Buddhism Quotes - Page 17

• Buddhism is the study of how to be immeasurably happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Study, Cosmology

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• Buddhism is simply a methodology, a way of becoming one with the part of ourselves that is happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Becoming One, Way

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• The essential premise of Buddhism is that there is enlightenment, there is nirvana. Beyond this world, beyond all worlds, there's something radiant, perfect and eternal.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Perfect, Enlightenment

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• Buddhism isn't about temples, and incense, and shaved heads, and robes. It's not about church. There are aspects of Buddhism that involve that. People enjoy that, it helps them, it strengthens their practice.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Practice, People

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• Buddhism is yoga. Yoga started, who knows when? A long time ago, when the first person found that they could still their thoughts and experience eternity and access the higher planes of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Yoga, Long

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• Buddhism has existed forever, just like we have, and occasionally it's codified; it's put together into a system by someone who likes to codify.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Forever, Together

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• Buddhism doesn't come from anybody. It exists by itself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Cosmology

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• Buddhism suggests there are no elect. Everything rests upon your own self-effort, which is the good news because that means you don't have to wait around for some nebulous God to help you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Mean, Self

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• Buddhism is the study of changing who we are, modifying or perhaps totally restructuring ourselves as perceivers.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Who We Are, Study

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• Buddhism is the study of power initially. It takes a certain amount of power to even know your potential - to have the sense that you can change the way you perceive.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Way, Study

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• Buddhism is perception, gaining control of the mind and directing one's attention, to raise the kundalini energy so that it flows with such volatility and force that we simply perceive life correctly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Perception, Mind

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• Buddhism leads you to the awareness that all things are holy. Everything is holy. The dark has its own light, in other words.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Dark, Light

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• What is evil? There is no such thing. In Buddhism we don't recognize evil and therefore we don't give it any power over us.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Evil, Giving

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• The dialectical change of mind that occurs in Buddhism is not simply the assimilation of a new philosophical basis or religious basis for viewing and interpreting experience. Rather it is the complete structural revision of that which is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Religious, Buddhist, Philosophical

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• Buddhism is the study of the way the mind works. One has to be able to hold a large number of relational concepts simultaneously in the mind. It is necessary to grid, to literally unlock realities and dimensions with the power of your mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Reality, Numbers

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• Nothing lasts forever - except forever. That's the good news. It's a good thing that nothing lasts forever because things would get terribly boring.

  Frederick Lenz

  Forever, News, Lasts

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• Forever is not an idea or a concept, it is reality. All of the things here come from forever. We call forever nirvana in Zen.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, Ideas, Forever

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• The mind of the Buddha is perfect because it is empty and yet it contains all things.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perfect, Mind, Empty

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• You and I are both life. There's just the experience of every moment. We like to call them moments. There isn't really such a thing. There's just is-ness; there's just eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moments, Eternity

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• You come back to the beginning. That's why in the "Searching for the Ox" sequence, at the very end of that sequence of the Zen paintings, we're back in the world again.

  Frederick Lenz

  World, Painting, Ends

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• The world is filled with people who understand. I personally value people who don't understand. People who understand have nothing more to learn. People who don't understand have hope. Do you understand?

  Frederick Lenz

  People, World, Having Hope

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• I don't think anyone knows why they meditate. As a matter of fact I'm not even sure that we do meditate. All we know is that we don't know.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Facts, Matter

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• A person trying to meditate is doing something that's impossible since meditation is not an action.

  Frederick Lenz

  Meditation, Trying, Action

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• I'm not exactly sure where we are, but I'm confident of where we're not.

  Frederick Lenz

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• Stop trying to figure it all. Why worry about it all so much? Why not just live? And then you die. And then you live again, unless, of course, you follow me.

  Frederick Lenz

  Worry, Trying, Why Not

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