Brad Warner

all right hello there thrill seekers i'm brad warner i am the author of a lot of books about zen buddhism and today i would like to talk to you about a book i did not write which was written by my late friend david chadwick called tasahara stories we'll talk about that after 30 seconds of the theme from thunderball the james bond movie um All right, Thrill Seekers, that was a little bit of Thunderball, the version by Billy Strange.

I found this at a thrift store, Goodwill, in Glendora, California, a couple of weeks ago, and I've been playing the album incessantly ever since.

That's my favorite song.

And what you do is you live a kind of monastic schedule, not like practice period or on-go schedule, but you do have to get up at 4.30 in the morning, do zazen, do a bunch of ceremonies and stuff, and then the rest of the day you're working.

Most of the time when I was down there, they put me in the dining room serving food to the guests, which I always enjoyed that, and I think they liked it.

The Tassajara people liked it because sometimes guests would recognize me, and it was sort of like, hey, look, we got Brad Warner.

You know, the guy who wrote all the Zen books is working in our dining room.

And yeah, sometimes guests would recognize me and chat me up.

Hello there, thrill seekers.

My name is Brad Warner.

I've written a plethora of books about Zen Buddhism, and today I'd like to talk to you about something my first Zen teacher told me, which is that you need an equal amount of faith and doubt to study Zen.

We'll talk about that after 18 seconds of a song called Tafseer Mystic by The Panturas.

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written kind of over and over again periodically i did watch the video by brad warner who's kind of a zen teacher in the united states so i was able to do that uh fortunately i was familiar with uh dr willoughby britain already so you know so there's an old 70s song that says i will do anything for love but not that and seriously fellow g and tears i will do a lot for the love of this podcast But I had my line.

I couldn't read this whole article.

It was too much because I'd be like rolling my eyes.

If you want to be nuanced about it, good.

It's also probably true that you can have a lack of trained people to deal with those issues.

Uh, Brad Warner, again, the Zen master I mentioned earlier made a big point about this.

A lot of the people who go out and they're like the meditation teachers haven't had a lot of experience really, if you're honest,

Hello there, thrill seekers.

My name is Brad Warner.

I am the author of a lot of books about Zen Buddhism, and I would like to talk to you today about meat, as in the stuff some people eat, and Zen.

We'll talk about that after twenty-two seconds of Goldfinger.

Hello there, thrill seekers.

My name is Brad Warner.

I've written a lot of books about Zen Buddhism, and today I want to talk to you about Zen retreats and deep meditation after 20 seconds of Malaguena.

All right, thrill-seekers, that was a little bit of Malaguena.

He'd cancelled his involvement in it.

And I thought that was a real shame because the retreat will be just as good without me as with me because the retreat isn't about me.

The retreat isn't about you going to see me like it's not like the Brad Warner in concert kind of thing.

It is about your actual experience of the retreat.