Frederick Lenz Quotes About Suffering

• Nirvana bears no resemblance to anything in your current perceptual field.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Suffering, Fields

• Nirvana is a state of perpetual bliss and ecstasy, unaffected by the transient ups and downs of its own creations.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Suffering, Bliss

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

• Unlike the transient days of our lives that constantly come and go, nirvana has always been, is now, and always will be.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Suffering, Comes And Goes

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

• Beyond all of this is something else, perfection; not just as an ideation, but as a living reality. Even though it may just be an idea for you, hold that idea in your mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, Ideas

• Beyond the world of thought and sensorial impressions, there are planes and dimensions of perfect light, knowledge, and radiant perfection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Perfect

• There is a way to reach enlightenment and get beyond suffering.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Suffering, Enlightenment

• We could take all the pleasures that have ever been and will ever be in all the universes and add them up into one experience. If you were absorbed in nirvana, it wouldn't be noticed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Suffering, Add

• Somewhere there is an essence. It is not a physical somewhere. There is no sense of world, of time and space. That is nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Space, Essence

• Only the enlightened are consistently happy. Their happiness is not predicated upon the events and experiences that take place in this world. Instead it is based on the boundless inner energy they gain from their connection with the world of enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Suffering, Enlightenment

• In Nirvana, it is you, my friend, who goes away. You take an eraser and erase yourself. It's like the Road Runner cartoons where in the middle of the cartoon, the hand of the artist appears on the screen and erases the Road Runner.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Artist, Hands

• Universes collide and conjoin inside us and beyond all is nirvana, the final, absolute resting place of the soul.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Soul, Suffering

• Another condition can be attained ... a condition of ecstasy. A condition so far from what the people of planet Earth experience it's not even discussable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Suffering

• You are going around on the wheel again and again. You go around and around from lifetime to lifetime. You never quite wake up. Enlightenment is waking up.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Suffering, Enlightenment

• At the beginning and the middle and the end of all things, there is only the perfection of enlightenment that is nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perfection, Suffering

• When you draw from the endless awareness of nirvana, you are no longer a slave to fortune. When pleasant experiences come your way, you can enjoy them. But if pain and misfortune befall you, you can rise above them and remain unaffected.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Buddhism, Suffering

• There are two worlds, the world of desire and the world of enlightenment. The world of enlightenment doesn't go anywhere. It is endless, luminous perfection. The world of desire leads to more desire.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Two, Perfection

• Who has that perfect faith and trust? Only such a person with that faith and trust can be enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perfect, Suffering

• The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world, always spinning.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Buddhism, Space

• We have this recurring dream that we're human beings, that we have bodies, that we're in time and space, that there is birth and death. To awaken from the dream of life is to be conscious of eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Buddhism, Space

• Nothing is distinct and separate. The waves of the ocean arise and have a separate birth, crashing on the shore, but then back into the ocean they go. They never left it. There is no movement in Nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ocean, Buddhism, Suffering

• The attainment of enlightenment makes you happy forever. It frees you from the mental and emotional pains that human beings experience every day. You live in a condition of ecstasy, brightness and joy all of the time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Buddhism, Emotional

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

• The experience of going to the other side to nirvana clarifies and simplifies your view of all things. You see the world with greater clarity, because it is not obscured by illusions.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Views, Suffering

• We are all incarnate Buddhas. We just have not realized it deeply. We have not moved the mind - what our friend Don Juan calls the assemblage point.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mind, Suffering

• Look at the big picture of the wheel of life. Above it, there is a Buddha. He is pointing, not towards the wheel, but away from it. He is indicating that there is something else - nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Suffering, Looks

• Liberation means no rebirth. Now, does that mean you don't reincarnate? Well, you never did reincarnate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Buddhism, Suffering

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