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  • Brad Warner Quote - So I was first exposed to this guy Tim McCarthy, and he’s talking about Zen, but deeper than that he was a genuine person. I thought maybe he’s someone I can trust and follow this thing he’s talking about all the time. Download This Image
  • Brad Warner Quote - So I was first exposed to this guy Tim McCarthy, and he’s talking about Zen, but deeper than that he was a genuine person. I thought maybe he’s someone I can trust and follow this thing he’s talking about all the time.
  • Brad Warner Quote - So I was first exposed to this guy Tim McCarthy, and he’s talking about Zen, but deeper than that he was a genuine person. I thought maybe he’s someone I can trust and follow this thing he’s talking about all the time.
  • Brad Warner Quote - So I was first exposed to this guy Tim McCarthy, and he’s talking about Zen, but deeper than that he was a genuine person. I thought maybe he’s someone I can trust and follow this thing he’s talking about all the time.
  • Brad Warner Quote - So I was first exposed to this guy Tim McCarthy, and he’s talking about Zen, but deeper than that he was a genuine person. I thought maybe he’s someone I can trust and follow this thing he’s talking about all the time.
  • Brad Warner Quote - So I was first exposed to this guy Tim McCarthy, and he’s talking about Zen, but deeper than that he was a genuine person. I thought maybe he’s someone I can trust and follow this thing he’s talking about all the time.
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So I was first exposed to this guy Tim McCarthy, and he’s talking about Zen, but deeper than that he was a genuine person. I thought maybe he’s someone I can trust and follow this thing he’s talking about all the time.

  • 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 - Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That’s Buddhist morality.

    Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That’s Buddhist morality.

    BRAD WARNER
  • 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”.

    BRAD WARNER
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brad Warner Quote - I remember writing the post but not what I said specifically, so I’ll either repeat myself or say something completely different and baffle everybody.

    I remember writing the post but not what I said specifically, so I’ll either repeat myself or say something completely different and baffle everybody.

    BRAD WARNER
  • 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.

    BRAD WARNER
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brad Warner Quote - I guess that all figures into my approach because once I start hearing the imagination land stuff (that’s my new phrase now I guess) I tend to tune out or start laughing at it like, “Haha, you guys really believe there is a heaven.” Download This Image

    I guess that all figures into my approach because once I start hearing the imagination land stuff (that’s my new phrase now I guess) I tend to tune out or start laughing at it like, “Haha, you guys really believe there is a heaven.”

    BRAD WARNER
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brad Warner Quote - Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don’t match how they really are. Download This Image

    Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don’t match how they really are.

    BRAD WARNER
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brad Warner Quote - I mean, I can do that all day long. I can tell you the Vulcan’s are not actually devoid of emotion. That they work hard to suppress their emotions. And of course, there actually are no real Vulcan’s, though I know the ins and outs of them as fictional characters.

    I mean, I can do that all day long. I can tell you the Vulcan’s are not actually devoid of emotion. That they work hard to suppress their emotions. And of course, there actually are no real Vulcan’s, though I know the ins and outs of them as fictional characters.

    BRAD WARNER
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brad Warner Quote - People imagine enlightenment will make them incredibly powerful. And it does. It makes you the most powerful being in all the universe- but usually no one else notices. Download This Image

    People imagine enlightenment will make them incredibly powerful. And it does. It makes you the most powerful being in all the universe- but usually no one else notices.

    BRAD WARNER
  • 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.

    BRAD WARNER
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brad Warner Quote - We believe Somewhere Else is out there for us if only we could find it. But there’s no Somewhere Else. Everything is right here…Make this your paradise or make this your hell. The choice is entirely yours. Really.

    We believe Somewhere Else is out there for us if only we could find it. But there’s no Somewhere Else. Everything is right here…Make this your paradise or make this your hell. The choice is entirely yours. Really.

    BRAD WARNER
  • 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.

    BRAD WARNER
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brad Warner Quote - The real goal of Zen is to find a way of life that’s easy and undramatic. Strong attachments lead to upset and drama. Download This Image

    The real goal of Zen is to find a way of life that’s easy and undramatic. Strong attachments lead to upset and drama.

    BRAD WARNER
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brad Warner Quote - Truly compassionate action arises spontaneously without thought and is carried out in real action with no anticipation of reward and, indeed, no concept of a doer of that action.

    Truly compassionate action arises spontaneously without thought and is carried out in real action with no anticipation of reward and, indeed, no concept of a doer of that action.

    BRAD WARNER
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brad Warner Quote - So I was first exposed to this guy Tim McCarthy, and he’s talking about Zen, but deeper than that he was a genuine person. I thought maybe he’s someone I can trust and follow this thing he’s talking about all the time. Download This Image

    So I was first exposed to this guy Tim McCarthy, and he’s talking about Zen, but deeper than that he was a genuine person. I thought maybe he’s someone I can trust and follow this thing he’s talking about all the time.

    BRAD WARNER
  • 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.

    BRAD WARNER
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brad Warner Quote - I really thought Reagan was going to push the button and blow us all up. It was scary. So when they did the 1998 American Godzilla film, Hollywood didn’t understand what Godzilla was.

    I really thought Reagan was going to push the button and blow us all up. It was scary. So when they did the 1998 American Godzilla film, Hollywood didn’t understand what Godzilla was.

    BRAD WARNER
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brad Warner Quote - Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation.

    Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation.

    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.

    BRAD WARNER
  • 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.

    BRAD WARNER
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brad Warner Quote - the only real time as far as Buddhism is concerned is right now. Right now there is no old age or death because old age and death are descriptions of things as they are now when we compare them to things as they used to be. Download This Image

    the only real time as far as Buddhism is concerned is right now. Right now there is no old age or death because old age and death are descriptions of things as they are now when we compare them to things as they used to be.

    BRAD WARNER
  • 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.

    BRAD WARNER
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brad Warner Quote - Leaving home’ to me means adopting the attitude that the pursuit of the truth is more vital than the pursuit of what society – your home – tells you is important. Download This Image

    Leaving home’ to me means adopting the attitude that the pursuit of the truth is more vital than the pursuit of what society – your home – tells you is important.

    BRAD WARNER
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brad Warner Quote - You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.

    You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.

    BRAD WARNER
  • 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.

    BRAD WARNER
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brad Warner Quote - We always imagine that there’s got to be somewhere else better than where we are right now; this is the Great Somewhere Else we all carry around in our heads.

    We always imagine that there’s got to be somewhere else better than where we are right now; this is the Great Somewhere Else we all carry around in our heads.

    BRAD WARNER
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brad Warner Quote - I was very attracted to the way that Zen did not go into the imagination land. And now I’ve forgotten what your first question was and how we were going to tie this together.

    I was very attracted to the way that Zen did not go into the imagination land. And now I’ve forgotten what your first question was and how we were going to tie this together.

    BRAD WARNER