“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
Just know that your expectations are only thoughts in your head, and keep on doing what you do. — Brad Warner Expectations Copy Share Image
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
Leaving home' to me means adopting the attitude that the pursuit of the truth is more vital than the pursuit of what… — Brad Warner 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
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 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 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
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
True nonattachment is understanding that you are fundamentally attached to everything and, through that understanding, dropping your attachment to the view that… — Brad Warner Attachment 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
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… — Brad Warner Buddhism Copy Share Image
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… — Brad Warner Beginners Copy Share Image
“In order to deal with the fear of annihilation you have to face annihilation again and again and again. It’s not enough… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
“It’s hard for most of us to admit, but when you start paying attention you’ll notice that you actually enjoy being angry.… — Brad Warner Angry Copy Share Image
“Because a lot of our philosophical stances these days are kind of half-assed. We’re very bold in our proclamations of our own… — Brad Warner Philosophical Copy Share Image
“The Buddha was not full of shit when he said the cause of suffering could be uprooted and that you can put… — Brad Warner Buddha 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
“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 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 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
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
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
“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
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 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
“The very idea of higher states of consciousness is absurd. Comparing one state of consciousness to another and saying one is "higher"… — Brad Warner Consciousness Copy Share Image
Zazen isn't about blissing out or going into an alpha brain-wave trance. It's about facing who and what you really are, in… — Brad Warner Alphas 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
I really thought Reagan was going to push the button and blow us all up. It was scary. So when they did… — Brad Warner American gods 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
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 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 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 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
