Frederick Lenz Quotes

• You are your state of mind. Your state of mind creates your view, or your window, on life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Views

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• There are ten thousand states of mind. Most people spend their entire lives confined to a few of these states of mind.

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  People, Mind, States

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• The reason you study with a teacher is primarily for the empowerments, for someone who is enlightened to transfer power to you. What is most important is that the student uses that power intelligently and wisely.

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  Teacher, Empowerment, Important

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• In our culture we are taught to be accessible and open; it signifies a good person. In mysticism it is the opposite, people can scan you and drain you.

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  Opposites, People, Culture

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• If you are psychic, you can see into the minds of others. You can use that opening to aid somebody. Sometimes someone's trying to tell you something and they don't even know what it is.

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  Psychics, Mind, Trying

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• Human beings going to their jobs and living their lives are unconscious. They don't know what's going on. They don't know why you are born or why you die.

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  Jobs, Buddhism, Humanity

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• There are many different places of power around the world. They're invisible openings to other worlds. We find a preponderance of these places in the Himalayas, in the western part of the United States; of course, in every country of the world there are some.

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  Country, Buddhism, Other Worlds

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• In enlightenment you have to convince a teacher not only that you are worthy of teaching, but then that they should show you some of the secrets.

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  Teacher, Teaching, Secret

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• In the process of self-discovery you will learn to be kind when you could be harsh. You will learn to forgive, mostly yourself. You will learn to be patient because you may have to wait quite a while to become that which you will eventually be.

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  Buddhist, Buddhism, Discovery

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• Self-giving means that we have to understand the nature of giving. When most people give, they give expecting a return on their investment.

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  Karma, Yoga, Mean

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• Focus on one point and hold your attention there. The mind will waiver, you'll think a million thoughts, but each time you do, bring your mind back to the point of concentration, seeing it visually.

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  Thinking, Focus, Mind

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• Most people are not in the world of awe and wonder. They're in the world of deadness. Their perceptual fields and bodies are completely self-reflective, and all they see is themselves wherever they go.

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  Buddhism, Self, Awe And Wonder

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• Becoming enlightened doesn't mean everything works your way.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Enlightenment, Way

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• Personal power changes or shapes consciousness, and that is kundalini. Kundalini exists within us. Some people have more of it, some dimensions have more of it.

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  Buddhism, People, Shapes

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• The most powerful force to maintaining a good immune system is the power of positive thinking and not allowing yourself to be unnecessarily drained emotionally by worries and fears.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Health, Positive Thinking

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• In the case of the brujos, the sorcerers in Mexico, the Spanish Conquest forced them to develop their second attention.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Enlightenment, Attention

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• Humility accepts that God places us in the right place at every single moment, not a moment to soon and not a moment too late.

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  Single Mom, Humility, Buddhism

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• Advanced meditators are not even desirous of liberation anymore - that is just another attachment. There is no liberation. There is no bondage. These are just ideas of the mind.

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  Attachment, Ideas, Mind

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• The way we gain wisdom in meditation is not by explanation. If you go into the planes of light, you will come out of the meditation knowing things ... things that are inexpressible.

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  Wisdom, Buddhism, Light

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• Self-realization is the last game on earth worth playing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Self

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• When you die in this life, you might be experiencing pain, but the structure of your perceptual field will determine your next lifetime. That structure has been determined by the way you have led this life.

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  Pain, Might, Way

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• Happiness comes from self-knowledge. Self-knowledge means that you have understood your mind. Your mind is the whole universe.

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  Happiness, Mean, Buddhism

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• There is no point in being a responsible member of society, nor is there any point in being an irresponsible member of society. Both are very defined descriptions of selfhood

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  Buddhism, Humanity, Responsible

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• With the frenzied pace in our own country, with the degenerating school system, with a crime rate that rises 30% a year, and with politicians that seem more interested in posturing than in governing, it has become more difficult, or should I say challenging, to achieve that inner symbiosis with life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Country, School, Buddhism

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• In meditation all the fake dull thoughts that you think, all the ridiculous philosophies, the necessities, all the things that won't matter a bit when you are dead - fade away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Buddhism, Thinking

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