Buddhism is all about finding your own way, not imitating the ways of others or even the ways of Buddha himself. — Brad Warner Buddha Copy Share Image
“Zen is the complete absence of belief. Zen is the complete lack of authority.” — Brad Warner Belief Copy Share Image
The real goal of Zen is to find a way of life that's easy and undramatic. Strong attachments lead to upset and… — Brad Warner Attachment Copy Share Image
Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don't match how they really are. — Brad Warner Ideas Copy Share Image
Zen practice is about not getting high on anything and in so doing getting high on absolutely everything. We then find that… — Brad Warner Beauty Copy Share Image
Consider this: 1. Would you ride in a car whose driver was on the consciousness-expanding "entheogenic" drug LSD? And here's a bonus… — Brad Warner Bonus Copy Share Image
It's sort of another innovation, probably a good innovation, of Western culture to separate the ideas between science and philosophy, but it's… — Brad Warner Culture Copy Share Image
“This world is better than Utopia because - and follow this point carefully - you can never live in Utopia . Utopia… — Brad Warner Reality Copy Share Image
It's crazy to me how concerned people get with what it looks like and what you can do there. People may as… — Brad Warner Can do Copy Share Image
I never really got around to discussing that specific topic which I think it crucially important to understand. If you were a… — Brad Warner Buddhist Copy Share Image
“Thus a person can be a Buddha one minute and a jackass three minutes later. You don't just become Buddha at the… — Brad Warner Buddhism Copy Share Image
“Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don’t match how they really are. Stop for a second and… — Brad Warner Life Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people trying to follow Buddhism these days are getting confused about sex and they don't understand what's… — Brad Warner Approach Copy Share Image
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… — Brad Warner Ancient 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 Bits Copy Share Image
We always imagine that there's got to be somewhere else better than where we are right now; this is the Great Somewhere… — Brad Warner Believe Copy Share Image
The fact is that there is a contradiction going on but our brains don't like contradiction. So when Moe hits Curly on… — Brad Warner Brain Copy Share Image
Buddhists have a long-standing tradition of believing that at some level we always know what the best course of action is in… — Brad Warner Action Copy Share Image
You know that for sure because Godzilla was killed by an ordinary missile. He spends most of that film dodging them but… — Brad Warner Army 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 Character Copy Share Image
Buddha might be the one thing that could settle Godzilla down. He might say, "Listen Godzilla, you don't have to do all… — Brad Warner Bits Copy Share Image
I guess that all figures into my approach because once I start hearing the imagination land stuff (that's my new phrase now… — Brad Warner Approach Copy Share Image
The thing with the question of oneness or non-oneness is that you can literally discuss it forever. You can go into the… — Brad Warner Discussing Copy Share Image
“Our actions are part of who we are. It's not that we are inert things who do stuff. Rather, the stuff we… — Brad Warner Actions Copy Share Image
Disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they… — Brad Warner Action Copy Share Image
No matter what we predict for our futures, we're always wrong anyway. The only sensible thing to do is to live this… — Brad Warner Always wrong Copy Share Image
What attracted me to Zen was my first teacher, Tim McCarthy. He was extremely genuine. It wasn't even really a Zen thing,… — Brad Warner Firsts Copy Share Image
“So I do fear death in the sense that I find the prospect of dying pretty scary. But I no longer fear… — Brad Warner Buddhism Copy Share Image
You can't live in paradise—but you are living right here. Make this your paradise or make this your hell. The choice is… — Brad Warner Choice Copy Share Image
The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself. — Brad Warner Ambiguity Copy Share Image
True mindfulness is the awareness that everything you encounter is a vigorous expression of the same living universe as you. — Brad Warner Awareness Copy Share Image
Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation. — Brad Warner Action Copy Share Image
I used to worry when I was a teenager, even into my twenties, after I'd heard something about schizophrenia and how people… — Brad Warner Fear Copy Share Image
So what I liked about Zen was that it never goes off into the realm of imagination land, or if it does… — Brad Warner Addresses Copy Share Image
I was very attracted to the way that Zen did not go into the imagination land. And now I've forgotten what your… — Brad Warner Creativity Copy Share Image
So I'm skeptical and cynical about the whole thing and it's only if something seems to be genuine that I would pursue… — Brad Warner Cynical Copy Share Image
The truth comes when you can see that your self-image is just a convenient reference point and nothing more, and that you… — Brad Warner Convenient Copy Share Image
So I was first exposed to this guy Tim McCarthy, and he's talking about Zen, but deeper than that he was a… — Brad Warner Deeper 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 Bible Copy Share Image
You won’t understand life and death until you’re ready to set aside any hope of understanding life and death and just live… — Brad Warner Death Copy Share Image
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