Faith keeps you going, but doubt keeps you from going off the deep end. — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
If he'd [Jesus] been a little more concerned for his own safety and well being he may have toned things down a… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
“Much of the contemporary American atheistic movement seems to be treating atheism like a new kind of religion. … It's just that… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
But people do the same thing with the Bible. They memorize all the fictional characters, the parameters and the rules of the… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
The obvious example would be Jesus. Jesus is an object of fascination for me. He's an interesting historical character because we don't… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Much of the hatred and fear of sexuality found in religions stems from the idea that sex is a thing of the… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Jesus was probably a guy who thought, "This thing that I've discovered can save the world and everybody is miserable without it."… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
There's fantasies about what heaven is like and who Satan is and why you shouldn't masturbate or why you should vote Republican.… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Since then, my approach to all things spiritual is rather cynical you could say. When somebody present something to me as spiritual,… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
So with science, it's original idea was to ignore the spiritual or nebulous side of reality and to strictly work on concrete… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
One of the things I regret about not putting in that book or I think it's there but I didn't really elaborate on it,… — Brad Warner Copy Share
The real goal of Zen is to find a way of life that's easy and undramatic. Strong attachments lead to upset and drama. — Brad Warner Copy Share
If he'd [Jesus] been a little more concerned for his own safety and well being he may have toned things down a little bit… — Brad Warner Copy Share
So he [Shoko Asahara] was insane but managed to convince a couple thousand people that he was enlightened. Western culture, which Japan is now… — Brad Warner Copy Share
I was living in Japan at the time, Shoko Asahara was an important figure and you could say his name and people would immediately… — Brad Warner Copy Share
So that's Godzilla, he's ultimately going to get you regardless of what you do. Maybe the people who made the American Godzilla film were… — Brad Warner Copy Share
We always imagine that there's got to be somewhere else better than where we are right now; this is the Great Somewhere Else we… — Brad Warner Copy Share
“Thus a person can be a Buddha one minute and a jackass three minutes later. You don't just become Buddha at the moment of… — Brad Warner Copy Share
“It’s hard for most of us to admit, but when you start paying attention you’ll notice that you actually enjoy being angry. There’s this… — Brad Warner Copy Share
I really thought Reagan was going to push the button and blow us all up. It was scary. So when they did the 1998… — Brad Warner Copy Share
“This world is better than Utopia because - and follow this point carefully - you can never live in Utopia . Utopia is always… — Brad Warner Copy Share
The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself. — Brad Warner Copy Share
Truly compassionate action arises spontaneously without thought and is carried out in real action with no anticipation of reward and, indeed, no concept of… — Brad Warner Copy Share
Buddha might be the one thing that could settle Godzilla down. He might say, "Listen Godzilla, you don't have to do all this. Just… — Brad Warner Copy Share
It's sort of another innovation, probably a good innovation, of Western culture to separate the ideas between science and philosophy, but it's important to… — Brad Warner Copy Share
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