Buddhist Quotes - Page 40

• As a student of enlightenment your attitude should not be to become enlightened. It should be to learn.

  Frederick Lenz

  Attitude, Buddhism, Enlightenment

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• Love makes you wise. Love unites. Pain divides. Hate divides even more. Hate separates and brings us down to a very physical plane. Love elevates us to a plane of spirit.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wise, Pain, Hate

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• If someone is in the same state of mind and doesn't seek to block your success, you have a friend. Such friends are rare, and if you find such a friend, value them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Block, Buddhism, Mind

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• You have to come to the world of enlightenment with open hands, not clinched fists, without an agenda.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Hands, Enlightenment

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• An enlightened teacher simply expresses enlightenment in their life by living. It is the student's job to gain the teachings. The teacher's job is just to be perfectly enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Jobs, Teaching

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• In America people have this funny idea about enlightenment and money. Money expresses a level of commitment. Studying enlightenment is like going to a university.

  Frederick Lenz

  Commitment, Buddhism, Ideas

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• In the esoteric teachings, a transference process takes place between teacher and student where knowledge is actually transmitted from one to the other. This requires that the student be receptive.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Teaching, Buddhism

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• Without balance and wisdom, power becomes very destructive. It creates unhappiness and not happiness. To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Mistake, Buddhism

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• You are a part of everything. You are like the guys in the bar and that gal on the corner with the red dress. We are a little bit of everyone. Let's not get too fancy here.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Guy, Dresses

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• Faithfulness, faith, all of the words that so few people live, you must live. Only then are you worthy of immortality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Faithfulness

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• You must be accommodating with your teacher. You must have a sense of humor about your teacher and the impossible things they ask you to do.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Impossible Things

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• Self-honesty is absolutely necessary in the practice of Buddhism.

  Frederick Lenz

  Honesty, Buddhism, Self

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• As you become more aware of your own imperfections, you simultaneously become more aware of the overall perfection of the universe.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perfection, Etiquette

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• In the process of self-discovery you will learn to be kind when you could be harsh. You will learn to forgive, mostly yourself. You will learn to be patient because you may have to wait quite a while to become that which you will eventually be.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Discovery, Self

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• The purpose of enlightenment is certainly not the teacher, nor is it you. It doesn't have a purpose. Enlightenment simply exists.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Enlightenment

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• All things are spiritual. It doesn't matter what you do or who you are or what kind of blue jeans you wear, or whether you wear an ochre robe or whether you're sober or asleep or dreaming. It's all the same.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Spiritual, Buddhism

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• Those who practice deserve your respect. If you respect them, you respect yourself. It's easy to be critical, but it does no good. What's important is to be supportive of all who practice.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Practice, Supportive

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• Select companions who are striving for enlightenment. They all have their imperfections, certainly, but at least their attention is moving in the right direction.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Imperfection

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• To know that these are people who for a moment, in glory, in light, were true warriors, and you had the chance to associate with them, to live with them, to share with them, words and moments of power - this is the nature of spiritual study.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Warrior

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• If we don't get violent with ourselves, castigate ourselves, ostracize ourselves and excommunicate ourselves because we didn't live up to the standards we set down for ourselves, then maybe we don't have to do that with other people.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Violent

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• Your mantrum is the awareness of the dream - to enjoy and appreciate and have gratitude for all; neither to condemn nor to liberate, but to observe.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Gratitude, Buddhism

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• You need to search your awareness and consider the limitless possibilities of existence in all things and not be so narrow-minded in your self-discovery.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Discovery, Self

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• Perhaps you're not the next Buddha. Perhaps you're not the Maitreya. Perhaps that's not your job in this incarnation. Perhaps you have to enjoy life and learn about life through whatever way that you find yourself going.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jobs, Buddhism, Enjoy Life

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• If you are going to set out to develop mystical powers to impress your friends and do other things to your enemies, the difficulty with it is that you will not be moving towards enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Enemy

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• People want to will their self realization. They want to know what the right thing to do all the time is. There is no right thing. There's no code. There are certain basic recommendations.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Self, People

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