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Brad Warner author of Hardcore Zen on Gudo Nishijima

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Brad Warner, writer of "Hardcore Zen" and "Sit Down and Shut Up" at Hastings College in Hastings, Nebraska talks about what he learned from his Zen teacher, Gudo Nishijima.

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  • This shows the most important thing about Zen - the simplicity is profound.

  • I'm pretty sure that descriptions of truth are relative. No teacher had to tell me that. Brad Warner is helping people in his way. I appreciate his work and it makes me sad to see people so quick to dismiss it because of their preconceived ideas of how things should be. Many paths there are.

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  • Nishijima's answers brings a great big smile to my face. Nishijima's response to the question "what is life and death?" is fantastic. How much clearer could it be?! Thanks for this.

  • @stangerthananything truth is sadly not relative. Reality is reality the way we perceive may be different from others however it must be said our perceptions if the universe is not where the truth comes from. It comes from itself, truth is truth. Perception muddies the water reflecting it, and it is because of this the truth o's so simple to grasp yet so difficult to understand.

  • he will be in frankfurt in august for a weekend-sesshin. the sesshin will be held at the pathue-pagode, and he will teach about dogen´s shobogenzo. his teacher gudo nishijima is a contemporary dogen expert.

  • I mean descriptions of truth and that was intended to be in reply to

    herzensbildung...

  • I'm pretty sure that truth is relative. No teacher had to tell me that. Brad Warner is helping people in his way. I appreciate his work and it makes me sad to see people so quick to dismiss it because of their preconceived ideas of how things should be. Many paths there are.

  • i love hearing truth so plain and simple that it makes you go "oh yeah" and you feel like you've known it all along.

  • I think the old man did fine with awnsering the qustions. No one could have done any better or worse. Words are words. Explinations are explinations. The good awnsers we realize our self. Even they are simply just explinations with out diligent aplicatioin.

  • Thanks Brad.

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