Brad Warner Quotes About Enlightenment

• 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

• The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself.

  Brad Warner

  Confused, Enlightenment, Awful

  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.28, New World Library

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

  Brad Warner

  Reality, People, Enlightenment

  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.224, New World Library

• 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, People, Insanity

  Fuente: theindiespiritualist.com

• Así que [Shoko Asahara] estaba loco pero consiguió convencer a un par de miles de personas de que estaba iluminado. La cultura occidental, de la que Japón forma parte, no entiende qué es la Ilustración.

  Brad Warner

  Couple, Japan, People

  Fuente: theindiespiritualist.com

• I'm not sure that Eastern culture does either, but I've never lived in India etc so I couldn't tell you. I can say we definitely don't. So people will sometimes come in contact with something strange and think, "Oh, it must be like this" and have a lot of fantasies about it, and somebody who sort of looks like our fantasy version of what enlightenment is can be very convincing in seeming like they've got something and then play that role.

  Brad Warner

  Pensar, Jugar, Gente

  Fuente: theindiespiritualist.com

• I think real enlightenment is total sanity, a kind of acceptance of what actually is. It does involve a kind of different way of looking at things. As I've done this Zen practice for years and years, I've acquired what I realize is an almost upside down view of life compared to what most people think, which is just what I used to think it was too. It's not really an insane view, at least I hope it's not.

  Brad Warner

  Real, Acceptance, Thinking

  Fuente: theindiespiritualist.com

• Si te encuentras con una persona demente que dice sandeces, no puedes encontrarle ningún sentido, y esa sería una de las formas en que la iluminación es diferente. Si lees a Dogen, muchas de sus cosas son muy extrañas y vienen de un lugar diferente al que estamos acostumbrados, pero al mismo tiempo, no son divagaciones sin sentido y eso es parte de lo que me atrajo de Dogen. No lo entendí, pero era sensato. No se trata de un tipo que delira con ovnis o con Moisés viviendo en su bañera, sino de algo sensato que yo no entendía, si es que eso tiene sentido.

  Brad Warner

  Talking, Insane Person, Guy

  Fuente: theindiespiritualist.com

• Well it's always been an interesting area for me. In referencing something I just reread from Dogen it says, "Enlightenment doesn't break the person anymore than the reflection breaks the water" and Suzuki in his commentary is saying you don't lose your personality once you acquire some sort of Buddhist understanding.

  Brad Warner

  Buddhist, Reflection, Water

  Fuente: theindiespiritualist.com

• Sanity and enlightenment...I've been reading a new book Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries, and it contains a commentary on Genjo Koan by Shunryu Suzuki, the author who wrote Zen Mind, Beginners Mind. He doesn't mention sanity at all but I think that one possible definition of enlightenment would be a kind of profound sanity, where being insane is no longer an option.

  Brad Warner

  Libro, Lectura, Pensamiento

  Fuente: theindiespiritualist.com

• There's also something that is often mistaken for enlightenment which is a kind of insanity. Often, people will have some kind of weird experience which is quite abnormal and think, "Oh my God, that's it, I understand everything" because they start seeing things in a very weird way and think that's how enlightened people see things as well.

  Brad Warner

  Thinking, People, Insanity

  Fuente: theindiespiritualist.com

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