Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 59

• There's not really a whole lot you could say about liberation. The closest experience you can have of it is to come meditate with someone who is liberated.

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  Enlightenment, Liberation, Whole

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• Enlightenment is a lot like dying. You might wonder why there aren't more enlightened people. It is because they are afraid to die.

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  People, Dying, Enlightenment

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• Enlightened teachers and people who help them, have a lot of trouble. People try to interfere with the work and spread awful rumors about you.

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  Teacher, People, Rumor

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• Most enlightened people can do miracles. Some have powers, some don't. Some people who have developed powers aren't enlightened.

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  People, Miracle, Enlightenment

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• What is enlightenment, anyway? I don't know if I can really put it into words, perhaps you can. I can't.

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  Enlightenment, Knows, Ifs

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• To be enlightened means that you really don't change, and yet you're nothing but change.

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  Mean, Enlightenment, Enlightened

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• Enlightenment is getting off the wheel. Enlightenment is to become pure awareness.

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  Enlightenment, Wheels, Awareness

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• There is no final stage in nirvana. Nirvana is beyond definition. It is not quantifiable.

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  Enlightenment, Finals, Definitions

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• It is the way it is. But it is not the way it appears to be. Enlightenment.

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  Enlightenment, Way

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• You have to become that infinite formless creation, which is life, to know it. It cannot be known in an intellectual sense. That is enlightenment.

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  Intellectual, Enlightenment, Infinite

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• It is not special to be enlightened, just different. An enlightened person is someone who has dedicated not just this lifetime but thousands of lifetimes to becoming awareness.

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  Special, Enlightenment, Different

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• What the enlightened person sees no one could ever tell or describe. Wonder beyond belief. We live in a universe filled with wonder. It is wonder just to live.

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  Enlightenment, Belief, Wonder

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• People think that if you are enlightened you are not in touch with the pulse of the physical. Au contraire! The higher you go, the deeper you become, and the more conscious you are of the physical and the sensorial.

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  Thinking, People, Enlightenment

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• How could being the entire cosmos and all of its wonder and all of its stages and cycles, and yet being that which is beyond them all, the invisible, be extinction? Extinction? The extinction of what, of whom? How can that which has never been be extinguished?

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  Buddhism, Suffering, Enlightenment

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• We have to leave everything we have been, a perceiver, "I" as an individual. That is enlightenment.

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  Enlightenment, Individual, Has Beens

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• Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting your awareness, your mind.

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  Book, Reading, Self

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• There is a still point in eternity. There is a still point where all things intersect. There is a still point beyond life, time, and death. Your experience of the still point is enlightenment.

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  Enlightenment, Eternity, Life Time

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• It is called enlightenment, nirvana, God, truth, call it what you will. There is no activity other than the eternal activities of the universe, perfect being, the awareness of all suchness, knowledge.

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  Perfect, Enlightenment, Awareness

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• Light by its very nature is endless. Therefore you can never say you've had the ultimate experience in light - it goes on forever.

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  Light, Forever, Goes On

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• Once you have mastered the ten thousand states of mind, it's paranirvana, the absorption into the stillness forever.

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  Forever, Mind, Enlightenment

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• Enlightenment doesn't occur by accident. It is a deliberate decision that someone makes again and again. It is something you grow into and develop in.

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  Decision, Enlightenment, Grows

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• Nirvana is a step beyond. You dissolve into the universe. The universe dissolves into you until there is no longer a difference. There is no sense of individual self as perceiver.

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  Self, Differences, Enlightenment

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• There is no movement in Nirvana. There is no sameness. And one does not consider it to be timeless because one is not one. It is you, my friend, who go away.

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  Buddhism, Suffering, Going Away

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• We've decided what we are. That's the dream. When the dream fades, it's not that we don't exist. How could we not exist since we never existed?

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  Dream, Enlightenment, Fades

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• We erase ourselves; we go away. But we don't really go away, and we don't really erase ourselves, since we were never there to begin with. We weren't there to begin with in that what we are, or conceive of ourselves as, is a perception.

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  Perception, Going Away, Enlightenment

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