I went and got hugged by Amma, India’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 wouldn’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 Cornwell’s articles The Evolution of Religion...

My new book, Zen...

Patrick McGoohan is dead. I’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 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:


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...

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...