Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 73

• There is no self. There is nobody home. No forwarding address, no zip code. Address unknown.

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  Home, Self, Addresses

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• There is no such thing as reality. Reality is what you make it.

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  Reality, Nothingness

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• Nirvana is something that cannot be known here. I know it seems incongruous, but it is only incongruous from the perspective of the dialectical consciousness of division, of time and space

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  Space, Perspective, Division

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• So in the world of Enlightenment, things are just things, except they're not things. We're in nirvana. There is no debating team.

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  Team, Enlightenment, World

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• We label things through value systems that we have developed. But nothing is or is not unless we feel it is that way. We give ground to reality by creating it.

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  Reality, Creating, Giving

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• Nirvana is a very exclusive club - no one is in it.

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  Clubs, Exclusive, Nothingness

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• The life of meditation and religious study is absolutely no guarantee of peak moments. Most people involved in religious study and meditation are downright bored, and they're as stuck in what they do as everyone else is.

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  Religious, People, Bored

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• On the pathway that leads to enlightenment, only your heart can tell you what is right.

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  Heart, Enlightenment, Pathways

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• Being on the path means we again meditate with joy. We deal with the suffering of life and the pain of existence without perfect enlightenment with a smile.

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  Pain, Mean, Perfect

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• We could go to monasteries. I could show you people who are very wise and they have great willpower, but they're not happy. They lack balance. They take it all too seriously.

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  Wise, People, Balance

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• In Buddhism balance is the most difficult thing, because it is overlooked.

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  Buddhism, Balance, Intention

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• Don't think of us as separate beings. Imagine that we are one body and it's been split into millions. When we sit in the mediation hall - that is unity

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  Thinking, Unity, Body

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• You human beings think that yoga is in some way going to make everything you want to happen, work out. You are going to be able to avoid what you don't want. That is not yoga. That is desire and aversion.

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  Yoga, Thinking, Work Out

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• Intentional suffering and the postponement of happiness is not yoga or Buddhism. It will not lead to a better incarnation.

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  Yoga, Buddhism, Suffering

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• Don't create a plastic image of what it is to be spiritual and try to become it. You won't be capable of it and that will frustrate you. Even if you could do it, if it's not really what you're like, you'll be miserable.

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  Spiritual, Trying, Miserable

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• Learn to accept the transitory nature of existence of the body and the mind; see eternity in everything, this world, the other worlds, and nirvana.

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  Other Worlds, Mind, Body

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• In order not to lose your resolve and purpose, you need to unite with others of like mind and work with an advanced Teacher who is in touch with, and can transfer, knowledge and power.

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  Teacher, Knowledge And Power, Order

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• Your journey is to see how deeply you can interface your mind with infinity. That's the journey of a monk - to see.

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  Journey, Mind, Infinity

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• Gaining energy is accomplished by meditating, by right actions, right thoughts, right deeds, by studying with a real teacher or by just studying the teachings, by creating happiness in your life, and by never giving up.

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  Teacher, Giving Up, Real

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• Determine where you are and where you wish to be. Then use all of your self-effort to make that happen, following the guiding principles of all the Buddhas and bohisattvas and seekers of the dharma, of enlightenment.

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  Guiding Principles, Self, Effort

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• You must be kind to others. You must foster a caretaker personality of gentleness and perseverance, even in the midst of adversity.

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  Perseverance, Adversity, Buddhism

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• A way of spreading the dharma is just telling people, sharing with them your experiences. Never push it, never be a missionary. Be completely selfless; realize you're only an instrument of eternity.

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  People, Selfless, Missionary

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• Care, but don't be pushy! Don't preach about enlightenment to people who don't really want to hear about it.

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  People, Enlightenment, Care

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• Share the way by being a good example.

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  Example, Way, Share

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• It is good to have respect for all beings because who knows what anyone can do?

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  Knows, Can Do

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