posting for a while. I'm at a hotel near London's Heathrow Airport. Tomorrow morning I have a 7 AM flight to Tel Aviv via Leonardo Da Vinci Airport in Rome. There's a link over to your left that will tell you where and when I'm speaking in Jerusalem. I've yet to get the full address and whatnot. So you may have to look it up. Sorry about that!

It's been a long strange trip through Europe. I've been to France, Poland, Germany, Finland, the Netherlands and Northern Ireland. T...

See You in Ballymena and Talk in Wuppertal Videos

Today, June 17, 2010 (Thurs) I'll have a public talk and Q&A at 7-9pm hosted by the Ballymena Zen Group at St John Hall, 11a Corlea Gardens, Ballymena, Northern Ireland BT43 7AR, near the Old Library.

Hanny Van de Weerdt, who kindly hosted me in The Netherlands, posted videos of my talk in Wuppertal, Germany on YouTube. Here's the first one:



And for those of you who aren't seeing the embedded video, here are links to the four parts she posted:

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

So now you know w...

GREETINGS FROM THE "BAD BOY OF ZEN"

Here I am, in beautiful Belfast, Northern Ireland! Yesterday's Belfast Telegraph had an article about me titled Meet Brad, the Bad Boy of Zen. I'm also called an enfant terrible, which I don't even know how to pronounce. I think that's a type of suppository.

I had my first talk here yesterday at the Black Mountain Zen Center downtown. It went swimmingly. It was kind of trippy to speak to a native English-speaking audience for the first time in two months. When I lived in Japan and worked with ...