by Brad Warner A guy named Brian who posts on my blog (hardcorezen.blogspot.com) asked: Most people interpret this story as saying that the master imagined...

by Brad Warner A few people have responded to my blog by comparing me to this or that teacher and saying those guys are much better because they encourage...

by Brad Warner About a week ago I saw a posting on Facebook regarding a big Buddhist gathering in upstate New York. The post read as follows, “Next week,...

by Brad Warner My friend John Graves sent me a photo of a billboard that's been appearing all over Los Angeles. The one he took a picture of was right...

by Brad Warner Zen Master Genpo Roshi has announced that he is disrobing. To “disrobe” as a Buddhist monk means that you formally quit the Buddhist...

by Brad Warner I’ve been included in a Facebook group made up of people who are trying to plan my high school class’s reunion. I’ve never gone to...

by Brad Warner I received two closely related questions via email this week, and I’d like to share my answers. I’ve rewritten these, so they’re not...

by Brad Warner Only a few more days before the annual War On Christmas ends! So get your shots in quick! Ever since returning to the United States after...

by Brad Warner I first got interested in spiritual practice when I was a teenager and my parents sat me down and told me about the horrible disease that...

Hardcore Zen: Desire by Brad Warner I just read a horrendous news story about the Petit family in Connecticut who were murdered by a group of assholes.

by Brad Warner Everybody’s talking about this new book on sex. According to Dan Savage it’s “the single most important book on human sexuality since...

by Brad Warner Hello SuicideGirls! It’s been a while! But I’m back. As some of you may recall, I used to do a regular “Hardcore Zen” blog here at...

I went and got hugged by Amma, India’s world-famous hugging saint, when she was in Los Angeles last month. She shoved my head into her fluffy right boob...

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

As you read this I will be winding up the first part of an extensive international tour to promote my latest book Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate.

A guy I know wrote me the following question: Zazen is the type of meditation I teach. I use the word meditation here a bit loosely since zazen differs...

I was very pleasantly surprised to see R. Elisabeth Cornwell’s articles The Evolution of Religion and Why Women Are Bound to Religion: An Evolutionary...

My new book, Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate is out now. The nice folks at Borders put an excerpt from the book on-line and you can read it by...

Patrick McGoohan is dead. I’m sad and you should be too. McGoohan was best known as the writer, creator, executive producer and star of the TV series The...

Looking over some of the comments to my last piece for Suicide Girls, I think I figured out the root of a lot of the confusion I’ve created here. When...

On November 28th, His Holiness the Dalai Lama* made news by saying celibacy is good. Must’ve been a slow news day. What he actually said -- in English...

In his recent Suicide Girls column Richard Patrick talked about religious authority. He said, “Many years ago, peasants were stealing from each other and...

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 choose...

Back in March I wrote an article for this website in which I criticized one of the many scams out there masquerading as Buddhist practice. Last week my...

I got an e-mail recently and it said: I get a lot of variations on this question of how to cultivate “non-attachment.” But I’m not really sure why.

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

So I’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...

Here’s an e-mail I got recently: Elizabeth, I’ve received a lot of e-mails along these lines. But as for my writing giving people “new to Zen the idea...

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 matter...

I’d like to offer something to help you But in the Zen school we don't have a single thing. - Zen Master Ikkyu (1394 – 1481) Ikkyu is one of my favorite...

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 of fun. Anyway, here’s a question I got from one...

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 been writing since high school and studying...

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 way,...

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...