Frederick Lenz Quotes About Suffering

• Another condition can be attained ... a condition of ecstasy. A condition so far from what the people of planet Earth experience it's not even discussable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Suffering

• You are going around on the wheel again and again. You go around and around from lifetime to lifetime. You never quite wake up. Enlightenment is waking up.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Suffering, Enlightenment

• At the beginning and the middle and the end of all things, there is only the perfection of enlightenment that is nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perfection, Suffering

• 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

• There are two worlds, the world of desire and the world of enlightenment. The world of enlightenment doesn't go anywhere. It is endless, luminous perfection. The world of desire leads to more desire.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Two, Perfection

• Who has that perfect faith and trust? Only such a person with that faith and trust can be enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perfect, Suffering

• 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

• We have this recurring dream that we're human beings, that we have bodies, that we're in time and space, that there is birth and death. To awaken from the dream of life is to be conscious of eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Buddhism, Space

• Nothing is distinct and separate. The waves of the ocean arise and have a separate birth, crashing on the shore, but then back into the ocean they go. They never left it. There is no movement in Nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ocean, 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

• The experience of going to the other side to nirvana clarifies and simplifies your view of all things. You see the world with greater clarity, because it is not obscured by illusions.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Views, Suffering

• We are all incarnate Buddhas. We just have not realized it deeply. We have not moved the mind - what our friend Don Juan calls the assemblage point.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mind, Suffering

• Look at the big picture of the wheel of life. Above it, there is a Buddha. He is pointing, not towards the wheel, but away from it. He is indicating that there is something else - nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Suffering, Looks

• Liberation means no rebirth. Now, does that mean you don't reincarnate? Well, you never did reincarnate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Buddhism, Suffering

• What we discover is it was not the waves or the birds or the wind that were standing out and being separate from existence; it was we who were standing out and being separate from existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Wind, Bird

• Nirvana and enlightenment exist just on the other side of your sensory perceptions and your thoughts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Suffering, Perception

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

• The comedies, the tragedies we see played out on this earth before us, don't last. But we are eternal spirits. These events will come and go, but the planes of light and nirvana will always be there.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Suffering

• One day liberation will come, and it won't be a day; it won't be a year; it won't be a time, a place or a condition. It will be immortality reflecting through you. What will you do then?

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Years, Suffering

• Nirvana is the other side, the source of all things, where all the aggregates come from, where the templates of infinity are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Suffering, Sides

• Nirvana is outside the fun house. You are walking around in the fun house forever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fun, Buddhism, House

• There is a still center of the universe. Within that still center are all things, all achievements, all loses, everything and nothing exist there.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Achievement, Suffering

• Nirvana is not really a physical place, although sometimes I talk about it as if it were. It is not really an experience, although sometimes I mention it as if it was.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Suffering, Sometimes

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

• Something in you wants to go beyond, wants to be free from this endless round of perception. Enlightenment is that.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Suffering, Perception

• Nirvana is the center of things; then there are the outer bandings of attention. The universe is a mind. At the center of its mind is nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mind, Suffering

• Nirvana is the pure and perfect schness of thatness of being.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perfect, Suffering

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