#brad warner

[putah-creek]

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

Brad Warner

[eelhound]

"Zen teaches that... this world is better than paradise, better than any Utopia you can imagine. I say that in the face of war and starvation and suicide bombings and Orange Terror Alerts. This world is better than Utopia because — and follow this point carefully — you can never live in Utopia. Utopia is always somewhere else. That’s the very definition of Utopia.

Maybe you can go to a paradisiacal island, far away from your boss and your bills and anything else you want, but pretty soon you’ll be complaining that you’ve got sand up your ass, or the snack machine ate your dollar, or hermit crabs stole your thongs. You’ll always find something wrong with wherever you are because it will never quite match your idea of what it 'should' be...

You can’t live in paradise — but you are living right here. Make this your paradise or make this your hell. The choice is entirely yours. Really."

- Brad Warner, from Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies, and the Truth About Reality

[tozozozo-x]

You won’t notice that you are in the moment until you stop seeing this moment as preparation for something else.

Brad Warner

[nec-plus-ultra]

In spite of their talk about anarchy and ‘no rules’ the punks quickly developed a very rigid set of rules of their own. Anarchy was just a symbol, a cool-looking letter 'A’ inside a circle. Big deal. Real anarchy has to come from deep within. Real anarchy isn’t immoral or amoral; it’s intensely moral.

Brad Warner, Hardcore Zen

[willow-elysian-blog]

[modernmonkeymind]

The path to liberation is just to stop being a jerk.

Brad Warner

[mandabookcorner]

The world we live in us already better than anything we could possibly imagine.

Brad Warner, Don't Be a Jerk

[chaosprincessblog-blog]

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