Brad Warner

Morality is a personal matter.

— Brad Warner

How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!

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Faith keeps you going, but doubt keeps you from going off the deep end.

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we ourselves are not something apart from our circumstances. What we are and where we are are one and the same.

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Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That's Buddhist morality.

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“When you’re so committed to the future, it’s real easy to let your life right now turn to shit.”

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Your role is to do and say the things that need to be done and said from your unique perspective.

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The problem is the way we let our desires stand in the way of our enjoyment of what we already have.

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“We just need to feel we know, or we can’t rest. And yet much of life is unknowable and will remain so.…

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“Our actions are part of who we are. It's not that we are inert things who do stuff. Rather, the stuff we…

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Disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they…

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The thing with the question of oneness or non-oneness is that you can literally discuss it forever. You can go into the…

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I guess that all figures into my approach because once I start hearing the imagination land stuff (that's my new phrase now…

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It's crazy to me how concerned people get with what it looks like and what you can do there. People may as…

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“This world is better than Utopia because - and follow this point carefully - you can never live in Utopia . Utopia…

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Consider this: 1. Would you ride in a car whose driver was on the consciousness-expanding "entheogenic" drug LSD? And here's a bonus…

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It's sort of another innovation, probably a good innovation, of Western culture to separate the ideas between science and philosophy, but it's…

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“The Buddha was not full of shit when he said the cause of suffering could be uprooted and that you can put…

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There's also an aspect which I tried to express yesterday by saying the same "something" that looks out through Curlys eyes is…

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For a very long time science and philosophy were considered part of the same continuum and it was only within the last…

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“In order to deal with the fear of annihilation you have to face annihilation again and again and again. It’s not enough…

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“It’s hard for most of us to admit, but when you start paying attention you’ll notice that you actually enjoy being angry.…

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Sanity and enlightenment...I've been reading a new book Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries, and it contains a commentary on Genjo Koan by…

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“Because a lot of our philosophical stances these days are kind of half-assed. We’re very bold in our proclamations of our own…

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The fact is that there is a contradiction going on but our brains don't like contradiction. So when Moe hits Curly on…

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So when we come across somebody who does understand this and makes an effort to try and explain it to us, some…

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“In Alcoholics Anonymous they say you need to have faith in a higher power to help you overcome your addictions. You can’t…

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There's fantasies about what heaven is like and who Satan is and why you shouldn't masturbate or why you should vote Republican.…

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If you come across an insane person who's talking gibberish, you can't make any sense of it at all and that would…

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“Maybe your lot right now could be improved. I know mine could. And working to make things better is great. But we…

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There are many diamonds in the world and if you lose your favorite, you can work hard, earn a lot of money…

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Compassion is the ability to see what needs doing right now and the willingness to do it right now.

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You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.

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Reality's all you've got. But here's the real secret, the real miracle: it's enough.

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As for enlightenment, that's just for people who can't face reality.

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Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don't match how they really are.

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Buddhism is all about finding your own way, not imitating the ways of others or even the ways of Buddha himself.

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Just know that your expectations are only thoughts in your head, and keep on doing what you do.

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“Zen is the complete absence of belief. Zen is the complete lack of authority.”

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The real goal of Zen is to find a way of life that's easy and undramatic. Strong attachments lead to upset and…

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