Buddhists have a long-standing tradition of believing that at some level we always know what the best course of action is in any given situation. We ….

So I'm skeptical and cynical about the whole thing and it's only if something seems to be genuine that I would pursue it. That's why I've stuck with ….

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 ….

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….

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….

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

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….

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

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….

Since then, my approach to all things spiritual is rather cynical you could say. When somebody present something to me as spiritual, my first instinc….

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….

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 ….

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….

The thing with the question of oneness or non-oneness is that you can literally discuss it forever. You can go into the philosophy section of any lib….

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 ….

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….

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