Zen practice is about not getting high on anything and in so doing getting high on absolutely everything. We then find that everything we encounter -….

As for enlightenment, that's just for people who can't face reality..

There's fantasies about what heaven is like and who Satan is and why you shouldn't masturbate or why you should vote Republican. It's funny because i….

Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation..

Those who hope for purity and righteousness always try and destroy that which disturbs them. They think the disturbance comes from outside themselves….

Buddhism is all about finding your own way, not imitating the ways of others or even the ways of Buddha himself..

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….

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….

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 ….

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….

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….

I guess that all figures into my approach because once I start hearing the imagination land stuff (that's my new phrase now I guess) I tend to tune o….

You know that for sure because Godzilla was killed by an ordinary missile. He spends most of that film dodging them but then the Army finally gets a ….

For a very long time science and philosophy were considered part of the same continuum and it was only within the last few hundred years they've been….