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  • Brad Warner Quote - Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don’t match how they really are. Download This Image
  • Brad Warner Quote - Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don’t match how they really are.
  • Brad Warner Quote - Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don’t match how they really are.
  • Brad Warner Quote - Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don’t match how they really are.
  • Brad Warner Quote - Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don’t match how they really are.
  • Brad Warner Quote - Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don’t match how they really are.
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Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don’t match how they really are.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brad Warner Quote - How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden! Download This Image

    How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brad Warner Quote - Reality’s all you’ve got. But here’s the real secret, the real miracle: it’s enough.

    Reality’s all you’ve got. But here’s the real secret, the real miracle: it’s enough.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brad Warner Quote - The thinking brain influences the body’s responses and it makes a neat little loop.

    The thinking brain influences the body’s responses and it makes a neat little loop.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brad Warner Quote - A lot of seriously insane people have managed to acquire huge followings based on the idea that their insanity is a kind of enlightenment. An obvious example would be Charles Manson or Shoko Asahara who is the person responsible for the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway.

    A lot of seriously insane people have managed to acquire huge followings based on the idea that their insanity is a kind of enlightenment. An obvious example would be Charles Manson or Shoko Asahara who is the person responsible for the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brad Warner Quote - I mean Godzilla is eternally pissed off at everything but of course he’s gonna be because every time he pops out of the water for a look around somebody is firing a missile at him. Buddha would probably have to act as a mediator between the people and Godzilla. Download This Image

    I mean Godzilla is eternally pissed off at everything but of course he’s gonna be because every time he pops out of the water for a look around somebody is firing a missile at him. Buddha would probably have to act as a mediator between the people and Godzilla.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brad Warner Quote - Zen practice is about not getting high on anything and in so doing getting high on absolutely everything. We then find that everything we encounter – bliss or nonbliss – possesses a tremendous depth and beauty that we usually miss.

    Zen practice is about not getting high on anything and in so doing getting high on absolutely everything. We then find that everything we encounter – bliss or nonbliss – possesses a tremendous depth and beauty that we usually miss.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brad Warner Quote - So he [Shoko Asahara] was insane but managed to convince a couple thousand people that he was enlightened. Western culture, which Japan is now definitely a part of, doesn’t have an understanding of what Enlightenment is.

    So he [Shoko Asahara] was insane but managed to convince a couple thousand people that he was enlightened. Western culture, which Japan is now definitely a part of, doesn’t have an understanding of what Enlightenment is.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brad Warner Quote - I mean somebody could write another book and say Brad’s idea about Buddhism and sex is wrong, and here’s mine, and that would be great. Just the fact that it would exist would be good because nobody is saying it, it’s like they’re trying to pretend it’s not there. Download This 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 would be great. Just the fact that it would exist would be good because nobody is saying it, it’s like they’re trying to pretend it’s not there.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brad Warner Quote - The state of ambiguity – that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you’re living through right now – is enlightenment itself.

    The state of ambiguity – that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you’re living through right now – is enlightenment itself.

    BRAD WARNER
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brad Warner Quote - The trick to not thinking is not adding energy to the equation in an effort to forcibly stop thinking from happening. It’s more a matter of subtracting energy from the equation in order not to barf the thoughts up and start chewing them over again.

    The trick to not thinking is not adding energy to the equation in an effort to forcibly stop thinking from happening. It’s more a matter of subtracting energy from the equation in order not to barf the thoughts up and start chewing them over again.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brad Warner Quote - Just know that your expectations are only thoughts in your head, and keep on doing what you do. Download This Image

    Just know that your expectations are only thoughts in your head, and keep on doing what you do.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brad Warner Quote - So I’m skeptical and cynical about the whole thing and it’s only if something seems to be genuine that I would pursue it. That’s why I’ve stuck with Zen for so long and not gone on to some other path with it.

    So I’m skeptical and cynical about the whole thing and it’s only if something seems to be genuine that I would pursue it. That’s why I’ve stuck with Zen for so long and not gone on to some other path with it.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brad Warner Quote - You won’t understand life and death until you’re ready to set aside any hope of understanding life and death and just live your life until you die. Download This 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 your life until you die.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brad Warner Quote - Buddha might be the one thing that could settle Godzilla down. He might say, “Listen Godzilla, you don’t have to do all this. Just chill out a little bit and everything will be fine”.

    Buddha might be the one thing that could settle Godzilla down. He might say, “Listen Godzilla, you don’t have to do all this. Just chill out a little bit and everything will be fine”.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brad Warner Quote - Your role is to do and say the things that need to be done and said from your unique perspective.

    Your role is to do and say the things that need to be done and said from your unique perspective.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brad Warner Quote - What attracted me to Zen was my first teacher, Tim McCarthy. He was extremely genuine. It wasn’t even really a Zen thing, that sort of came along later.

    What attracted me to Zen was my first teacher, Tim McCarthy. He was extremely genuine. It wasn’t even really a Zen thing, that sort of came along later.

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