Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation.
BRAD WARNERI 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.
More Brad Warner Quotes
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True mindfulness is the awareness that everything you encounter is a vigorous expression of the same living universe as you.
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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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Much of the hatred and fear of sexuality found in religions stems from the idea that sex is a thing of the body and that the body must be denied so that the spirit may be elevated. In Buddhism there is no notion that the body is made of inferior matter while the spirit flies free within.
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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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The thinking brain influences the body’s responses and it makes a neat little loop.
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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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Just know that your expectations are only thoughts in your head, and keep on doing what you do.
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You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.
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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.
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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.
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The real goal of Zen is to find a way of life that’s easy and undramatic. Strong attachments lead to upset and drama.
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Your role is to do and say the things that need to be done and said from your unique perspective.
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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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Reality’s all you’ve got. But here’s the real secret, the real miracle: it’s enough.
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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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