Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 4

• Energy is gained by giving energy. When we give energy, we gain energy. This is different than having someone manipulate you and take your energy.

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  Compassion, Giving, Energy

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• Advanced meditators are not even desirous of liberation anymore - that is just another attachment. There is no liberation. There is no bondage. These are just ideas of the mind.

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  Attachment, Ideas, Mind

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• You can enjoy the ideas of salvation, as long as you realize that there's no one to be saved.

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  Yoga, Ideas, Long

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• Even to the sage who's doing Sahaja Samadhi, the great guru, I'd say: "Hey buddy, you know, I like the robes and everything, but remember, you're only touching infinity. And if you claim to be doing more, I think you're pretty much in the senses and the body and the mind because infinity is endless."

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  Teacher, Thinking, Remember You

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• Everyone meditates in their own way. Some people sit and practice formal mediation techniques for many hours a day while others spontaneously meditate while watching a sunset, listening to music, or participating in athletics.

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  Sunset, Buddhism, Practice

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• When you meditate deeply, you will see beyond life and death. You will see that you can't die and you can't be reborn. You are existence itself.

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  Buddhism, Life And Death, Meditation

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• The way of humanity is to turn everything into a marketable product. But when we turn something into a marketable product it loses something.

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  Humanity, Way, Christianity

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• Chakras are mystical energy centers that exist within the human aura. Tremendous occult power resides in a person's chakras. Siddha masters draw upon that power during meditation, store it within themselves, and later use it to perform miracles.

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  Buddhism, Meditation, Miracle

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

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• In our culture we are taught to be accessible and open; it signifies a good person. In mysticism it is the opposite, people can scan you and drain you.

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  Opposites, People, Culture

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• The thousand petal lotus of light, the crown center, really does not become operative until one is on the verge of enlightenment itself. Then you really don't have to meditate on it. The thousand petals gradually light up.

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  Buddhism, Light, Doe

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• The ecstasy and completion of absorption in God is so fantastic that you can't possibly have lost anything because all the things you've always loved and always experienced came forth from there and exist there and are always there.

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  God, Fantastic, Lost

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• If you are able to stop feeling sorry for yourself, and to contribute to the betterment of this world and of those around us, you will experience a high that is beyond my ability to express.

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  Inspirational, Sorry, Buddhism

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• If someone is in the same state of mind and doesn't seek to block your success, you have a friend. Such friends are rare, and if you find such a friend, value them.

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  Buddhist, Block, Buddhism

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• Let us say your wife, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend makes you happy. If they leave, you're bound to be unhappy. You are the slave of the thing that makes you happy. You are a junkie and human relationships can be expensive habits.

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  Happiness, Girlfriend, Husband

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• In meditation all the fake dull thoughts that you think, all the ridiculous philosophies, the necessities, all the things that won't matter a bit when you are dead - fade away.

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  Philosophy, Buddhism, Thinking

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• Some people say: "There is no God; because, if there was a God, God would stop all the suffering." Nonsense! God is oblivious to suffering. God is beyond suffering. That's what makes God, God, by definition.

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  God, People, Suffering

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• None of this is real. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the pathway to self-knowledge.

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  Real, Acceptance, Self

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• I recommend computer science to people who practice meditation. The mental structures that are used in computer science are very similar exercises done in Buddhist monasteries.

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  Success, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• Just to exist, just to be, to take a breath, to feel that, whether its pleasure or pain, loss or gain, just your experience in life is unique to you. No one sees life like you do.

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  Happiness, Pain, Buddhism

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• In Buddhism we have a great deal of etiquette. Etiquette is simply ways of living to conserve energy. Etiquette allows people to live in harmony with their environment.

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  Buddhist, Buddhism, People

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• When most people see a tree, they don't see a tree at all. They see an idea that they have developed of what a tree is.

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  Buddhism, Ideas, People

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• Computer science really involves the same mindset, particularly artificial intelligence.

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  Science, Computer, Mindset

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• When a person who has had highly evolved past lives is going through a strong past-life transit, that person comes to know things about life, death and other dimensions that most people in our world aren't aware of.

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  Strong, Past, Our World

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

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• The intuitive wisdom that comes from your infinite mind can add to your creativity, success and well-being, and can take you to the threshold of enlightenment.

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  Creativity, Mind, Enlightenment

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• What matters is that they are curious about life, energy, truth, and themselves and that they haven't sold out to the establishment powers that tell us what to think, what to wear, how to behave, what to believe in and what goes beyond the line of rational and irrational thought.

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  Believe, Buddhism, Thinking

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