Brad Warner - Revealing the Magic Trick (Q&A Night)
A Q&A night w/ Brad Warner. Opening with a mini lecture on vaudeville and the three stooges, Brad takes his topics from the sangha including classics such as: - I feel more detached after doing zazen, am I doing it wrong? - Are the Transcendental Meditation people having more fun than us, and does that make us better than them? - What are the pros and cons of Zen practice? - Is there any value to sutras that promise pie in the sky rewards for praying right? - and to round out the vaudeville theme, a comparison of how Houdini’s idea that revealing his tricks does nothing to spoil their magic is a similar magic to the one we perform here every week
