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.

How come I can't get instant enlightenment?

Why Does Meditation Take So Long?

The Dalia Lama sez Don't meditate to Feel Better

Then how come there are so many people teaching Zen?

There Are No Zen Teachers

Dogen says, “It may be that the state in a dream and the state in waking consciousness are equally real.” Why?

Is Life a Kind of Dream?

What Are You Gonna Do With Enlightenment?

What would Buddhists think if the truth about aliens were revealed?

The Dharma of Disclosure Day

Making Effort in Meditation

Stages of Enlightenment

Do we do zazen in order to have a kensho or "enlightenment experience"?

Is ENLIGHTENMENT the Point of Zen?

If Zazen is good for nothing, why do it at all?