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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• None of this exists. All important decisions in the universe occur someplace else.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Decision, Important

• Personality is a manifestation of ego. Ego is the central sense of separateness that a person has from the rest of the universe. Personality is the form that that separateness take.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Personality, Ego

• There is illusion, the way you see things now, thinking that there is a tomorrow, there is a today, there is time and that there is life and death. Those are just appearances

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Thinking, Life And Death

• An enlightened person doesn't know it all. Enlightenment simply means walking beyond this and all worlds into nirvana, which is beyond knowledge and ignorance.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Ignorance, Mean

• I can assure you, as a practitioner of Buddhism, that there are ten thousand states of mind, at least, give or take a few billion.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Buddhism, Other Worlds

• The idea of self is dependent upon attraction, aversion and memory. Memory is simply a serial account of attractions and aversions that don't exist now except in imagination.

  Frederick Lenz

  Memories, Ignorance, Self

• Reality is not the world as you perceive it. Reality is the world perceived through enlightenment. It's the same world; but it's not the same world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Reality, Enlightenment

• I don't think you see your minds. I think you see your thoughts; you see your desires; you see your relatives, friends, lovers, enemies. I don't think you see your mind. You think of the mind as the clutter.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Thinking, Mind

• The things you see are real, but they are not a complete seeing - Samsara.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Ignorance, Samsara

• This solidity is not true. The apparent solidity is the delusion of the senses and of the self. Everything is made up of infinite, intelligent light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Intelligent, Light

• All the manifest forms of existence are but illusions. They are momentary displays of consciousness, flashes of lightening in the sky. They are there for a moment and then they are gone.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Sky, Gone

• You're standing in a closet, and you've been in it so long that you can't remember that there's anything else, that there's a huge house with lots of rooms and there are lands outside the house and planets and universes and creations

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Buddhism, Land

• 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

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