Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 17

• All of the exoteric teachings are only designed to give you the type of life that will allow you to practice the esoteric teachings.

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  Teaching, Practice, Giving

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• The absorption in nirvana is all that matters. All the strategies of your life are only there to empower you for your final assault on the impenetrable cliffs of forever.

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  Empowering, Forever, Finals

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• The Divide is like two rivers merging, at the point of merging there is a great deal of activity. The sunset, it's neither dark nor light, and the sunrises are the moments of transition.

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  Sunset, Buddhism, Dark

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• Simply because you can perform feats of power does not mean you are, in the classical sense, fully enlightened. It means that you have mastered a few aspects of the mystical kundalini. That's all it means.

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  Mean, Buddhism, Doe

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• Meditation is a practice of detaching and then stopping ourselves from thinking; our thoughts are interruptions in the flow of awareness. Consciousness, in its highest aspect, is perfect and formless.

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  Buddhism, Thinking, Practice

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• I like to shop. I don't always buy things when I shop, but I think it's fun to go out and look at the worlds of colors. I love to roam through supermarkets. I am a great lover of household products. I particularly like the packaging of cereal boxes.

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  Fun, Thinking, Cereal

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• If you really want to channel all of your energy towards higher mysticism, you should realize that sex does drain a certain amount of your occult energy.

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  Sex, Energy, Doe

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• Stress is a state of mind and if you realize that you will find that it's something you can deal with. It is my belief that stress occurs not because of the conditions of the world.

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  Stress, Buddhism, Meditation

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• Yoga means we go a step further back. In yoga we go to the cause. The cause of pain is not the world. The cause of pain is us.

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  Pain, Yoga, Mean

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• You're bound by the frame. You've become so engrossed in the movie of your life that you have forgotten that you're sitting there watching.

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  Inspirational, Ignorance, Buddhism

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• Prana is an element of energy. Energy is a manifestation of a certain principle which in Indian cosmology they call shakti, or spiritual power. Don't worry about the words too much.

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  Spiritual, Buddhism, Worry

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• You have to elevate yourself to that point and bring your mind into the Godhead, into nirvana, into that perfect and pure radiant knowledge. It will not come to you. It never does.

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  Perfect, Mind, Doe

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• To have the detached eye of the occultist, to look outward, to not be so self-reflective and to learn to step through the various viewpoints of consciousness - that we call occultism - leads to freedom.

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  Eye, Self, Looks

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• I examine each student carefully: Is there a balance between their tonal and their nagual?

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  Buddhism, Balance, Students

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• Chaos theory simply suggests that what appears to most people as chaos is not really chaotic, but a series of different types of orders with which the human mind has not yet become familiar.

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  Buddhism, Science, Order

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• Ecstasy should not be viewed as an unusual experience, but rather a natural experience - feeling all of the living matrix of existence around us.

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  Happiness, Buddhism, Feelings

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• One aspect of power is to bring our past-life awareness into this lifetime. The second aspect of power is to go into new fields of awareness that we have never experienced.

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  Power, Past, Fields

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• You have to free yourself from your mental conditioning through association with the holy, through doing good works, through meditating, through laughter, through love and through solitude.

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  Laughter, Solitude, Association

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• People who are advanced meditators don't worry about liberation and self-realization; they instead are interested in the welfare of others and aiding others in their liberation.

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  Buddhist, Buddhism, Self

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• Have the right attitude in advanced practice. Feel that you are always a beginner in Zen. They refer to it as "beginners mind". I feel I am a beginner, always; because it's true.

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  Attitude, Buddhism, Practice

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• Beyond this world, beyond other worlds, be they inter-dimensional worlds or physical worlds, there is something else, which is the vast unknown eternity.

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  Buddhism, Other Worlds, Eternity

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• If a person sets out to practice meditation in this lifetime and they have a little bit of spiritual evolution behind them and they're quite dedicated, it really is not at all an impossible task to enter into salvakalpa samadhi in this particular lifetime.

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  Spiritual, Practice, Meditation

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• Nothing lasts forever - except forever. That's the good news. It's a good thing that nothing lasts forever because things would get terribly boring.

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  Buddhism, Forever, News

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• The chakra is a doorway. These are doorways that lead you into other dimensions. But you have to focus on them to the exclusion of everything else.

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  Buddhism, Focus, Doorways

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• The pathway to enlightenment is happiness. It doesn't really matter if you're successful, if you're in prison, if you're dying - if you have contact with light.

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  Happiness, Buddhism, Successful

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