Brad Warner is author of the books Hardcore Zen, Sit Down and Shut Up, Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate and Sex Sin and Zen. He is an ordained Zen monk in the Soto lineage. He’s the bass player for the hardcore punk rock group Zero Defex and worked for 15 years in Tokyo and Los Angeles for the company founded by the man who created Godzilla. He has appeared in several Japanese monster movies, usually as a guy running down the street away from some radioactive mutant brontosaurus.