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As an attorney, I agree that everyone deserves competent counsel. However, I wonder if his client was on psychotropic drugs he will try to use that as a defense for his actions.
Something tells me that any lawyer will be able to acheive "leniency" for another soldier charged with killing an enemy prisoner. Whether a jury of his peers will also be "lenient" to a Muslim soldier charged with killing his comrades is a whole different ball of wax - I don't even think they are comparable.
Random thoughts: If Galligan needs an expert witness to testify on Major Hasan's mental competency, can he call on psychiatrist Hasan? If Hasan claims his reason for not wanting to go to Iraq or Afghanistan is because his religious beliefs bar him from killing Muslims, how will Hasan answer an obvious question: how could you tell if the people you were shooting at weren't Muslims? Maybe Hasan can go into that stale routine about the Muslim religion being one of peace. But then, how will Hasan explain why he targeted fellow workers in his psychiatric unit for execution. It is almost as if Hasan were on a suicide mission, being directed by a foreign handler to do his best to damage the US war effort. That would no longer be just murder, but treason as well.
Hasan was a medical doctor and not a combat or support person who would participate in the conflict. The media and other related organizations have failed to identify this. Hasan would not be in harms way or combat. Another interesting thing in this event, Hasan used his weapons as a trained professional and not as a amatuer. Doctors do not get this type of training. Those who want to sympathize with Hasan should also be charged with treason under giving this traitor comfort and support.
One comment to this blog states "Those who want to sympathize with Hasan should also be charged with treason under giving this traitor comfort and support". That is funny!
Under this definition the defence counsel could be charged with treason!
This disturbing report showing that AQ apparently was calling for individual attacks against Western forces by whatever means are readily available hit my in-box the day of the shootings:
Let's hope that Sada al-Malahim (The Echo of Battle) was not on Hasan's reading list...
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All military personnel are given professional training with weapon . Hasan could have claimed to be a conscientious objector ,or claimed to be gay , if he really did not wanted to be deployed in Afghanistan .
However if a soldier kill another soldier , this is no different than if a civilian or a high school student kill other civilians or students . This case has nothing to do with treason .
It is definitely in cases like this that one has to question whether our system is overly protective of criminals. This is a man who gunned down unarmed people in front of hundreds of witnesses. Do we really need a multi-year process to determine his guilt? Perhaps there should be an expedited process for cases where guilt can be proven not only beyond any reasonable doubt, but beyond any shadow of a doubt. In any sort of sane judicial system this murderer would be executed as soon as he recovers from his wounds.
Ft. Hood shooter is a Muslim that killed and Obama has admitted during his Presidential Campaign that he would side with the Muslims when a real dangerous decision would be expected of him. The Ft. Hood Shooter finally returned to his religion that had been ingrained since birth, and begin a killing rampage.
Between ages 6 and 8, three years, Obama attended a local Muslim school in Indonesia? In actuality I am not too keyed up about Obama, but this makes me wonder how long it will be till he reaches the same impasse the Ft. Hood shooter reached?? Is that the reason he keeps dragging his feet instead of making a decision in Afghanistan?
A reasonable person would think Obama could have the same impulsive guilt that the shooter had, yet the President has an arsenal that is much more destructive than Nidal Malik Hasan's two legally owned handguns.
Just Suppose is another tea-bagger who has some how linked the Ft. Hood killer to Obama's elementary school. Perhaps Obama keeps dragging his feet in Afghanistan because a 3 STAR GENERAL has told him that the entire country is corrupt.
Guilty.. I can't believe this piece of garbage is still alive. Can a Nurse or a Doctor pull the plug while nobody is looking? You will save the American people a lot of time and money..... He quickly ended peoples lives, now quickly end his. We don't want to have to endure his presence on earth any longer. Do not make this garbage murder a media star.
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Oh My god I want her I want her.
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who is the girl?
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If this is really not simply staged, I am guessing that Czech women are strapped for cash. Either that or he gets turned down more often than he gets laid. Anyway, most women would not fuck a man for any price.
These chicks want a lot of money but enjoy! They should pay!
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Sex, Sin & Zen: An Interview with Author, Punk Rocker & Zen Priest Brad Warner.
Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate (with a side of Godzilla).
CG: There seems to be aô way in whichô many spiritual teachers from the variousô wisdom traditions present themselves and their teachings. Itãs sort ofô like they have a stick up their ass,ô but youãre obviously quite different. Can you tell me about your approach to all things ãspiritualã i.e: practice, teaching, writing, lecturing etc.?
BW: Well Iãm not one of those people who sits around thinking of himself as a spiritual person. Sometimes people will label me as such, but I donãt feel it at all. I spent a very brief time in my late teens cultivating that image, maybe for about six months or so and finally thought, ãfuck it, that isnãt me anyways." Since then, my approach to all things spiritual is rather cynical you could say.
When somebody presents something to me as spiritual, my first instinct is to be cynical and think, ãoh yeah, one of those again.ã You see so much of it see in ãspiritual cultureã and people get very excited about it. Itãs all very ãhoo haw.ã So Iãm skeptical and cynical about the whole thing and itãs only if something seems to be genuine that I would pursue it. Thatãs why Iãve stuck with Zen for so long and not gone on to some other path with it.
CG: That was actually going to be my next question, why Zen instead of other lineages of Buddhism or other wisdom tradition in general? So maybe youãd like to incorporate that with my first question?
BW: Sure. What attracted me to Zen was my first teacher, Tim McCarthy. He was extremely genuine. It wasnãt even really a Zen thing, that sort of came along later. So I was first exposed to this guy Tim McCarthy, and heãs talking about Zen, but deeper than that he was a genuine person. I thought maybe heãs someone I can trust and follow this thing heãs talking about all the time. I guess what attracted me about the philosophy aspect was that it was realistic. It didnãt go off into the realm of imagination land, which I find a lot of religious teachings, actually almost every religious teaching does.
