Buddhism Quotes - Page 17

• You're not the doer. What's to do? You can't undo what's not done. It's all one anyway, why think about it? But you need to discriminate, so you'd better think about it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Needs, Done

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• I'm not exactly sure where we are, but I'm confident of where we're not.

  Frederick Lenz

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• Stop trying to figure it all. Why worry about it all so much? Why not just live? And then you die. And then you live again, unless, of course, you follow me.

  Frederick Lenz

  Worry, Trying, Why Not

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• Perfection is not a final state. It is a state of mind. There are ten thousand states of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perfection, Mind, Finals

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• The reason you see yourself as a creep is because you have an appreciation of what perfection is, whereas no one else conceives of themselves in that way, since they don't even strive.

  Frederick Lenz

  Appreciation, Perfection, Way

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• What is perfect? From the Zen mind, perfection is not being there.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perfect, Mind, Being There

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• When you realize your own emptiness, that will be something, won't it?

  Frederick Lenz

  Emptiness, Realizing

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• Discriminate between the transient and the eternal. Learn to move from complete control to complete abandon.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Abandon, Transient

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• The world that you see is like a motion picture. We are engrossed in a film and we have forgotten that we're sitting in a movie theatre.

  Frederick Lenz

  Theatre, Sitting, World

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• Zen students see themselves as athletes. Their competitive sport is enlightenment; only with enlightenment do we compete.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Athlete, Enlightenment

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• There is competition in Zen. Let's not be ridiculous. There is competition in everything in life; being a winner in Zen means, competing and winning in the world of enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Winning, Competition

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• Thousands and thousands of incarnations and nothing to show for it. You must choose whether to follow the path of love or the path of attachment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Attachment, Path Of Love, Shows

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• When your Japanese lifetime is coming out, drink all the sake you want. Have a little bash.

  Frederick Lenz

  Want, Littles, Sake

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• It is in Zen practice that you gain power, balance and wisdom. The battles that you fight are within your own mind. That is where the real victories and defeats are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Fighting, Practice

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• Eternity is everywhere, it stretches endlessly in all directions, never beginning and never ending. Merge with it. Embrace it. Be free and disciplined.

  Frederick Lenz

  Eternity, Embrace, Never Ending

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• There is no ultimate objective reality within the ten thousand states of mind. Most people don't like to hear this. But there are ten thousand realities, and each is definitely unifying.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, People, Mind

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• What you focus on you become. So always focus on that which is highest, brightest, happiest and most noble of all things, enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Focus, Enlightenment, Noble

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• As an individual, I think you have to find your own path. I like the simplicity and purity of Hinduism and many elements of Buddhism. These are all means of accessing spiritual energy.

  Dave Davies

  Spiritual, Mean, Thinking

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• The idea that Buddhism denies what is called in the West individual immortality is a mistake, so far as the Buddhist scriptures are concerned.

  Annie Besant

  Buddhist, Mistake, Ideas

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• To look for truth in all the wrong and all the right places is the only excuse for living.

  Frederick Lenz

  Looks, Excuse, Right Place

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• The sensual experiences in life are not to be avoided. This is the philosophy of Tantric Buddhism - nor are they particularly to be sought after.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Sensual, Avoided

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• Celibacy doesn't make you enlightened, otherwise every nun or priest in Buddhism or Christianity would be enlightened. People who don't date and can't get any action would be enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Would Be, Action

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• The sensual world cannot be avoided. We're in it at every moment. We are part of it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sensual, World, Moments

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• Now, tantra is a little bit different than other forms of Buddhism because in tantra what we do is we use the sensorial worlds as access points or pathways to ineffability.

  Frederick Lenz

  World, Littles, Pathways

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• Some people, of course, say they're practicing tantra. There are a lot of books on tantric sexual practice in local bookstores. These are usually pretty silly books.

  Frederick Lenz

  Silly, Book, Practice

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