Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 6

• You don't know why, but you know you have to go home. It's an eternal longing. It's Marvell's drop of dew wanting to go back to the sky. We're drawn by a force we don't understand, through worlds, through experience.

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  Home, Sky, Suffering

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• The intuitive mind is nonphysical. It is not part of the brain or any other cellular structure in the physical body. It is part of the causal body.

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  Buddhism, Brain, Mind

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

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• 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

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• 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.

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  Light, Years, Space

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• I have found that meditation has helped me with my academic career and has given me insights into musical composition and software design.

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  Careers, Design, Meditation

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• Samadhi is not going to take away your humanity. It will give it to you. You will become more cosmopolitan, more conscious, and more infinite.

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  Giving, Humanity, Infinite

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• 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

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• Kundalini is seen as a serpent that can shoot up the shushumna, past the chakras, opening them all and bringing you into different states of awareness.

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  Buddhism, Past, Different

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• This solidity is not true. The apparent solidity is the delusion of the senses and of the self. Everything is made up of infinite, intelligent light.

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  Ignorance, Intelligent, Light

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• Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack of self-consciousness, that is innocence.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Children

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• I recommend computer science to people who practice meditation. The mental structures that are used in computer science are very similar exercises done in Buddhist monasteries.

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  Success, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• Your inner being already knows. It's trying to communicate with you. But it needs to shift you into a different state of mind.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Mind

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• In no way can words convey the nagual. But they open up the possibility. They allow an admission on the island of the tonal.

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  Buddhism, Islands, Way

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• The secret teaching was the bodhisattva ideal, to live for others, for the welfare of all beings. That's enlightenment, not some flashy state of luminosity.

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  Teaching, Compassion, Secret

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• Tantra won't work unless you've been trapped by spirituality. You have to be trapped by spirituality before you can be liberated from it.

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  Philosophy, Spirituality, Tantra

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• 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

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• Kundalini is the life force. It is given different names. They call it prana. They divide it into different segments, the apana and the samana; sometimes it's called shakti. Nice names, it is energy.

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  Nice, Buddhism, Names

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• All the records of your past lives are contained within your own mind, just as the records of your ancestors are contained within your DNA.

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  Buddhism, Past, Dna

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• Everything is dependent on your ability to stop thoughts. The longer you can stop your thoughts in meditation, the faster you will evolve, the more power you will pick up and the more knowledgeable and balanced you will become.

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  Meditation, Faster, Knowledgeable

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• Our thoughts will swim around and talk to us while we're sitting there, make fun of us, ignore us. But if you pay attention, if you don't look in the direction of your thoughts, you meditate.

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  Fun, Swim, Looks

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• Your mind is turbulent because you're filled with desires, frustrations. You want too many things. You are afraid of too many things. It is necessary to overcome both attraction and repulsion to still the mind.

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  Frustration, Mind, Desire

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• Whatever you focus on during meditation, you psychically travel to and touch. In meditation, when you think of somebody, you actually go into their aura. That is the issue. Keep your meditation pristine, unalloyed.

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  Thinking, Issues, Focus

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• Be neither attracted nor repulsed. You are watching a movie. If the visions are beautiful or horrible, Don't get caught up in them. Enjoy your popcorn.

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  Beautiful, Buddhism, Meditation

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• I've moved a lot of my students into a high state of mind, but they don't do the things I have shown them how to do. So then, they drop down into a lower stage of attention.

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  Buddhism, Mind, Attention

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• The person who practices advanced meditation is usually not married, some are. They usually don't have children, some do. But chances are they will not marry or have children because it demands to much time.

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  Children, Practice, Meditation

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