Consciousness raising is the only real game in town. Everything else is downstream.

ACZC scene report

No one can sit your zazen for you. Certainly not Claude.

Feeling very blessed to be in a profession where being chopped and unc is good, actually

Been a bit Claude drunk lately. Feels dangerous.

Monkeys featured prominently in my dharma talk last night. Feeling chuffed.

I love Apple Notes but it do be crashing all the time

For my talk tonight, I'm riffing off the part of Zuimonki where a monk asks Dogen how they're supposed to survive when there is no tradition of supporting monasteries/monastics the way there was in China. (This was in 13th century Japan, when Buddhism was new there.) Still relevant!

Not me finally pulling my head of my ass and figuring out what to do with the massive backlog of content gold

Do you want to hear animals speak the dharma???

So I’ve decided to stop being obstinate and start posting again on socials for @AngelCityZen. I think we’re gonna start using this format for podcasts clips. Like I have to find a way to make this fun for me, and talking animals might be the ticket. What do you think?

Who up owning their choices

The streets of Los Angeles learned this from me from roughly 2009-2020 (I still dip in with a lesson here and there)

Full Moon Ceremony tomorrow night at ACZC. Buddhism's oldest ceremony, spooky and haunting and beautiful. Join us! aczc.org/events-calendar/202…

this will be cool!!

Attn LA heads: the latest in my ongoing sonic meditation series with Robert Holliday is Thurs, 11/12 at 7:30pm at Groundfloor in Echo Park. Live drone + resonance + sounds within sounds. Feel it. luma.com/nufb4sqp

Zen Lit this week is unusually metal

What kind of ancestor do you want to be? Be that person now.

I got new pants and I hate them. That’s it. That’s the tweet