Brad Warner's Blog, page 24

SPAWNING GROUND & TV SCREEN HEAD

First and most importantly, the second of the download versions of the Dimentia 13 LPs I recorded in the 80s is now available. You can find it on iTunes or you can download it from Amazon.com by clicking here or by clicking on the link over there to your left. If you want to read about the album for free download this PDF file that tells you everything you could ever possibly want to know about the album. Then buy the download.

This is my other favorite of the Dimentia 13 records. It was all r...

UTAH IS PSYCHEDELIC!

I made it to Kansas City, where I will be speaking tomorrow night. I'll be at Unity Temple 707 W. 47th St. (47th & Jefferson) Kansas City, MO 64112 from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm. The event is sponsored by the Kansas Zen Center. Get info by writing to info@kansaszencenter.org. The next day — my birthday — I will be in Cedar Rapids speaking at the Paul Engle Center, 1600 Fourth Ave. SE Cedar Rapids, Iowa at 7pm. For more info on that you can contact the folks at the Cedar Rapids Zen Center. All of t...

THE ALLEGED "ASSAULT" IN TOKYO

I didn't really want to get into the allegations Jundo Cohen has been raising in the comments section. But I feel it now may be necessary.

First, the short version: After the alleged "assault" that Jundo claimed occurred in Tokyo at a meeting of Dogen Sangha, I read all of Mr. Cohen's claims. I then spoke personally face-to-face with Peter Rocca, the Dogen Sangha teacher Jundo alleges assaulted him. I have known Peter a long time and I trust him to tell me the truth (Peter's version of events ...

GOSSIP

[image error] Today is the day I start making my epic journey via PT Cruiser across the United States. Most of my stuff has already been sent ahead. I still have to get together the junk that remains in the house and figure out how to shove it all in the car. Suffice it to say, I really, seriously do not have the time today to write a blog post and really, serously should be doing a whole butt-load of other far more pressing things.

BUT there were 279 comments last time I looked under a posting about a coup...

CAR CHASE AKRON 1983

If you're viewing on Facebook it's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPT4ea...

I just discovered this piece of awesomeness. It's apparently from a very low budget action movie shot in Akron, Ohio in 1980 and released in '83. This is what Akron looked like when Zero Defex was going strong and I was first discovering Zen. How did I ever make it out alive?

And don't forget part two:




The waterfall-like thingy is right around the corner from where I used to live. I spent a lot of time there. Never saw...

TOURING

My book tour page has been further spiffed up click here to check it out.

You may notice that I have a retreat at the Southern Dharma Retreat Center in Hot Springs, North Carolina (near Asheville) until March 28th followed by a retreat a week later in Brooklyn (starting April 2nd). Then I have nearly a month off before heading to Europe in May.

Currently, the folks in Brooklyn are planning to fly me to their fair city. But it occurred to me that if I drove to Brooklyn from NC, I could do other ...

RACE, GENDER, IDENTITY and BUDDHISM

Administrative stuff:

There will be Zazen this Saturday at Hill Street Center and it will be part of Month Long Zen and Sex Month. But it is also our monthly day-long zazen, which goes from 10 am till about 3:30 pm. So please keep that in mind if you choose to come. You don't have to stay all day. But we're staying all day.

If you don't wanna do an all-day Zen but wanna do some Zen anyway this weekend, I'll be hosting things at Against The Stream (aka Dharma Punx) in Hollywood on Sunday beginni...

SPIFFY NEW PAGES!

The main point of today's entry is to draw your attention to the following:

SPIFFY NEW PAGE ABOUT MY 2010 TOUR

SPIFFY NEW DIMENTIA 13 PAGE

I made these last night. Thanks are due to John Graves for turning me on to the iWeb program I already had in my computer. I never knew what it was for! One of John's compositions was featured in NBC's broadcast of the Winter Olympics. Yay!

By the way the spiffy new DIMENTIA 13 page has a link on it where you can download the complete liner notes for the...

THE END OF SUFFERING IS POSSIBLE FOR YOU

Before we begin, I want to say thanks for the support and stuff regarding my last post. I will set off on February 28th driving Northeast to make a very circuitous journey to Durham, North Carolina via Kansas City, Cedar Rapids and Akron. According to Google Maps I'll be passing through Las Vegas, St. George, Grand Junction and Denver on Interstates 15 and 70 on the way to KC. If anybody on that route wants to save me a night's hotel fees, send me an email to spoozilla@gmail.com. I'm quiet an...

GOING TO KANSAS CITY, SAYING GOODBYE TO HOLLYWOOD

Before we begin, check out this bit of comedic genius.

OK. This just in:

I will be giving a talk at the Unity Temple in Kansas City, Missouri on March 4, 2010 at 7:30 pm. This is sponsored by the Kansas City Zen Center. There's more info on the 2010 Tour link over there to your left. Or, as always, just click on the words "2010 Tour link." See how easy I make things for ya!

Which brings up another point I ought to make. And that point is that as of the end of February I will no longer be a resi...