Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 15

• Chakras really are dimensions. We think of them as objects, but they're not really. They're dimensional access points, whereby we can enter into different levels of mind, and that happens automatically.

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  Buddhism, Thinking, Mind

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• When you have grown accustomed to sitting and meditating, try to stop your thoughts. That's the bottom line in meditative practice.

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  Practice, Trying, Lines

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• Reincarnation is a cyclic process. There are endless levels of creation, different universes. In each one something similar is taking place, the evolution of spirit through matter.

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  Different Universes, Levels, Matter

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• Seeing occurs, of course, through stopping thought. Thought is the fog. When thought stops in meditation, at any point, when there's no thought, we see the other shore.

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  Fog, Meditation, Stopping

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• One day the play ends and the screen goes blank. There is nothing. Everything returns to its original formlessness - and then another dream begins.

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  Dream, Play, One Day

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• The idea is easy to understand. All of life is a dream. You have dreamed everything that you are and everything you are aware of.

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  Dream, Ideas, Life Is

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• Happiness does not mean that everything works out. Usually nothing works out, but you get a kick out of it anyway.

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  Happiness, Mean, Buddhism

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• Real samadhi is off the game board, friends. It is not something you are even aware of.

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  Real, Games, Boards

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• Someone who really wants to discover themselves has to be particularly careful about the use and abuse of power. But even your average human being just passing through another life has to be careful.

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  Buddhism, Average, Abuse

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• Mindfulness is paying attention to what is going on. Just look at beauty. Not just the beauty of things you see with your eyes, but beautiful feelings, beautiful awareness. There is no such thing as reality. Reality is what you make it.

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  Beautiful, Eye, Buddhism

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• Spiritual knowledge is the experience of enlightenment, and requires an understanding of the inner-most workings of the enlightenment cycle.

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  Spiritual, Understanding, Enlightenment

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

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• Through incarnations, some beings do go down. That is to say, they forget. The soul falls into an eclipse of itself and there is a downward progression for a time.

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  Fall, Soul, Forget

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• Attraction and aversion create a sense of self. There is no self. They are just thoughts. They are insubstantial. When you die, all the ideas of self will go away.

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  Death, Self, Ideas

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• Most people make their choices predicated upon a feeling because analysis really isn't that good a tool.

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  People, Choices, Feelings

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• A strong onslaught of the nagual would upset your balance completely.

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  Strong, Buddhism, Upset

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• Nirvikalpa Samadhi means that you've gone off the board; you've gone off the map. There is no way to describe it. You have attained liberation and are no longer bound by the cycle of existence. You just are, and yet you're not, at the same time.

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  Mean, Boards, Gone

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• I used to live in Seattle, as did Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Lee. I lived near the arboretum. Very often I would take walks late at night by Lake Washington, because I found it very easy to meditate there.

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  Buddhism, Night, Lakes

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• If you think you are a vile slime, that means that you aspire to something higher...It's because you have a sense of perfection, and you obviously want that, that you find something wrong.

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  Inspirational, Mean, Buddhism

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• The ghetto is not where you live. The ghetto is inside your mind. And anyone who tells you that you can't get out of the ghettos of your own mind has no idea what they're talking about.

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  Inspirational, Ghetto, Buddhism

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• The abuse of power takes happiness away.

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  Buddhism, Abuse, Abuse Of Power

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• The burden you are carrying around is the burden of self. You seek release from that. You want to let it all go. You want to forget who you are and what you are. You wish to be the whole universe, infinite, endless.

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  Ignorance, Self, Wish

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• If we view the universe as other than what we are, we are everything we don't perceive.

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  Buddhism, Views, Awareness

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• The first stage of meditation is simply to ignore thought; to become conscious that there is something beyond thought.

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  Meditation, Firsts, Conscious

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• In Zen we classify ten thousand different states of mind, different ways of seeing life. There is something beyond the ten thousand states of mind that we call nirvana.

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  Mind, Different, Way

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• If the world does not shine brightly, even just the physical, sensual perception after meditation, you have not meditated. You have sat and thought of things that were not real.

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  Real, Shining, Meditation

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