Frederick Lenz Quotes About Birth

• Each one of you has created a sense of self. That's what the tonal does. Each one of you is taught a system of maintenance that has been developed by humankind from your birth till your death.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Self, Taught

• The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world, always spinning.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Buddhism, Space

• We have this recurring dream that we're human beings, that we have bodies, that we're in time and space, that there is birth and death. To awaken from the dream of life is to be conscious of eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Buddhism, Space

• Nothing is distinct and separate. The waves of the ocean arise and have a separate birth, crashing on the shore, but then back into the ocean they go. They never left it. There is no movement in Nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ocean, Buddhism, Suffering

• Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the illusion of time and life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Mean, Buddhism

• I believe it should be the legal right of any woman who wants to have an abortion to have one. From the spiritual point of view, I don't see a problem with abortion in that the soul doesn't usually take incarnation until the last month before birth, sometimes not even until the moment of birth.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Believe, Views

• The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient beings experience this, the endless dance of life, the lila.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Forever, Suffering

• Birth and death are illusions, they are part of the dream.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Yoga, Birth

• On waking from the dream, we see that birth and death, the sense of self, other - all of these things fade away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Yoga, Self

• The secret of love is acceptance, acceptance of our finite self, of our life, our birth ... our death.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Acceptance, Love Is

• Pass the popcorn, please. Life is a film, theatre, a theatre of the soul. We play different roles on different stages. At death, we walk offstage. At birth, we walk onstage.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Play

• We must constantly remind ourselves that we are eternity, infinite, beyond birth and death.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Birth, Infinite

• You are on a vast wheel of birth and death. You have been through thousands of lifetimes, thousands yet to come.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Wheels

• At the time of birth an ordering takes place. The awarenesses come together; they become specific until a person dies. At that point all those awarenesses, all that you have ever been or will ever be, go back again, into the great unknown.

  Frederick Lenz

  Together, Birth, Awareness

• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Games, Suffering, Wheels

• Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see is an illusion.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Growth, Decay

• Examine everything that you've been taught, not simply what you've been taught in school, but the images that have been held up to you since the time of your birth.

  Frederick Lenz

  School, Taoism, Up To You

• At the moment of birth you are the product of everything that has occurred in every lifetime you've had.

  Frederick Lenz

  Birth, Moments, Lifetime

• Thinking that the next person, the next relationship, the next experience will free you - these are foolish thoughts of people who are bound again and again to birth, death and rebrith for thousands and thousands of incarnations.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, People, Next

• Within an atom there can be a billion kingdoms, endless. But all of them are bound by the cycle of birth and death. They all come into being for a while and then vanish.

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Buddhism, Other Worlds

• The state between birth and death is not sympathetic. It is a flow system. Whatever your conscious level is, that is how you will reincarnate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Levels, Flow, Birth

• Beyond the ten thousand states of mind is the still point. It exists within them all, yet beyond them. It is not affected by them. It gives birth to them. This is the riddle.

  Frederick Lenz

  Giving, Mind, Birth

• Reality does appear to exist, there does appear to be birth, youth, people appear to have children. But all of it's a dream. These are isolated moments that are only connected by perception. There is no separation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Children, Buddhism

• The experience of the next life is too far away to really be concerned with. It will be an outgrowth of this incarnation and what happens between birth and death.

  Frederick Lenz

  Next, Birth, Life Is

• Every moment gives birth to the next moment and influences it. Getting out of that chain of perpetual being is getting off the wheel of birth and death. That is enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Giving, Enlightenment, Next

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