Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 52

• In this lifetime you can lose everything. Everything passes here.

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  Suffering, Lifetime, Loses

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• Life is just masturbation in a sense, mentally. What people do is they just create a world out of their self-reflection.

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  Reflection, Self, People

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• The time we waste never comes again. The opportunities we miss never come again. The loves we lose never come again. Indeed, in this world of constant change we are fortunate that these things never come again.

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  Opportunity, Missing, Suffering

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• You're in a world of diversity. You see things through a glass darkly. There is a separation everywhere.

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  Glasses, Diversity, Suffering

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• We wait for the fulfillment of our desires. We wait with hope, apathy, resignation, belief. We become despondent, elated. We wait

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  Waiting, Suffering, Desire

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• Most people exist in very clouded states of mind. It's sort of like when you're underwater in a big swimming pool and you open your eyes, and you can't see very far and everything is distorted.

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  Eye, Swimming, People

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• People are so tired. The world is set up to exhaust you and drain you. That's how humankind has devised their world. Life is not necessarily that way

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  Tired, People, Suffering

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• Without enlightenment, everything in life is harsh. Sooner or later you see everyone you love die, unless you die first, of course. This causes you to suffer.

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  Suffering, Enlightenment, Firsts

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

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• Happiness is not freedom. You may become happy tomorrow; but I assure you, your happiness will be smashed by the pains of your body as you age, by the all-encompassing death that swallows up everything and everyone in this world.

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  Pain, Suffering, Age

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• Hell is everything. Heaven is nothing.

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  Heaven, Suffering, Hell

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• Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment. There are joys, of course, and they should be enjoyed. There are sorrows, and they should be passed over briefly.

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  Pain, Joy, Sorrow

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• The things you see are real, but they are not a complete seeing - Samsara.

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  Real, Ignorance, Samsara

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• At this point you are so far away from what you really are, it's ridiculous.

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  Ignorance, Ridiculous, Far Away

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• It's only illusions that destroy us. It's illusions that convince us that we can't. It's the illusions of the transient that tell us that all this matters.

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  Ignorance, Convince Us, Matter

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• Reincarnation is a dance. It is a movement of life to the rhythm of the universe. Spirit and matter join together as one dancing partner. They dance and it goes on forever.

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  Dancing, Forever, Together

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• Bodies come and go, ages come and go, yugas come and go, eternities come and go. Selves come and go.

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  Self, Age, Body

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• Naturally there is reincarnation ... otherwise life would be pretty dull. All the patterns in this lifetime are results from patterns in other lifetimes.

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  Would Be, Dull, Patterns

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• All incarnations are lived at once, and yet there does seem to be a linear sense of time when you're in the vortex of time and space, when your consciousness is fixated in a body.

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  Science, Space, Doe

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• We're not really indigenous to this world, this world being a temporal plane of reality.

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  Reality, World, Reincarnation

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• Our larger body is eternity. Eventually, we return to the source in its undifferentiated form, in its absolute form, which is both form and formlessness, but we exist in that sea all the time.

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  Sea, Body, Return

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• Reincarnation is an apprehension of a movement and the movement occurs in time. Without time, there is no reincarnation. Reincarnation is a reflection of time in this world.

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  Reflection, Movement, World

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• Mind is not simply the collection of aggregate cells inside your brain. If you are only the grey matter, then when that dies, you won't exist any more. It's not that easy. You exist forever.

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  Buddhism, Science, Grey Matter

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• Reincarnation is simply changing awareness. What you are reincarnating into are different states of mind. The whole show is on the inside.

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  Mind, Different, Awareness

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• Reincarnation is a process in which a finite being will go through a series of transmutations and will perceive different things. There will be a continuity of perception.

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  Perception, Different, Reincarnation

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• Most people don't why they are born or why they die. They have no understanding of the forces in life that pull them and push them to their death and another rebirth in this or another world.

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  People, Understanding, World

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