Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 62

• The truly enlightened are not necessarily very religious. Religon is a convienent description to take care of our fears, to passify us.

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  Teacher, Religious, Care

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• Perpetual wakefulness doesn't mean you have all physical knowledge, that you can speak all languages, that you can fix cars...that is a storybook, Hollywood version of the enlightenment experience.

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  Teacher, Mean, Car

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• The enlightened teacher is someone who has become absorbed in eternity. While they may have a body like others, the essence of their being is light.

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  Teacher, Light, Essence

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• Sometimes beings come forth from that realmless realm. Light incarnates and wanders around through the samsara, kind of looking at itself in various countless forms. We call beings that come from that realm "enlightened".

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  Teacher, Light, Kind

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• There are beings who come into this world, from time to time, not simply with miraculous powers, which we call the siddhas, but with a miraculous awareness that is so strong yet so subtle that anyone or anything that touches that awareness is transformed forever.

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  Teacher, Strong, Forever

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• An enlightened master is a perpetual source of the cosmic light because his mind is always merged with nirvana.

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  Teacher, Light, Mind

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

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• The teacher is not a person; they're a field of energy. They're a series of levels of attention. While they have a body and appear to be there, they're not.

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  Teacher, Fields, Energy

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• If you ever want to study acting you should be around an enlightened person for a while, because all they do is play roles, since they no longer have a self.

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  Teacher, Play, Self

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• They just teach by their presence. They don't really have a message for humanity. It's irrelevant at that point. They're just a fluid, perfect embodiment of what we call the dharmakaya or the enlightenment of nirvana .

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  Teacher, Perfect, Humanity

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• True teachers of enlightenment are hard to find. The popular ones, of course, usually aren't enlightened because how could they be? They just tell people what they want to hear.

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  Teacher, People, Enlightenment

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• Good teachers are not known for telling you what you want to hear, and consequently they're rarely popular because they tend to offend people on a regular basis by their mere presence on earth.

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  Teacher, People, Want

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• A real enlightened teacher is intense and they could care less what you think about anything at any time since you are lost in illusions.

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  Teacher, Real, Thinking

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• Advanced Teachers always forgive. It is inevitable that anyone who seek knowledge and power will make many mistakes.

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  Teacher, Mistake, Knowledge And Power

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• An enlightened teacher has personal power. Sitting and meditating with an enlightened teacher in a meditation hall or at a power spot can change you forever.

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  Teacher, Buddhism, Meditation

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• To encounter such a being is considered the ultimate karmic blessing in the sense that your life will be so configured that every single variant problematic karma will surface, which means you have the opportunity of passing through them all correctly, going over the ocean of the samsara and reaching nirvana yourself.

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  Karma, Teacher, Ocean

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• Human beings have illusions. The enlightened don't have illusions. They see things as they are, and in that seeing, they see ecstasy and joy. They see the play of life.

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  Teacher, Play, Joy

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• An enlightened person doesn't know it all. Enlightenment simply means walking beyond this and all worlds into nirvana, which is beyond knowledge and ignorance.

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  Teacher, Ignorance, Mean

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• Even enlightened people think of themselves as beginners. They probably think of themselves as beginners more than others do - perpetual beginners who begin again each moment because their subject is endless.

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  Teacher, Thinking, People

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• Imagine for a moment that you were God. Not God as a man or woman, but God as the awareness of all life. To be that in physical form is to be an enlightened person.

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  Teacher, Men, Imagine

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• When you are enlightened, your physical body will still feel pain if you get hurt, but you will not be overwhelmed even by extreme physical pain, because your mind is filled with light, love and understanding.

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  Teacher, Hurt, Pain

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

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• Some souls attain enlightenment. No one knows why. You could say it is individual inclination. I'm not convinced that's the case.

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  Teacher, Soul, Enlightenment

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• In this whole world, there are actually very few people who study meditation with an enlightened master. This is because there are not very many enlightened masters on the entire earth.

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  Teacher, People, Meditation

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

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• If you are a student of an enlightened master, you can literally tap into his aura, anywhere and at anytime. All you have to do is meditate on your Buddhist master and the light will come into your mind.

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  Teacher, Buddhist, Light

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

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• A person who wants to progress more rapidly and wishes to overcome unhappiness sooner, should try to find an enlightened master.

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  Teacher, Wish, Progress

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

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• No one on this earth attains enlightenment anymore without an enlightened master as a guide, unless that person was enlightened in many previous incarnations.

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  Teacher, Enlightenment, Earth

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

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