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Music
3WK Classic Underground Internet Radio, Ravi Shankar, Philip Glass, The Beatles, Diana Krall, System of a Down, Tool, Alice In Chains, Godsmack, A Perfect Circle, No Doubt, Joe Satriani, J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Rob Zombie, Shawn Phillips, Pete Seeger,Bob Dylan, Lenoard Cohen, Arlo Guthrie, The Band, Santana, The Who, Soundgarden, David Sanborn, Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead, Cream, Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Doors, Tom Waits, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna, Bob Marley, Frank Zappa, Jethro Tull, Robin Trower, The Ramones, The Clash, Buzzy Linhart, The Yardbirds, Mark Knopfler and Dire Striates, The Police, Spirit, Stepphenwolf, MC5, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, The Byrds, Kodo Drums. COMEDY: Firesign Theater, Sam Kinison, Richard Pryor, Bill Maher, John Stewart, George Carlin, Chelsea Handler, Kathy Griffin.
Movies
I like independent films, documentaries and some foreign films. The Seven Samurai, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, The Name Of The Rose, Girl With A Pearl Earring, As Good As It Gets, Dances With Wolves, The Last Samurai, The Twilight Samurai, Annie Hall, Bananas, Play It Again Sam, Shodows and Fog, Every Thing You Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask, Mighty Aphrodite, Hanna and Her Sisters, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ghost World, Crumb, American Splendor, Excalibur, The Fifth Element, The Matrix, Kill Bill, Throne Of Blood, The Last Emperor, Little Buddha, The Sixth Sense, Blade Runner, Easy Rider, Gandhi, 40 Year Old Virgin, Lady in the Water, Lost in Translation, Angel At My Table, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Holy Smoke, The Last Starfighter, Smoke Signals, Wall-E, Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar, Surfs Up, Favorite Directors: Woody Allen, M. Night Shyamalan, Terry Zwigoff, Quentin Tarantino, Zang Yimou, Akira Kurosawa, John Boorman, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Bernardo Bertolucci, Ridley Scot. And a lot of the black and white movie classics from MGM, Warner Brothers, RKO and Paramount Studios on Turner Movie Classics of the silent era and the 1930's 40's and 50's.
Scene from THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, shot here in Mansfield:
THE LONE RONIN, a short film:
Television
IFC-Independent Film Channel, Sundance CH, VH1 Classics, Turner Movie Classics, The History CH, History Detectives on PBS, Alton Brown's Good Eats and Iron Chef on The Food CH, Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations , The Mythbusters, The Big Bang Theory, Lost, Gordon Ramsay's Hells Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares, At the Movies, South Park, The Simpsons, Attack of the Show on G4. HBO Series: True Blood, Six Feet Under, Deadwood, Big Love, The Sopranos, Rome. Show Time Series: Weeds, Calafornacation.
Komuso Zen Priest Playing Shakuhachi
DAVID CHADWICK INTERVIEW:
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Books
Three Pillars of Zen by Roshi Philip Kapleau, Zen Mind-Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, Shoes Outside the Door(Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center)by Michael Downing, Thank You And OK!(An American Zen Failure in Japan) by David Chadwick, Zen Flesh/Zen Bones by Paul Reps,The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac, Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell, The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi, The Tao Te Ching, Black Elk Speaks by John G. Neihardt, Rolling Thunder by Doug Boyd, The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda, The Magic of Findhorn by Paul Hawken, Hardcore Zen and Sit Down and Shut Up by Brad Warner.
"Zazen isn't about blissing out or going into an alpha brain-wave trance. It's about facing who and what you really are, in every single goddamn moment. And you aren't bliss, I'll tell you that right now. You're a mess. We all are. But here's the thing: that mess is itself enlightenment".
"This is another way Buddhism differs from religion. Every religion in the world starts off from the premise that the self is a substantial entity and builds from there. They all start off on a foundation that isen't just wobbly, it's entirely absent! It's like trying to build a house by stacking bricks in the sky". ~ Quotes from Hardcore Zen by Brad Warner.
