Leaving home' to me means adopting the attitude that the pursuit of the truth is more vital than the pursuit of what society — your home — tells you ….

Zazen isn't about blissing out or going into an alpha brain-wave trance. It's about facing who and what you really are, in every single goddamn momen….

True nonattachment is understanding that you are fundamentally attached to everything and, through that understanding, dropping your attachment to th….

the only real time as far as Buddhism is concerned is right now. Right now there is no old age or death because old age and death are descriptions of….

I think the understanding of oneness and interconnectivity of the whole Universe is something we have innately, something we're born with. We are how….

At times, Zen does get into some Buddhist Cosmology. Nishijima Roshi, my main teacher would talk about that and almost every time immediately say tha….

The obvious example would be Jesus. Jesus is an object of fascination for me. He's an interesting historical character because we don't know much abo….

There are many diamonds in the world and if you lose your favorite, you can work hard, earn a lot of money and get another one to replace it. But the….

But people do the same thing with the Bible. They memorize all the fictional characters, the parameters and the rules of the game and think it's impo….

So he [Shoko Asahara] was insane but managed to convince a couple thousand people that he was enlightened. Western culture, which Japan is now defini….

So when we come across somebody who does understand this and makes an effort to try and explain it to us, some people freak out and turn that person ….

In the Japanese movie's they're throwing everything they have at him, every missile, but he keeps coming, he can't be stopped and that represents dea….

What attracted me to Zen was my first teacher, Tim McCarthy. He was extremely genuine. It wasn't even really a Zen thing, that sort of came along lat….

Godzilla also represents the fear of nuclear annihilation, which was something that was big in my mind at the time. It was something that the people ….

I mean Godzilla is eternally pissed off at everything but of course he's gonna be because every time he pops out of the water for a look around someb….

I think it's part of my personality, to find sex really interesting. Not just in the puerile way of, "Oh I want to go and have some sex". It's fascin….

I think a lot of people trying to follow Buddhism these days are getting confused about sex and they don't understand what's going on. They've been e….

Faith keeps you going, but doubt keeps you from going off the deep end..

As you're implying, there's a new technology that can look even deeper into that brick and we can start getting into a level where it breaks down so ….

I really thought Reagan was going to push the button and blow us all up. It was scary. So when they did the 1998 American Godzilla film, Hollywood di….

The fact is that there is a contradiction going on but our brains don't like contradiction. So when Moe hits Curly on the head with a sledgehammer an….