“I don’t have something you don’t; you believe something I don’t.” — Jed McKenna Believe 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… — Jed McKenna Bad dream 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… — Jed McKenna America 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… — Jed McKenna Dreams 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… — Jed McKenna Life Copy Share Image
“The fundamental conflict in the spiritual quest is that ego desires spiritual enlightenment, but ego can never achieve spiritual enlightenment. Self cannot… — Jed McKenna Buddhism Copy Share Image
“Wake up first. Wake up, and then you can double back and perhaps be of some use to others if you still… — Jed McKenna Awaken 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… — Jed McKenna Buddhism 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… — Jed McKenna Buddhism Copy Share Image
“Further Whoever was responsible for the idea of dividing self into lower and higher parts committed a serious crime against humanity.… — Jed McKenna Faith 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… — Jed McKenna Buddhism 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… — Jed McKenna Fresh start 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… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
“Your natural state has no relationship whatsoever with the religious states of bliss, beatitude and ecstasy; they lie within the field of… — Jed McKenna Christ consciousness Copy Share Image
“The really strange thing about being awake isn’t being awake; it’s the people that aren’t. They’re walking and talking in their dreamstates;… — Jed McKenna Sleep Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment isn’t when you go there; it’s when there comes here.” — Jed McKenna Buddhism Copy Share Image
“The bottom line remains the same: you’re either awake or you’re not.One day, there it is. Nothing. No more enemies, no more… — Jed McKenna Awake Copy Share Image
“It’s very simple: If Buddhism is about awakening, people should be waking up. If it’s not about awakening, they should change the… — Jed McKenna Awakening 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… — Jed McKenna Contend Copy Share Image
“It’s ego – the false self – that exalts the guru and declares the teaching sacred, but nothing is exalted or sacred,… — Jed McKenna Ego Copy Share Image
“Only themselves understand themselves, and the like of themselves, As Souls only understand Souls. Walt Whitman” — Jed McKenna Spirituality Copy Share Image
“It is your show. It is your universe. There is no one else here, just you, and nothing is being withheld from… — Jed McKenna Need Copy Share Image
“Self is ego and ego resides exclusively in the dreamstate. If you want to break free of the dreamstate, you must break… — Jed McKenna Break free Copy Share Image
“all belief systems are just the stories we create in order to deal with the void. Ego abhors a vacuum, so everybody’s… — Jed McKenna Belief Copy Share Image
“What do we know for sure? That’s the real question. That’s what the cogito is. That’s what solipsism is. This isn’t theory.… — Jed McKenna Faith Copy Share Image
“There seems to be an attitude that opinion counts for something. Goethe said none are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely… — Jed McKenna People say Copy Share Image
“book and magazine publishers aren’t in the business of enlightenment. They’re in the business of selling books and magazines, not truth, and… — Jed McKenna Awakening Copy Share Image
“Try to take it one step at a time. Even looking two steps ahead can be very intimidating, know what I mean?… — Jed McKenna Breathe Copy Share Image
“Karma and hell and suffering aren’t things in their own right but disturbances in this flimsy substance of false self. The problem… — Jed McKenna Suffering Copy Share Image
“Who we think we are can be stripped away forever,” I make a poof gesture, “just like that. Right now, well fed,… — Jed McKenna Bad guy Copy Share Image
“Do you want to awaken? To stop being a false, artificial, self-benighted being? Then developing and sharpening this sense—the ability to detect… — Jed McKenna Fear Copy Share Image
“Maya—goddess of confusion and misdirection—is back in the chair opposite me. “So who are the priests of all religions?” she asks me.… — Jed McKenna Fear Copy Share Image
“Morality is a just a shadow of right action. Right action isn’t the highest degree of morality any more than agapè is… — Jed McKenna Character Copy Share Image
“To move forward, you must figure out exactly what is obstructing you. Whatever it is, it isn’t really there; it has no… — Jed McKenna Move forward Copy Share Image
“Listen! Here’s all you need to know to become enlightened: Sit down, shut up, and ask yourself what’s true until you know.… — Jed McKenna Art and science Copy Share Image
“Bait & Switch Buddhism is a classic bait-and-switch operation. We’re attracted by the enlightenment in the window, but as soon as we’re… — Jed McKenna Buddhism Copy Share Image
