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Buddhism Quotes by Brad Warner

29 Buddhism quotes by Brad Warner

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Brad Warner’s voice cuts through the mystique of Buddhism with a mix of wit and straight‑talk. Here you’ll find 29 of his most memorable observations, each offering a fresh angle on the practice without preaching. Expect humor, honesty, and a dash of irreverence as you skim the list.

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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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“The Dalai Lama famously said, “If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change.”

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

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

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“Much of the contemporary American atheistic movement seems to be treating atheism like a new kind of religion. … It's just that…

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The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself.

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I mean somebody could write another book and say Brad's idea about Buddhism and sex is wrong, and here's mine, and that…

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“So I do fear death in the sense that I find the prospect of dying pretty scary. But I no longer fear…

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Buddha might be the one thing that could settle Godzilla down. He might say, "Listen Godzilla, you don't have to do all…

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“Thus a person can be a Buddha one minute and a jackass three minutes later. You don't just become Buddha at the…

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People imagine enlightenment will make them incredibly powerful. And it does. It makes you the most powerful being in all the universe-…

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the only real time as far as Buddhism is concerned is right now. Right now there is no old age or death…

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Well it's always been an interesting area for me. In referencing something I just reread from Dogen it says, "Enlightenment doesn't break…

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There's also something that is often mistaken for enlightenment which is a kind of insanity. Often, people will have some kind of…

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“This is always and inevitably the case. No one gets away with murder. No one gets away with anything. You can't escape…

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Now however, we have contraception and it's mostly reliable so you can have sex without that happening. So then you start vilifying…

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At times, Zen does get into some Buddhist Cosmology. Nishijima Roshi, my main teacher would talk about that and almost every time…

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I'm not sure that Eastern culture does either, but I've never lived in India etc so I couldn't tell you. I can…

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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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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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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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A lot of seriously insane people have managed to acquire huge followings based on the idea that their insanity is a kind…

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Buddhists have a long-standing tradition of believing that at some level we always know what the best course of action is in…

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I think a lot of people trying to follow Buddhism these days are getting confused about sex and they don't understand what's…

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It's interesting to see what's going on with physics these days because they're starting to come out with stuff that sounds remarkably…

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Buddhism doesn't promise to fulfill our desires. Instead it says, 'You feel unfulfilled? That's okay. That's normal. Everybody feels unfulfilled. You will…

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Much of the hatred and fear of sexuality found in religions stems from the idea that sex is a thing of the…

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One of the things I regret about not putting in that book or I think it's there but I didn't really elaborate…

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I think real enlightenment is total sanity, a kind of acceptance of what actually is. It does involve a kind of different…

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I was living in Japan at the time, Shoko Asahara was an important figure and you could say his name and people would immediately…

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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…

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“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…

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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. There’s this…

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I really thought Reagan was going to push the button and blow us all up. It was scary. So when they did the 1998…

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

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The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself.

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Truly compassionate action arises spontaneously without thought and is carried out in real action with no anticipation of reward and, indeed, no concept of…

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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…

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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 important to…

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