black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

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

Blow Buttons Scary
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

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

Enlightenment People Reality
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
Your role is to do and say the things that need to be done and said from your unique perspective.
BRAD WARNER

Needs Perspective Unique
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

Country Couple People World
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
Faith keeps you going, but doubt keeps you from going off the deep end.
BRAD WARNER

Doubt Ends Faith Keps
How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!
BRAD WARNER

Garden Light Tree
The thinking brain influences the body’s responses and it makes a neat little loop.
BRAD WARNER

Body Brain Thinking
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

Ideas Insanity People
Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That’s Buddhist morality.
BRAD WARNER

Buddhist Morality Wells
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

Drama Real Strong
Reality’s all you’ve got. But here’s the real secret, the real miracle: it’s enough.
BRAD WARNER

Miracle Real Secret
Just know that your expectations are only thoughts in your head, and keep on doing what you do.
BRAD WARNER

Expectations Head Knows Thoughts
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

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Brad Warner Quotes