Frederick Lenz Quotes About Suffering

• Nirvana isn't a physical place. It is not like going to heaven. It just means no more individualized awareness, no aggregate body of experience.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Buddhism, Heaven

• Nirvana has nothing do with any of this. None of this is there.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Suffering

• When your mind is flooded with the pure light of nirvana, which is happiness itself, you will be delighted with whatever occurs to you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Mind

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

• There are some beings who reach a point where they no longer want to move through the ten thousand states of mind. There is something else. It is beyond subject and object. That is nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Mind

• The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, 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

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