I keep meaning to write this up as a blog post, but lately, while driving in my car Iãve been listening to a religious station that comes on out of Cleveland from the Moody Bible Institute. At first, I was listening to it to hear the goofball shit. I stumbled across the station by accident initially during a program on the evils of pornography and masturbation and was like, ãHaha, thatãs great, masturbation and pornography? Iãll keep listeningã but now I actually listen to the station often. After a few days of listening to it, what I heard was a mix of stuff, some of which I have to admit however grudgingly, was really good.
Iãd say more than half the stuff I hear when I randomly turn on that station is good advice for how to live your life and be a decent person. How not to fly off the handle and do many of the terrible things people do, but then theyãll mix in a bunch of weirdo shit that comes out of nowhere. It doesnãt seem toô me to be related at all. Thereãs fantasies about what heaven is like and who Satan is and why you shouldnãt masturbate or why you should vote Republican. Itãs funny because itãs an election year and their news broadcasts are constantly talking about ãVote Republican." I think that they think theyãre being subtle about it, but thatãs definitely not the case. So Iãm like, ãWhat does this have anything to do with the nice advice you were giving about how to live your life, how to get along with your spouse etc?ã
So, what I liked about Zen was that it never goes off into the realm of imagination land, or if it does occasionally, the good teachers will openly address it specifically as only imagination. Both of my teachers were very good at that. At times, Zen does get into some Buddhist Cosmology. Nishijima Roshi, my main teacher would talk about that and almost every time immediately say that it was only one way of looking at it. Whenever addressing realms of Heaven or Hell, heãd also address that it was just a psychological state. So I was very attracted to the way that Zen did not go into the imagination land. And now Iãve forgotten what your first question was and how we were going to tie this together.
CG: It was regarding your approachãÎ
BW: Oh, right. I guess that all figures into my approach because once I start hearing the imagination land stuff (thatãs my new phrase now I guess) I tend to tune out or start laughing at it like, ãHaha, you guys really believe there is a heaven.ã Itãs crazy to me how concerned people get with what it looks like and what you can do there. People may as well be talking about J.R.R. Tolkien or Star Trek or something. I mean, I can do that all day long. I can tell you the Vulcans are not actually devoid of emotion. That they work hard to suppress their emotions (laughing). And of course, there actually are no real Vulcans, though I know the ins and outs of them as fictional characters.
But people do the same thing with the Bible. They memorize all the fictional characters, the parameters and the rules of the game and think itãs important, but I canãt get excited about that myself.
CG: (laughing) I like it. So you mentioned your blog, which I often find myself visiting and my next two questions were regarding a couple of topics you recently posted.
BW: Okay.
CG: Okay, so my first inquiry is regarding a question you recently addressed which is, ãWhat is sanity and how does it relate to enlightenment?ãCan you talk a bit about that for me?
BW: Funny, because I remember writing the post but not what I said specifically, so Iãll either repeat myself or say something completely different and baffle everybody.
CG: Excellent.
BW: Sanity and enlightenmentãÎIãve been reading a new book Dogenãs Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries, and it contains a commentary on Genjo Koan by Shunryu Suzuki, the author who wrote Zen Mind, Beginners Mind. He doesnãt mention sanity at all but I think that one possible definition of enlightenment would be a kind of profound sanity, where being insane is no longer an option.
Thereãs also something that is often mistaken for enlightenment which is a kind of insanity. Often, people will have some kind of weird experience which is quite abnormal and think, ãOh my God, thatãs it, I understand everythingã because they start seeing things in a very weird way and think thatãs how enlightened people see things as well. A lot of seriously insane people have managed to acquire huge followings based on the idea thatô their insanity is a kind of enlightenment.
An obvious example would be Charles Manson or Shoko Asahara who is the person responsible for the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway. Since I was living in Japan at the time, Shoko Asahara was an important figure and you could say his name and people would immediately know who you were talking about but since being back in America Iãve realized most people donãt know who he is, which I find odd because he was far worse than Charles Manson. He killed many more people than Manson and was actually trying to kill thousands but wasnãt careful enough in his process.
So he was insane but managed to convince a couple thousand people that he was enlightened. Western culture, which Japan is now definitely a part of, doesnãt have an understanding of what enlightenment is. Iãm not sure that Eastern culture does either, but Iãve never lived in India etc so I couldnãt tell you. I can say we definitely donãt. So people will sometimes come in contact with something strange and think, ãOh, it must be like thisã and have a lot of fantasies about it, and somebody who sort of looks like our fantasy version of what enlightenment is can be very convincing in seeming like theyãve got something and then play that role. I think real enlightenment is total sanity, a kind of acceptance of what actually is. It does involve a kind of different way of looking at things.
As Iãve done this Zen practice for years and years, Iãve acquired what I realize is an almost upside down view of life compared to what most people think, which is just what I used to think it was too. Itãs not really an insane view, at least I hope itãs not. I used to worry when I was a teenager, even into my twenties, after Iãd heard something about schizophrenia and how people just suddenly become schizophrenic that I was insane. Sometimes people pick up pet worries that theyãll entertain themselves with and that was my big one. So as far as thinking about what that means, one of the definitions of insanity is that you lose your ability to communicate to anybody because your frames of reference have become so different from the rest of the world that you canãt communicate anymore.
If you come across an insane person whoãs talking gibberish, you canãt make any sense of it at all and that would be one way that enlightenment is different. If you read Dogen, a lot of his stuff is very strange and is coming from a different place than what weãre used to, but at the same time, itãs not senseless ramblings and thatãs part of what attracted me to Dogen. I didnãt get it, but it was sane. Itãs not some guy raving about UFOs or Moses living in his bathtub, itãs was actually something sane that I just didnãt get, if that makes sense?
