I went and got hugged by Amma, IndiaÂ’s world-famous hugging saint, when she was in Los Angeles last month. She shoved my...

The answer to the question "who would Buddha fuck?" is that he wouldnÂ’t. He left his wife to pursue the deeper Truth of the Universe. Later on she dropped...

As you read this I will be winding up the first part of an extensive international tour to promote my latest book Zen..." target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1577316541?ie=UTF8&tag=hardzen-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1577316541]Zen...

A guy I know wrote me the following question:

Is meditation dangerous? Is zazen safe for trauma survivors? I know a lot of people in difficult...

I was very pleasantly surprised to see R. Elisabeth CornwellÂ’s articles The Evolution of Religion...

My new book, Zen...

Patrick McGoohan is dead. IÂ’m sad and you should be too.

McGoohan was best known as the writer,...

Looking over some of the comments to my last piece for Suicide Girls, I think I figured out the...

On November 28th, His Holiness the Dalai Lama* made news by saying celibacy..." target="_blank">http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=081128183857.lgjbvt92&show_article=1]celibacy...

In his recent Suicide Girls column Richard Patrick talked about religious authority. He said, “Many...

This will be my last Suicide Girls posting before Americans will make their choice between shining, purest good and foulest, most vile evil.

Will we...

Back in March I wrote an article for this website in which I criticized one of the many scams out...

I got an e-mail recently and it said:

I was given your book Sit...

Often in my writing for SuicideGirls IÂ’ve talked about girls, but I havenÂ’t talked a lot about suicide. Last week a friend of mine attempted it, unsuccessfully,...

So IÂ’m sitting cross-legged in the meditation hall at the San Francisco Zen Center a couple days ago. Incense wafts through the air, bells are rung, ancient...

HereÂ’s an e-mail I got recently:


Hi Brad,

Some pieces of yours I've been reading lately make it seem like you advocate porn. In your book...

I just spent two weeks in a meditation center up in the mountains. Everywhere you went there were wooden boards that said:

Listen up!
Great is the...

IÂ’d like to offer something to help you
But in the Zen school we don't have a single thing.
- Zen...

One of the biggest hurdles for anyone of non-standard sexual orientation interested in Buddhist practice is the Buddhist precept of not misusing sexuality.