Buddhism Quotes - Page 24

• You are going around on the wheel again and again. You go around and around from lifetime to lifetime. You never quite wake up. Enlightenment is waking up.

  Frederick Lenz

  Suffering, Enlightenment, Wake Up

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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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Space, Suffering

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• Somewhere there is an essence. It is not a physical somewhere. There is no sense of world, of time and space. That is nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Space, Essence, Suffering

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• At the beginning and the middle and the end of all things, there is only the perfection of enlightenment that is nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perfection, Suffering, Enlightenment

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• Nothing is distinct and separate. The waves of the ocean arise and have a separate birth, crashing on the shore, but then back into the ocean they go. They never left it. There is no movement in Nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ocean, Suffering, Movement

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• What we discover is it was not the waves or the birds or the wind that were standing out and being separate from existence; it was we who were standing out and being separate from existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wind, Bird, Suffering

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• When your mind is flooded with the pure light of nirvana, which is happiness itself, you will be delighted with whatever occurs to you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Mind, Suffering

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

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• Unlike the transient days of our lives that constantly come and go, nirvana has always been, is now, and always will be.

  Frederick Lenz

  Suffering, Comes And Goes, Transient

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

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• When you draw from the endless awareness of nirvana, you are no longer a slave to fortune. When pleasant experiences come your way, you can enjoy them. But if pain and misfortune befall you, you can rise above them and remain unaffected.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Suffering, Way

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• The attainment of enlightenment makes you happy forever. It frees you from the mental and emotional pains that human beings experience every day. You live in a condition of ecstasy, brightness and joy all of the time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Emotional, Joy

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

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• Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the illusion of time and life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Mean, Suffering

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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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• Beyond all of this is something else, perfection; not just as an ideation, but as a living reality. Even though it may just be an idea for you, hold that idea in your mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, Ideas, Perfection

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• There are two worlds, the world of desire and the world of enlightenment. The world of enlightenment doesn't go anywhere. It is endless, luminous perfection. The world of desire leads to more desire.

  Frederick Lenz

  Two, Perfection, Suffering

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• The experience of going to the other side to nirvana clarifies and simplifies your view of all things. You see the world with greater clarity, because it is not obscured by illusions.

  Frederick Lenz

  Views, Suffering, World

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• The comedies, the tragedies we see played out on this earth before us, don't last. But we are eternal spirits. These events will come and go, but the planes of light and nirvana will always be there.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Suffering, Tragedy

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• Something in you wants to go beyond, wants to be free from this endless round of perception. Enlightenment is that.

  Frederick Lenz

  Suffering, Perception, Enlightenment

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• Beyond the world of thought and sensorial impressions, there are planes and dimensions of perfect light, knowledge, and radiant perfection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Perfect, Suffering

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• Universes collide and conjoin inside us and beyond all is nirvana, the final, absolute resting place of the soul.

  Frederick Lenz

  Soul, Suffering, Finals

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• Who has that perfect faith and trust? Only such a person with that faith and trust can be enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perfect, Suffering, Enlightened

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• We are all incarnate Buddhas. We just have not realized it deeply. We have not moved the mind - what our friend Don Juan calls the assemblage point.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Suffering, Juan

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• Be present, from moment to moment, right in the middle of the real stream of time. That gives you spiritual security. That is why in Buddhism we don't try to escape from impermanence; we face time itself in our daily living.

  Dainin Katagiri

  Spiritual, Time, Real

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• the only real time as far as Buddhism is concerned is right now. Right now there is no old age or death because old age and death are descriptions of things as they are now when we compare them to things as they used to be.

  Brad Warner

  Death, Time, Real

  Brad Warner (2010). “Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma”, p.54, New World Library

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• Buddhism doesn't promise to fulfill our desires. Instead it says, 'You feel unfulfilled? That's okay. That's normal. Everybody feels unfulfilled. You will always feel unfulfilled. There is no problem with feeling unfulfilled. In fact, if you learn to see it the right way, that very lack of fulfillment is the greatest thing you can ever experience.' This is the realistic outlook.

  Brad Warner

  Learning, Feelings, Promise

  Brad Warner (2010). “Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between”, p.17, New World Library

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• The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes hold of the enlivening spirit of the Buddha, stripped of all its historical and doctrinal garments.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Essence, Historical, Followers

  D.T. Suzuki (2011). “Essays in Zen Buddhism”, p.42, Souvenir Press

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