Buddhism Quotes - Page 9

• The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Buddhist, War

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• To understand everything is to forgive everything.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Positive, Forgiveness

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• We live in a world filled with automobiles, highways of the mind, urban disasters, billions of people living on a tiny planet, sharing the diminishing natural resources of the earth.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Humanity, Mind

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• Without being aware of it, you take many things as being your identity: your body, your race, your beliefs, your thoughts.

  Jack Kornfield

  Race, Suffering, Identity

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• Get your emotions under control and your life under control. Work really hard and don't make a big deal out of yourself. Have humility. Believe in yourself. Don't get a fanatical fixation on a teacher.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Believe

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• The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.

  Adyashanti

  Christian, Buddhist, Goal

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• What's important is to be supportive of all who practice. Anyone on any level, even if they don't call it self-discovery, who is seeking to awaken to their own potentials and possibilities, to the inner freedom, deserves your respect and support.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Discovery, Self

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• The degree of success that you attain in all of your physical, mental and spiritual undertakings is dependent upon the strength and clarity of your finite mind and your ability to access your infinite mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Mind, Degrees

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• You can live in the world and have friends, family and possessions. But don't take them all too seriously. Death removes everything. Feel death is every moment, as life is every moment.

  Frederick Lenz

  World, Life Is, Moments

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• Molecules are moving. Universes are colliding. Generations are being born and dying simultaneously, throughout eternity. As one of our great American poets, Walt Whitman, once said: "I contain multitudes."

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Dying, Molecules

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• That's my sole purpose in life is to sit here today and tell you that you can do this, in any life. You can do this in one of your past lives, in a future life, or right now. I prefer now.

  Frederick Lenz

  Past, Purpose, Today

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• Naturally, the Zen Master Rama philosophy is to have a high state of awareness and material success.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Rama, Awareness

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• Of course, there are the old hardcore teacher types like me who sit around and tell jokes, realizing, what's the difference anyway - it's all timeless.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Differences, Rama

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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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• The word "Guru", as it is used in the contemporary American scene, is someone who takes all your money and tells you what to do with your life. You assume no responsibility. A lot of people want that free ride.

  Frederick Lenz

  Responsibility, People, Want

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Believe, Thinking, What Matters

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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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• 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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