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...

I’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.

I met a stripper with a Three Stooges tattoo the other night at a bar called Tigress. She bitch slapped one of my companions hard while she gave her a ferocious...

Merry Christmas Eve from your local Buddhist columnist!

I’m down in Knoxville, Tennessee with my sister and her family. This week I appeared on my niece,...

Did I tell you I got a MySpace page? Well I do. I resisted it for a long time. But it’s actually kind...

A buncha stuff has happened since I wrote my last Suicide Girls article two weeks ago. When I wrote that piece I was in Ohio, which is where I was born...

Just over seven years ago I started writing about Buddhism on a website I called Sit Down and Shut Up. I’d...

Over the time I’ve been writing here on this page a few of the women who pose naked for your pleasure on Suicide Girls have written me asking my opinion...

Some idea of perfection, or some perfect way which is set up by someone else is not the true way for us. Each one of us must make his or her own true...

I’m writing you this missive from a wooden bench in Tokyo’s Yoyogi Park. Today they’re running both a big Indian festival and a big vegetarian festival...

Last week I was in Boulder, Colorado where people have long discussions with their sushi chef about whether or not the mackerel and squid they serve is...

While I was in Phoenix, a couple months ago Barry Graham, a Zen teacher in the Rinzai lineage out there turned...

As you read this I will be just finishing up a seven day Zen retreat. That means I’ve just spent seven days straight doing pretty much nothing except sitting...

It has recently been brought to my attention that I am now apparently known in Buddhist circles as the “Porno Buddhist.” This, it seems, is a source of...

“I’m stoned. Did that just happen?” she said. “She” being Melinda, a large breasted hanger-on backstage at Ozzfest 2007...

I originally wanted to write another article about my movie CLEVELAND'S SCREAMING! which will...

Lately I’ve been coming under fire for my supposed controversial views from a certain Buddhist Master guy who up till now liked to present himself as my...

Last week Roethke made a comment here about my...

On Monday I saw a very interesting film called Join...

So I’m back from San Francisco now. While I was up there I got a chance to go with Greg Fain of the San Francisco Zen Center...

I’m up in Northern California this week doing book signings and talks in San Francisco, Santa Cruz and Petaluma (if you Petaluma wrong it’ll bite you, so...

When I heard Lou Reed was doing music for meditation, I had to check it out. I got into Lou Reed’s stuff fairly late in the game. When I was a teenager...

Apparently Christians down in Kentucky are so up in arms over the idea that dinosaurs once ruled the Earth they’ve erected..." target="_blank">http://suicidegirls.com/news/culture/21434/]erected...

Lately a lot of people have been asking my opinion about The Secret. In case you’ve been buried in an eight foot...

I’m back from Japan now. While I was over there I got to meet three Godzillas at the same time. Here’s how.

OK. My friend Norman England, an ex-pat who’s...

OK. Before we start I gotta plug my speaking gig on May 17th (Thursday) out in West Hollywood at the Bodhi Tree...

Before I forget, for those of you who’ve bought my new book, Sit...

Before I start, I just wanted to let everyone know my new book, Sit...

In his book Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, Zen teacher Shunryu...

Before I begin I want to do a brief eulogy for Kurt Vonnegut Jr. I was gonna do a long one, but there have been too...

Before I begin today’s thing I wanted to let everybody know that my new book, Sit...

This is a true story. The other day, Wednesday I think it was, I got an e-mail from a guy at another company with whom I’ve been working on a project for...

When I am elected President of the World my first act will be to criminalize the song Careless Whisper. Playing it on any instrument will be punishable...

As most of you know, my mom died a couple months ago. This has made me reconfirm something I committed to a long time ago, but which I still forget from...

According to this story in the Mainichi Daily News, an English language...

I got tons and tons of responses to that last post I put up here and the related ones on my...

Although there are scam artists out there calling themselves Buddhist teachers, they are the exception, not the rule. Most people who put out their...

I got the Definitive Edition 2 DVD set of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ from Satya last...

On Monday (February 12) the LA Times published an interesting article called The...