Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don't match how they really are. — Brad Warner Ideas Copy Share Image
Sometimes people pick up pet worries that they'll entertain themselves with and that was my big one. So as far as thinking… — Brad Warner Ability Copy Share Image
If you want to believe in reincarnation, you have to believe that this life, what you're living through right now, is the… — Brad Warner Afterlife 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
we ourselves are not something apart from our circumstances. What we are and where we are are one and the same. — Brad Warner Circumstances 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
I thought that deserved a book and feel like the door needs to be open so people can say, "Ok, here we… — Brad Warner Book 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
Well it's always been an interesting area for me. In referencing something I just reread from Dogen it says, "Enlightenment doesn't break… — Brad Warner Acquire Copy Share Image
It may look like we're doing nothing when we sit zazen. But actually we are exposing ourselves to ourselves. — Brad Warner Doing nothing Copy Share Image
“We just need to feel we know, or we can’t rest. And yet much of life is unknowable and will remain so.… — Brad Warner Life Copy Share Image
The thinking brain influences the body’s responses and it makes a neat little loop. — Brad Warner Body Copy Share Image
“The Dalai Lama famously said, “If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change.” — Brad Warner Buddhism Copy Share Image
Faith keeps you going, but doubt keeps you from going off the deep end. — Brad Warner Doubt Copy Share Image
For a very long time science and philosophy were considered part of the same continuum and it was only within the last… — Brad Warner Areas Copy Share Image
the only real time as far as Buddhism is concerned is right now. Right now there is no old age or death… — Brad Warner Age 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
In the Japanese movie's they're throwing everything they have at him, every missile, but he keeps coming, he can't be stopped and… — Brad Warner Book Copy Share Image
Buddha was a responsible guy and believed in his monks being responsible, their responsibility would no longer be to their practice or… — Brad Warner Being responsible Copy Share Image
Much of the hatred and fear of sexuality found in religions stems from the idea that sex is a thing of the… — Brad Warner Body Copy Share Image
So it's a dangerous thing and conversely, the other thing I mentioned in that post was that people see guys who are… — Brad Warner Bigs 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
I remember writing the post but not what I said specifically, so I'll either repeat myself or say something completely different and… — Brad Warner Different Copy Share Image
Just know that your expectations are only thoughts in your head, and keep on doing what you do. — Brad Warner Expectations Copy Share Image
So with science, it's original idea was to ignore the spiritual or nebulous side of reality and to strictly work on concrete… — Brad Warner Bricks Copy Share Image
