“Who we think we are can be stripped away forever,” I make a poof gesture, “just like that. Right now, well fed, unthreatened, we have the luxury of pretending the Donners and the Nazis and the gang-bangers are someone else,… — 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
