Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 104

• Life is not dependent upon our classifications and our categories, our science. But we are. We find it interesting and helpful.

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  Buddhism, Science, Interesting

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• One function of the intellect is to catalog. But cataloging doesn't change anything. If we call it a rose, or by any other name, it still smells as sweet. The name doesn't really matter. It is convenient for us.

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  Sweet, Buddhism, Science

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• A categorization implies a hierarchical way of seeing things. Life is really relational, not hierarchical. Hierarchical is a human way of looking at things. Relational is much more the way things are. Everything is connected.

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  Buddhism, Science, Way

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• In reality, as any physicist will tell you, the physical world is made up of moving energy. All matter is energy.

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  Moving, Buddhism, Science

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

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• The world glows all the time. All of the things that you have come to understand aren't. The greatest thinkers in the world see very little compared to the enlightened.

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  Buddhism, Science, World

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• There's no way we can possibly understand anything. But we can see things, we can perceive things, and we can wonder. We can just be in a world of awe and wonder. That's the best we can do.

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  Buddhism, Science, Awe And Wonder

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• Things are not necessarily logical. Logic is a secondary source reference. Everything is what it is. We have decided to apply rationale to things. It makes us feel better.

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  Buddhism, Feel Better, Science

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• The body is a very low level machine language. The language of the soul, of the mind, is much more evolved.

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  Buddhism, Science, Soul

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• To think the universe is only composed of the physical universe is to be rather shortsighted.

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  Buddhism, Science, Thinking

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• The shortest distance between two points is your mind. It's not a straight line.

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  Distance, Buddhism, Science

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• There is only eternity. That's our real body. The stars are our blanket. Time doesn't even exist, except in our own minds.

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  Stars, Real, Buddhism

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• There is no time. There is no space. There is no condition. There is only awareness, awareness of these ideas.

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  Buddhism, Science, Ideas

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• Time is a convenient filing system human beings have devised to segregate their experiences.

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  Buddhism, Science, Filing

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• A surfer is poised on a wave on his board, cutting quickly to the left. He'll always be there, in that moment. He's never left it. He had no birth, he didn't go to school, he didn't purchase the board; none of those things ever were.

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  School, Buddhism, Cutting

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• Time is not a movement in space. Space is a movement in time.

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  Buddhism, Science, Space

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• Time does not really exist as we know it; rather it's a transfiguration of a concept in which mortality, mutability, is conditioned.

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  Buddhism, Science, Doe

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• I would suggest to you that at this moment you are the only self that you have ever had; you've never had a childhood; there wasn't a five-minute-ago time.

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  Buddhism, Science, Self

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• Nothing is distinct and separate.

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  Buddhism, Science

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• Words are inaccurate pointers to reality and should by no means be trusted.

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  Mean, Buddhism, Science

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• Thoughts can increase our understanding of a subject, or they can just as easily constrict or block our understanding of a subject. It very much depends upon the language we are thinking in.

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  Block, Buddhism, Science

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

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• Language is the medium of our thoughts.

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  Buddhism, Science, Language

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

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• Grammar has qualities, shapes and forms.

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  Buddhism, Science, Quality

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• As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect indicative - ridiculous. It has qualities, shadings, differentiations, rhythmic structures of symbolic meaning.

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  Buddhism, Science, Past

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• Intelligence is something that is not just thinking, it's feeling. Ultimately, the highest reflection of intelligent life is cooperative life in which all benefit.

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  Buddhism, Science, Reflection

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• We are intelligent atoms. We are intelligent organic structures. We can change who we are. We can heal ourselves. With genetic engineering, we are considering changing the physiological structure of the body.

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  Buddhism, Science, Intelligent

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