Suffering Quotes - Page 32

• As I'm sure you know by now, most people aren't really very happy. Beyond their surface appearances, the smiles they wear for the rest of the world, most people are soul-sick.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Sick, Soul

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• There is suffering and there is joy. Your life is very short, and then you're back again for another and another, forever, unless you step off the wheel.

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  Joy, Forever, Wheels

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• Most people lead lives of frustration and disapointment. They enjoy temporary pleasures and long-lasting suffering.

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  Frustration, Long, People

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• Your mind is filled with thoughts and desires. Your moods shift constantly. You are not sure what it is you want, it changes from moment to moment; there is little or no continuity in your life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Desire, Want

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• Who needs to go the horror movies? Just go outside or turn on the TV. Buddha called it the "nightmare of the day." Welcome to incarnate experience.

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  Needs, Tvs, Welcome

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• You cannot be born and you cannot die. You will exist in a universe that goes on forever. That is the ultimate horror from the Zen point of view. You could be unhappy forever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Views, Forever, Unhappy

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• It is much nicer to live in perfect mind, free from pain and agony. How painful it is to be unenlightened. Buddha called it "the nightmare of the day."

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  Pain, Agony, Perfect

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• Everybody here is so caught up in the game of life they don't see death. They don't see beyond their deaths. They are on the wheel of birth and death.

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  Games, Wheels, Birth

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• Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment.

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  Pain, Enlightenment, Pure

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• As long as you wish to separate yourself from the immortal consciousness, you will suffer. You will experience the pain of the separation, the abridgment of infinite mind in finite form.

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  Pain, Long, Mind

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• We dream forever unless we awaken. We move from one dream to another, some beautiful, some we're the hero or the heroine, some horrible, some nonsensical, some boring.

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  Beautiful, Dream, Hero

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• The dreams of human beings are dark, heavy and morbid and simplistic and boring. The dreams of immortality are endless and shining, they shimmer, they glow.

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  Dream, Dark, Shining

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• Dogs have fleas; people have each other. We are born to die. Life is a continuing tragic comedy. Everything and everyone we love suffers. Anybody who doesn't see that has not grown up and known life.

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  Dog, People, Fleas

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• Nothing is here in this world that is of any interest at all.

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  World, This World, Interest

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• Human beings affix themselves to things that are of little or no importance. They affix themselves to the transitory, to things that are impermanent, and in doing so, they get all upset

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  Upset, Littles, Importance

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• A human being is bound by emotion, enslaved by their desires. A person is never really at peace with themselves because they live in the spectrum of human consciousness.

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  Desire, Emotion, Consciousness

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• Life for most people is a bad dream. They live in pain, grabbing at what they can for pleasure. As they grow old, they despair. Things don't work out the way you planned.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Pain, People

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• In this lifetime you can lose everything. Everything passes here.

  Frederick Lenz

  Lifetime, Loses

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• Life is just masturbation in a sense, mentally. What people do is they just create a world out of their self-reflection.

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  Reflection, Self, People

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• The time we waste never comes again. The opportunities we miss never come again. The loves we lose never come again. Indeed, in this world of constant change we are fortunate that these things never come again.

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  Opportunity, Missing, World

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• You're in a world of diversity. You see things through a glass darkly. There is a separation everywhere.

  Frederick Lenz

  Glasses, Diversity, World

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• We wait for the fulfillment of our desires. We wait with hope, apathy, resignation, belief. We become despondent, elated. We wait

  Frederick Lenz

  Waiting, Desire, Apathy

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• Most people exist in very clouded states of mind. It's sort of like when you're underwater in a big swimming pool and you open your eyes, and you can't see very far and everything is distorted.

  Frederick Lenz

  Eye, Swimming, People

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• People are so tired. The world is set up to exhaust you and drain you. That's how humankind has devised their world. Life is not necessarily that way

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  Tired, People, World

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• Without enlightenment, everything in life is harsh. Sooner or later you see everyone you love die, unless you die first, of course. This causes you to suffer.

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  Enlightenment, Firsts, Causes

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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