Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 12

• There was a time when you came forth from infinity, your essence that is. You've always existed, and you'll always exist. But there are different states of mind in the universe.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Essence

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• There are many paths that lead to enlightenment. There are lesser enlightenments along the way to a larger enlightenment, referred to sometimes as liberation.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Enlightenment

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• There are dark forces in the world that would have you believe that you can't succeed and that you're a failure and that you're evil and all this nonsense.

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  Inspirational, Believe, Buddhism

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• One day you wake up and you decide you want to be different. You want a different life. You are tired of your old life. This is the truth. You will a change.

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  Inspirational, Tired, Buddhism

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• Most people are fragile. They're fragile in the sense that they're afraid of the unknown, so they cling to each other. They cling to families, traditions, ways of seeing life that protect them from the immensity of the unknown

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, People

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• A lot of people have this live or die attitude with mediation. It has to be all or nothing. I don't think it should be. It's a study that you follow for the rest of your life.

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  Attitude, Buddhism, Thinking

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• We are like an atomic structure. We've got a causal body that's linked together.

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  Buddhism, Together, Body

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• Just as the subtle physical body holds together the physical body, the causal body holds together the body of awareness.

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  Buddhism, Together, Body

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• Just as the DNA is a structure of double helical bonds, so your being is a structure of elements, not physical elements, but awarenesses that have come together in a ring of power.

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  Buddhism, Dna, Together

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• The more lives you have, the harder it is to change, yet the stronger you are. It's a kind of funny dichotomy.

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  Buddhism, Stronger, Kind

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• When I talk about subtle bodies, causal bodies and things like that, it is a good idea not to take it all completely literally. It cannot be put into words.

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  Buddhism, Ideas, Body

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• A very advanced master can glow so strongly that you see divine in them. You look into them and you see infinity constantly changing, evolving and radiating in new forms.

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  Looks, Infinity, Hinduism

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• Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization.

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  Dream, Self, Realization

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• We want to know what our self is. We are the sky. Our thoughts are the birds that come and go. You can enjoy the birds and their beauty, but it is the sky that lasts.

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  Self, Sky, Bird

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• Love is perhaps the strongest force in the universe. When you meditate with love, what you do is you feel love. Love is like a bird, you get on its back and you ride it up very high above the thought level.

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  Love Is, Bird, Levels

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• Dogs have fleas; people have each other. We are born to die. Life is a continuing tragic comedy. Everything and everyone we love suffers. Anybody who doesn't see that has not grown up and known life.

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  Dog, People, Suffering

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• The stars in the sky last for billions of years. That's nothing to the mind, nothing. It's an instant, a millisecond. The mind shines radiantly forever. But we don't see the shine because of the clutter.

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  Stars, Ignorance, Years

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• We pass through hundreds, thousands, perhaps millions of existences. In each lifetime, we're exploring another part of our own self, which is eternity.

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  Self, Lifetime, Eternity

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• The essence of Buddhism is simply that the mind is forever. We are always experiencing different states of mind in one form or another, in one body or another, in one life or another, forever.

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  Buddhism, Essence, Forever

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• Only one who has achieved immortality of awareness can laugh with life and laugh with death.

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  Death, Laughing, Awareness

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• When you are enlightened and have united your mind with the deepest and most ancient part of the mind of the universe, you are not affected by suffering the way other people are.

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  People, Mind, Suffering

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

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• Anyone who seeks enlightenment is going to encounter opposition, whether it is from their society or from non-physical forces or friends or whatever it is. Be strong enough to go through that and win.

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  Strong, Winning, Enlightenment

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• Some people are drawn to meditation without knowing why. Their inner being realizes that they've totally fouled up their life so far, and now it's just going to drag them to the local meditation hall.

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  Buddhism, Knowing, People

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• A saint is someone who has been very selfless and, over a period of lifetimes, generated a tremendous amount of good karma, which has caused them to enter into very lovely states of mind.

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  Karma, Mind, Lovely

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• Then on the other piece of paper, list all the people you know who are taking more than they're adding. Include people from the past.

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  Past, People, Pieces

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