Had an enjoyable Friday night in Glasgow at a talk by Brad Warner. Brad’s the only Zen Buddhist teacher I know who’s also a punk bassist, worked on monster movies and writes occasional articles on Buddhism for a …
Archive for ‘Ideas’
Saturday, November 17th, 2012 Category: Ideas, Journal No Comments 
Yesterday I was in Weston-Super-Mare for the Buddhist funeral of John Crook. John was a Chan (Zen) master and teacher of the Western Chan Fellowship. His style of retreat and teaching was a …
Read More >Saturday, July 30th, 2011 Category: Ideas No Comments
This little statement is in the sleevenotes of So Beautiful or So What and, as I get engaged with writing again, it rings as true as any description I've ever heard of the creative process:
How do the fingers of this thing entwine?
Which foot falls first …
Read More >Sunday, July 17th, 2011 Category: Ideas, Music, My music No Comments
With this being the 400th anniversary of the King James version of the bible, I’m hearing it a lot on Radio 4 and coming across it in the papers, and am constantly reminded how much I love it, and how much it’s the foundation of …
Read More >Sunday, January 9th, 2011 Category: Ideas, Journal No Comments
I’m off to this Zen Retreat Centre in Wales.
Just discovered a notebook with some lyrics from a holiday this time last year, which I’d clean forgotten. As …
Read More >Friday, June 25th, 2010 Category: Ideas, Journal No Comments
