Brad Warner - Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate (2009)

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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Everything you have, whether it's money or stuff, is an obligation. It is as much your duty to care for and nurture any object you own as it would be if that object were your child. All possessions come with responsibilities. More possessions equals greater responsibility.

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

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No matter what we predict for our futures, we're always wrong anyway. The only sensible thing to do is to live this life as it is right now. Leave what happens after you die till after you die.

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

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It may look like we're doing nothing when we sit zazen. But actually we are exposing ourselves to ourselves.

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The only real time as far as Buddhism is concerned is right now. Right now there is no old age or death because old age and death are descriptions of things as they are now when we compare them to things as they used to be.

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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.

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