Buddhism Quotes - Page 13

• There are places where it is easy to see, places of illumination, where one moves into illumined states of attention.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Illumination, Attention

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• When you go to a power place, if you are receptive, if you are able to quiet your thoughts and concentrate, a lot of that power can enter into you.

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  Able, Quiet, Receptive

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• If you go to a higher place of power, you can gain power there and you might even encounter some beings of knowledge and light that might aid you in some way.

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  Light, Encounters, Might

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• We have this recurring dream that we're human beings, that we have bodies, that we're in time and space, that there is birth and death. To awaken from the dream of life is to be conscious of eternity.

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  Dream, Space, Suffering

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• Nirvana is a state of perpetual bliss and ecstasy, unaffected by the transient ups and downs of its own creations.

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  Suffering, Bliss, Creation

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

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• By fully focusing your mind on your chakras, stilling your thoughts, and increasing your kundalini flow, you can rise above your body consciousness and unite your mind with the clear light of nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Chakra Meditation, Mind

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

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• Start meditating with your eyes open, focusing as a warm-up, then focus on a chakra, then just let go and merge. Don't sit there and think or move into sleepy states of awareness, but move into high-powered states of attention.

  Frederick Lenz

  Letting Go, Moving, Eye

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• People think that by getting in touch with some being outside the body, it will solve their problems. This only creates problems. It won't help you a bit.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, People, Body

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• How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Skills, Luck

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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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• It really doesn't matter to me whether a person has a lot of money or a little bit of money.

  Frederick Lenz

  Littles, Matter, Rama

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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.

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  Believe, Thinking, What Matters

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• There is no best teacher. Life itself is the teacher. There is no best method. All that matters is that it works.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Matter, Rama

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• Many people who help me encounter a lot of resistance from other people and from forces.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Encounters, Resistance

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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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• 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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• If you go too far, it'll blow your mind. I mean it's strong out there. If you go out too far beyond the bounds of attention, there are things in the universe, in the universes of mind, in the inner worlds, it's best sometimes not to deal with unless you're very, very far along.

  Frederick Lenz

  Strong, Mean, Blow

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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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• It is necessary to go through all the daily tasks and bring perfection to them, to learn to be perfect in your meditation, and to win in all your endeavors so that one day you will complete again.

  Frederick Lenz

  Winning, Daily Tasks, Perfect

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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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• I feel that there's a certain danger in always being in a lovely rural setting. You can lose touch.

  Frederick Lenz

  Lovely, Danger, Certain

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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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• 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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• There are special places on our planet, places of power, healing and renewal, places where the mind-body connection is enhanced and that enable us to get back in touch with our deepest innermost feelings.

  Frederick Lenz

  Healing, Feelings, Mind

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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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