Buddhism Quotes - Page 19

• In Tantric Zen there is no rule. There is only your immediate experience.

  Frederick Lenz

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• Tantric Zen is the exploration of everything, since everything is a part of enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Enlightenment, Exploration

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• There's a place where everything comes together and where it's all the same. That state of mind, in which all things are the same, is the state of mind of Tantric Zen.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Together, States

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• It is necessary to have a very liberal and simultaneously very conservative mentality to practice Tantric Zen.

  Frederick Lenz

  Practice, Conservative, Mentality

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• Tantric Zen is the original Zen, Zen without rules, Zen without form. Zen can certainly take rules and form. So Tantric Zen might have some rules and form, but it would remain formless even though it had rules and form.

  Frederick Lenz

  Might, Form, Originals

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• Tantric Zen is a state of mind

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, States, State Of Mind

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• Tantric Zen is all about the practice of zazen meditation. If you meditate well, you'll be in very powerful states of mind and then it really doesn't matter what you do.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Practice, Meditation

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• Tantric Zen is the awareness of the infinitude of all things. To gain that awareness, to be it, is enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Enlightenment, Gains, Awareness

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• Tantric Zen, at first, does not appear to have a method. In Tantric Zen, you could meditate on a Brillo box or you could meditate on the clear light of reality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, Light, Doe

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• Your immediate experience is Tantric Zen. How aware are you of your immediate experience? - Probably not that aware.

  Frederick Lenz

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• Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it.

  Frederick Lenz

  World, Want, Steps

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• Tantric Zen is more suited for this age that we live in. It give you rules, but in a gentle way. It's not as demanding.

  Frederick Lenz

  Giving, Age, Way

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• Tantric Zen is not being kinky; nor is it being conservative and austere. It is eclectic. It is a real mixture of all things.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Kinky, Mixtures

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• Tantric Zen, and the people who practice it, of course, make some people feel extremely uncomfortable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Practice, People, Uncomfortable

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• Tantric Zen is for someone who is really broad-minded. It is Bodhidharma's Zen, your Zen, my Zen. Which doesn't mean I have a problem with Japanese Zen. Most Japanese Zen is minding your p's and q's.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Problem, Broads

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• Don't worry about your future lives, past lives. Button up your shirt! Stand up straight! Go out and do something. Go out and have some fun. Be alive, change, dissolve, explode!

  Frederick Lenz

  Fun, Past, Worry

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• When I go visit my brother monks in Japan and sit down with other Zen Masters, they look at my crazy clothes and my strange expression, but they feel the power that emanates from my dedication to the practice. So they are comfortable with me, yet they're very uncomfortable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Brother, Crazy, Dedication

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• Those who scorn and hate the world and hate themselves miss the point. The point was that there wasn't one. There was no place to go to.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Missing, World

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• In Tantric Zen, career, relationships, the type of insurance you have - all things are part of your evolution, your awareness, your experience of the suchness of existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Careers, Evolution, Awareness

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• Everything is dependent upon your state of mind. That is all there is, states of mind, ten thousand of them. Beyond all states of mind is nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, States, All State

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• Free yourself from happiness and unhappiness. Realize there is something beyond both and yet, revel in your time, revel in this world.

  Frederick Lenz

  World, Free Yourself, Realizing

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• In Tantric Zen it doesn't matter but it does ... .

  Frederick Lenz

  Doe, Matter

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• They have their belief, these poor Tibet people, that Providence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into every generation. At bottom some belief in a kind of Pope! At bottom still better, a belief that there is a Greatest Man; that he is discoverable; that, once discovered, we ought to treat him with an obedience which knows no bounds. This is the truth of Grand Lamaism; the "discoverability" is the only error here.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Errors, People

  "The Hero as Divinity. Odin. Paganism: Scandinavian Mythology". "On Heroes" by Thomas Carlyle, Chapter 1, ebooks.adelaide.edu.au. 1840.

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• Ultimately, I hope Jesus will save Buddhism, Islam and every other religion, including the Christian religion, which often seems to need saving about as much as any other religion does.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Christian, Jesus, Islam

  Brian D. McLaren (2005). “A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I Am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/conservative, Mystical/poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/contemplative, Fundamentalist/Calvinist, Anabaptist/Anglican, Methodist, Catholic, Green, Incarnational, Depressed-yet-hopeful, Emergent, Unfinished Christian”, p.297, Zondervan

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• At least in popular parlance, what makes religious folks religious today is not so much that they believe in Jesus' divinity or Buddhism's Four Noble Truths but that they hold certain moral positions on bedroom issues such as premarital sex, homosexuality, and abortion.

  Stephen Prothero

  Religious, Jesus, Sex

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