Enlightened Quotes - Page 31

• Figuring out our gifts in life is part of our journey to becoming enlightened human beings.

  Allison DuBois

  Journey, Becoming, Life Is

  Allison DuBois (2008). “Don't Kiss Them Goodbye”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  People, Activity

  "Zen Millionaire: The Investor's Guide to the Other Side". Book by Paul Farrell, 2007.

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• Once in a while an enlightened teacher goes out into the world and spreads the dharma. They attract some attention, and it is a great spectacle to see who and why and what is drawn.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Attention, World

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• Many enlightened persons are never very well known. Many are reclusive. They live in little villages in India or up in the high Himalayas in Tibet. Some have no students at all. Some have a few.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, India, Village

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• You become a monk and you practice and the teacher tells you what to do. If you find that you have a resistance to that, and the resistance is strong, it just means you're not interested. Why put yourself through some sort of torture. It means you weren't that interested.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Strong, Mean

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• Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree, I have looked on our present state of liberty as a short-lived possession unless the mass of the people could be informed to a certain degree.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, People, Liberty

  Thomas Jefferson (2017). “LETTERS”, p.709, 右灰文化傳播有限公司可提供下載列印

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• If there wasn't a way around the samskaras, no one would ever become enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Way, Samskara

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• How do you become enlightened? Have fun, meditate, don't take yourself too seriously, brush between incarnations and have a good teacher.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Fun

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• People enter states of consciousness where they think they've become enlightened. The best thing to do, if you've gone through one of those phases, is to be sensible, laugh at yourself for how foolish you were.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Thinking

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• We call it the transmission of the lamp in Zen. That's when we take enlightened states of mind and literally, you can transfer them, just like you can hand somebody flowers.

  Frederick Lenz

  Flower, Hands, Mind

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• The broad rich acres of our agricultural plains have been long preserved by nature to become her untrammeled gift to a people civilized and free, upon which should rest, in well-distributed ownership, the numerous homes of enlightened, equal, and fraternal citizens... Nor should our vast tracts of so-called desert lands be yielded up to the monopoly of corporations or grasping individuals, as appears to be much the tendency under the existing statute.

  Grover Cleveland

  Home, Land, People

  Grover Cleveland's Fourth Annual Message (December 1888), published in "The writings and speeches of Grover Cleveland" edited by George Frederick Parker, circa 1892.

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• There's a path in enlightenment called the path of negation where we intentionally throw ourselves into experiences that are extremely transient. In other words, we do all the stuff you're supposed to normally avoid to become enlightened, intentionally.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Enlightenment, Stuff

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• As an enlightened teacher of Buddhism, I'd like to welcome you to the pathway to enlightenment. I'd like to encourage you to be more positive, to engage in the practice meditation, to learn how to do this wonderful thing - make your mind still in a crazy world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Crazy, Buddhism

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• Everything that I teach as an enlightened Buddhist teacher is towards directing an individual to happiness, a balanced wisdom and knowledge that is sometimes just bubbly and euphoric or just very still and profound.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Buddhism, Skills

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• People love misery, they love to feel sorry for themselves, and they definitely don't want to be enlightened. That's the first thing they tell you at boot camp in the higher worlds.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sorry, Buddhism, People

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• We see an enlightened teacher to gain a sense of humor, to learn balance and proportion and of course to learn wisdom.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Balance

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• If one thinks of an enlightened person in a negative way, as it hits their aura, it returns very strongly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Thinking

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• If you can't think of an enlightened person positively, don't think of them at all.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Thinking

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• Good karma leads to rebirth also. The desire for higher states of mind is a desire. When you are fixated on higher states of mind, you don't become enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Mind, Desire

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• No self-effort in the direction of enlightenment is ever wasted. Even if you don't become fully enlightened in a given lifetime, you will be much happier and more aware.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Effort, Enlightenment

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• If the item of stolen property had been anything other than a book, it would have been confiscated. But a book is different - it is not just a material possession but the pathway to an enlightened mind, and thence to a well-ordered society.

  Neal Stephenson

  Book, Mind, Pathways

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “The Diamond Age”, p.163, Spectra

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• Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages -- have been believers in Jesus Christ; and the great Cond?, when dying, repeated these noble words, "Yes, I shall see God as He is, face to face!".

  Luc de Clapiers

  Jesus, Philosophical, Men

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• History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.

  Mark Twain

  Strong, People, History

  Mark Twain (1961). “Twain: Wit and Wisecracks”

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• Don't care what anybody says about enlightenment, except the enlightened and those who seek it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Enlightenment

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