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
For a very long time science and philosophy were considered part of the same continuum and it was only within the last… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
There's also an aspect which I tried to express yesterday by saying the same "something" that looks out through Curlys eyes is… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
A lot of seriously insane people have managed to acquire huge followings based on the idea that their insanity is a kind… — Brad Warner 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
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 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
Godzilla also represents the fear of nuclear annihilation, which was something that was big in my mind at the time. It was… — Brad Warner Age Copy Share Image
The trick to not thinking is not adding energy to the equation in an effort to forcibly stop thinking from happening. It’s… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
I mean, I can do that all day long. I can tell you the Vulcan's are not actually devoid of emotion. That… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
At times, Zen does get into some Buddhist Cosmology. Nishijima Roshi, my main teacher would talk about that and almost every time… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
There's also something that is often mistaken for enlightenment which is a kind of insanity. Often, people will have some kind of… — Brad Warner 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
Those who hope for purity and righteousness always try and destroy that which disturbs them. They think the disturbance comes from outside… — Brad Warner Bombing 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 Copy Share Image
Now however, we have contraception and it's mostly reliable so you can have sex without that happening. So then you start vilifying… — Brad Warner Buddhism Copy Share Image
People will come and give you sandwiches every six hours but you're really of no use. A lot of people get excited… — Brad Warner Beautiful Copy Share Image
“This is always and inevitably the case. No one gets away with murder. No one gets away with anything. You can't escape… — Brad Warner Buddhism 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
I mean somebody could write another book and say Brad's idea about Buddhism and sex is wrong, and here's mine, and that… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Since then, my approach to all things spiritual is rather cynical you could say. When somebody present something to me as spiritual,… — Brad Warner 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 Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that Eastern culture does either, but I've never lived in India etc so I couldn't tell you. I can… — Brad Warner Buddhism Copy Share Image
I think it's part of my personality, to find sex really interesting. Not just in the puerile way of, "Oh I want… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
“Much of the contemporary American atheistic movement seems to be treating atheism like a new kind of religion. … It's just that… — Brad Warner Atheism Copy Share Image
I mean Godzilla is eternally pissed off at everything but of course he's gonna be because every time he pops out of… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
I was living in Japan at the time, Shoko Asahara was an important figure and you could say his name and people… — Brad Warner America Copy Share Image
They really make sex into such a horrible thing and how terrible anything related to sex is, but isn't that why we're… — Brad Warner 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 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 Copy Share Image
Everything you have, whether it's money or stuff, is an obligation. It is as much your duty to care for and nurture… — Brad Warner Care 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
So that's Godzilla, he's ultimately going to get you regardless of what you do. Maybe the people who made the American Godzilla… — Brad Warner American gods Copy Share Image
When I first started watching Godzilla, I was a kid and a big dinosaur freak and was like, "Oh my gosh, there's… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
As you're implying, there's a new technology that can look even deeper into that brick and we can start getting into a… — Brad Warner Animation Copy Share Image
