Etiquette Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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

  Buddhist, Commitment, Buddhism

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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, Buddhist, Teaching

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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, Buddhist, Mistake

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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

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Guy

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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

  Buddhist, Buddhism, People

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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, Buddhist, Buddhism

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Honesty, Buddhism

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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

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Perfection

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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

  Buddhist, Jobs, Buddhism

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• Whenever two people come together and their behavior affects one another, you have etiquette.

  Emily Post

  Two, People, Together

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The idea that people can behave naturally, without resorting to an artificial code tacitly agreed upon by their society, is as silly as the idea that they can communicate by a spoken language without commonly accepted semantic and grammatical rules.

  Judith Martin

  Silly, Ideas, People

  Judith Martin (1996). “Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson”

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• It's considered very, very bad karma, if I can cut to the chase, to take power from a teacher and not use it for something very positive.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Teacher, Buddhist

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• We seek to unify ourselves with the endless light of truth, of God, of nirvana. We recognize the infinite playing through all beings and all forms, but we only have to concern ourselves with ourselves.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Light

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• That's what self-discovery seems to mean to most people. You're going to beat yourself up. You're going to reduce what you're supposed to be and do to a set of rules so you can defy them, or so you can perform them and feel smug.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Mean, Buddhism

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• Humility simply means that you do a great job at everything and it isn't really a big deal.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Jobs, Mean

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• Spiritual dignity says that I don't have to compete with anyone; I don't have to do what my friends do. All I have to do is be myself and be dignified in my meditation and my lifestyle.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• I have a great deal of spiritual dignity. It's on loan from eternity, and you do too, and we have to use it in our relationship with each other.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• Without that poise and balance and gentle humor and caring sense, nothing happens at all. It's just egotism and vanity and jealousy and possessiveness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Caring

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• You've gained some powers by your entrance into other dimensions and you use them to attack others or to make others miserable, then power reverses on you and it pulls you apart because it's not supposed to be used that way.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Use

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• Spiritual Balance is the obvious answer to the obsession that sometimes accompanies religious practice, occult practice, philosophical understandings - the assertion that one is right - that something that you're doing is better than something somebody else is doing, the way you're doing it is better than the way someone else is doing it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Religious, Buddhist

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• What matters is that you meditate, you're seeking enlightenment, you're on the pathway to enlightenment, and you're having fun. Don't look for reassurance in the eyes of others. Look for reassurance in your own eyes. Only you know if Buddhist practice is improving the quality of your life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Fun, Eye

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• Buddhism is a practice in which we learn to avoid injuring others, and ourselves. It's a practice in which we learn to respond to beauty, and to respond to difficult circumstances with patience, with a sense of calm, with clarity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Practice

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• The rewards of golf, and of life too I expect, are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Games, Play

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