Website review: Hardcore Zen
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•7 reviews since Oct 6, 2005
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•hardcorezen.blogspot.com
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Junglist999 rated 8 weeks ago- Embrace zazen and the incredible ordinariness of the everyday, drop enlightenment.
- jackthebodiless rated 2 months ago
- the first time i met Brad he signed my book "Thanks for buying this stoopid book. Kill the nonbelievers!!!" that's my kind of Zen master.
- sitasaysgo rated 3 months ago
- Brad Warner is awesome.
- admarshall rated 17 months ago
- Blog of Brad, a Zen monk, writer, bass player and film-maker who wrote a book called Hardcore Zen.
- anitab rated 18 months ago
- From the page: "I do not doubt the effectiveness of these medications. But, to say they are effective means that they produce the desired effect. I wonder if the effect we desire is always what we really need. I used to suffer from severe headaches on an almost weekly basis. Large doses of Ibuprofen were an effective treatment. I took the pills and the pain stopped. Yet my reliance on the magic solution provided by the Advil corporation kept me from having to deal with the actual causes of my headaches. It also turned my poop hard as a rock, the repercussions of which I still deal with today. Those nice little ads on TV never seem to mention this, do they? It was only when I stopped taking so much medicine and began trying to get at the real problem that I was able to make my way towards solving what really needed to be solved. There are times when pain, even emotional pain, is a signal that something important needs to be dealt with directly. My experience was that drugs could be a very effective way to avoid confronting what%u2019s really wrong. Once when my Zen teacher, Nishijima Sensei, had injured his back, one of his students brought over a thing that looked like a heating pad that was supposed to zap some kind of healing electrical energy into your muscles. After the student badgered him for a long time, Nishijima finally gave it a try. His verdict was that the machine was %u201Ctoo excellent%u201D and he preferred to let his injury heal naturally. Likewise, I think most of our medications are %u201Ctoo excellent.%u201D They%u2019re good when you need a quick fix for a very severe problem. But whenever it%u2019s possible to use a more natural approach, the natural approach is always better. Even if it takes longer and seems less "effective" %u2014 meaning the solution is not quite what we imagined or wanted."
- Kushikushun rated 18 months ago
- Love this weblog! One of the nicest on zen I have read. A great site on Zen and meditation by Buddhist Monk and Punk Rocker Brad. Very down to earth guy who thinks zen meditation is boring...but still teaches it!
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