Buddhism Quotes - Page 16

• Buddhism is yoga. Yoga started, who knows when? A long time ago, when the first person found that they could still their thoughts and experience eternity and access the higher planes of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Yoga, Long

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• Buddhism has existed forever, just like we have, and occasionally it's codified; it's put together into a system by someone who likes to codify.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Forever, Together

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• Buddhism doesn't come from anybody. It exists by itself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Cosmology

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• Buddhism suggests there are no elect. Everything rests upon your own self-effort, which is the good news because that means you don't have to wait around for some nebulous God to help you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Mean, Self

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• The thing about Buddhism is that it stresses attainment of something ineffable, that is where it differs from other religions in that it's more correct. We live in a world with promises of paradise.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Stress, Promise

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• Buddhism is the study of changing who we are, modifying or perhaps totally restructuring ourselves as perceivers.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Who We Are, Study

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• Buddhism is the study of power initially. It takes a certain amount of power to even know your potential - to have the sense that you can change the way you perceive.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Way, Study

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• Buddhism is perception, gaining control of the mind and directing one's attention, to raise the kundalini energy so that it flows with such volatility and force that we simply perceive life correctly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Perception, Mind

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• Buddhism leads you to the awareness that all things are holy. Everything is holy. The dark has its own light, in other words.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Dark, Light

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• In Buddhism we don't really believe in sin and salvation as Westerners would define them. We believe in the limitless possibilities of the present and of future moments.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Believe, Limitless Possibilities

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• What is evil? There is no such thing. In Buddhism we don't recognize evil and therefore we don't give it any power over us.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Evil, Giving

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• The dialectical change of mind that occurs in Buddhism is not simply the assimilation of a new philosophical basis or religious basis for viewing and interpreting experience. Rather it is the complete structural revision of that which is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Religious, Buddhist, Philosophical

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• Buddhism is the study of the way the mind works. One has to be able to hold a large number of relational concepts simultaneously in the mind. It is necessary to grid, to literally unlock realities and dimensions with the power of your mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Reality, Numbers

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• Tonight is not the end of the world. This is our hot tip of the evening.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hot, Tonight, World

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• I don't know how much you know about Zen, but you'll know less when I'm done with you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Done With You, Know How, Knows

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• You may have had countless lives, and many more stretching before you, and what else have you got to do with your time?

  Frederick Lenz

  May, Stretching

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• Nothing lasts forever - except forever. That's the good news. It's a good thing that nothing lasts forever because things would get terribly boring.

  Frederick Lenz

  Forever, News, Lasts

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• Forever is not an idea or a concept, it is reality. All of the things here come from forever. We call forever nirvana in Zen.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, Ideas, Forever

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• The mind of the Buddha is perfect because it is empty and yet it contains all things.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perfect, Mind, Empty

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• You and I are both life. There's just the experience of every moment. We like to call them moments. There isn't really such a thing. There's just is-ness; there's just eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moments, Eternity

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• There are no words, there's only the possibility of a moment even more incredible a little bit further down the road.

  Frederick Lenz

  Littles, Moments, Incredibles

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• You come back to the beginning. That's why in the "Searching for the Ox" sequence, at the very end of that sequence of the Zen paintings, we're back in the world again.

  Frederick Lenz

  World, Painting, Ends

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• The world is filled with people who understand. I personally value people who don't understand. People who understand have nothing more to learn. People who don't understand have hope. Do you understand?

  Frederick Lenz

  People, World, Having Hope

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• I don't think anyone knows why they meditate. As a matter of fact I'm not even sure that we do meditate. All we know is that we don't know.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Facts, Matter

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• A person trying to meditate is doing something that's impossible since meditation is not an action.

  Frederick Lenz

  Meditation, Trying, Action

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