Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 176

• The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world, always spinning.

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  Pain, Buddhism, Space

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• Look at the big picture of the wheel of life. Above it, there is a Buddha. He is pointing, not towards the wheel, but away from it. He is indicating that there is something else - nirvana.

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  Buddhism, Suffering, Looks

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• Nirvana is the other side, the source of all things, where all the aggregates come from, where the templates of infinity are.

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  Buddhism, Suffering, Sides

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• Nirvana isn't a physical place. It is not like going to heaven. It just means no more individualized awareness, no aggregate body of experience.

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  Mean, Buddhism, Heaven

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• Nirvana bears no resemblance to anything in your current perceptual field.

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  Buddhism, Suffering, Fields

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• We could take all the pleasures that have ever been and will ever be in all the universes and add them up into one experience. If you were absorbed in nirvana, it wouldn't be noticed.

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  Buddhism, Suffering, Add

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• You are going around on the wheel again and again. You go around and around from lifetime to lifetime. You never quite wake up. Enlightenment is waking up.

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  Buddhism, Suffering, Enlightenment

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• Liberation means no rebirth. Now, does that mean you don't reincarnate? Well, you never did reincarnate.

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  Mean, Buddhism, Suffering

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• Nirvana is outside the fun house. You are walking around in the fun house forever.

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  Fun, Buddhism, House

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• From my own personal encounters and studies with both Tantric and Zen Buddhist monks, I have found them to be humorous, warm, charming, and compassionate.

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  Buddhist, Humorous, Encounters

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• Humor enables us to deal with and overcome many of the most painful and difficult situations in our lives.

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  Buddhist, Difficult Situations, Overcoming

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• The essence of all practice is to be cool. Life is not worth getting excited about because whatever you perceive is an illusion.

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  Buddhist, Essence, Practice

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• The essential premise of Buddhism is that there is enlightenment, there is nirvana. Beyond this world, beyond all worlds, there's something radiant, perfect and eternal.

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  Buddhist, Buddhism, Perfect

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• Even though it's not perceivable to the mind or senses, it's there and enlightenment is absolute freedom.

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  Buddhist, Mind, Enlightenment

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• Buddhism isn't about temples, and incense, and shaved heads, and robes. It's not about church. There are aspects of Buddhism that involve that. People enjoy that, it helps them, it strengthens their practice.

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  Buddhist, Buddhism, Practice

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• The Buddha gave his first talks, and three or four ascetics became his first disciples. They recognized his enlightenment.

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  Buddhist, Enlightenment, Firsts

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• Over a period of years he collected thousands of discples. Many became his students. Many didn't become his students but whenever he was in town they would go and see him.

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  Buddhist, Years, Towns

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• Some tried to kill him; there were assassination attempts. Some hated him ... this is par for the course.

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  Buddhist, Hated, Cosmology

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• A time comes when it isn't enough to read about Buddha, we wish to have that happen to ourselves. That's when we move from the exoteric to the esoteric, from religion to mysticism.

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  Buddhist, Moving, Wish

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• Love is the chariot of emotion which takes us to our beloved. When we love we see beyond the prism of illusion.

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  Buddhism, Love Is, Emotion

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• When we love others we see our oneness with others.

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  Buddhism, Oneness, Sexuality

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• I love so and so, how can I let go of them? You don't have to. You do whatever you chose. What you think, you become. Your thoughts are strongly affected by those you are emotionally open to.

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  Letting Go, Buddhism, Thinking

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