from slothman

Brad Warner has had an interesting life: playing guitar in the early-1980s punk scene in Ohio, making cheesy monster movies in Japan at Tsuburaya Productions (makers of Ultraman), and officially receiving Dharma Transmission, which makes him technically a “Zen master”— though his punk sensibiliti...

from bibliosk8er

I'd been wondering about Zen, mostly due to my practice of aikido. Not sure why. Actually I just don't feel like writing a book here. Anyway, I enjoyed this book. I know the author practices one version of Zen, and there are other opinions. The connection to punk rock is what got my attention. I ...

from shulera1

Brad Warner approaches Zen with a different voice than what I expected. It's all punk, and I loved it. I write down quotes I particularly like from books I'm reading in a journal, and Hardcore Zen's entry is rather sparse because I couldn't make myself stop reading long enough to write down what ...

from orangemonkey

On the surface, it seems as though Zen and punk would have absolutely nothing to do with one another. The most common image that we usually have of Zen in the West is a serene, quiet, calmness, while punk is usually associated with the exact opposite of that However, over the course of the book, ...

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A cut through the crap, no mystical nonsense, look at ZEN,here and now!