Frederick Lenz Quotes About Universe

• The wisdom of samadhi is quite different. Higher level wisdom cannot be written down. It cannot be spoken. True wisdom is the knowledge of the universe that is beyond physical expression.

  Frederick Lenz

  Expression, Different, Levels

• Consciousness is the screen. The images on the screen are your perceptions, the illusion that life is solid, that there is a material universe.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Perception, Consciousness

• Happiness comes from self-knowledge. Self-knowledge means that you have understood your mind. Your mind is the whole universe.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Mean, Buddhism

• The burden you are carrying around is the burden of self. You seek release from that. You want to let it all go. You want to forget who you are and what you are. You wish to be the whole universe, infinite, endless.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Self, Wish

• The high-priests and priestesses of Atlantis had discovered many of the deepest secrets of the universe. They had come to understand all about reincarnation, karma, and the innermost workings of the Enlightenment Cycle.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Secret, Enlightenment

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

• 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

• We could take all the pleasures that have ever been and will ever be in all the universes and add them up into one experience. If you were absorbed in nirvana, it wouldn't be noticed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Suffering, Add

• 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

• Universes collide and conjoin inside us and beyond all is nirvana, the final, absolute resting place of the soul.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Soul, Suffering

• Visualize the soft white light continuing to expand as it gently swirls around, until it has filled the earth, the sky, the universe, and all of infinity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Chakra Meditation

• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Giving, Effort

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

• His second cycle of teachings discusses the cosmology of the universes. But in his later years, he wrote the tantric texts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Teaching, Years

• In Tantric Buddhism, we believe that Samsara is Nirvana. That is to say that everything in the universe is part of us. And we also are part of everything in the universe.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Believe, Buddhism

• If you follow anything far enough in the universe, it will eventually lead to light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Light, Enough

• I first went into samadhi when I was 19. I was meditating in the mountains and had been meditating on a daily basis for several years. Suddenly there was no time or space or life or death or myself or the Universe. I was absorbed in light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Years, Space

• As you become more aware of your own imperfections, you simultaneously become more aware of the overall perfection of the universe.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Perfection

• I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Teaching, Buddhism

• The life that we see on our small planet is not necessarily a great reflection of the entire universe. The people are beautiful, but they tend to destroy one another. That's not an operative principle in all dimensions.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Buddhism

• Meditation will give you the power to overcome fear. As you sit and meditate each day, it makes you stronger. The energy of the universe flows through your mind, your body, and your life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Giving, Meditation

• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Forever, World, Ephemeral

• There is a dharma for yourself, for someone else, for a family, for a nation, for a universe. There are collective and individual dharmas.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Individual, Dharma

• There was a time when you came forth from infinity, your essence that is. You've always existed, and you'll always exist. But there are different states of mind in the universe.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Essence

• Meditation is coming back to your original self, if we can use self without a sense of self. It's perfect, clear light, radiant, infinite mind of the universe, as it is, without identifying with qualities

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Self

• The cool thing about the universe is that it can format itself into tiny little manifestations that are not entirely aware of all aspects of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Littles, Tiny, Hinduism

• Start simply everyday by asking yourself, "What is the dharma today? What should I do? What is right? What does the universe want from me?"

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Everyday, Doe

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