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As for enlightenment, that’s just for people who can’t face reality.

Brad Warner

As for enlightenment, that’s just for people who can’t face reality.
BRAD WARNER

Enlightenment People Reality
Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation.
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Action Morality Real
How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!
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Garden Light Tree
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.
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Doers Real Rewards
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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Death Life Live Understanding
True mindfulness is the awareness that everything you encounter is a vigorous expression of the same living universe as you.
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Encounters Expression Meditation
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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Effort Order Thinking
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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Ideas Innovation Philosophy
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.
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Imagination Land Ties
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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Firsts Genuine Teacher
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.
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Attitude Mean Truth
You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.
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Always Away Running Situation
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
Faith keeps you going, but doubt keeps you from going off the deep end.
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Doubt Ends Faith Keps
Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don’t match how they really are.
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Ideas Ought Suffering
Reality’s all you’ve got. But here’s the real secret, the real miracle: it’s enough.
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Miracle Real Secret

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