CG: Actually, from my own personal experience it definitely does.
BW: Okay, good.
CG: So I have one more blog questions for you.
BW: Okay.
CG: Yesterday you posted a blog about our interconnectivity or oneness in which you used Moe and Curly of The Three Stooges (nicely done) to humorously elaborate on a very deep subject. A subject so deep however, you also mentioned itãs resulted in people being killed for even talking about it. Can you elaborate on both, the subject matter of oneness and said death of individuals please?
BW: I think the understanding of oneness and interconnectivity of the whole Universe is something we have innately, something weãre born with. We are however very skillful at ignoring and pretending we donãt have or know it. So when we come across somebody who does understand this and makes an effort to try and explain it to us, some people freak out and turn that person into either an object of worship or, some people freak out and want to kill that person.
I think itãs because they know whatãs true but they donãt want to know, they donãt want to face up to what that actually means. So theyãre going to kill the messenger and hope that by doing so theyãll destroy the message so they can go back to living their ordinary life again.
The obvious example would be Jesus. Jesus is an object of fascination for me. Heãs an interesting historical character because we donãt know much about him. He seems to be a guy who was in touch with something deeper than most people around him were and someone who was very concerned with trying to communicate that. He was probably a guy who thought, ãThis thing that Iãve discovered can save the world and everybody is miserable without it.ã So he was probably a very kind and giving person and thought he had to give it to people, even if it killed him. He had to make sure they got the message, and he paid the ultimate price as they say due to his insistence.
If heãd been a little more concerned for his own safety and well being he may have toned things down a little bit and probably at best heãd be remembered as a rabbi who said some cool things but that nobody really reads anymore. Thereãs tons of them. Rabbi Hillel is probably the most famous among them. Heãs quite famous in a way but nowhere near as famous as Jesus.
So itãs a dangerous thing and conversely, the other thing I mentioned in that post was that people see guys who are kind of in touch with that and become famous for it and then think maybe they can get in on it. Maybe theyãre not quite as cynical as that and thereãs some sincerity about them, but they donãt really get it so they just imitate what theyãve seen from people whoãve done it before and of course you can make big money that way.
The thing with the question of oneness or non-oneness is that you can literally discuss it forever. You can go into the philosophy section of any library and youãll see people have been discussing it forever and will continue to do so. The fact is that there is a contradiction going on but our brains donãt like contradiction. So when Moe hits Curly on the head with a sledgehammer and Curly says, ãowã and Moe says, ãServes you right, Numbskull," you can say thatãs because theyãre separate beings, and thatãs true.
Thereãs also an aspect which I tried to express yesterday by saying the same ãsomethingã that looks out through Curly's eyes is also the same exact thing which looks out of Moeãs eyes, and thatãs harder for people to grasp. So the thing is, you have to find a way to ultimately embrace both sides or else you canãt function. If you only embrace the side of pure oneness then you end up sort of spacing out and sitting under a blanket. People will come and give you sandwiches every six hours but youãre really of no use. A lot of people get excited about guys like that but I canãt get too excited about it because I think heãs sorta useless. Heãs just sitting there in India under a blanket looking beautiful, so what.
CG: So in relation to saying that itãs the same thing looking at Moe as it is Curly, I canãt help but think about a lot of the work Quantum Physics has done in offering scientific explanations to elaborate on hypothesis like that through the use of the Unified Field Theory or the Planck Scale, etc.
BW: Itãs interesting to see whatãs going on with physics these days because theyãre starting to come out with stuff that sounds remarkably like Buddhism and even more specifically like the ancient Hindu Vedas. Physics isnãt necessarily saying the exact same thing but I think eventually it will merge. Itãs sort of another innovation, probably a good innovation, of Western culture to separate the ideas between science and philosophy, but itãs important to remember they werenãt always separate realms of inquiry. For a very long time science and philosophy were considered part of the same continuum and it was only within the last few hundred years theyãve been considered different areas of inquiry, and now weãre starting to go back to the idea that maybe they arenãt two separate realms of inquiry.
So with science, itãs original idea was to ignore the spiritual or nebulous side of reality and to strictly work on concrete things. Say thereãs a brick which we cut it in half and then see thereãs two halves of a brick. If we keep cutting we can then see thereãs particles and so on and so forth. As youãre implying, thereãs a new technology that can look even deeper into that brick and we can start getting into a level where it breaks down so that the brick isnãt even there, but obviously it is because Moe can hit Curly on the head with it. Itãs quite bizarre and all relative.
CG: Yes, bizarre indeed. So in your most recent book Sex, Sin and Zen, you explore sexuality in relation to ãspiritualityã and youãre also are a blogger for the Suicide Girls website, which is obviously very sexual in nature, so I was hoping you could discuss the relationship of sexuality with the spiritual realm as youãve come to understand it.
BW: Well itãs always been an interesting area for me. In referencing something I just reread from Dogen it says, ãEnlightenment doesnãt break the person anymore than the reflection breaks the waterã and Suzuki in his commentary is saying you donãt lose your personality once you acquire some sort of Buddhist understanding.
I think itãs part of my personality to find sex really interesting. Not just in the puerile way of, ãOh I want to go and have some sexã (Note: Brad adopts a weird old guy pervert voice for that quote and did so rather quickly which in retrospect has me wonderingãÎ). Itãs fascinating, thereãs an entire realm of human activity thatãs important and literally vital to our survival and yet weãve vilified it.
Thatãs one of the reasons that religious station is so fascinating to me. They really make sex into such a horrible thing and how terrible anything related to sex is, but isnãt that why weãre all here? We wouldnãt be here at all if two people in our past hadnãt been horny for each other, thatãs how it works. So we canãt continue unless people keep being horny for each other, thatãs just the way it is.
