Frederick Lenz Quotes About Hinduism

• In the Upanishads they talk about the path of the sun and the path of the moon. The path of the moon is rebirth. The path of the sun leads to self-knowledge, from which there is no return.

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  Moon, Self, Path

• The road for Arjuna is unexpected. Sri Krishna says you have to face that which you fear the most that which you're most attached to and eliminate it. In this case he has to fight a battle, and the battle is his attachments.

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  Fighting, Attachment, Battle

• Psychic development is a necessary skill in leading a successful and happy life. Your intellectual processes and your senses don't give you enough information to distinguish the real from the unreal.

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  Real, Successful, Happy Life

• Self-realization is liberation. Liberation is self-realization.

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  Self, Realization, Hinduism

• You have to elevate yourself to that point and bring your mind into the Godhead, into nirvana, into that perfect and pure radiant knowledge. It will not come to you. It never does.

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  Perfect, Mind, Doe

• Consumer goods become enlightenment, relationships, anything! It doesn't really matter because infinity exists in everything. "Greater than the greatest, smaller than the smallest, the self dwells in the hearts of all," that is the Upanishads.

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  Heart, Self, Enlightenment

• Sri Krishna refers, of course, to this world as a joyless, transient world. Obviously, he's never been to Disneyland.

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  World, Hinduism, Krishna

• Isis, the Egyptian goddess of renewal is symbolized for the Hindus by Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. Brahma is the creator, Vishnu the sustainer, and Shiva the transformer or destroyer - the Cycle of creation.

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  Isis, Shiva, Goddess

• There's a source, there's a perennial source from which all things come forth. We call it the Godhead, Nirvana, the Tao, enlightenment. It's big; it's bright; it's perfect, as are all of its children, as are we.

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  Children, Perfect, Enlightenment

• The universe is always ecstasy and it's always perfect, but we don't perceive it that well. If we keep doing our yoga in every lifetime, we perceive it more correctly.

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  Yoga, Perfect, Lifetime

• You have to be a warrior in order to become enlightened. If you think it's tough paying the bills, think about being everywhere all at once and doing everything in all the universes, simultaneously, past, present, and future.

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  Warrior, Past, Thinking

• In the Far East, a peasant has no problem that someone can be born from another universe into a human body, walk up to their hut one day and ask for something to eat and transport them into infinite galaxies of awareness.

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  One Day, East, Body

• Mind delineates experience, and through the filter of mind, experience becomes something else; it becomes knowledge in tantra.

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  Mind, Filters, Hinduism

• Those who seek liberation want to go beyond individualized perception. The essence of their being wants to dissolve back into the cosmos.

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  Essence, Perception, Cosmos

• The self plays among the waves of existence. It surfaces, it comes up for a while, and then it disappears again.

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  Self, Play, Wave

• Yoga makes you free. It makes you happy. It gets you out of the traps that create human misery. It makes you vibrate faster.

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  Yoga, Misery, Hinduism

• Tantra is the perception of the oneness and the perfection of all things. Not just the perception of light, but the perception of darkness, seeing God in both beauty and horror.

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  Light, Oneness, Perfection

• Gods and goddesses are not what people think they are. Their names are terms with which we try to convey a certain experience, a state of consciousness.

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  Thinking, Names, People

• Krishna says meditate and you'll see the various ephemeral worlds, the various ephemeral beings, all of them going through the same thing; some are rich, some are poor, some are more knowledgeable, some are less knowledgeable - in countless myriad universes, forever.

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  Forever, World, Ephemeral

• One path leads back to this world, to rebirth; one path leads beyond. Your soul stands at a crossword, trying to make a decision, flipping a coin, a nice image for the soul, I think.

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  Nice, Thinking, Decision

• A very advanced master can glow so strongly that you see divine in them. You look into them and you see infinity constantly changing, evolving and radiating in new forms.

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  Looks, Infinity, Hinduism

• The awareness of liberation is not liberation. The awareness of time is not liberation.

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  Awareness, Hinduism, Liberation

• Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization.

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  Dream, Self, Realization

• In the Far East, studying yoga is comparable to a mixture of attending one of the best Western universities, and of being an intrepid explorer.

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  Yoga, East, Mixtures

• Krishna says, fight. He says, go out on the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill; and whether they were your friends or not, you have to look at the big picture. In the big picture, you can't go kill anybody, you can't be killed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jobs, Fighting, People

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