Enlightenment Quotes - Page 40

• One evening you may learn about enlightenment, koans, meditation and personal power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Evening

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• I am very interested in the enlightenment of women. Very few teachers of advanced self discovery work with women, and if they do it's usually in a very second handed way. They treat women as second class citizens.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Class

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• I've never met anyone who's serious about enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Rama, Serious

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• When I meditate, people see manifestations of light when I go into samadhi and through the samadhis. Sometimes the energy of enlightenment is so clear that people don't realize that their attention has been elevated.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, People

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• I like Miracles. They inspire me. Miracles are the fun of enlightenment. When a teacher does a miracle, and everyone sees it, they have faith in what the teacher has to say about self-discovery.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Fun, 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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• Sahaja samadhi means that you have just gone back and forth so many times that there is no back and forth. All you see is enlightenment in this world and the other side. There is no other side anymore. It means that you are wakeful.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Gone, World

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• To be fixated on Sahaja Samadhi is to be fixated. To be fixated on the idea of being not fixated is fixation too. All these ideas and definitions about enlightenment become silly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Silly, Ideas, Definitions

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• Everything aids everything, because all things are a reflection of the Buddha mind, of the mind of Enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Reflection, Mind

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• Tantra is not sexual yoga. When the word tantra is used in the West, very often people immediately associate it with some kind of sexual yoga in which you use sex as a vehicle for enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, Philosophy, Yoga

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• Sex can never bring about enlightenment. Only enlightenment brings about enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, Philosophy

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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, Stuff, Path

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• There's no right or wrong in the study of enlightenment. There's only experience.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Study

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• We're connected to the Buddhist order, to the mind of enlightenment. All day long we draw the power and force from that world, from all the teachers and all the adherents of the practices and the principles.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Order

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• To perfect your nature means to let go of this world and place your attention fully in the plane of enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Letting Go, Mean, Perfect

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• The advanced education in Tantra obviously has to do with the entrance into samadhi, the negation of the self. That is what the path of negation means, not the negation of life, but the negation of anything that is not enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Self, Path

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• In the enlightenment cycle, attention is paid to bringing back the awareness field from other lives. This does not simply mean memory, but rather the internal power and intelligence that you have amassed in other lifetimes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Memories, Mean, Doe

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• A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They've been essentially mastered by Zen.

  Frederick Lenz

  Discovery, Self, Life Is

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• The hallmark of a person who is following the pathway to enlightenment is that they bring excellence into everything, no matter how crappy they feel.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Excellence

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• The teacher has nothing to do with people who use their mental powers to block the enlightenment of others. These people lack control. What can you teach someone who lacks control?

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Block

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• Flaky devotionalism, bowing and scraping and sucking up to the teacher is very phony. It is counterproductive to enlightenment and spiritual development. What is necessary is mutual respect.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Buddhist

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• Don't judge others. Always be open to them. Avoid the cult mentality, you know, the super-slick, "I'm superior because I meditate, because I'm on the pathway to enlightenment," the subtle ego nonsense, terrible trap.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Judging

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Hands

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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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