One of the things I regret about not putting in that book or I think itãs there but I didnãt really elaborate on it, is contraception. I came across someone who articulated very clearlyô that one of the things which makes our approach to Buddhist practice in regards to sex different these days than it was in Buddhist times, is the simple existence of reliable contraception, which is a no brainer but I missed really addressing it in the book. I never really got around to discussing that specific topic which I think it crucially important to understand.
If you were a monk in early Buddhist times and you had sex, there was a good chance a child would be conceived. Then, because Buddha was a responsible guy and believed in his monks being responsible, their responsibility would no longer be to their practice or to the sangha, but to their child because thatãs the only honest way to do it. You canãt have it both ways. So anytime a monk would have sex, there was always that possibility and it was a very big deal.
Now however, we have contraception and itãs mostly reliable, so you can have sex without that happening.ô So then you start vilifying the act of sex itself. I donãt think Buddhism has ever done that necessarily, or at least Iãm not aware of Buddhism takingô the stance that Christianity often has which says that sex itself is a kind of evil act, which is a really weird idea. The reason I wrote that book is because I think a lot of people trying to follow Buddhism these days are getting confused about sex and they donãt understand whatãs going on. Theyãve been exposed to a contemporary Christian idea that sex itself is evil and bad, which Iãm not so sure was Jesusã idea.
For me, the Buddhist approach isnãt that sex itself is evil or bad but that sex is neutral. Itãs the way you do it that can problematic. So I thought that deserved a book and feel like the door needs to be open so people can say, ãOkay, here we go, letãs deal with thisã because weãre not dealing with it. Iãm waiting for somebody to write another book but it hasnãt happened yet, though I guess mineãs only been out for a year and a half. I mean, somebody could write another book and say Bradãs idea about Buddhism and sex is wrong, and hereãs mine, and that would be great. Just the fact that it would exist would be good because nobody is saying it, itãs like theyãre trying to pretend itãs not there.
CG: You certainly made some very valid and insightful points there. So letãs complement the topic of sex and move into Rock 'n' Roll.
BW: (laughing) Sounds good.
CG: So you grew up in the punk/hardcore scene and have been playing in bands for many years, which I certainly relate too. What are you up to musically these days?
BW: Well, I just bought a guitar. My Dad actually came across a bank account heãd opened for me when I was a teenager that weãd both forgotten about and recently said, ãyou know, thereãs some money in thereã so I used it buy a guitar. I play guitar and bass but have really only had a beater guitar for a few years now so Iãve concentrated mostly on bass. Now that I have a nicer guitar, I can play that in a band as well.
CG: Nice. What kind of guitar did you get?
BW: Itãs a Schecter Robin Finck model. Itãs a really interesting looking guitar. I saw it hanging up on the store wall and thought it was a 60s Japanese guitar that theyãd found at a pawn shop, but when I got closer it was obviously new and then I played it and had to get it. Anyways, Zero Defex (0DFx) is the hardcore band Iãm in and weãve been recording for the last couple of months.
We have a set of fourteen new finished songs, the entirety of which times out at about twenty four minutes. Not only that, but within that twenty four minutes is a song that is eight and a half minutes long, so I think that will tell you what the rest are. I contributed that eight and a half minute song as Iãve been listening to a lot of psychedelic stuff lately. Iãm sorta anti-drug in my public work. I have a big campaign against people thinking drugs are the way to Buddhist enlightenment, but Iãm not a big anti-drug guy in general per se. So Iãve been listening to this so called ãstonerã music, which I love and Iãm listening to totally straight and really getting into. I donãt know if the people playing it are smoking a lot of dope or not. Iãm sure some of them are and Iãm sure some of them arenãt. So I contributed some stoner rock to 0DFx. Itãs a slow song which I also contribute some sitar, and mellotron too (laughing). And to be extra contradictory, when I played the sitar part I wore this flowery, hippie looking shirt. So we have that and hopefully it will come out soon. Iãm not exactly sure what weãre going to do with it. Maybe shop it around and put it out ourselves if no one is interested.
I also want to start another band where I play guitar and that would be a totally psychedelic project. I relate to Wayne Coyneãs story from the Flaming Lips. I read some of the liner notes in one of the albums where he said he did acid four times and hated it, which is exactly what happened to me. I did acid four times as well, maybe thatãs the magic number, and I hated it, but he makes this music that a lot of people associate with drug use and he himself is not a drug guy. So thatãs how I feel, I love this so-called ãdrugã music but I donãt like the drugs themselves, I just like the music. So yeah, I want to start the druggiest drug band in the world but without the drugs.
CG: And I wish you all the luck in the world with that. So you have a very obvious fascination with Godzilla and I was wondering if you could tell me what it is about him that makes him so amazing?
BW: (laughing) I donãt know. When I first started watching Godzilla, I was a kid and a big dinosaur freak and was like, ãOh my gosh, thereãs a big dinosaur.ã So I immediately got into Godzilla.
What I like about it are some of the things people often think are negative aspects. For instance, even though I was ten years old I quickly figured out it was a guy in a costume, and I liked that. I could feel something about that. I wondered, ãWho is this guy in the costumeã (who I actually got to meet years later).
So, I wondered who the guy was and what it was like to be in the costume. I also appreciated how amazing the miniature buildings were. It turns out that the guy who built those buildings was trained as a furniture maker. So Eiji Tsuburaya, who did the special effects, saw some of his furniture designs and thought that if he could build furniture that looked like that, maybe he could build imitation buildings, because heãd made some very detailed pieces of furniture that were very beautiful.
So he asked the guy who said he thought he could do it and he ended up designing some tremendous replicas of buildings in Japan. I loved all of that stuff.