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Brad Warner & Michael at Akron Public Library book signing 11-7-07
Heroes
Heroes? Anyone who stands up for the ordinary people who have no voice to speak with, anyone who speaks out against tranny, anyone who serves as a positive role model, as the photos below point out and also includes the following:
Rolling Thunder, Thomas Merton, Alan Watts, Alan Ginsberg, Tom Wolf, Michael Moore, Anwarel Sadat, Daniel Ellsberg, George Carlin, GREENPEACE, The Chicago Seven, Black Elk, Timothy Leary, Geronimo, Lame Deer, Karen Silkwood, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Henry Rollins, George Harrison, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Christiane Amanpour, Gary Snyder, Musashi Miyamoto, Sea Shepherd.
St Peters High School
Mansfield,OH
Graduated: 1968
Student status: Alumni
Major: Bringing down the system
Minor: heckling nuns
Clubs: Organization For The Destruction Of Catholic Dogma
Greek:
Alpha Omega
1964 to 1968
DHARMA BROTHER at home Posted at 7:20 PM Aug 21, 2008 view more
Who I'd like to meet: Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Daniel Berrigan, Ram Dass, Dick Gregory, Daniel Ellsberg, George Carlin, Maya Angelou, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Henry Rollins, Paul Newman, Christiane Amanpour, Robert Redford, Gary Snyder, I have met Timothy Leary and Michael Moore.
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"We are all parts of a universal web of being that stretches across all universal dimensions. All matter of energy are interrelated to all sentient beings; are grasped in the infinite, compassionate embrace of Amida. Thus, all beings influence and are influenced by you and are composed of the same substance that composes you. All living things have genetic and molecular material in common. How can you not see all others as, at the very least, your cousin, if not your own parent or child?" ~Robert Orsi~
remain aware of the great love and compassion which embraces you and you will attain enlightenment Johann
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Ever wondered what to do in the event of a nuclear threat?
A while ago I found stuff that inspired me to make this film:
Living Under the Shadow of the Nuclear Umbrella
Both artistic (ensure you get the background music!) and educational, it primarily comprises official British government civil defence advice.
Though source materials are quite aged, much remains relevant today.
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Dear Dharma Brother, happy summer! The attached picture is a traveling monk in China Zen Buddhism Museum, which has co-incidence with the photo of the traveling musician in your profile. And I wish you to enjoy it.
3WK Classic Underground Internet Radio, Ravi Shankar, Philip Glass, The Beatles, Diana Krall, System of a Down, Tool, Alice In Chains, Godsmack, A Perfect Circle, No Doubt, Joe Satriani, J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Rob Zombie, Shawn Phillips, Pete Seeger,Bob Dylan, Lenoard Cohen, Arlo Guthrie, The Band, Santana, The Who, Soundgarden, David Sanborn, Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead, Cream, Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Doors, Tom Waits, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna, Bob Marley, Frank Zappa, Jethro Tull, Robin Trower, The Ramones, The Clash, Buzzy Linhart, The Yardbirds, Mark Knopfler and Dire Striates, The Police, Spirit, Stepphenwolf, MC5, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, The Byrds, Kodo Drums. COMEDY: Firesign Theater, Sam Kinison, Richard Pryor, Bill Maher, John Stewart, George Carlin, Chelsea Handler, Kathy Griffin.
