Frederick Lenz Quotes About Purpose

• The purpose of all our explanations is not to have you understand anything, but for you to snap from the understanding of the intellect to the understanding of pure spirit. All our explanations work backwards.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Understanding, Purpose

• That's my sole purpose in life is to sit here today and tell you that you can do this, in any life. You can do this in one of your past lives, in a future life, or right now. I prefer now.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Past, Purpose

• I don't think of myself as a guru but as a teacher. If one means 'guru' in the original sense a 'dispeller of darkness' then that certainly is my purpose.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Mean, Buddhism

• The Ten Commandments have a social purpose, for people who still need a social purpose.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, People, Needs

• The purpose of enlightenment is certainly not the teacher, nor is it you. It doesn't have a purpose. Enlightenment simply exists.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Buddhism

• Put the mind in alignment with the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment and experience them in various gradations forever. That's the total purpose of a monk.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Forever

• In the most advanced state of love we don't love for any reason or purpose. We don't even direct our love necessarily to an object.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Purpose, Our Love

• The purpose of all of this is not to walk around with new vocabulary words, but to cause you to speculate on the marvel of your own being.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Vocabulary

• If you feel the purpose of life is struggle, Darwinian fitness, dog eat dog, then you will be eaten by a dog, or you will eat dog. You become what you focus on.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Dog, Struggle

• 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

• You start meditation as an average human being who is filled with vagueness and not much purpose or definition, who is controlled by their desires, your mind spins all over the place, your senses spin all over the place, out of control.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Average, Meditation

• Sometimes, as we practice jnana yoga, we feel that life has no meaning, no purpose. We feel that there is no reason to try, that life is empty. This is another illusion.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Practice, Trying

• To increase the flow of kundalini that will alter our perception, it is necessary to clarify the purpose of one's being. This is to come to understand dharma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perception, Purpose

• The illusion of purpose is to be avoided. The illuion of lack of purpose is to be avoided.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Purpose, Illusion

• Balance is to choose happiness, to feel that the purpose of life is to love, not necessarily to be loved, to be happy, to be conscious, to be aware, to be fulfilled.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Balance, Purpose

• If you are just spaced out and you have no purpose in life, you pick everything up. Everybody else's thoughts will come into your mind, everyone else's desires.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mind, Desire

• Personal power is not the end of the process. It is a tool that you use to get someplace. The purpose of the car is not to live in the car, it is to drive you someplace you want to go.

  Frederick Lenz

  Car, Tools, Purpose

• The purpose of life is happiness. What else could it possibly be?

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Purpose

• At the moment you're suffering from what we call Maya. Maya is illusion. Maya is a Sanskrit word that suggests that we have forgotten. We've forgotten the purpose of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Suffering, Purpose

• In order not to lose your resolve and purpose, you need to unite with others of like mind and work with an advanced Teacher who is in touch with, and can transfer, knowledge and power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Knowledge And Power, Order

• When willpower is not guided, it's terrible. Hitler had a lot of will. But he used it for destructive purposes because he lacked wisdom.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Purpose, Willpower

• Sometimes it is hard to see in life. If the fog rolls in we can't see anything. Most people get caught up in life that they forget the purpose of life is to be happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Fog

• The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Ideas, True Life

• Zen is the study of mind in all of its manifestations. The purpose of Zen is to be happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Purpose, Study

• The purpose of life is to love, not necessarily to be loved.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Purpose, Life Is

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