Zen Punk

“Real wisdom is the ability to understand the incredible extent to which you bullshit yourself every single moment of every day.”

“Faith keeps you going, but doubt keeps you from going off the deep end.”

― Brad Warner, Sit Down and Shut Up

Born in Hamilton, Ohio in 1964, Brad Warner’s family relocated to Nairobi, Kenya. When he returned three years later, nothing about rural Ohio seemed quite the same anymore. While playing hardcore punk, Brad became involved in Zen Buddhism. He made it to Japan in 1993 where he began studying with an iconoclastic rebel Zen Master named Gudo Nishijima. After a few years, Nishijima decided to make Brad his successor as a teacher of Zen.