Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality

This bold new approach to the "Why?" of Zen Buddhism is as strongly grounded in the tradition of Zen as it is utterly revolutionary. This new edition will feature an afterword from the author.. Zen, plain and simple, with no BS. Warner's voice is hilarious, and he calls on the wisdom of everyone from punk and pop culture icons to the Buddha himself to make sure his points come through loud and clear. Brad Warner, a young punk who grew up to be a Zen master, spares no one. As it prods readers to question everything, Hardcore Zen is both an approach and a departure, leaving behind the soft and lyrical for the gritty and stark perspective of a new generation.  This is not your typical Zen book

Great book with a few flaws Kindle Customer I will preface this with saying Brad Warner has done a tremendous job reaching out to younger folks and introducing Dharma to people around the world, as well as emphasizing the ideas of Zazen/Shikantaza through the Soto tradition more than many authors out there. I've followed his articles and talks for years but oddly had never read his seminal work which I finally read this weekend. It made me lose sleep thinking about parts of it wich is a sign of a great read f. Just as the title says: Hardcore Zen, and nothing but! Harpo There are probably as many opinions about Zen and Buddhist practice as there are Zen practitioners. Brad Warner cuts through the rhetoric and dogma with a very down-to-Earth and blunt style that is more useful for a real western Zen novice than all the traditional academics out there.Highly recommended!. Tanya Priest said Zazen. I read Brad Warner's second book Sit Down and Shut up and enjoyed it so much that I had to get his first book, this book, and read it. I will say that I liked Sit Down and Shut Up more than this book but it is still a very good read. Good enough that after this one I had to keep going, and in the last 6 weeks, I have read all five of his Zen books. They are very motivating. They make it clear that the practice of Zazen is the most important thing. I have been practi

Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. No one at all.") By turns wickedly funny, profane, challenging and iconoclastic-but always with genuine kindness-Warner devotes chapters to some common Zen notions such as the oneness of reality ("Why Gene Simmons Is Not a Zen Master"), reincarnation ("In My Next Life I Want to Come Back as a Pair of Lucy Liu's Panties") and the vital importance of the present moment ("Eating a Tangerine is Real Enlightenment"). Yet this is no litany of Zen orthodoxy designed for study. Entertaining, bold and refreshingly direct, this book is likely to change the way one experiences other books about Zen-and maybe even the way one experiences reality. From Publishers Weekly There's a Zen story about a teacher who holds up his finger, then reminds his student to look beyond the finger itself, to what the finger is pointing at-the mo