Enlightened Quotes - Page 31

• Even a good self will create another good self in the next life, and another one, and that good self will never be enlightened. You'll be bound, life after life, by good karma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Self, Next

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• An individual has to be tenacious enough to become enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  Effort, Enough, Individual

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• If you want to become enlightened, you've got to get all the bullshit out of your life. You have to clear up your mind completely.

  Frederick Lenz

  Bullshit, Effort, Mind

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• It takes quite a bit of time to become enlightened. But it really is not so different from learning any other art; all you need is time, a good teacher, and practice.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Art, Practice

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

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• You could go through incarnations forever and never become enlightened, unless of course you do something about it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Effort, Forever, Incarnation

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• You can't teach someone to be enlightened. It's something you have to go and do. You can't teach someone to meditate well. It's something you have to go and do.

  Frederick Lenz

  Effort, Teach, Wells

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• Eventually light prevails, you just have to be patient. So practice Buddhism, learn to be enlightened, put a smile on your face, go find a great teacher, meditate, and stay funny.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Light

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• If I had my choice I'd hang out anywhere. I mean, it doesn't matter. It's all God; it's all the same. There's only nirvana for the enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Choices, Matter

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• The way advanced meditation is taught, the way I teach it, the way all enlightened people teach it, is through transference. We transfer light and power to someone else.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, People

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• We see an enlightened teacher to gain a sense of humor, to learn balance and proportion and of course to learn wisdom.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Balance

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• People love misery, they love to feel sorry for themselves, and they definitely don't want to be enlightened. That's the first thing they tell you at boot camp in the higher worlds.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sorry, Buddhism, People

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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, Buddhism, Skills

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• Everything that I teach as an enlightened Buddhist teacher is towards directing an individual to happiness, a balanced wisdom and knowledge that is sometimes just bubbly and euphoric or just very still and profound.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• As an enlightened teacher of Buddhism, I'd like to welcome you to the pathway to enlightenment. I'd like to encourage you to be more positive, to engage in the practice meditation, to learn how to do this wonderful thing - make your mind still in a crazy world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Crazy, Buddhism

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• There's a path in enlightenment called the path of negation where we intentionally throw ourselves into experiences that are extremely transient. In other words, we do all the stuff you're supposed to normally avoid to become enlightened, intentionally.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Enlightenment, Stuff

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• The broad rich acres of our agricultural plains have been long preserved by nature to become her untrammeled gift to a people civilized and free, upon which should rest, in well-distributed ownership, the numerous homes of enlightened, equal, and fraternal citizens... Nor should our vast tracts of so-called desert lands be yielded up to the monopoly of corporations or grasping individuals, as appears to be much the tendency under the existing statute.

  Grover Cleveland

  Home, Land, People

  Grover Cleveland's Fourth Annual Message (December 1888), published in "The writings and speeches of Grover Cleveland" edited by George Frederick Parker, circa 1892.

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• We call it the transmission of the lamp in Zen. That's when we take enlightened states of mind and literally, you can transfer them, just like you can hand somebody flowers.

  Frederick Lenz

  Flower, Hands, Mind

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• People enter states of consciousness where they think they've become enlightened. The best thing to do, if you've gone through one of those phases, is to be sensible, laugh at yourself for how foolish you were.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Thinking

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• How do you become enlightened? Have fun, meditate, don't take yourself too seriously, brush between incarnations and have a good teacher.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Fun

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• If one thinks of an enlightened person in a negative way, as it hits their aura, it returns very strongly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Thinking

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• If you can't think of an enlightened person positively, don't think of them at all.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Thinking

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Attitude, Buddhism

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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, Buddhist, Jobs

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• Don't care what anybody says about enlightenment, except the enlightened and those who seek it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Enlightenment

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• The reason you study with a teacher is primarily for the empowerments, for someone who is enlightened to transfer power to you. What is most important is that the student uses that power intelligently and wisely.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Empowerment, Important

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