Brad Warner Quotes About Understanding

• 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

• 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

• 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

• True nonattachment is understanding that you are fundamentally attached to everything and, through that understanding, dropping your attachment to the view that you are detached from that which you encounter. At the same time, real nonattachment means not clinging to things or people. It means dropping the idea that if you don't have this or if you can't get that, your life will be a catastrophe.

  Brad Warner

  Life, Time, Real

• 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 think the understanding of oneness and interconnectivity of the whole Universe is something we have innately, something we're born with. We are however very skillful at ignoring and pretending we don't have or know it.

  Brad Warner

  Thinking, Oneness, Understanding

  Fuente: theindiespiritualist.com

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