Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 81

• To feel that you are the Buddha of all times and places and that in some way the salvation of anyone, including yourself, depends upon you, I think there's a lot of ego involved in such a view, not much self-transcendence.

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  Thinking, Compassion, Self

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• I respect self-giving and I've tried to lead my life with that as the ideal. But real self-giving is when we take our being, that which is most precious to us, and we throw it into eternity with a total sense of offering.

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  Real, Compassion, Offering

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• Selfless-giving burns away the layers of the onion. Purity and humility keep meditation and selfless-giving clear. Love radiates through the entire practice because we do all of it only for love.

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  Humility, Compassion, Selfless Giving

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• Love the fading flowers as much as you love the undifferentiated which lasts forever.

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  Flower, Compassion, Forever

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• By perfecting the practices of zazen and mindfulness, by learning patience and love and by realizing the essential emptiness of all phenomena, you will discover nirvana.

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  Compassion, Practice, And Love

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• Your mind is made up of light. We call it the dharmakaya, the clear light of reality. The transcendental eternal light is everywhere. It's the light of god or whatever you want to call it.

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  Buddhism, Reality, Light

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• The Tibetan Buddhist realization is that mind does not have any particular qualities or attributes of its own. It's clear - clear light.

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  Buddhist, Buddhism, Light

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• The white light is the joker in the deck. It creates transmutations that are completely unpredictable, which is what makes it fun, which is why it scares the hell out of most people.

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  Fun, Buddhism, Light

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• Life reorders you when you go into the clear light. Even the causal structure is liquefied. The clear light of reality, the dharmakaya, changes us into beings of light.

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  Buddhism, Reality, Light

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• Within the universe there is a pure light. It is a light that is beyond all darkness. It does not give way to anything. It is the light of existence, the dharmakaya.

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  Buddhism, Light, Giving

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• Enlightenment is a timeless void. It's an emptiness that's filled with the most excellent light.

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  Buddhism, Light, Void

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• Keep your mind centered on that which leads to light, intensively. Accept no substitute.

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  Buddhism, Light, Mind

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• As you go into light for longer and longer periods, as you progress in your meditation practice, you transform, you become illumined, you overcome all limitation, all sorrow, and all pain. You learn not to be bound by desire, and eventually you transcend death itself.

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  Pain, Buddhism, Light

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• The miracle of enlightenment is that you take the self and let it dissolve in the white light of eternity.

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  Buddhism, Light, Self

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• The only reason you feel pain is because you're so busy looking at yourself instead of looking at the wonderful patterns of light. If you become absorbed in the wonderful patterns of light, then there's no pain.

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  Pain, Buddhism, Light

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• All things are void. So how possibly could there be any obscurations since everything is void, when you're void itself? There's only the void. In the void, there's only shining, perfect clear light of reality.

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  Buddhism, Reality, Light

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• Nirvikalpa samadhi or sahaja samadhi is all the way up. You get above the cloud line to the land of eternal snows and it's ecstasy beyond ecstasy.

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  Buddhism, Clouds, Land

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• The planes of light give you the power to rise above circumstance, the power to rise above your desires and your aversions.

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  Buddhism, Light, Giving

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• There are different worlds, endless worlds, and different beings come from different worlds. In my particular case, I come from the stillness. We call it the dharmakaya, the clear light of reality. I know it quite well.

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  Buddhism, Reality, Light

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• I live in the constant newness of aspiration. Whatever I think, I ignore. Whatever I feel, I don't trust. Yet I listen to my thoughts and follow my feelings.

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  Thinking, Feelings, Rama

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• I think I'm on an angle. I'm on an oblique angle through all of existence.

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  Thinking, Rama, Angle

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• At a very early age I was attracted to light, as most children are.

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  Children, Light, Age

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• In my very early childhood, when I was only 3 or 4 or 5, I would enter for many hours into meditative states in which the world would become light and energy and I would transcend the boundaries of the senses.

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  Light, Childhood, Energy

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• I was sitting outside in our backyard on a summer day, I was around six, and suddenly the whole world dissolved before my eyes and I found myself in a timeless world of light.

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  Summer, Eye, Light

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• Several hours later, I heard my mother calling me to come into the house, and it never occurred to me that this was an experience that other children didn't have on a regular basis.

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  Mother, Children, House

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