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• If you meditate with a teacher who is enlightened, you can ride with them into stages of mind that are perhaps not available to you at this time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Mind, Stage

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• The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.

  Ajahn Sumedho

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Ignorant

  "23 Warning Signs of a Toxic Friend" by Ann Davis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2016.

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• The role of the teacher is to make sure that the practice is pure. By guiding the student, you make sure that they are really going into the planes of light and not fooling themselves.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Light, Practice

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• What would be the point of being personally whole in a dismembered society, or personally healthy in a land scalped, eroded and poisoned, or personally free in a world entirely controlled by the government or enlightened by television?

  Wendell Berry

  Government, Land, Healthy

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• If you say the world is totally dependent on oil in many parts of the world, coal and certainly natural gas, we are fossil fuel, that is modernity, modernity has two elements: individualism and oil. Now to move toward a more enlightened sustainable world, we have to transform with lots of technology, with even differences in the way we see the world and how we live in the world. That`s going to take decades.

  Jerry Brown

  Moving, Technology, Two

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Sometimes beings come forth from that realmless realm. Light incarnates and wanders around through the samsara, kind of looking at itself in various countless forms. We call beings that come from that realm "enlightened".

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Light, Kind

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• The enlightened teacher is someone who has become absorbed in eternity. While they may have a body like others, the essence of their being is light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Light, Essence

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• Perpetual wakefulness doesn't mean you have all physical knowledge, that you can speak all languages, that you can fix cars...that is a storybook, Hollywood version of the enlightenment experience.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Mean, Car

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• There is no such thing as a miracle. A miracle is just what somebody else doesn't understand. If we went back into the Stone Age and we lit a match, they'd say, "Ahh miracla, miracla!"

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Miracle

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• A true master has developed, in their inner practices and studies, certain powers. These powers are sometimes of the miraculous nature, the transmission of attention.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Practice, Attention

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• When you meditate with an enlightened teacher, you will feel something from them. They just dissolve completely, absorption in nirvana, where they don't even have physical contact with this world anymore.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, World, Contact

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• There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.

  Robert E. Lee

  Believe, Evil, Political

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• Even the enlightened person remains what he is, and is never more than his own limited ego before the One who dwells within him, whose form has no knowable boundaries, who encompasses him on all sides, fathomless as the abysms of the earth and vast as the sky

  Carl Jung

  Sky, Ego, Earth

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “Answer to Job”

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• An enlightened person doesn't know it all. Enlightenment simply means walking beyond this and all worlds into nirvana, which is beyond knowledge and ignorance.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Ignorance, Mean

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• I embrace the concept of enlightened self-interest - that in doing something for others, people also reap profound benefits for themselves. It might involve a little bit of sacrifice and discipline, but, and this is so crucial to understand, that participation has given me back so, so much more than I have given it.

  Simon McKeon

  Leadership, Sacrifice, Self

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• I am a lazy man. Laziness keeps me from believing that enlightenment demands effort, discipline, strict diet, non-smoking, and other evidences of virtue. There is a paradise in and around you right now, and to be there you don't even have to make a move. There is nothing you need to do first in order to be enlightened. All potential experiences are within you already. You can open up to them at any time.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Spiritual, Believe, Moving

  Thaddeus Golas (2002). “The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment”, p.114, Gibbs Smith

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• Even enlightened people think of themselves as beginners. They probably think of themselves as beginners more than others do - perpetual beginners who begin again each moment because their subject is endless.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Thinking, People

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• Imagine for a moment that you were God. Not God as a man or woman, but God as the awareness of all life. To be that in physical form is to be an enlightened person.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Men, Imagine

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• Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause: And I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of ⟨the present⟩ age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this Kind.

  George Washington

  Christian, Religious, Spring

  George Washington's Letter to Edward Newenham, founders.archives.gov. June 22, 1792.

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• The enlightened give thanks for what most people take for granted.... As you begin to be grateful for what most people take for granted, the vibration of gratitude makes you more receptive to good in your life.

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Prayer

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Feb 26, 2011

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• When someone says to me "I want to be enlightened." I immediately take a vacation because I know that the person isn't serious. I've never met anyone who's serious about enlightenment

  Frederick Lenz

  Vacation, Enlightenment, Serious

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• If you are going to focus on a teacher, you have to be focused on the teacher and not peripheral vibrations that might be around them or it will totally screw up your meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Focus, Meditation

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• The Vimalakirti Sutra states that, when one seeks the Buddhas' emancipation in the minds of ordinary beings, one finds that ordinary beings are the entities of enlightenment, and that the sufferings of birth and death are nirvana. It also states that, if the minds of living beings are impure, their land is also impure, but if their minds are pure, so is their land. There are not two lands, pure or impure in themselves. The difference lies solely in the good or evil of our minds.

  Nichiren

  Lying, Mirrors, Jewels

  "The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin".

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• We hear wonderful stories about some masters who can walk on water and do all kinds of great things. But the real power of the teacher is to transmit power and knowledge directly to an individual.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Real, Water

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• The most satisfied and enlightened people realize that successful and dynamic living starts from within. Before you can care for others, you must care for yourself.

  Robin Sharma

  Successful, People, Care

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