Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 150

• Life is perception. We perceive through different parts of the body of the universe.

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  Buddhism, Perception, Body

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• Our awareness creates life. Life does not exist independently of perception.

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  Science, Buddhism, Perception

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• Molecules don't have patterns. You create a pattern by the perception of something. The continuity of awareness is your perceptual field. Existence only occurs through the act of perception.

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  Science, Buddhism, Perception

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• Existence is perpetual motion. Galileo wondered about it, Da Vinci.

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  Buddhism, Awareness, Existence

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• Perception not only defines existence but it creates existence. It gives it form. Without perception there is no existence.

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  Buddhism, Giving, Perception

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• There is no continuity at all. The universe isn't any particular way. It strictly depends upon perception.

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  Science, Buddhism, Perception

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• There wasn't a single day in which the world was created. It's created anew at every moment. The structures of eternity are completely fluid but they are bound together by the mind forming a nexus point so reality comes into being.

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  Buddhism, Reality, Mind

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• We go outside, on a clear, cold night. We see millions of stars all over the place, bright and beautiful, each one shining forever. Each moment is forever, it's shining in each moment forever.

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  Beautiful, Stars, Buddhism

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• We connect the dots in the drawing with our mind. We give them a meaning, a figurative sense, which is self-reflexive in that it creates us, because we are the experiencer of the moment.

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  Buddhism, Drawing, Self

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• Our very awareness is the window upon which reality presents itself.

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  Buddhism, Reality, Awareness

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• Who we are varies according to our awareness. When you are more aware, you are someone else than when you are less aware.

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  Buddhism, Who We Are, Awareness

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• Everything is perception. A hallucination is a perception of a certain reality. It is a perception of a certain state of mind.

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  Ignorance, Buddhism, Reality

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• You are an endless conglomeration of awareness. You're not one singular self. You're a corporation.

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  Buddhism, Self, Corporations

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• Inside you is eternity. A human being is not so simple. We're told that we're Ted or Sally or Willie or whatever and that we grow up and have experiences. That has nothing to do with what life is. You are eternity.

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  Growing Up, Buddhism, Simple

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• You think you are somebody and that is where the problem begins. You're really not somebody, you're everybody. You objectify yourself into thinking that you are a particular state of being.

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  Buddhism, Thinking, Problem

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• We live inside our mind. That's all there is. Everything that you experience is not external, it's internal. All your experiences are predicated upon your awareness field.

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  Buddhism, Mind, Fields

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• We are cognizant of time, the sense that there is mutability. Time is change. It's the separation of eternity from itself. When eternity is separated from itself, we see it appear in different forms. Time is not a movement in space. Space is a movement in time.

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  Buddhism, Space, Movement

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• You create time by joining events together. But they don't join together; there's no separativity.

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  Science, Buddhism, Together

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• We cut up time and space and mind and place and being and non-being. We create a world of ideas. This is duality, pairs of apparent opposites.

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  Buddhism, Cutting, Opposites

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• We are taught not to perceive but to avoid direct perceptions of reality and to substitute instead this kind of one-dimensional view of life.

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  Buddhism, Reality, Views

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• Reality does appear to exist, there does appear to be birth, youth, people appear to have children. But all of it's a dream. These are isolated moments that are only connected by perception. There is no separation.

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  Dream, Children, Buddhism

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• Once we have conceived of time and space, once we have accepted their existence, then that implies that there is a structural order to bonding realities.

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  Buddhism, Reality, Order

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• Perception is the ability to be conscious of self and that which is other than self. Without thinking about it, a distinction is made between who we are and what we perceive.

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  Buddhism, Thinking, Self

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• Perception defines everything.

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  Buddhism, Science, Perception

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• If you stay in the attention you are in, then you can predict everything that will happen to you for the rest of your life.

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  Karma, Buddhism, Attention

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