Godzilla also represents the fear of nuclear annihilation, which was something that was big in my mind at the time. It was something that the people of this forthcoming generation havenãt had to live with, but people around my age grew up with the idea that we could all be blown up at any minute.
Thatãs also what got me into hardcore music. I thought, ãWell if this is the end of the world, why not just throw it all into the mixã. I really thought Reagan was going to push the button and blow us all up. It was scary. So when they did the 1998 American Godzilla film, Hollywood didnãt understand what Godzilla was. You know that for sure because Godzilla was killed by an ordinary missile. He spends most of that film dodging them but then the Army finally gets a bead on him and they shoot a missile at him and he blows up and dies, and thatãs not what Godzilla is.
Godzilla is supposed to be a thing that you canãt possibly kill, no matter how hard you try. In the Japanese movieãs theyãre throwing everything they have at him, every missile, but he keeps coming, he canãt be stopped and that represents death. Thereãs nothing you can do to stop it, to keep yourself from dying. You can try every trick in the book and it still wonãt prevent it. So thatãs Godzilla, heãs ultimately going to get you regardless of what you do. Maybe the people who made the American Godzilla film were scared of that. They didnãt want him to represent that, to represent something we couldnãt deal with because, ãWeãre Americans, we can deal with anythingã (laughing).
CG: Hmm, so after hearing that response, Iãm really interested to hear your answer on my final question for you which is, Godzilla Vs. Buddha steel cage match, who wins and why?
BW: Oh man, I donãt know. Probably Godzilla because heãs so much bigger.
CG: Okay, I wasnãt sure if maybe Buddha could somehow calm him down.
BW: Well, Buddha might be the one thing that could settle Godzilla down. He might say, ãListen Godzilla, you donãt have to do all this. Just chill out a little bit and everything will be fineã (laughing). I mean Godzilla is eternally pissed off at everything but of course heãs gonna be because every time he pops out of the water for a look around somebody is firing a missile at him. Buddha would probably have to act as a mediator between the people and Godzilla.
CG: And on that noteãÎ Thanks very much for your time, Brad.
BW: Sure. Thank you.
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6 Responses to "Sex, Sin & Zen: An Interview with Author, Punk Rocker & Zen Priest Brad Warner."
i'd always innately followed buddhism. not intensely, more like, "i get that. that makes sense to me. one day i'll look into that." blah, blah, etc., etc. the one thing that held me back was that i wasn't ready for that, i needed to prepare and be less angry with the world. and i wasn't ready to give that anger up. i mean shit, i kinda like my edge ("Enlightenment doesn't break the person anymore than the reflection breaks the water" and Suzuki in his commentary is saying you don't lose your personality once you acquire some sort of Buddhist understanding." – um perfect!)
then i read hardcore zen and some things changed. it broke this silly perception, of which i am sure is from being raised in the south. i remember being confused when i was younger about how everyone was all nice and dressed up on sunday mornings and then you'd hear they cheated on their spouse or hit their kids (not all OF course, but the hypocrite stuff just stands out). then moved to a college town and was exposed to more 'open minds' and ways of living, then moving into the yoga world…. and in all that i realized, in every spiritual category/lifestyle there's always going to be someone who gives off that sense of "i'm more spiritual than you." and on days when you are feeling low about yourself, it's easy to find yourself wanting. yep, don't feel that way anymore. it's just not my problem.
reading brad's book some time ago i understood the reason i was drawn to buddhism. because it encourages you to ask, encourages you to seek, encourages you to be yourself. doesn't ask you to blindly follow.
so, thanks for this article, cause it was a reminder. and now i need to read his other books.-
Thanks for sharing your experience! I loved Brad's books and Noah Levine's for the same reasons! There's other wonderful more traditional books on Buddhism of course, but they make it more accessible for a lot of folks who otherwise wouldn't be able to relate to it I think. Thanks again!
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As we welcome a brand new year, writers Olivia Tracey and Roshni Patel give their top picks of the TV shows to look forward to in 2015...
Written by Roshni Patel & Olivia Tracey on 27th January 2015Hannah Lloyd-Davies talks to David Gyasi, one of the stars of BBC2 drama White Heat
Hannah: White Heat depicts the lives of students from the 60s to the present day. You play Law student Victor, who emigrates from Jamaica to study in Britain. How did you research the role?
David: I had to interview my dad to research for the part, because Victor, my character in the show, came over in 1965 at the same time as him, so their journeys and experiences are very similar. I had to draw from the adversity that he faced. I also interviewed a judge called Elroy Claxton who came over here in 1966, so it was good talking to people who had first-hand experience of what my character had gone through.
Hannah: What do you think people will like about White Heat?
David: I think the relationships between the seven flatmates are really interesting. They are fantastic characters; the actors are really watchable. The characters hold you, but then you have the amazing change in Britain's cultural landscape too. It's got all the ingredients for a good coming-of-age drama.
Hannah: What is the weirdest thing you have ever had to do for an acting job?
David: When I was younger I did an advert where I had to walk through all these locations in London whilst interacting with computer generated characters, none of whom were there! That was really weird, but really fun.
Hannah: You were a part of the stage version of War Horse – what do you think of the decision to make a film version?
David: It's very different appearing in the stage version compared to what the audience experience. You're not present for the entire journey, so I never really got what they had gone through. I was fortunately invited to a screening of the film and really enjoyed it, as unlike the stage version, I didn't know what was going to happen next. I would definitely recommend it.
Hannah: You've been in a wide variety of film and television roles. Which art form do you prefer?
David: I did a Performing Arts degree which encouraged me to try lots of different things. I had the option when I was younger to go down a more narrow route, but had a lot of dramatic and film opportunities going on, so it didn't appeal to me. I'm fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to act in many different genres.
