Frederick Lenz Quotes About Pain

• Learn to be happy in any and all circumstances, whether you're experiencing pleasure or pain, whether there's loss or gain, whether the world loves you or hates you. Learn to be happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Pain, Hate

• Eve was blamed for the fall of man, and in return all women to come were to inheret her karmic responsibility for the so-called "fall of man". Their punishment was to experience pain in childbirth, and never be trusted by man or God again.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Women, Fall

• 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

• When you draw from the endless awareness of nirvana, you are no longer a slave to fortune. When pleasant experiences come your way, you can enjoy them. But if pain and misfortune befall you, you can rise above them and remain unaffected.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Buddhism, Suffering

• The attainment of enlightenment makes you happy forever. It frees you from the mental and emotional pains that human beings experience every day. You live in a condition of ecstasy, brightness and joy all of the time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Buddhism, Emotional

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

• 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

• Knowledge of the Enlightenment Cycle, of the ways that inner dimensions and nirvana work, lifts you far above the transient sorrows, pains, pleasures and joys that the unenlightened masses experience.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Pain, Joy

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

• I don't really have a problem with the pain of life. Perhaps that is because I am a martial artist and I am used to dealing with pain. Or perhaps I adjusted to pain because there has been a great deal of it in my life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Buddhism, Artist

• I think that pain gives us appreciation of joy - it's a package deal. And I definitely think that the joys of life far outweigh the pain.

  Frederick Lenz

  Appreciation, Pain, Buddhism

• Success, failure, pain, small furry animals, household products, freeways, Star Wars systems - all are interlinked in the dance of tantra, the disco of the mind, the ballroom of cosmic consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Stars, Pain, Philosophy

• Tantra is for the desperate. Unless you've really experienced pain and suffering, tantra won't work. Unless you've really experienced exultation and ecstasy, tantra won't work.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Philosophy, Suffering

• Love makes you wise. Love unites. Pain divides. Hate divides even more. Hate separates and brings us down to a very physical plane. Love elevates us to a plane of spirit.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wise, Buddhist, Pain

• I too have experienced the extreme pain of living, but I have also experienced some of its remarkable ecstasy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Rama, Remarkable

• Often, in the student's confusion, she or he directs anger at the teacher, blaming them for the pain they are experiencing, or for their own mistakes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Pain, Mistake

• The world appears solid to most people. It is filled with their pain, their desires, their private ecstasies, their expectations. They are that world - nothing glows.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Pain, Buddhism

• Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in creation are slaves to.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Pain, Buddhism

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

• In meditation, we are going back into the light. All our pain will be taken away, our frustration.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Taken, Buddhism

• There's really no pain in the realm of the higher astral. A lot of spirits are playing mini-golf having a good time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Buddhism, Golf

• Only real love of the infinite will motivate you. While pain motivates, once we feel comfortable and the pain has stopped, we'll stop evolving. Love is a far superior spiritual vehicle.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Pain, Real

• There is a certain degree of pain to be experienced in the search for self-knowledge, as there is a certain amount of joy. You just do it because you find yourself doing it. There just doesn't seem to be much else worthwhile.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Pain, Buddhism

• 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

• You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Pain, Yoga

• You can stay in the safe, secure oblivion and pain of ignorance, not knowing, and just die. You'll just die, like everyone else, and shuffle into another incarnation that won't be very different.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Pain, Ignorance

• Yoga means we go a step further back. In yoga we go to the cause. The cause of pain is not the world. The cause of pain is us.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Yoga, Mean

• If your life is based around your being comfortable, you're not very comfortable. You suffer quite a bit - becuase in the realm of the senses there is not only pleasure, but there is pain.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Pain, Yoga

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