Buddhism Quotes - Page 10

• I try to teach people to continually search and question the meaning of everything they are taught and everything they believe in. My job is not so much to impart a philosophy but to train people in the methods of self-discovery.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jobs, Philosophy, Believe

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• I show people the techniques for gaining knowledge, and this inspires them in their search for truth, freedom and happiness. I also try to show people that truth exists as much in this world as it does in any other world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Other Worlds, People, Inspire

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• Everything that I teach as an enlightened Buddhist teacher is towards directing an individual to happiness, a balanced wisdom and knowledge that is sometimes just bubbly and euphoric or just very still and profound.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Profound

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• There is no best teacher. Life itself is the teacher. There is no best method. All that matters is that it works.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Matter, Rama

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• My teaching - of what is perceived to be a complex and foreign sounding religious philosophy - has become the target for people's prejudice and religious intolerance.

  Frederick Lenz

  Religious, Philosophy, Teaching

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• Many people who help me encounter a lot of resistance from other people and from forces.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Encounters, Resistance

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• Certainly, I am aware that there have been a number of articles written about me and television shows in which I have been featured and referred to as a "cult leader."

  Frederick Lenz

  Numbers, Leader, Television

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• I don't think there is anyone in public life today who can escape the inevitable onslaught of the media. It seeks to pry into and often grossly distort aspects of one's personal and professional life. I guess it just comes with the territory.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Media, Territory

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• When you combine a media - bent on exploiting tabloid-type stories to boost ratings and circulation by innuendo and titillation - with unhappy or opportunistic individuals who have nothing going for them in their own lives, you get a bitter brew.

  Frederick Lenz

  Media, Unhappy, Stories

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• A well known Los Angeles newspaper referred to a small group of gentlemen who live up on a mountain and practice Zen as 'the Zen cult'. The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically 'in'.

  Frederick Lenz

  Practice, Gentleman, Mountain

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• I find it ironic to read stories about myself which have never occurred and are simply so absurd that they are comical. At other times, it is very painful to be so misinterpreted and vilified.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ironic, Stories, Rama

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• Combine meditation with career as a yoga. You will find that your practice will not be any less powerful than a person who lives in a monastery. You might even excel because practice in a monastery can get very one-sided.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Powerful, Yoga

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• It is necessary to go through all the daily tasks and bring perfection to them, to learn to be perfect in your meditation, and to win in all your endeavors so that one day you will complete again.

  Frederick Lenz

  Winning, Daily Tasks, Perfect

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• Changing the way you dress can make it easier to make deeper changes in the structure of your personality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Personality, Dresses, Way

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• Clothes can have a very refined vibration. An ochre robe can be extremely refined and so can a wonderful satin gown or a silk brocade coast.

  Frederick Lenz

  Clothes, Gowns, Vibrations

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• If you want to create a different character, you can do so just by altering your style of dress and cosmetics.

  Frederick Lenz

  Character, Style, Dresses

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• Clothing is art. It's an expression of how you feel. I think that it's not so much a question of a certain style or designer, but of finding the type of clothing that works well for you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Thinking, Expression

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• Clothing has a great deal to do with the attitudes and energy that others direct towards you. I favor the chic, and tend to avoid the trendy. I think that it's good to be chic when possible because it is more inaccessible.

  Frederick Lenz

  Attitude, Thinking, Energy

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• Ideally, you would live in an area that is not necessarily in the middle of the country, out in the woods, because you can isolate yourself there and get stuck in your own thoughts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Country, Woods, Middle

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• I feel that there's a certain danger in always being in a lovely rural setting. You can lose touch.

  Frederick Lenz

  Lovely, Danger, Certain

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• It's certainly easy to meditate on top of a mountain, but one should be also able to meditate in the heart of the city.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Cities, Mountain

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• If you want to help people, if you care, go to the cities. The city is where the pain is the greatest - and the cities are a hell of a lot of fun if you like art, movies and plays.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Fun, Pain

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• There are millions of little opportunities out there to advance yourself. But you need the personal power to see how to do it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Opportunity, Needs, Littles

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• Life is not dependent upon our classifications and our categories, our science. But we are. We find it interesting and helpful.

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Interesting, Helpful

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• One function of the intellect is to catalog. But cataloging doesn't change anything. If we call it a rose, or by any other name, it still smells as sweet. The name doesn't really matter. It is convenient for us.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sweet, Science, Names

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