Brad Warner Quotes

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• Disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were.

  Brad Warner

  Disappointment, Reality, Discovery

  Brad Warner (2010). “Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma”, p.76, New World Library

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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. 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, Somewhere Else, Choices

  Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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

  Brad Warner

  Running, Running Away, Situation

  Brad Warner (2009). “Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma”, p.71, New World Library

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• Compassion is the ability to see what needs doing right now and the willingness to do it right now.

  Brad Warner

  Compassion, Needs, Ability

  Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• There are many diamonds in the world and if you lose your favorite, you can work hard, earn a lot of money and get another one to replace it. But the moments of your life aren't like that. Once they're gone, they'll never return. Each and every one is the most precious thing in existence. You can never meaningfully compare one moment with any other. You can never meaningfully compare your life with anyone else's. No matter how rich someone else may be, no matter how happy they look, no matter how enlightened they seem, they can never be you. Never, ever, ever. Only you can live your life.

  Brad Warner

  Hard Work, Live Your Life, Matter

  Brad Warner (2005). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• The truth comes when you can see that your self-image is just a convenient reference point and nothing more, and that you as you had imagined yourself do not exist.

  Brad Warner

  Truth, Self, Convenient

  Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• Reality's all you've got. But here's the real secret, the real miracle: it's enough.

  Brad Warner

  Real, Miracle, Secret

  Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• If you want to believe in reincarnation, you have to believe that this life, what you're living through right now, is the afterlife. You're missing out on the afterlife you looked forward to in your last existence by worrying about your next life. This is what happens after you die. Take a look.

  Brad Warner

  Believe, Afterlife, Worry

  Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Brad Warner

  Life And Death, Understanding, Live Your Life

  Brad Warner (2010). “Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma”, p.62, New World Library

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

  Brad Warner

  Buddhist, Morality, Wells

  Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• Your role is to do and say the things that need to be done and said from your unique perspective.

  Brad Warner

  Unique, Perspective, Needs

  Brad Warner (2010). “Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma”, p.208, New World Library

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• You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that you're playing a game.

  Brad Warner

  Games, Understanding, Fiction

  Brad Warner (2010). “Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma”, p.70, New World Library

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• The problem is the way we let our desires stand in the way of our enjoyment of what we already have.

  Brad Warner

  Desire, Way, Problem

  Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Those who hope for purity and righteousness always try and destroy that which disturbs them. They think the disturbance comes from outside themselves. This is a serious problem. Wars, suicide bombings, and all sorts of other nasty things start from the premise that we can destroy 'evil' outside ourselves without dealing with the evil within.

  Brad Warner

  Suicide, Hope, War

  Brad Warner (2010). “Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma”, p.89, New World Library

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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.

  Brad Warner

  Thinking, Order, Effort

  Brad Warner (2010). “Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye”, p.43, New World Library

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• 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

  Real, Rewards, Doers

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• we ourselves are not something apart from our circumstances. What we are and where we are are one and the same.

  Brad Warner

  Circumstances

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• 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

  Powerful, People, Enlightenment

  Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• True mindfulness is the awareness that everything you encounter
  is a vigorous expression of the same living universe as you.

  Brad Warner

  Expression, Meditation, Encounters

  Brad Warner (2007). “Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death & Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye”, p.241, New World Library

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• 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

  Beauty, Practice, Missing

  Brad Warner (2010). “Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between”, p.65, New World Library

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• Faith keeps you going, but doubt keeps you from going off the deep end.

  Brad Warner

  Doubt, Ends

  Brad Warner (2010). “Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye”, p.165, New World Library

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• If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise?

  Brad Warner

  Fall, Tree, Noise

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• Since then, my approach to all things spiritual is rather cynical you could say. When somebody present something to me as spiritual, my first instinct is to be cynical and think, "oh yeah, one of those again." You see so much of it see in "spiritual culture" and people get very excited about it. It's all very "hoo haw."

  Brad Warner

  Spiritual, Thinking, People

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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

  Brad Warner

  Real, Morality, Action

  Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• Just know that your expectations are only thoughts in your head, and keep on doing what you do.

  Brad Warner

  Expectations, Thoughts In Your Head, Knows

  Brad Warner (2010). “Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma”, p.137, New World Library

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