
The Zen Revolution
Chapter One - Fall to the Ground - read by H. Grevemberg - a new chapter every week. The story begins in the wilderness of Louisiana. Bumper...
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The American spirit of self-reliance goes hand in hand with the mystical tradition of Zen, yet it hasn't found its own bare wire. The best revolution, and the domain of the Zen adept, is an...

Chapter One - Fall to the Ground - read by H. Grevemberg - a new chapter every week. The story begins in the wilderness of Louisiana. Bumper...

Chapter Two - The Call to Practice - author H. Grevemberg reads from the back matter of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis - Wilhelm Emrich - The Ani...

Chapter Three - Open Season - author H. Grevemberg reads from the fourth chapter of Andre’ Gide’s The Immoralist before diving into the mate...

Chapter Four - Vashon - author H. Grevemberg reads from Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer . The saga continues, taking the reader from the Zen...

Chapter Five - Stella - author H. Grevemberg reads from Samuel Beckett’s Molloy . Afterward the revolution continues with a brief run throug...

Chapter Six – The Desert - the author begins anew on the West coast. An arduous stint at a desert monastery leads to his eventual indoctrina...

Chapter Seven - Seoul - author H. Grevemberg reads from Camus The Myth of Sisyphus . The revolution continues on the way to Korea, to the au...

Chapter Eight - Gye Ryong San - author H. Grevemberg reads from Gogol Dead Souls . In chapter Eight of The Zen Revolution , the author atten...

Chapter Nine - Haengjanim - author H. Grevemberg reads from Faulkner The Sound and the Fury . In chapter nine of The Zen Revolution , the au...

Chapter Ten - Monsoon - author H. Grevemberg reads from Simone de Beauvoir’s The Mandarins . In Monsoon the author struggles to maintain in...

Chapter Eleven - Leap Year - author H. Grevemberg reads an excerpt from Thomas Mann’s short story A Man and His Dog . In Leap Year the autho...

Chapter Twelve - Kyoruk - H. Grevemberg reads an excerpt from Dostoevsky’s House of the Dead, and, in Kyoruk , attends the final stage of in...

Chapter Thirteen - Totem - H. Grevemberg reads an excerpt from Celine’s Death on the Installment Plan , and, in Totem , returns to Louisiana...

Chapter Fourteen - Noe’mi - H. Grevemberg reads an excerpt from Tom Robbins’s Even Cowgirls Get the Blues before delving into Noe’mi . The e...

Intermission - Interview with Tenkai - H. Grevemberg reads two short excerpts from Virginia Woolf’s A Room Of One’s Own before interviewing...

Chapter Fifteen - The Open Field - H. Grevemberg reads an excerpt from Conrad’s Heart of Darkness . Season Three - The Fall begins with a te...

Chapter Sixteen - Downtown - H. Grevemberg reads an excerpt from Henry Miller’s Cosmological Eye - An Open Letter to Surrealists Everywhere...

Chapter Seventeen - The Press Forward - H. Grevemberg reads an excerpt from Hunter S. Thompson’s The Great Shark Hun t — an out-of-print col...

Chapter Eighteen - Dead Season - H. Grevemberg reads an excerpt from Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle , of the rare breed of novel that drives re...

Chapter Nineteen - Fire - H. Grevemberg reads an excerpt from Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi - an excerpt that reveals much about life...

Chapter Twenty - The Door - H. Grevemberg reads an excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe’s The Poetic Principle - A master of poetic language on the...

Chapter Twenty-One - Everything That Has Been Lost Is Gained - In the final chapter of The Zen Revolution , H. Grevemberg reads an excerpt f...

Essay One - The Impostor - H. Grevemberg walks the streets of San Francisco and downtown Los Angeles, meets with both a Zen Sword Master and...

Essay Two - The Real Cure - H. Grevemberg illustrates the problems of perception and answers a few listener questions after reading the 2nd...

Essay Three - The Collective - H. Grevemberg looks into the nature of existence, and ponders why so few of us question it, after reading the...

Essay Four - Power - H. Grevemberg explores the power structure of society and illustrates more of the life of a sage while going for a long...

Essay Five - Chaos - H. Grevemberg digs beneath the surface of chaos to reveal the underlying pattern - substance. The show opens with the 5...

Essay Six - The Ground - A fiery look at the whole of practice life, of crossing the plane of existence. The show opens with the 6th case of...

Essay Seven - Guns, Germs, and Steel - A condensed look at the major flow of this great work from Jared Diamond. The show opens with the 7th...

Essay Eight - Ego and the Long Retreat - A live recording from a talk given at Dharma Zen Center in Los Angeles on October 24, 2010. The sho...

Essay Nine - Politics - Written during the 2010 midterm elections in America, a deep, lucid, sane look into the politics of the Zen hierarch...

Essay Ten - The Long Retreat - A glimpse into the life of a Zen adept, the process of preparing for long retreats, and how they are done. Th...

Essay Eleven - Event Horizon - The Zen Revolution takes a new turn, toward a live autobiography, the dharma presented against a backdrop of...

Essay Twelve - Tribes - The Zen Revolution Thanksgiving Special - takes you on a bus ride to Berkeley, a rambling tour through Skid Row, an...

Essay Thirteen - Quadrism - The Zen Revolution takes a final turn, toward a new series, a new format, and introduces the concept of quadrism...