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...

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...

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...

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

“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 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...

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...

Valentine’s Day is next week and everyone’s gearing up to celebrate the life of a Catholic saint (who no one knows much about other than that he was probably...

There used to be a hardcore band in Cleveland called God On Drugs. They changed their name to Spike...

I promised you the end of the story of my mom’s cremation. So here goes. I finally got a call from the Flower Mound Family Funeral Home on Friday about...

For the past week, since my mother passed away on Friday (January 12), I’ve been much concerned about where she went after she died, and what state she...

I got a call at about five a.m. today from my dad telling me my mom had died during the night. It was not a surprise. My mom had been ill for the last two...

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