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Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies & the Truth About Reality
Hardcore Zen
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Warner's 2003 debut: a memoir-cum-primer that runs from his Akron hardcore-punk youth and his Tokyo years at Tsuburaya Productions (Ultraman) to his ordination as a Sōtō priest under Gudō Wafu Nishijima. It introduced a generation of English-speaking readers to Nishijima's plain-spoken Dōgen and remains the standard entry point to Warner's work.
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By Brad Warner
- Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dōgen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye
- Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma
- Sex, Sin, and Zen: A Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between
- Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā
- There Is No God and He Is Always With You: A Search for God in Odd Places
From Hardcore Zen
- Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dōgen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye
- Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma
- Sex, Sin, and Zen: A Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between
- There Is No God and He Is Always With You: A Search for God in Odd Places
- Letters to a Dead Friend About Zen
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Hardcore Zen is Brad Warner's memoir-primer on Sōtō Zen, written in the voice of a former hardcore-punk bassist who ended up as a dharma heir of Gudō Wafu Nishijima.