Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 113

• In this lifetime you can lose everything. Everything passes here. But you don't lose any spiritual knowledge that you have gained in this or any other lifetime. It is inside you.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Buddhism

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• We don't live forever. We have a limited energy. You have to determine those things that you direct your energy towards, otherwise you get yourself in too many places and nothing succeeds.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Forever

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• You can get stuck in one state of mind or a general area of mind for a thousand lifetimes. Some states of mind afford better views than others.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Views

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• You're composed of an aggregate of different forms and energies, the samskaras. These are lines within your own being. When you go into samadhi, these lines dissolve gradually so you become less formed.

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  Buddhism, Energy, Different

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• In the Far East, a peasant has no problem that someone can be born from another universe into a human body, walk up to their hut one day and ask for something to eat and transport them into infinite galaxies of awareness.

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  One Day, East, Body

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• The self plays among the waves of existence. It surfaces, it comes up for a while, and then it disappears again.

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  Self, Play, Wave

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• In sanskrit they say: "Tat twam asi" - thou art that. You are God. The bubble of your awareness bursts and you're flooded with immortality.

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  Art, Awareness, Hinduism

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• Everything that you see before you with your physical eyes is an illusion. In other words, you are not seeing correctly. Life is made up of light. But if you are only looking through the senses, it seems solid and physical.

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  Eye, Light, Life Is

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• The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient beings experience this, the endless dance of life, the lila.

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  Pain, Forever, Suffering

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• All of the universes are but phantoms, mirages, and while they have their own essence, their own pantomime - they pass forgotten.

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  Essence, Mirages, Phantoms

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• The perceiver of the dream, the one whom the dream is unfolding before, is what we call the Self.

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  Dream, Self, Hinduism

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• Once you have personally experienced enlightenment, you will see beyond the ocean of death to the everlasting shores of immortality.

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  Ocean, Enlightenment, Hinduism

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

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• The universe is always ecstasy and it's always perfect, but we don't perceive it that well. If we keep doing our yoga in every lifetime, we perceive it more correctly.

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  Yoga, Perfect, Lifetime

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• The planes of light exist. Yoga is a method of unifying the energies of the body, the mind, and the spirit and directing them towards infinity, the planes of light.

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  Yoga, Light, Mind

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• Now, stopping thought is only the beginning. As Brahmananda, who was a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, once remarked: The inner life begins with samadhi. This is an awesome thought, I realize, for the average person who meditates, that it could begin with samadhi.

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  Average, Stopping, Realizing

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• Krishna once said to Arjuna: Consider the past and future with an equal mind, and pass the peanut M&M's.

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  Past, Mind, Arjuna

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• Sri Krishna is said to be an avatar, which is a human way of trying to define very big. That is to say that Sri Krishna is not from the local area network, but he has come from a world that is different because his mind is different.

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  Mind, Trying, Different

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• The void is ready to snatch you up like a Pac Man machine and Laskshmi is on vacation. You chant Sring - and you get her answering machine.

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  Men, Vacation, Machines

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• Gods and goddesses are not what people think they are. Their names are terms with which we try to convey a certain experience, a state of consciousness.

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  Thinking, Names, People

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• Isis, the Egyptian goddess of renewal is symbolized for the Hindus by Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. Brahma is the creator, Vishnu the sustainer, and Shiva the transformer or destroyer - the Cycle of creation.

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  Isis, Shiva, Goddess

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• One path leads back to this world, to rebirth; one path leads beyond. Your soul stands at a crossword, trying to make a decision, flipping a coin, a nice image for the soul, I think.

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  Nice, Thinking, Decision

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• Yoga means we accept responsibility for the tasks in our life, and we know that being a king, being an enlightened teacher, being someone who sweeps the streets, we know that nothing is a greater yoga than anything else.

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  Teacher, Kings, Yoga

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• We live in a world of careers. Work, as Sri Krishna points out in the Bhagavad Gita, is a necessary path for everyone attaining enlightenment. It is something that we all do. Some people work very hard at not working.

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  Careers, People, Enlightenment

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• The road for Arjuna is unexpected. Sri Krishna says you have to face that which you fear the most that which you're most attached to and eliminate it. In this case he has to fight a battle, and the battle is his attachments.

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  Fighting, Attachment, Battle

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• Krishna says, fight. He says, go out on the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill; and whether they were your friends or not, you have to look at the big picture. In the big picture, you can't go kill anybody, you can't be killed.

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  Jobs, Fighting, People

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