Frederick Lenz Quotes About Hinduism

• In the Upanishads they talk about the path of the sun and the path of the moon. The path of the moon is rebirth. The path of the sun leads to self-knowledge, from which there is no return.

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  Moon, Self, Path

• The road for Arjuna is unexpected. Sri Krishna says you have to face that which you fear the most that which you're most attached to and eliminate it. In this case he has to fight a battle, and the battle is his attachments.

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  Fighting, Attachment, Battle

• Psychic development is a necessary skill in leading a successful and happy life. Your intellectual processes and your senses don't give you enough information to distinguish the real from the unreal.

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  Real, Successful, Happy Life

• Mind delineates experience, and through the filter of mind, experience becomes something else; it becomes knowledge in tantra.

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  Mind, Filters, Hinduism

• Those who seek liberation want to go beyond individualized perception. The essence of their being wants to dissolve back into the cosmos.

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  Essence, Perception, Cosmos

• The self plays among the waves of existence. It surfaces, it comes up for a while, and then it disappears again.

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  Self, Play, Wave

• Yoga makes you free. It makes you happy. It gets you out of the traps that create human misery. It makes you vibrate faster.

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  Yoga, Misery, Hinduism

• Tantra is the perception of the oneness and the perfection of all things. Not just the perception of light, but the perception of darkness, seeing God in both beauty and horror.

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  Light, Oneness, Perfection

• Gods and goddesses are not what people think they are. Their names are terms with which we try to convey a certain experience, a state of consciousness.

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  Thinking, Names, People

• Krishna says meditate and you'll see the various ephemeral worlds, the various ephemeral beings, all of them going through the same thing; some are rich, some are poor, some are more knowledgeable, some are less knowledgeable - in countless myriad universes, forever.

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  Forever, World, Ephemeral

• One path leads back to this world, to rebirth; one path leads beyond. Your soul stands at a crossword, trying to make a decision, flipping a coin, a nice image for the soul, I think.

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  Nice, Thinking, Decision

• The perceiver of the dream, the one whom the dream is unfolding before, is what we call the Self.

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  Dream, Self, Hinduism

• A very advanced master can glow so strongly that you see divine in them. You look into them and you see infinity constantly changing, evolving and radiating in new forms.

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  Looks, Infinity, Hinduism

• The awareness of liberation is not liberation. The awareness of time is not liberation.

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  Awareness, Hinduism, Liberation

• Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization.

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  Dream, Self, Realization

• In the Far East, studying yoga is comparable to a mixture of attending one of the best Western universities, and of being an intrepid explorer.

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  Yoga, East, Mixtures

• Krishna says, fight. He says, go out on the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill; and whether they were your friends or not, you have to look at the big picture. In the big picture, you can't go kill anybody, you can't be killed.

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  Jobs, Fighting, People

• Krishna once said to Arjuna: Consider the past and future with an equal mind, and pass the peanut M&M's.

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  Past, Mind, Arjuna

• Yoga means we accept responsibility for the tasks in our life, and we know that being a king, being an enlightened teacher, being someone who sweeps the streets, we know that nothing is a greater yoga than anything else.

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  Teacher, Kings, Yoga

• Yoga is a removal of the conscious awareness from the world as you know it - the world that you've constructed - through your focus within your mind, to something else.

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  Yoga, Focus, Mind

• What Sri Krishna is saying, is that it's a terrible mistake to believe that this life we lead is real. Obviously it's real, but it doesn't last very long in its realness. It's very ephemeral and to mistaken the forms of life, the shapes that life takes, for reality, is not wise.

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  Wise, Real, Mistake

• There are people in the Himalayas who are thousands of years old. But that's just a power, you see. It would seem to me that would suggest a tremendous aversion to the experience of death.

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  Death, Years, People

• Everything that you see before you with your physical eyes is an illusion. In other words, you are not seeing correctly. Life is made up of light. But if you are only looking through the senses, it seems solid and physical.

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  Eye, Light, Life Is

• The awareness of place, space, or condition is not liberation. You can't say what it is, but you can sure say what it isn't.

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  Space, Awareness, Hinduism

• Once you have personally experienced enlightenment, you will see beyond the ocean of death to the everlasting shores of immortality.

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  Ocean, Enlightenment, Hinduism

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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