Frederick Lenz Quotes About Dharma

• Feel the wind. This wind blows from world to world and from life to death. This is the wind of dharma. Be in love with the wind. It is an intimate lover. It enraptures you. It blows you through eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Blow, Wind

• Souls have different journeys. The best thing to know is, not what everybody else does, but what you do. Self-discovery essentially is finding your own dharma, your own rhythm.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Journey, Discovery

• Beyond learning and unlearning is awareness, and beyond awareness is consciousness, and beyond consciousness is immortality, and beyond immortality is dharma and beyond dharma is nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Consciousness, Awareness

• If you have humility, you are willing to undertake anything to spread the dharma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Humility, Buddhism

• If the kundalini is flowing through you at a very rapid rate, if you are not in harmony with the dharma, then you will have great problems with the study.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Study, Problem

• Dharma is an ancient word for truth.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Ancient, Dharma

• Naturally, to follow dharma, we have to find out what it is. You have to struggle with it. The answer will not come easily. You will be swayed by your desires, conditioning, and those around you who have ideas about what you should do, what is proper, what is improper.

  Frederick Lenz

  Struggle, Buddhism, Ideas

• When you understand dharma, when you see its perfect perfection, shining both in and beyond all things, you will be freed from all misunderstandings.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perfect, Shining

• To not follow the dharma, either intentionally or through lack of awareness, creates a very low level of attention. In this low level of attention we make all kinds of mistakes and we are unhappy no matter what good fortune befalls us.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mistake, Buddhism, Unhappy

• Beyond happiness and unhappiness is truth. Truth is not affected by anything in the relative world. Truth is the unifying aspect of existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, World, Truth Is

• Dharma is another name for existence. It is existence in its purest form.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Names, Form

• Following dharma puts you in a proper field of attention. In a proper field of attention, regardless of what your outer circumstances are, happiness will flow.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Fields, Attention

• When you meditate you can stand back from your desire. When you silence the mind and there is stillness, only then can you tell if a desire is dharma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Silence, Mind

• You can lie to yourself and fool yourself and rationalize that the choice you're making is what is right and what is true and what leads to liberation, when it's actually only the fulfillment of desire.

  Frederick Lenz

  Lying, Buddhism, Choices

• Success is not success in an individual endeavor. Success is simply to practice the dharma impeccably.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Practice, Individual

• Happiness does not come from external objects. It comes from peace of mind. You can be famous; you can be a king, a queen, anything. It does not necessarily bring happiness or peace of mind. It comes about through following dharma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Queens, Kings, Buddhism

• That which is right is different for each one of us in each situation. There isn't a moral code that I or anyone can lay down that will tell you what your dharma is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Different, Moral

• In the light we can see what is and what is not. We know what is right and what is inappropriate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Inappropriate

• Have a wonderful sense of humor, particularly about yourself and your own situation. Yet don't simply laugh. Work to change and improve things even though, at times, it seems impossible.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Laughing, Sense Of Humor

• You are dharma. You are a wheel. And the wheel of dharma spins.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Wheels, Dharma

• When you are not following dharma, then you will not be at peace. You will not be happy. The simplest things will seem to be endless obstacles.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Obstacles, Endless

• When you are following dharma, you will be happy, at peace, still inside. There will be a sense of purpose to your life. Difficulties will not seem unconquerable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Purpose, Dharma

• Love is the bridge that joins all the worlds together. Love permits us to see who and what we are. The only thing that will truly inspire us to find the dharma is love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Love Is, Together Love

• It is acceptance of the will of God - waiting, if necessary, forever, happily rising above your desires and above your frustrations to always do what is right. Always do what is right. This is the spiritual study.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Acceptance

• Everything knows what is best for itself. That is what the Sanskrit word dharma means. Dharma means the best of all possible actions.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Buddhism, Action

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

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