Hannah: We will soon see you in The Dark Knight Rises, the most highly anticipated film of the year. What was it like to be part of such a huge film?
David: It's been great. For me, it was the first film that I got where I'd been to America for a casting and it was pretty massive for me. It has been one of the most exceptional projects of my career to work on.
Hannah: What has been your career highlight to date?
David: I think The Dark Knight Rises is one of the best projects I've ever done. However, there was a moment where I had absolute down time and I didn't know where the next job was coming from, which made me really search myself and question if I really wanted to do this for the rest of my life. I came to the conclusion that this is what I love to do and have wanted to do all my life. So my wife and I agreed that this is what I should be doing,
and I got the call about Batman the day after. So that whole period was a highlight for me.
Hannah: Do you have a favourite actor?
David: Such a hard question! Denzel Washington: I'm really inspired and uplifted by his performances. Robert Downey Jr really impresses me as well. And I love Jimmy Stewart's performance in It's a Wonderful Life. If I had to pick one though, it would be Denzel Washington. I think he's so good at making people believe his performances and is a good-looking, black leading man.
Hannah: What advice do you have for aspiring actors?
David: I hear people say it's all about luck and being in the right place at the right time, but I disagree. It requires years of preparation and getting life experience so that you have something to really draw on.
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CNBC's Hampton Pearson breaks down the numbers on Friday's jobs report.
Arjuna Mahendran, CIO of Emirates National Bank of Dubai, explains why U.S. corporate profits are expected to surge on the back of lower oil prices and U.S. monetary policy.
Dan Greenhaus, Chief Global Strategist at BTIG, expects wage growth to rise by the middle of next year.
Dave Khan, Managing Director at Convergent Wealth Advisors, explains his optimism on the U.S. economy on the back of recent strong data.
Doug Gordon, Senior Investment Strategist at Russell Investments, explains why investors brushed off lower oil prices in Tuesday's U.S trading session.
The U.S. dollar may take some time to recover following the worse-than-expected nonfarm payrolls data last week, says Sean Callow, Currency Strategist at Westpac Bank.
The U.S. jobs report remains on an uptrend and optimism about the economy is reflected in the stock market, says Joe Magyer, Senior Analyst at The Motley Fool.
While Friday's nonfarm payrolls came in below estimates, the report isn't a cause for worry, says Jim Awad, Chairman of Plimsoll Mark Capital.
CNBC's Rick Santelli and James Bianco, Bianco Research, assess today's employment data and wage growth. Bianco says there has not been much of a change in private payrolls over the last six months, but volatility has been removed.
CNBC's Jim Cramer and David Faber share their thoughts on today's jobs data that saw nonfarm payrolls increase by 214,000.
Nonfarm payrolls will be the big event on Wall Street on Friday, with stock index futures ticking higher in anticipation.
Ahead of October's U.S. nonfarm payrolls report, Alvin Liew, Senior Economist at UOB, outlines his expectations and discusses whether the data will reflect further wage growth.
Scott Nations, Chief Investment Officer and President at NationsShares, explains why expectations for an upside surprise in October's U.S. nonfarm payrolls won't be met.
Friday could see a strong U.S. jobs report that will give markets a boost, says Sam Chandan, President & Chief Economist at Chandan Economics.
With such anemic job growth, the U.S. economy will take years to recover the jobs lost since 2009, says Elaine Chao, Former U.S. Secretary of Labor under the Bush administration from 2001-2009.
Sandy Sanders, Senior Portfolio Manager at Manulife Asset Management, expects economic data from the U.S. to continue improving.
Jack Bouroudjian, CIO at Index Financial Partners, outlines his estimates for Friday's U.S. jobs report. He also discusses news that the Bank of America revised down Q3 results on litigation charges.
CNBC's Rick Santelli, and Andrew Puzder, CKE Restaurants CEO, discuss how the Obama administration's proposed minimum wage increase of 40 percent would be devastating to small businesses and cost jobs.
Private payroll company ADP is revealing a new report which covers data from paychecks ADP processes. Mark Zandi, Moody's Analytics chief economist, discusses how this data differs from government data.
John Kosar, President & Market Technician at Asbury Research, says U.S. stocks are "getting back to normal" after responding positively to a robust jobs data last Friday.


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I don't hesitate to tell people that 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' saved my life. At the stage door of the Belasco theater, I yelled out to Lena and Andrew, "This show means the world to me!" and "Hedwig saved my life!" amidst the sea of selfies, HedHeads (the patiently waiting fans) and autographs. It isn't difficult for me to make my absolute adoration of this show known, and yet the reasons why it means so much to me aren't exactly simple to explain, particularly in under five hundred words.
When recently prompted to explain why I chose to leave Columbia College Chicago, I came up with the phrase, "priorities realized", which is the best way that I've found to express what happened. I unfortunately had my first experience with outward homophobia directed at me on an especially frequent basis. Due to the way bigotry made itself known, I found myself realizing how lucky I had been in the past to find camaraderie in theatre and community in queerness. In my search to find something like that on my own in Chicago, I wound up discovering Hedwig instead.
Each night as I struggled to reconcile the prevalent anti-queer words and actions I was surrounded by, with my dreams of Columbia College Chicago being a welcoming artistic community, I listened to the song 'Wicked Little Town'. The night before my nineteenth birthday, in my insomnia driven introspection, I began to realize I was reverting back to being the person I was before I valued my own voice (both proverbially and literally).
Upon that realization, I did what I felt I had to do. I barricaded myself in the university center practice room and sang 'Wicked Little Town' with the voice I could feel relapsing. I sang with all the volume and wholeness I could muster from my verklempt vocal folds. I left Columbia College Chicago soon after.
