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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• We fall into states of illusion - we forget all this. We get caught up in desires, frustrations, political movements, philosophies, religions, the getting of a living, the pain of a body, the pleasure of a body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Philosophy, Fall

• Whenever you are in a perceptual field, it seems like it's ultimate. It's a self-wrapping consciousness. There doesn't seem or appear to be anything else other than the attention field that you're in.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Buddhism, Self

• Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see is an illusion.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Growth, Decay

• The samsara is the sense of self. I've had past experiences. I'm aware of the moment. I will have future experiences.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Past, Self

• At the moment you're suffering from what we call Maya. Maya is illusion. Maya is a Sanskrit word that suggests that we have forgotten. We've forgotten the purpose of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Suffering, Purpose

• Samsara is the world appearance, the cycle of rebirth, the physically manifest universes and states of mind that you perceive through the medium of ego.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Ego, Mind

• 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

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