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

Brad Warner

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

Enlightenment People Powerful
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.
BRAD WARNER

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

Action Morality Real
Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That’s Buddhist morality.
BRAD WARNER

Buddhist Morality Wells
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

Book Sex Writing
You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.
BRAD WARNER

Always Away Running Situation
Faith keeps you going, but doubt keeps you from going off the deep end.
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Doubt Ends Faith Keps
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

Believe Choice Poetry Somewhere
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

Imagination Land Ties
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.
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Blow Buttons Scary
Just know that your expectations are only thoughts in your head, and keep on doing what you do.
BRAD WARNER

Expectations Head Knows Thoughts
It’s sort of another innovation, probably a good innovation, of Western culture to separate the ideas between science and philosophy, but it’s important to remember they weren’t always separate realms of inquiry.
BRAD WARNER

Ideas Innovation Philosophy
Your role is to do and say the things that need to be done and said from your unique perspective.
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Needs Perspective Unique
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

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

Garden Light Tree
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

Attitude Mean Truth

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