This Friday on The Broad Perspective join Vivian Komori and Laura Feliz as the chat with:

Brad Warner, author

Don't be a Jerk! 

And Other Practical Advice from Dogen, Japan's Greatest Zen Master

 

Brad

Warner is an ordained Zen teacher and author of the books There Is No

God And He Is Always With You (2013), Sex Sin and Zen (2010), Zen

Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate (2009), Sit Down and Shut Up (2007)

and Hardcore Zen (2004). He’s also a writer for the Suicide Girls

website, bass player for the hardcore punk rock group 0DFx (aka Zero

Defex), star of the movies “Shoplifting From American Apparel” and

“Zombie Bounty Hunter M.D.,” director of the film “Cleveland’s

Screaming!” and former vice president of the US branch of the company

founded by the man who created Godzilla.

Born

in Hamilton, Ohio in 1964, in 1972, Brad’s family relocated to Nairobi,

Kenya. When he returned three years later, nothing about rural Ohio

seemed quite the same anymore. In 1982, Brad joined 0DFx, famous for an

eighteen-second burst of noise titled “Drop the A-Bomb On Me.” 0DFx

recently reunited and has a new CD out.

While

still playing hardcore punk, Brad became involved in Zen Buddhism. The

realistic, no BS philosophy reminded him of the attitude the punks took

towards music. He made it to Japan in 1993 where he began studying the

philosophy with an iconoclastic rebel Zen Master named Gudo Nishijima.

After a few years, Nishijima decided to make Brad his successor as a

teacher of Zen