Buddhism Quotes - Page 10

• If you want to create a different character, you can do so just by altering your style of dress and cosmetics.

  Frederick Lenz

  Character, Style, Dresses

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• I show people the techniques for gaining knowledge, and this inspires them in their search for truth, freedom and happiness. I also try to show people that truth exists as much in this world as it does in any other world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Other Worlds, People, Inspire

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• Certainly, I am aware that there have been a number of articles written about me and television shows in which I have been featured and referred to as a "cult leader."

  Frederick Lenz

  Numbers, Leader, Television

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• When you combine a media - bent on exploiting tabloid-type stories to boost ratings and circulation by innuendo and titillation - with unhappy or opportunistic individuals who have nothing going for them in their own lives, you get a bitter brew.

  Frederick Lenz

  Media, Unhappy, Stories

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• Combine meditation with career as a yoga. You will find that your practice will not be any less powerful than a person who lives in a monastery. You might even excel because practice in a monastery can get very one-sided.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Powerful, Yoga

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• A well known Los Angeles newspaper referred to a small group of gentlemen who live up on a mountain and practice Zen as 'the Zen cult'. The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically 'in'.

  Frederick Lenz

  Practice, Gentleman, Mountain

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• Changing the way you dress can make it easier to make deeper changes in the structure of your personality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Personality, Dresses, Way

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• Clothing has a great deal to do with the attitudes and energy that others direct towards you. I favor the chic, and tend to avoid the trendy. I think that it's good to be chic when possible because it is more inaccessible.

  Frederick Lenz

  Attitude, Thinking, Energy

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• Ideally, you would live in an area that is not necessarily in the middle of the country, out in the woods, because you can isolate yourself there and get stuck in your own thoughts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Country, Woods, Middle

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• If you want to help people, if you care, go to the cities. The city is where the pain is the greatest - and the cities are a hell of a lot of fun if you like art, movies and plays.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Fun, Pain

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• A categorization implies a hierarchical way of seeing things. Life is really relational, not hierarchical. Hierarchical is a human way of looking at things. Relational is much more the way things are. Everything is connected.

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Way, Life Is

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• To think the universe is only composed of the physical universe is to be rather shortsighted.

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Thinking, Universe

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• Life is not dependent upon our classifications and our categories, our science. But we are. We find it interesting and helpful.

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Interesting, Helpful

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• One function of the intellect is to catalog. But cataloging doesn't change anything. If we call it a rose, or by any other name, it still smells as sweet. The name doesn't really matter. It is convenient for us.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sweet, Science, Names

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• In reality, as any physicist will tell you, the physical world is made up of moving energy. All matter is energy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Science, Reality

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

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• The world glows all the time. All of the things that you have come to understand aren't. The greatest thinkers in the world see very little compared to the enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, World, Littles

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• Things are not necessarily logical. Logic is a secondary source reference. Everything is what it is. We have decided to apply rationale to things. It makes us feel better.

  Frederick Lenz

  Feel Better, Science, Logic

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• I don't engage in brainwashing, I don't dictate forms of lifestyle, I don't perform mass marriages or even singular marriages. I don't tell people what to believe.

  Frederick Lenz

  Believe, People, Rama

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• The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically 'in'. But if we were to apply for a financial aid grant as a cult, I'm afraid we would be turned down for lack of proper qualifications.

  Frederick Lenz

  Would Be, Rama, Financial

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• Today in the west the word 'guru' has come to mean someone who leads a cult, someone who deprives others of their intellectual or spiritual freedom and rips them off financially.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Rip, Mean

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• What matters is that they are curious about life, energy, truth, and themselves and that they haven't sold out to the establishment powers that tell us what to think, what to wear, how to behave, what to believe in and what goes beyond the line of rational and irrational thought.

  Frederick Lenz

  Believe, Thinking, What Matters

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• We have a spiritual community but everyone lives where they want to. I recommend certain areas to live because of their power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Community, Want

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• People get together and go to the movies or on hikes, but everyone maintains their own independent domicile.

  Frederick Lenz

  Independent, People, Together

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• Some people harbor the idea or belief that all teachers should teach for free. Obviously these people have never been teachers, particularly in the twentieth century. Teaching meditation is a very expensive hobby.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Teaching, Ideas

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• Everything that I teach as an enlightened Buddhist teacher is towards directing an individual to happiness, a balanced wisdom and knowledge that is sometimes just bubbly and euphoric or just very still and profound.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Profound

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