Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 9

• The kundalini is the energy that opens up the bands of perception. It is also the power that allows us to travel mentally from one dimension to another, from one experience to another.

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  Buddhism, Perception, Energy

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• The idea of self is dependent upon attraction, aversion and memory. Memory is simply a serial account of attractions and aversions that don't exist now except in imagination.

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  Memories, Ignorance, Self

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• Everything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. It's an illusion. It's a hallucination.

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  Ideas, Hallucinations, Illusion

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• You can go to India and you can see gurus go into samadhi. But when they come out of samadhi, they're nasty. They're egocentric. They don't have a deep regard or understanding of what life is. It's just a little trick they can do, a one-trick pony.

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  Understanding, India, Ponies

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• Buddhism has existed forever, just like we have, and occasionally it's codified; it's put together into a system by someone who likes to codify.

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  Buddhist, Buddhism, Forever

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• What does God really look like stripped naked? That's the province of enlightenment...the formless, perfect face of existence.

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  God, Perfect, Enlightenment

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

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  Happiness, Buddhism, Purpose

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• Life is a game in which happiness is the goal.

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  Happiness, Buddhism, Games

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• You need to accept the fact that you will often do exactly the opposite of what you think is right. You need to accept that you're going to do that and still love yourself.

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  Love Yourself, Yoga, Thinking

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• You're standing in a closet, and you've been in it so long that you can't remember that there's anything else, that there's a huge house with lots of rooms and there are lands outside the house and planets and universes and creations

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  Ignorance, Buddhism, Land

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• Nobody can make you happy but yourself. Things occupy us, people occupy us, but they don't make us happy. If we are honest, what makes us happy is to experience spirit.

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  Happiness, Buddhism, People

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• There are physical karmas that carry through death. Jesus Christ may no longer be with us but his effects continue on in the world. Those waves will be passed on from one person to another to another.

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  Karma, Jesus, World

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• The abuse of power manifests with phony spiritual teachers and phony gurus who tell you how to run your life and what to wear and what to eat, all that sort of stuff. They abuse. People don't realize that, listen to them and ruin their lives.

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  Running, Spiritual, Teacher

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• Be mindful, which is more of a passive meditation practice. It is passive when you are active. Then there is active meditation, when you are passive, sitting still.

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  Buddhism, Meditation Practice, Sitting Still

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• Only when you are by yourself can you realize how wonderful you are.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Realizing

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• Most people are fragile. They're fragile in the sense that they're afraid of the unknown, so they cling to each other. They cling to families, traditions, ways of seeing life that protect them from the immensity of the unknown

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, People

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• Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization.

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  Dream, Self, Realization

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• We want to know what our self is. We are the sky. Our thoughts are the birds that come and go. You can enjoy the birds and their beauty, but it is the sky that lasts.

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  Self, Sky, Bird

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• Love is perhaps the strongest force in the universe. When you meditate with love, what you do is you feel love. Love is like a bird, you get on its back and you ride it up very high above the thought level.

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  Love Is, Bird, Levels

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• The stars in the sky last for billions of years. That's nothing to the mind, nothing. It's an instant, a millisecond. The mind shines radiantly forever. But we don't see the shine because of the clutter.

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  Stars, Ignorance, Years

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• We pass through hundreds, thousands, perhaps millions of existences. In each lifetime, we're exploring another part of our own self, which is eternity.

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  Self, Lifetime, Eternity

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• There is no end and there is no beginning. There is only eternity. Eternity can be warm. eternity can be cold and ruthless.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Cold

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• You don't need anybody to tell you what is right or wrong. What you need, perhaps, is someone to show you how to come to those understandings.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Understanding

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• You are on a vast wheel of birth and death. You have been through thousands of lifetimes, thousands yet to come.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Wheels

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• Sometimes we can't do anything about our social condition, but we can do something about our condition of light.

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  Inspirational, Buddhism, Light

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