Frederick Lenz Quotes About Ignorance

• The burden you are carrying around is the burden of self. You seek release from that. You want to let it all go. You want to forget who you are and what you are. You wish to be the whole universe, infinite, endless.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Self, Wish

• Do not feel that you are destined to enlightenment in this life. You have no idea. This is an illusion of selfhood. It's gross ignorance and egotism.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Ignorance, Buddhism

• If you attain liberation do not feel that it matters or it is important. You had nothing to do with it. If you are bound by ignorance do not feel bad. You had nothing to do with it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Ignorance, Buddhism

• It's fun to go to a supermarket or a park or a shopping mall where human beings convene. They're so caught up in their own personal reality as to not see life, except in terms that add to or detract from their movie.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Fun, Ignorance

• You're bound by the frame. You've become so engrossed in the movie of your life that you have forgotten that you're sitting there watching.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Ignorance, Buddhism

• Things don't make you unhappy. People don't make you unhappy. You make yourself unhappy. Because you are in the cycle. You're stuck. You're stuck in time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Ignorance, Buddhism

• You can stay in the safe, secure oblivion and pain of ignorance, not knowing, and just die. You'll just die, like everyone else, and shuffle into another incarnation that won't be very different.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Pain, Ignorance

• So when we wake from the ignorance of this world, the dream of existence, all of the experiences that we have ever had fall away. The ideas of life and death, of rebirth, of reincarnation, karma, God, truth, knowledge - all these things fall away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Dream, Yoga

• There's a different film being made in every mind. And of course, the star of the film is the mind, the personality, the self.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Stars, Ignorance

• You are separate from the universe, therefore you experience it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Universe

• The Samsara is the movement of life. And you, an individual self, a form, a moment on a wave, are bound.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Self, Movement

• Life isn't complicated. The reason it appears complicated to you is because you are in a very distorted state of mind. That's the basic premise of Buddhism - that you're in a very distorted state of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Buddhism, Mind

• What gets frustrating for some people is the fact that you might get very high, but you find yourself pulled down again. There are forces of illusion or maya that cause us to make mistakes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mistake, Ignorance, People

• At this point you are so far away from what you really are, it's ridiculous.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Ridiculous, Far Away

• Everyone is afraid of enlightenment, knowledge, completion. People are afraid of being exposed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, People, Enlightenment

• You can be in a state of mind for a few seconds and forget that you were ever in any other state of mind. That's what we mean by illusion.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Mean, Mind

• The stars in the sky last for billions of years. That's nothing to the mind, nothing. It's an instant, a millisecond. The mind shines radiantly forever. But we don't see the shine because of the clutter.

  Frederick Lenz

  Stars, Ignorance, Years

• In the realm of the higher astral, it's just fun. We're on the honeymoon and we love each other so much that we can't keep our hands off each other and everything is wonderful. It doesn't last; it's a honeymoon.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fun, Ignorance, Hands

• None of this has ever been or will ever be; all is an appearance, all is an illusion. Illusions are truth. All illusions are real. We say illusion, meaning that they're shadows.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Ignorance, Shadow

• As long as you exist, you are aware of the manifest universes through the senses, through feelings and through mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Long, Feelings

• To suffer because of anything you see, feel or experience here in the world of moment to moment is a mistake. It is like becoming upset over a frightening dream.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Mistake, Ignorance

• Everything is perception. A hallucination is a perception of a certain reality. It is a perception of a certain state of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Buddhism, Reality

• It's only illusions that destroy us. It's illusions that convince us that we can't. It's the illusions of the transient that tell us that all this matters.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Convince Us, Matter

• Illusions are shadows moving endlessly across the ground. The shadows are quite real but they're shadows. They have very little substance.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Moving, Ignorance

• Unlike the experience of nirvana, traveling to other dimensions will not take you beyond suffering, nor will it help you experience the limitless ecstasy of creation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Suffering, Dimensions

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

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