I reassessed my priorities after returning home to Minnesota, and discovered, through 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch', that theatre in all its life-saving glory made me teem with more passion than anything else I aspired towards since graduating Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists. Because of this, 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' not only kept me going in times of extreme turmoil which I didn't expect to survive, but also reminded me and reconfirmed what my calling is.
Subsequently, I proudly proclaim to friends, family, strangers, Andrew Rannells, Lena Hall, and you, dear reader, that 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' is the reason I'm still alive.


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Aimee Copeland, the 24-year-old Georgia woman who continues to endure a fight against a flesh-eating bacteria infection enters a new phase her recovery, rehabilitation. Copeland was discharged from the hospital on Monday and while she goes through her rehab, her home will also need to remodel in order to fit her needs.
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Aimee Copeland, the 24-year-old Georgia woman who lost most of her hands, one of her legs and her remaining foot after a flesh-eating bacteria infection, now faces the daunting task of learning how to live her life without her full limbs.
Aimee was released from the hospital Monday and has started physical therapy near her home in Snellville, Georgia. Her father, Andy, says the therapy will take six to eight weeks.
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The Copelands are adding an entire new addition off the back of their house. When Aimee returns, the house will be nearly twice as large and newly equipped for her special needs.
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Part Two of a profile of the official historians of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. To read Part One, a profile of House Historian Matthew Wasniewski, click here.Shortly after the Watergate scandal that shook the nation between 1972 and 1974, a letter was written that reminded majority and minority leaders in Congress of the importance of preserving the records of the legislative branch. The power behind Arthur M. Schlesinger's words inspired the creation of a new office. Working together, Democratic and Republican leaders established the Senate Historical Office in 1975. The Historical Office is currently headed by Dr. Donald Ritchie.Ritchie, a native of Queens, N.Y., was educated at the City College of New York and the University of Maryland. While working towards his graduate degree at Maryland, the U.S. government dropped graduate education as a deferment to serve in Vietnam. As a result, he was drafted and inducted into the Marine Corps in June 1969 and was stationed at Pearl Harbor.
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Staff friendly. Fascinating building and artefacts/paintings. Free to visit. Shop rather pricey. Cafe closed quite early.
I stayed at this college housing for a conference and the rooms were terrible. Very small and run-down, with cubicle bathrooms that I have only ever seen in overcrowded Japanese hotels. There is no restaurant (or anything like that) on the college premises, and the only nearby pubs close their kitchens very early in the evening, as it's typical in... More
The building and its contents should not be missed. So much to admire. It has an interesting gift shop and a purposeful cafe.
My son is studying at this College. He is very pleased with the accommodation facilities, as well as all other facilities availzble. The only drawback is that it is some distance from the centre of Csmbridge and from the places where the lectures take place. The food at the College is worse that before and more expensive. The gardens are... More
The building itself was covered with scaffold and plastic sheeting when we visited, which was a shame, but the interior is magnificent with a section somewhere to please everybody. The cafe and shop is lovely and clean and not too pricey.
This week I attended a Sutton Trust Summer School studying Economics and we were lucky to be given accommodation at Fitzwilliam College where we were served breakfast, provided with a packed lunch and then served dinner in the evening. My room was about twice the size of some other universities I have looked around and had a little pod like... More
Like Churchill, Fittzwilliam is a modern Cambridge college on the edge of the city. If you're a tourist don't go out of your way to visit as it's nothing special to look at.
Next to nothing to see. But it is a good example of 1960s 1970s architecture. Almost all colleges in Cambridge are closed to tourists, so the facade is all you get to see. Given that the Colleges are private property this is understandable
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Church in the lurch
The great and good of Anglicanism are in York for what could be the most explosive General Synod for centuries. Paul Vallely explains the issues that are at stake
Saturday 05 July 2008
Big words are being thrown around in the Church of England these days; words such as schism, with echoes from 1,000 years ago when the world divided between Rome and the Orthodox; words such as Reformation, with echoes of the split between Catholic and Protestant, which spilt a deal of English blood in the 16th century.
Some 1,333 vicars and other clerics have written to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York threatening to leave the church if its General Synod presses ahead this weekend with the idea of women bishops.
Ho-hum, says the rest of society, for whom gender and sexuality equality has become an unquestioning desideratum, if not an always practised norm, over the past decades. For those with a secularist world view such debates have become a yawning irrelevance. But the air is febrile with a sense of history in the church and for reasons which are not always immediately apparent to outsiders. Women and gays have become its totems.
This weekend's meeting comes hard on the heels of a gathering of 300 conservative bishops and archbishops in Jerusalem, which they infelicitously named Gafcon. It announced the creation of a new grouping of Anglicans which does not recognise the authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Poor old Rowan Williams, they decided, was part of the spiritual vacuum which has sent the Western world into a spiral of moral decline. In his place, they have set up a new Primates Council and written their own orotund declaration of faith.
Attitudes are hardening. In two weeks, the rest of the bishops of the Anglican Communion will meet in Canterbury for the Lambeth Conference of Bishops, the once-a-decade meeting of high-ranking clergy from around the world to discuss the situation. It will be a nodal point.
Since the crisis began – triggered by the consecration of a non-celibate gay, Gene Robinson, as a bishop in the United States in 2003 – Rowan Williams has made a succession of compromises to conservative evangelicals to avoid a split in the church. But with the setting up of the alternative structures by Gafcon his tone has changed. He has allowed his exasperation to become public, and questioned the legitimacy and authority of the rebels.
His fellow senior bishops have been even more robust. The Bishop of Southwark, Dr Tom Butler, described the dissidents as militant fundamentalists whose manifesto read like something drawn up by a student union during the era of Marxist revolution. It was, he said, "nonsense". And the conservative Bishop of Durham, Dr Tom Wright – whom the Gafcon-ites had hoped would attend their Jerusalem gathering – described their action as "deeply offensive" and a form of "bullying".