I like independent films, documentaries and some foreign films. The Seven Samurai, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, The Name Of The Rose, Girl With A Pearl Earring, As Good As It Gets, Dances With Wolves, The Last Samurai, The Twilight Samurai, Annie Hall, Bananas, Play It Again Sam, Shodows and Fog, Every Thing You Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask, Mighty Aphrodite, Hanna and Her Sisters, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ghost World, Crumb, American Splendor, Excalibur, The Fifth Element, The Matrix, Kill Bill, Throne Of Blood, The Last Emperor, Little Buddha, The Sixth Sense, Blade Runner, Easy Rider, Gandhi, 40 Year Old Virgin, Lady in the Water, Lost in Translation, Angel At My Table, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Holy Smoke, The Last Starfighter, Smoke Signals, Wall-E, Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar, Surfs Up, Favorite Directors: Woody Allen, M. Night Shyamalan, Terry Zwigoff, Quentin Tarantino, Zang Yimou, Akira Kurosawa, John Boorman, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Bernardo Bertolucci, Ridley Scot. And a lot of the black and white movie classics from MGM, Warner Brothers, RKO and Paramount Studios on Turner Movie Classics of the silent era and the 1930's 40's and 50's.
Three Pillars of Zen by Roshi Philip Kapleau, Zen Mind-Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, Shoes Outside the Door(Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center)by Michael Downing, Thank You And OK!(An American Zen Failure in Japan) by David Chadwick, Zen Flesh/Zen Bones by Paul Reps,The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac, Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell, The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi, The Tao Te Ching, Black Elk Speaks by John G. Neihardt, Rolling Thunder by Doug Boyd, The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda, The Magic of Findhorn by Paul Hawken, Hardcore Zen and Sit Down and Shut Up by Brad Warner.
"Zazen isn't about blissing out or going into an alpha brain-wave trance. It's about facing who and what you really are, in every single goddamn moment. And you aren't bliss, I'll tell you that right now. You're a mess. We all are. But here's the thing: that mess is itself enlightenment".
Born in 1950 year of the Iron Tiger in the country on a small farm in north central Ohio where I was raised Catholic. 
As a child I played in the creeks and climbed the trees, chased butterflies through the fields, caught lighting bugs on warm summer nights and counted the stars. This gave me my love of nature as well as camping, hiking and swimming in the Mohican State Park most of my life. I love song birds and have fed and studied hummingbirds since 1985.
I left the Catholic church in my mid teens and wandered during the late 196o's and 70's. In my twenties I worked at a local head shop selling water beds and bongs. I tried to be politically aware and was very angry about the Vietnam war, unfair drug laws and the killings of the four students at Kent State University just a few miles from here. In my spare time I studied Native American religions and Eastern Philosophy including Taoism and Buddhism and more recently became an ordained Lay Zen Buddhist in 2006. My Dharma name is,"Doryu", Japanese for "Dragon Way". I also participated in Lakota Sioux sweat-lodge and pipe ceremonies for a few years (1990's) with my friends Beverly and Brenda. And was active in the local peace group, Citizens For Peace & Justice protesting the gulf war. 
I was married for three years back in the 80's. I miss having a special woman in my life. I became Catholic again at this time and was interested in the Catholic Worker Movement and inspired by people like Dorthy Day, Thomas Merton, Daniel Berrigan, Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.. I also was working on becoming a Third Order Franciscan. A religious order for lay people in the tradition of St. Francis of Assisi. I left the Catholic church again after my divorce in 1989. 
The town I grew up in is where they shot the movie "The Shaw-shank Redemption". The band Godsmack made their music video "Awake" in the same location (The Old Mansfield Reformatory). The old prison was also on an episode of Ghost Hunters on the Scifi Channel.
I like Japanese culture and hope to go to Japan some day. I love the Japanese tea ceremony and have my own tea bowel and tea instrument's and have seen the ceremony done once in person at Cloud/Water Zendo in Cleveland. I like haiku poetry, bonsai plants, katanas and tantos (samurai swords) and Zen gardens.
I also collected underground comics in the early 70's of artists like Robert Crumb, Dave Sheridan, Greg Irons and Wes Wilson. Until recently I wrote the newsletter for the local Zen group until they went else where and I still maintain the web site (below). I hope some day to have my own building with a permanent Zendo in it for MZC and a good group of practicing Zen Buddhists to share it with.
