Enlightened Quotes - Page 36

• The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth and knowledge, to be God.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Noble

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• Business often does a good job supporting communities: the arts, universities, and scientific enterprises... But that philosophy has rarely reached poor countries. Even businesses that are enlightened in their home bases see Africa, Latin America, and parts of Asia as places to exploit natural resources or use cheap labor.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Country, Art, Jobs

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• Studying the Buddha way is studying oneself. Studying oneself is forgetting oneself. Forgetting oneself is being enlightened by all things. Being enlightened by all things is to shed the body-mind of oneself, and those of others. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this traceless enlightenment continues endlessly.

  Dogen

  Self, Mind, Enlightenment

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• A teacher can show you the ways. But no one can do it for you. You have to take what you learn from them and go out and live it. You have to change your life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Way, Changing Your Life

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• You see a very advanced master who's got a girlfriend, who listens to rock and roll, who thinks about things that are very earthly. The advanced course has to with coming back to everything that you had to reject in the beginning and seeing it as a far greater infiniteness than everything that you've attained.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Girlfriend, Thinking

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• Those who are enlightened never stop forging themselves.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Forging

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.79, Shambhala Publications

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• To be enlightened is to know that heaven is not "coming." Heaven is here.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Heaven, Awareness, Knows

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• Conscience is merely our own judgment of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide unless enlightened by the word of God.

  Tryon Edwards

  Safe, Our Actions, Judgment

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.231, Ravenio Books

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• Shankara commented on Krishna, on the Upanishads, on the Brahma Sutras. Ramanuja commented on the ancient enlightened people, Vallabha did the same. It has always been so in the East, because much dust gathers as time passes. Now, the Upanishads were written in a totally different world. That man has disappeared, that mind has disappeared, that world no more exists.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Dust, People

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• It is incumbent upon the student to go to the teacher to learn.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Students, Incumbents

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• With the empowerment of an advanced Teacher, and your own best efforts, you will be able to explore the mysteries of knowledge that lead to completion and perfection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Best Effort, Perfection

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• In order to do an empowerment, a person obviously has to be highly empowered, have the power, and also have the structural knowledge of how to transfer it to someone else.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Order, Empowerment

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• No matter how developed you are in any other area of your life, no matter what you say you believe, no matter how sophisticated or enlightened you think you are, how you eat tells all.

  Geneen Roth

  Believe, Thinking, Matter

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Some teachers are extremely inaccessible. They feel their teachings are for very few so they make it intentionally hard to get to themselves.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Teaching, Feels

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• An enlightened person lives in the world, passes through the ten thousand states of mind, but they are not bound by them. They can go beyond perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Perception, Mind

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• If you run into a Buddha, then that energy field, the "rad" level is so high, it's incalculable. Their effect on an individual is for many, many, many, many, many, many lifetimes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Teacher, Energy

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• It is taught, we too can be enlightened, every one of us. We can be completely freed from the bonds of limitation and conditioned confusion through our own endeavor, inspiration, effort and development. There is a path, and we can traverse it.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Inspiration, Confusion, Effort

  "A True Refuge" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2012.

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• To deal with someone from other infinites is problematic at times, to deal with a true master of all the realms of the yogas. We call them someone with the seven seals of enlightenment, meaning that their gradated perception has past through all the realms.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Yoga, Past

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• The role of the Buddhist teacher is to explain your options and to show you what creates karma. All our discussions are basically karmic until you're fully engaged in samadhi.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Teacher, Buddhist

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• Only the completely enlightened are beyond winning and losing. Yet, strangely enough, they had to win to get to the point of being beyond winning and losing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Winning, Losing

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• Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

  Carl Jung

  Light, Darkness, Mind

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• Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness's of other people. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Heart, Light

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• The person who helps you is the person who aids you in becoming independent and strong. Good teachers don't answer your questions, they ask you questions.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Strong, Independent

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• An enlightened teacher is able to put a tremendous amount of power through a person who seeks knowledge and escalates the evolution of the individual.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Able, Evolution

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• I think it is best to let the experience you have with a teacher direct itself, Instead of trying to make the experience into what you might like it to be. Leave it alone!

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Thinking, Trying

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