Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 80

• What matters is to aid others, to have a group dream.

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  Dream, What Matters, Groups

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• As Buddhists, our only task is to keep our room clean.

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  Buddhist, Tasks, Rooms

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• An individual has to be tenacious enough to become enlightened.

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  Effort, Enough, Enlightened

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• If you want to become enlightened, you've got to get all the bullshit out of your life. You have to clear up your mind completely.

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  Bullshit, Effort, Mind

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• It takes quite a bit of time to become enlightened. But it really is not so different from learning any other art; all you need is time, a good teacher, and practice.

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  Teacher, Art, Practice

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

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• It's not what you do - it's the intensity of your feeling that determines how far you go in the spiritual life.

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  Spiritual, Effort, Feelings

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• You must learn to meditate and stop your thoughts. You must overcome all egotism and selfishness by serving others. You must cleanse your mind so that enlightenment will find a happy place to reside there.

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  Effort, Mind, Enlightenment

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

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• You may have thousands of lives to go between now and before you're a real hard-core seeker of enlightenment, hardcore meaning you just love it.

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  Real, Effort, Enlightenment

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• When you could be sloppy, you're not. When you could be indulgent, you're not. When you could be sad, you laugh instead. If you fall down, you pick yourself up again and again and again.

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  Fall, Buddhism, Laughing

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• You could go through incarnations forever and never become enlightened, unless of course you do something about it.

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  Effort, Forever, Enlightened

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• In Buddhism what we seek to do is change ourselves into someone who's beautiful to be.

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  Beautiful, Buddhism, Effort

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• If you're studying Buddhism you never really have enough time because you're going to die.

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  Buddhism, Effort, Enough Time

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• You can't teach someone to be enlightened. It's something you have to go and do. You can't teach someone to meditate well. It's something you have to go and do.

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  Effort, Enlightened, Teach

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• Eventually light prevails, you just have to be patient. So practice Buddhism, learn to be enlightened, put a smile on your face, go find a great teacher, meditate, and stay funny.

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  Teacher, Buddhism, Light

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• Help the world in any way that you want to. I have found that the more light you give and spread, the more you will evolve.

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  Compassion, Light, Giving

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• You have to refine your being. You have to go through all of the stages and steps of erasing yourself through service to others with purity, humility, integrity.

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  Integrity, Humility, Compassion

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• Compassion and empathy are not the same as feeling sorry for oneself. They are emotions that extend our perceptual ranges.

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  Sorry, Compassion, Empathy

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• The essence of the teachings is to lose self importance and to care more for the welfare of others and the magical world around us, than we do for ourselves and our own self images.

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  Teaching, Compassion, Self

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• One of the traditional Tantric methods of mediation is to imagine that you are taking on the suffering of all beings.

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  Compassion, Suffering, Imagine

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• In self-giving you must be so careful of egotism. You must be so careful when you are aiding others in their liberation not to have a sense of self.

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  Buddhism, Compassion, Self

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• In my estimation it's silly to go out and spend your time aiding people if you don't have your own act together yet. So I'd rather you spend the time, get it right, and it'll all work out a lot better.

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  Silly, Compassion, People

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• In future years a number of you will become spiritual teachers. After many years of study and doing a good job, go out into the world and teach people.You'll reach points of advancement where you'll be able to be of great help to many, many people.

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  Spiritual, Teacher, Jobs

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• It's suggested that enlightenment has some tremendous compassion, some driving necessity to help humanity. I don't think that's the case at all. I think humanity wishes it were the case since it's humanity that writes the various scriptures.

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  Writing, Thinking, Compassion

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• I realize that there's a thing called the bodhisattva ideal, and it's a very nice pinnacle of attention. It's a very egotistical thought, ultimately.

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  Nice, Compassion, Attention

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• To have to liberate everybody doesn't sound very free to me. You're gong to go liberate people who maybe don't want to be liberated.

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  Compassion, People, Sound

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