Frederick Lenz Quotes About Effort

• Self-honesty is not putting yourself down or feeling sorry for yourself. Self-honesty is looking at things as they are and then being compelled to make changes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Honesty, Sorry, Self

• No self-effort in the direction of enlightenment is ever wasted. Even if you don't become fully enlightened in a given lifetime, you will be much happier and more aware.

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  Self, Effort, Enlightenment

• At the end of each meditation session, bow your head toward the ground. Give away your meditation to the universe. Whether you feel you have done well or poorly, simply give your efforts to the universe.

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  Buddhism, Giving, Effort

  Frederick Lenz (2014). “Snowboarding to Nirvana: A Novel”, p.104, St. Martin's Press

• To meditate with full effort, produces infinity, freedom.

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  Buddhism, Meditation, Effort

• Buddhism suggests there are no elect. Everything rests upon your own self-effort, which is the good news because that means you don't have to wait around for some nebulous God to help you.

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  Buddhist, Mean, Buddhism

• Occupy yourself with what's in your life now. Address those situations and subjects as fully as possible with your best efforts. That is what produces happiness and clarity and knowledge and power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Knowledge And Power

• Determine where you are and where you wish to be. Then use all of your self-effort to make that happen, following the guiding principles of all the Buddhas and bohisattvas and seekers of the dharma, of enlightenment.

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  Guiding Principles, Self, Effort

• An individual has to be tenacious enough to become enlightened.

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  Effort, Enough, Enlightened

• You could go through incarnations forever and never become enlightened, unless of course you do something about it.

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  Effort, Forever, Enlightened

• If you want to become enlightened, you've got to get all the bullshit out of your life. You have to clear up your mind completely.

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  Bullshit, Effort, Mind

• In Buddhism what we seek to do is change ourselves into someone who's beautiful to be.

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  Beautiful, Buddhism, Effort

• Happiness is found principally in meditation. Let your mind flow out into eternity. You have to exert some effort. Then you will notice a subtle smile on your face.

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  Happiness, Buddhism, Effort

• It takes quite a bit of time to become enlightened. But it really is not so different from learning any other art; all you need is time, a good teacher, and practice.

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  Teacher, Art, Practice

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

• If you're studying Buddhism you never really have enough time because you're going to die.

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  Buddhism, Effort, Enough Time

• It's not what you do - it's the intensity of your feeling that determines how far you go in the spiritual life.

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  Spiritual, Effort, Feelings

• Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it is shared, you are down in duality.

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  Light, Effort, Eternity

• If you are mindful in your work, if you put your best effort into it, then something comes back to you.

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  Buddhism, Best Effort, Mindfulness

• You must learn to meditate and stop your thoughts. You must overcome all egotism and selfishness by serving others. You must cleanse your mind so that enlightenment will find a happy place to reside there.

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  Effort, Mind, Enlightenment

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

• You can't teach someone to be enlightened. It's something you have to go and do. You can't teach someone to meditate well. It's something you have to go and do.

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  Effort, Enlightened, Teach

• You may have thousands of lives to go between now and before you're a real hard-core seeker of enlightenment, hardcore meaning you just love it.

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  Real, Effort, Enlightenment

• Eventually light prevails, you just have to be patient. So practice Buddhism, learn to be enlightened, put a smile on your face, go find a great teacher, meditate, and stay funny.

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  Teacher, Buddhism, Light

• The effort to lift one's self into perfect enlightenment is a profound thing. It has nothing to do with individual will. It's a refraction of the cosmos. The cosmos delights in itself.

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  Self, Perfect, Profound

• When you could be sloppy, you're not. When you could be indulgent, you're not. When you could be sad, you laugh instead. If you fall down, you pick yourself up again and again and again.

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  Fall, Buddhism, Laughing

• With the empowerment of an advanced Teacher, and your own best efforts, you will be able to explore the mysteries of knowledge that lead to completion and perfection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Best Effort, Perfection

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