Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 135

• The pathway to enlightenment is beautiful. There are a lot of wonderful things that happen along the way. Win or lose, you just keep going, and it happens eventually.

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  Beautiful, Buddhist, Winning

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• Beyond learning and unlearning is awareness, and beyond awareness is consciousness, and beyond consciousness is immortality, and beyond immortality is dharma and beyond dharma is nirvana.

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  Buddhist, Consciousness, Awareness

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• Tonight is not the end of the world. This is our hot tip of the evening.

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  Buddhism, Hot, Tonight

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• I don't know how much you know about Zen, but you'll know less when I'm done with you.

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  Buddhism, Done With You, Know How

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• You may have had countless lives, and many more stretching before you, and what else have you got to do with your time?

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  Buddhism, May, Stretching

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• Forever is not an idea or a concept, it is reality. All of the things here come from forever. We call forever nirvana in Zen.

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  Buddhism, Reality, Ideas

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• The mind of the Buddha is perfect because it is empty and yet it contains all things.

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  Buddhism, Perfect, Mind

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• You and I are both life. There's just the experience of every moment. We like to call them moments. There isn't really such a thing. There's just is-ness; there's just eternity.

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  Buddhism, Moments, Eternity

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• There are no words, there's only the possibility of a moment even more incredible a little bit further down the road.

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  Buddhism, Littles, Moments

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• You come back to the beginning. That's why in the "Searching for the Ox" sequence, at the very end of that sequence of the Zen paintings, we're back in the world again.

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  Buddhism, World, Painting

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• The world is filled with people who understand. I personally value people who don't understand. People who understand have nothing more to learn. People who don't understand have hope. Do you understand?

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  Buddhism, People, World

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• I don't think anyone knows why they meditate. As a matter of fact I'm not even sure that we do meditate. All we know is that we don't know.

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  Buddhism, Thinking, Facts

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• A person trying to meditate is doing something that's impossible since meditation is not an action.

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  Buddhism, Meditation, Trying

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• You're not the doer. What's to do? You can't undo what's not done. It's all one anyway, why think about it? But you need to discriminate, so you'd better think about it.

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  Buddhism, Thinking, Needs

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• I'm not exactly sure where we are, but I'm confident of where we're not.

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  Buddhism

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• Stop trying to figure it all. Why worry about it all so much? Why not just live? And then you die. And then you live again, unless, of course, you follow me.

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  Buddhism, Worry, Trying

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• Perfection is not a final state. It is a state of mind. There are ten thousand states of mind.

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  Buddhism, Perfection, Mind

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• The reason you see yourself as a creep is because you have an appreciation of what perfection is, whereas no one else conceives of themselves in that way, since they don't even strive.

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  Appreciation, Buddhism, Perfection

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• What is perfect? From the Zen mind, perfection is not being there.

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  Buddhism, Perfect, Mind

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• When you realize your own emptiness, that will be something, won't it?

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  Buddhism, Emptiness, Realizing

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• Discriminate between the transient and the eternal. Learn to move from complete control to complete abandon.

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  Moving, Buddhism, Abandon

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• The world that you see is like a motion picture. We are engrossed in a film and we have forgotten that we're sitting in a movie theatre.

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  Buddhism, Theatre, Sitting

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• Zen students see themselves as athletes. Their competitive sport is enlightenment; only with enlightenment do we compete.

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  Sports, Athlete, Buddhism

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• There is competition in Zen. Let's not be ridiculous. There is competition in everything in life; being a winner in Zen means, competing and winning in the world of enlightenment.

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  Mean, Buddhism, Winning

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• Thousands and thousands of incarnations and nothing to show for it. You must choose whether to follow the path of love or the path of attachment.

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  Buddhism, Attachment, Path Of Love

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