Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 8

• The kundalini is the energy that opens up the bands of perception. It is also the power that allows us to travel mentally from one dimension to another, from one experience to another.

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  Buddhism, Perception, Energy

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• You have to be a warrior in order to become enlightened. If you think it's tough paying the bills, think about being everywhere all at once and doing everything in all the universes, simultaneously, past, present, and future.

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  Warrior, Past, Thinking

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• I first went into samadhi when I was 19. I was meditating in the mountains and had been meditating on a daily basis for several years. Suddenly there was no time or space or life or death or myself or the Universe. I was absorbed in light.

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  Light, Years, Space

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• Living in the spiritual world is very easy, once you grow accustomed to it. But initially, it puts you through some changes.

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  Spiritual, Philosophy, World

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• I have found that meditation has helped me with my academic career and has given me insights into musical composition and software design.

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  Careers, Design, Meditation

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• What does God really look like stripped naked? That's the province of enlightenment...the formless, perfect face of existence.

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  God, Perfect, Enlightenment

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• You can think whatever you want, you can create all the labels you choose, but the universe just is. You can come to terms with it or not. If you don't come to terms with it, we say you live in illusion.

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  Thinking, Labels, Want

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• Everything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. It's an illusion. It's a hallucination.

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  Ideas, Hallucinations, Illusion

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• You can go to India and you can see gurus go into samadhi. But when they come out of samadhi, they're nasty. They're egocentric. They don't have a deep regard or understanding of what life is. It's just a little trick they can do, a one-trick pony.

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  Understanding, India, Ponies

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• Nobody can make you happy but yourself. Things occupy us, people occupy us, but they don't make us happy. If we are honest, what makes us happy is to experience spirit.

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  Happiness, Buddhism, People

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• Never be bored. Energy lives off of attention. When you are bored you get drained.

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  Bored, Energy, Attention

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• Your inner being already knows. It's trying to communicate with you. But it needs to shift you into a different state of mind.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Mind

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• What we focus on we become. If you are just focusing on unhappy things, you will become unhappy. If you focus on happy states of mind, then it will grow in you.

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  Happiness, Buddhism, Focus

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• Death is not the end of who we are. It is only a brief pause in the endless cycle of our lives. Each of us is a spirit that cannot die.

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  Death, Who We Are, Spirit

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

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• Think of what you love most in this world. This is what you will come back to in your next life.

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  Thinking, World, Next

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• The abuse of power manifests with phony spiritual teachers and phony gurus who tell you how to run your life and what to wear and what to eat, all that sort of stuff. They abuse. People don't realize that, listen to them and ruin their lives.

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  Running, Spiritual, Teacher

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• Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see is an illusion.

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  Ignorance, Growth, Decay

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• The world is the way the world is because we think that it is so.

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  Buddhism, Science, Thinking

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• There are certain protective forces in the universe that do watch over us, but the innocent die too.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Watches

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• The energy strands and bands of our being are linked in a certain way and makes us what we are. It causes us to perceive a certain level of the dream of life. But you can reorder those. That's magic, you see.

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  Dream, Buddhism, Magic

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• You know, these non-physical beings, it's very hard to tell what they're up to. You can't see them. How can you rely on them? It's chancy.

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  Buddhism, Up To You, Rely

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• Be mindful, which is more of a passive meditation practice. It is passive when you are active. Then there is active meditation, when you are passive, sitting still.

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  Buddhism, Meditation Practice, Sitting Still

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• Karma exists within causality. It is three-dimensional. Free will exists outside of causality; it is not bound by karma.

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  Karma, Three, Causality

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

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• You need to accept the fact that you will often do exactly the opposite of what you think is right. You need to accept that you're going to do that and still love yourself.

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  Love Yourself, Yoga, Thinking

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• The Indians in the Southwestern United States went to many places of power. They were able to have profound dream experiences where they could see into the future or know what do to and make proper decisions.

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  Dream, Buddhism, Profound

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