Hardcore Zen
Zen teacher/author Brad Warner, author of Hardcore Zen, Letters to a Dead Friend About Zen, Don't Be a Jerk, Sit Down and Shut Up, and many more books about Zen, shares his thoughts about Zen and other stuff.
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 110
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Some of My Favorite Zen Books
If you always wondered what my favorite Zen books are, well, here are some of them!
Polishing a Tile to Make a Mirror
Zazen is supposed to be a practice without a goal. What does that mean?
The King of Samadhis
Dogen describes zazen as the King of Samadhis. What the heck does that even mean?
Zentertainment with Rylend Grant
This episode was recorded in the pre-pandemic days. But I think we all need a break from that stuff, so here it is. In this episode, I talked to my friend Rylend Grant, a professional Hollywood scree…
The Meaning of Life
In this episode's letter to my dead friend Marky, I try to address the idea of the "meaning of life." You always hear that phrase, "the meaning of life." But what the heck does it mean? What does it …
Zen and the Paranormal
This episode was recorded at Mystic Journeys Bookstore in Venice, California. I love Mystic Journeys Bookstore! But it's not exactly a Zen space. They sell healing crystals, offer psychic readings, a…
Time is Weird
In this episode's letter, I wrote to my dead friend Marky about some of the weirder claims Zen Buddhists sometimes make -- like their occasional claims of experiencing oneness with everything. If som…
The Heart Sutra in the Heartland
I didn't include a letter to Marky about the Heart Sutra in Letters to a Dead Friend About Zen because I had written a chapter about it in my first book, Hardcore Zen. But the Heart Sutra is probably…
"Zen Beginnings"
Recorded October 12, 2019 in Akron, Ohio. In this episode I write to Marky about how I got started in Zen. This talk was delivered before a group that included a number of people who knew the real pe…
Beginner's Mind (aka Shoshin)
Recorded in London, England on July 4, 2019, Brad Warner introduces his book Letters to a Dead Friend About Zen. The book is a series of letters to Brad’s childhood friend Marky who died in 2014. Bra…