Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 78

• It is possible to contact higher beings who are not in the body. But the being you really want to contact is you.

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  Body, Want, Contact

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• The problem is with any practice is that it is a practice. That is why people don't win. The reason why people don't win is they get stuck in ideas, habits, and ways of seeing life.

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  Winning, Practice, Ideas

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• I can understand pathways to enlightenment where people shun certain aspects of the sensual world because they feel that these aspects are very powerful; they're not in a position to control their appetites.

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  Powerful, People, Sensual

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• The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and suffering.

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  Pain, Suffering, Enlightenment

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• Never settle for that which is easy and comfortable or the necessity of seeking that which is difficult and uncomfortable.

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  Never Settle, Action, Easy

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• Some people say that if you have sex you can't be enlightened. I think it isn't really so much whether you have sex or not, but it's what you're doing with your attention level during that time.

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  Sex, Buddhism, Thinking

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• Be concerned with the welfare of others without any sense of self-importance that one is better because one meditates or leads a certain type of life.

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  Self, Action, Welfare

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• We seek absolute neutrality in Buddhism. We don't want to be drawn into anything in particular. We don't want to be pushed away from anything in particular.

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  Buddhism, Neutrality, Want

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• Even a good self will create another good self in the next life, and another one, and that good self will never be enlightened. You'll be bound, life after life, by good karma.

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  Karma, Self, Next

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• You get to the point where you have to wash the dishes. That's the fun in life. Being behind the scenes and doing things for others; being an instrument of that cause. That is the secret teaching.

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  Fun, Teaching, Secret

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• Inspire people very selectively with sincerity and with respect. You want to increase your energy? Then want, inside your heart, to inspire others. It will lift you tremendously.

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  Heart, People, Inspire

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• When you live a life devoid of ritual and convention, with honesty and self-effacement, then you are on the road to freedom.

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  Honesty, Self, Action

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• Buddha indicated that the self, that part of you that incarnates from lifetime to lifetime was causal.

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  Self, Lifetime

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• Change is continuous and the aggregate of the self is constantly shifting.

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  Self, Shifting

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• In Buddhist Yoga, we refer to our mutlilife karmic traits as samskaras. They are the internal karmic patterns that make each of us who we are.

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  Buddhist, Yoga, Patterns

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• There are the samskaras, the tendencies from your other lifetimes, ways of seeing, habits that are so strong, they affect you now. They are the operative situations in your life that are created by karma.

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  Karma, Strong, Way

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• The Buddhists believe that everything in life is random. There are patterns that are intrinsic to life. We don't know why, we just know they're there like the DNA. We have no idea.

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  Buddhist, Believe, Dna

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• Our spirit grows and develops traits in each incarnation that it passes through, and then collects and carries the essence of those traits into future lifetimes. In Buddhist Yoga we refer to our multi-life karmic traits as samskaras.

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  Buddhist, Yoga, Essence

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

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• You're an emanation of enlightenment. Enlightenment, which is the universe, has created the hallucination that is you in a form that shifts.

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  Enlightenment, Hallucinations, Form

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• The samskaras that were developed in previous incarnations are usually hidden by the temporary amnesia of infancy and by the transient personality.

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  Personality, Samskara, Infancy

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

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• As we grow older and mature in each incarnation, we are drawn back to samskaras, to previous interests and pursuits.

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  Mature, Pursuit, Samskara

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

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• Past life knowledge is not the wedding album of existence. Past life remembrance in Buddhism is the ability to bring a greater awareness we had in another life into this life.

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  Buddhism, Past, Remembrance

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• You identify with your self. You have a personal history. You have commitments. There are things that you want to experience and other things that you want to avoid.

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  Commitment, Self, Want

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• The ideas that we have about self are an aggregate within a state of mind, and they chain us to a state of mind.

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  Self, Ideas, Mind

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• All souls do not reach enlightenment. Some souls reach a certain point and stay there. Some souls actually decline and go into different cycles.

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  Soul, Enlightenment, Different

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