Tagged with Zen

"The Joyous Cosmology inevitably sends me into a state of poetic euphoria and anarchistic delight," writes Daniel Pinchbeck in his introduction to a new edition of Alan Watts' classic account of the psychedelic experience. Followed by the author's prologue.  (more)

With a background in punk rock and Japanese monster movies, Brad Warner isn't your hippie aunt's idea of a Zen master. In this interview, Warner discusses his latest book, an attempt to bridge the divergent terrain of contemporary sexuality to Zen's approaches to morality and sexual relationships. (more)

Our True Nature is who we already are, not something we can become or attain in the future. We somehow don't recognize this fact and spend years searching for something that was never lost, and if we're fortunate, we'll run into a teacher along the way who will simply point out what is perfectly obvious. (more)

In my 20's I was part of a second wave of Buddhist transmission to America. I knew two generations of artists with Buddhist inclinations, and in interviews with them, all roads led back to the Japanese scholar, Dr. D.T. Suzuki. Who was this unassuming person who had helped change the direction of American culture?  (more)

Zen golf, Zen gardens in a box, Zen stuffed animals -- How do ideas that are originally mystical or esoteric make their way into mass culture, and what do such ostensibly terrible things as commercialization and vulgarization have to do with this process? (more)