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...

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,...

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 a museum to prove that God just...

Lately a lot of people have been asking my opinion about The Secret. In case you’ve been buried in an eight foot deep hole with just a straw sticking out...

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 Bookstore first. I’ll be there at 7:30...

Before I forget, for those of you who’ve bought my new book, Sit Down and Shut Up!, I found a mistake. Turn to page 74 and look at the bottom of the second...

Before I start, I just wanted to let everyone know my new book, Sit Down and Shut Up! has begun shipping! You can already get it on-line and it should be...

In his book Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, Zen teacher Shunryu Suzuki says that in most religions practitioners become like a sharp angle pointing away from...

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 many already. So I’ll just say that...

Before I begin today’s thing I wanted to let everybody know that my new book, Sit Down and Shut Up! comes out in just a few weeks from New World Library.

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 paper in Japan, there's a punk rock Buddhist priestess stirring things up in...

I got tons and tons of responses to that last post I put up here and the related ones on my blog. So I take it that I may have stumbled upon a subject that...

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

I got the Definitive Edition 2 DVD set of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ from Satya last week. I was living in Japan when it came out in theaters...

On Monday (February 12) the LA Times published an interesting article called The Mind As It Evolves. The subtitle was, “Depression as a survival tool?”...

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 In Vain, which I found very disappointing. Not the band...

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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Happy New Year! I know it’s still a couple days early. So happy end of the year. The end of the year is a big time for depression. And since someone asked...

My name is Brad and I’m a Buddhist. And sometimes I enjoy saying that about as much as any member of a twelve–step program enjoys getting up and admitting...