In 2003 Brad Warner blew the top off the Buddhist book world with his irreverent autobiography/manifesto Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock Monster Movies and the Truth about Reality. Now in his second book Sit Down and Shut Up Brad tackles one of the great works of Zen literature the Shobogenzo by thirteenth-century Zen master Dogen. Illuminating Dogens enigmatic teachings in plain language Brad intertwines musings on sex meditation death God sin and happiness with an exploration of the punk rock et...

A Radical but Reverent Paraphrasing of Dogen’s Treasury of the True Dharma EyeEven if the whole universe is nothing but a bunch of jerks doing all kinds of jerk-type things, there is still liberation in simply not being a jerk.” - Eihei Dogen (12001253 CE)The Shobogenzo (The Treasury of the True Dharma Eye) is a revered eight-hundred-year-old Zen Buddhism classic written by the Japanese monk Eihei Dogen. Despite the timeless wisd...

A reader-friendly guide to Zen Buddhist ethics for modern timesIn the West, Zen Buddhism has a reputation for paradoxes that defy logic. In particular, the Buddhist concept of nonduality — the realization that everything in the universe forms a single, integrated whole — is especially difficult to grasp. In The Other Side of Nothing, Zen teacher Brad Warner untangles the mystery and explains nonduality in plain English. To Warner, this is not just a philos...

Can you be an atheist and still believe in God? Can you be a true believer and still doubt? Can Zen give us a way past our constant fighting about God? Brad Warner was initially interested in Buddhism because he wanted to find God, but Buddhism is usually thought of as godless. In the three decades since Warner began studying Zen, he has grappled with paradoxical questions about God and managed to come up with some answers. In this fascinating search for a way beyond the usual arguments be...

Vol. 2 of Brad Warner’s Radical but Reverent Paraphrasing of Dogen’s Treasury of the True Dharma EyeIn Japan in 1253, one of the great thinkers of his time died — and the world barely noticed. That man was the Zen monk Eihei Dogen. For centuries his main work, Shobogenzo, languished in obscurity, locked away in remote monasteries until scholars rediscovered it in the twentieth century. What took so long? In Brad Warner’s view, Dogen was too ahead ...

How does a real-life Zen master — not the preternaturally calm, cartoonish Zen masters depicted by mainstream culture — help others through hard times when he’s dealing with pain of his own? How does he meditate when the world is crumbling around him? Is meditation a valid response or just another form of escapism? These are the questions Brad Warner ponders in Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate.During a year that Warner spent giving talks and leading retreats across...

With his one-of-a kind blend of autobiography pop culture and plainspoken Buddhism Brad Warner explores an A-to-Z of sexual topics from masturbation to dating gender identity to pornography. In addition to approaching sexuality from a Buddhist perspective he looks at Buddhism emptiness compassion karma from a sexual vantage. Throughout he stares down the tough questions: Can prostitution be a right livelihood? Can a good spiritual master also be really really bad? And ultimately what's lov...

« Un road-trip initiatique. »La nuit où Brad Warner a appris que son ami d’enfance Marky était mort d’un cancer à l’âge de 48 ans, il venait d’arriver à Hambourg, en Allemagne, où il devait donner une conférence à un groupe d’étudiants zen.C’était la dernière chose qu’il avait envie de faire.Au lieu de cela, Warner pensait à toutes les choses qu’il n’avait jamais dites à son ami, car des sujets comme la spiritualité et la méditation ne correspondaient pas exactement à ...

Take a journey with our 68 writers—from rural Mexico in the ’60s to Tehran in the ’70s, to the suburbs of Vancouver in the ’80s, and to other planets in the distant future. Within these pages you will encounter a feathered heart, door-to-door salesbees, and a breathing house. In emerge 18 new and published authors present their fiction, narrative nonfiction, poetry and lyric prose, speculative fiction, and young adult stories.emerge 18 includes contributions from TWS students mento...