It would be easy to dismiss all this internal bickering in a club with a declining membership. But there are 77 million Anglicans across the globe, a number which, in contrast to steadily falling numbers of churchgoers in the UK, is elsewhere growing rapidly. It has an important role in a world gripped by violent religious fundamentalism in which good religion is a far more effective tool to combat bad religion than a disdainful or dismissive secularism.
And it matters to us as a nation because, as a report by the Von Hügel Institute recently demonstrated, the charitable work quietly performed by the Church of England's volunteers – in job-creation projects, urban regeneration programmes, aid agencies, eco-initiatives, youth clubs and with the homeless, the bereaved and asylum-seekers – saves the nation hundreds of millions of pounds. Home Office statistics show regular churchgoers are 48 per cent more likely to do such work than their secular counterparts.
But the debate between the religion of the present and the past is not couched in such terms. Its language is that of theology and social justice. "The argument for women bishops," says Christina Rees, of Women and the Church, who is a member of the Synod meeting in York today, "is simply that God created men and women equal".
Equal but different, says Rod Thomas, of the conservative evangelical group, Reform. "Our understanding of the Bible is that there is equality but also a divinely ordered difference that [St] Paul says goes back right to the Creation, showing the different ways God wants us to respond to him, leading and guiding but also submitting to his will."
Then there are the Anglo-Catholics who insist that the C of E is only part of a church which includes Rome and the Orthodox. They quote the Vatican's Cardinal Kasper, who has warned that "realistically" the move to women bishops will "institutionalise schism" and end the possibility of unity.
Finally, there are the liberals, epitomised by Dr Giles Fraser, president of a group called Inclusive Church (which includes gay priests among others), who insists on contextualising unchanging faith principles in a changing world.
"If you read the Bible as a whole rather than just quoting selective bits, it tells the story of how at the beginning God was thought to be there just for a narrow band, the Chosen People, and it then shows how God gradually breaks down that narrow understanding to reveal that he is there for everyone; the idea that only men can represent God cuts against the whole of the Bible story."
For all that, the rows about the role of women and the inclusion of practising gays do not run along the exact same faultlines. "Women bishops is an issue of church order not a gospel issue," says Rod Thomas. "Homosexuality is about sin and what keeps people from God. Women is therefore a secondary issue." Nor are those who question women bishops automatically uncomfortable with women priests. "When women became priests it was possible for a male vicar not to have that impinge upon him," he says. "It didn't compromise his theology about male headship in the church. But a woman bishop does."
The battle on women priests is now well-won. Last year, for the first time, more women than men were ordained. Nearly a quarter of C of E priests – more than 2,000 – are women. They work everywhere from the smallest parishes to the largest cathedral and serve as chaplains in schools, universities, hospitals, prisons and the armed forces. They include two deans, nine archdeacons and 18 cathedral canons. "Women priests have brought a certain warmth and approachability to the priesthood," says Christina Rees. "They share more, delegate more, and show a greater willingness to collaborate."
In fact, the battle over women bishops has largely been won too. A third of the provinces of the Anglican Communion – including several who attend the Gafcon conference – have voted for women as bishops. In Canada, New Zealand and the United States, women have been elected to the episcopate for several years.
In the Church of England, the General Synod endorsed the principle of women bishops years back. What the present row is about is the measures the church will introduce to provide for those who wish to remain in the Church of England but who say they cannot, on grounds of conviction, accept this development.
Three options are before the meeting. The one endorsed by the House of Bishops, which its critics describe as a "like it or lump it" option, proposes the change be introduced with a code of conduct on how to accommodate the conservative dissenters. It would abolish the practice of "flying bishops" introduced when women were first ordained in 1994 to minister to opponents of women priests. The other clear proposal is for "non-geographical" dioceses to minister to such priests and parishes. Opponents say they would be a church within a church.
In between is a middle option, with four variants, for complex relationships with "complementary bishops" to work within the existing structure. This is the option which no faction prefers but which might be agreed.
"Those who disagree with women bishops are only a small minority but they make a lot of noise," says Christina Rees, who favours the bishops' recommendation. "They are a very small tail wagging a very big dog." Only 2 per cent of parishes ever asked for flying bishops, she says, and only 7 per cent said they weren't prepared to have a woman as their next vicar.
Anglo-Catholics have threatened to leave in large numbers. "We're trying to find a way to stay in, not to leave," says Canon David Holding, leader of the catholic group opposed to females in the episcopacy. He wants a separate non-geographical diocese for dissenters. "It's the only option that will give us adequate protection; [the middle-way option with] all the variations will be incredibly complicated to implement."
The liberals are dead set against that. "The non-geographical diocese would be a bridgehead for a Gafconite takeover," says Dr Giles Fraser. The conference in Jerusalem has made the liberals far less likely to concede that option. Gafcon's closing statement may have insisted that it was not a breakaway from the Anglican Communion, nor an attempt to take over its institutions by hardliners who think the CofE ought to be out there campaigning to convert British Muslims. But many liberals just do not believe them. "You can dress an elephant in a tutu and insist that it's a ballerina," one liberal blogger said, "but it still poops big and eats peanuts."
The changing face of the Church of England
*About 1.7 million people a month will attend at least one Church of England service.
*Between 1968 and 2004, regular weekly attendance at Church of England services fell by 44 per cent (although the decline has now been arrested).
*Nearly a quarter of Church of England priests – more than 2,000 – are women.
*They include two deans, nine archdeacons and 18 cathedral canons.
*Last year, for the first time, more women than men were ordained.
*The average age of male parish priests is 54.
*29 per cent of churchgoers are 65 or over.
*Since 1968, a 10th of Anglican churches in England have been made redundant.
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