Quotes from Brad Warner

Consciousness is just part of what we are, and not even the most significant part. Form (or matter) is equally important, as are the other skandhas .

You do not become a Buddha by having some magical, mystical experience that confers Buddhahood on you, after which you can just slack off for the rest of your life. Buddhahood is something fragile and precious that must be cared for and maintained. It's not automatic, and it's not easy.

We are both individuals and expressions of the universe. These are not mutually exclusive.

One of the problems for contemporary Western people is that Buddha's attitude toward rebirth is entirely different from ours. We want to live forever. Buddha and his followers did not. To him and to the audience he spoke to, rebirth was not a good thing.

To me Zen is a communal practice of individual deep inquiry.

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

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

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