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 -….

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….

The trick to not thinking is not adding energy to the equation in an effort to forcibly stop thinking from happening. It’s more a matter of subtracti….

I was living in Japan at the time, Shoko Asahara was an important figure and you could say his name and people would immediately know who you were ta….

I mean somebody could write another book and say Brad's idea about Buddhism and sex is wrong, and here's mine, and that would be great. Just the fact….

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….

Much of the hatred and fear of sexuality found in religions stems from the idea that sex is a thing of the body and that the body must be denied so t….

Buddha was a responsible guy and believed in his monks being responsible, their responsibility would no longer be to their practice or to the sangha,….

They really make sex into such a horrible thing and how terrible anything related to sex is, but isn't that why we're all here? We wouldn't be here a….

The problem is the way we let our desires stand in the way of our enjoyment of what we already have..

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….

Well it's always been an interesting area for me. In referencing something I just reread from Dogen it says, "Enlightenment doesn't break the person ….

So it's a dangerous thing and conversely, the other thing I mentioned in that post was that people see guys who are kind of in touch with that and be….

It's sort of another innovation, probably a good innovation, of Western culture to separate the ideas between science and philosophy, but it's import….

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….

I guess what attracted me about the philosophy aspect was that it was realistic. It didn't go off into the realm of imagination land, which I find a ….

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….

The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself..

we ourselves are not something apart from our circumstances. What we are and where we are are one and the same..

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