“Wake up first. Wake up, and then you can double back and perhaps be of some use to others if you still have the urge. Wake up first, with pure and unapologetic selfishness, or you’re just another shipwreck victim floundering… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
“The American dream of freedom and abundance is just a child’s rendering of true freedom and abundance, and serves only to convince people who… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
“I don’t see it as my role to save or rescue anybody any more than regular people feel the need to rescue each other… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
“Before enlightenment I believed my ego was me, then enlightenment comes along and no more ego, only the underlying reality. Now it’s after enlightenment… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
“No disrespect to the Buddha is intended. If there was a Buddha and he was enlightened, then it’s Buddhism that insults his memory, not… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
“Suffering just means you’re having a bad dream. Happiness means you’re having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether.” — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing left to contend against and nothing left that must be done, and there will never be anything that must be done ever… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
“How many years have I spent lighting incense and candles? Meditating? Chasing after gurus and teachers, reading all that crap, following every stupid new… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
“Once you start seeing this place for the madhouse it is, you can’t stop seeing it that way. It’s everywhere, everyone. It doesn’t make… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
“Further Whoever was responsible for the idea of dividing self into lower and higher parts committed a serious crime against humanity. This division… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
“The emperor has no clothes, and sooner or later everyone is going to see what’s staring them right in the face. When that happens,… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
“The you that you think of as you (and that thinks of you as you, and so on) is not you, it’s just the… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
