Buddhism Quotes - Page 12

• I don't think there is anyone in public life today who can escape the inevitable onslaught of the media. It seeks to pry into and often grossly distort aspects of one's personal and professional life. I guess it just comes with the territory.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Media, Territory

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Thinking, World

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• 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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• Clothing is art. It's an expression of how you feel. I think that it's not so much a question of a certain style or designer, but of finding the type of clothing that works well for you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Thinking, Expression

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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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• It's certainly easy to meditate on top of a mountain, but one should be also able to meditate in the heart of the city.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Cities, Mountain

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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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• 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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• The shortest distance between two points is your mind. It's not a straight line.

  Frederick Lenz

  Distance, Science, Two

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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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• 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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• 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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• There is no time. There is no space. There is no condition. There is only awareness, awareness of these ideas.

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Ideas, Space

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• Jealousy, anger, fear - these are ridiculous emotions that drain your power. You need to control them by being content, trusting that life knows what is best, accepting with an even mind whatever is presented to you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Needs, Ridiculous

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• How do you overcome the negative karmas and problems and misery that occur to people who abuse power? You stop abusing power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, People, Abuse

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• In lower levels things are dark, gray, experiences are shallow. You become alienated from those around you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dark, Levels, Shallow

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• Don't get involved with non-physical beings. This current pastime, this rage, is dangerous. Many of these people who are channeling entities are going to become very sick, physically and mentally

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Sick, Rage

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• Nirvana is not really a physical place, although sometimes I talk about it as if it were. It is not really an experience, although sometimes I mention it as if it was.

  Frederick Lenz

  Suffering, Sometimes, Ifs

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

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• There are some beings who reach a point where they no longer want to move through the ten thousand states of mind. There is something else. It is beyond subject and object. That is nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Mind, Suffering

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• I don't think of myself as a guru but as a teacher. If one means 'guru' in the original sense a 'dispeller of darkness' then that certainly is my purpose.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Mean, Thinking

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• We may have created this projection of what God should be, as this judge or test, but the fact is, the only way we know about God is by knowing ourselves in some way. So God must be in ourselves-you can't deny that. If you say that God is somewhere else, which is what a lot of religions say, I just can't deal with it. I guess it's the difference between Buddhism, Christianity, and Judaism, or something.

  Selma Blair

  Judging, Christianity, Judaism

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• 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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• I don't dictate particular styles of dress. I do teach classes in self discovery.

  Frederick Lenz

  Discovery, Self, Class

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