Enlightenment Quotes - Page 11

• The study of enlightenment is really a reorganization of our perceptual body or our perceptual field. We learn to see life more directly and more clearly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reorganization, Body, Fields

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• To become completely aware is the journey of enlightenment. There is pain in it and suffering. But you already have those things so it doesn't really matter.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Journey, Suffering

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• The pathway to enlightenment is joyful. It may sound harsh. I suggest just the opposite. It is rather easy compared to the possibilities of staying in pain and illusion.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Opposites, Sound

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• Selectively pick a teacher, one that you respect, not just someone who can talk with wonderful poetic figures about enlightenment, but someone who has the personal power to bring you into altered states of awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Poetic, Wonderful

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• I think enlightenment is something that you decide to do after you have met someone who is enlightened. Something touches your heart, your being at a very deep level.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Thinking, Levels

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• Enlightenment is a journey. It is a journey that is made alone. It is a journey that is made with a teacher.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Journey, Made

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• What makes a difference is when we take our mind and put it into the scriptures, when we read the Buddhist Canon, the Pali Canon, when we read the Tibetan books, when we read anything inspiring - somebody else's journey into the world of enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Book, Journey

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• Meditate on enlightenment. Read the exploits of the great teachers, the great saints. They'll inspire you. Their power is there.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Inspire, Saint

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• So in the world of Enlightenment, things are just things, except they're not things. We're in nirvana. There is no debating team.

  Frederick Lenz

  Team, World, Nothingness

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• On the pathway that leads to enlightenment, only your heart can tell you what is right.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Pathways, Intention

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• Being on the path means we again meditate with joy. We deal with the suffering of life and the pain of existence without perfect enlightenment with a smile.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Mean, Perfect

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• Determine where you are and where you wish to be. Then use all of your self-effort to make that happen, following the guiding principles of all the Buddhas and bohisattvas and seekers of the dharma, of enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Guiding Principles, Self, Effort

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• Care, but don't be pushy! Don't preach about enlightenment to people who don't really want to hear about it.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Care, Want

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• Self-discover is not as someone would have us think, a heavy, awesome, moral process where everyone sits around and frowns. As you progress towards enlightenment, you become funny.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Self, Progress

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• Enlightenment is not about being political. It is not a social club. Ashrams often turn into that, I know. Societies of enlightenment often just become cliques.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Political, Clubs

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• Zen is a very quick path. Zen is the path of meditation. The word Zen means emptiness or fullness, meditation. Meditation is the quickest path to enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Meditation, Path

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• Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teaching, Strings, Introduction

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• The intuitive wisdom that comes from your infinite mind can add to your creativity, success and well-being, and can take you to the threshold of enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Creativity, Mind, Add

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• Each of the small enlightenments that a Zen practitioner has, which are known in Zen as "Satori experiences," provides deeper insights into the nature of existence and helps a person prepare for complete enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Helping, Satori, Existence

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• In Zen the emphasis is on meditation and developing your body, mind and spirit to find inner peace, strength, clarity and enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Meditation, Inner Peace, Mind

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• Zen is a very quick path to enlightenment and development of the mind and all its facilities.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Development, Path

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• From the highest state of mind you have a window whereby you could perhaps move beyond all states of mind, to enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Mind, Window

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• Zen is a very fast path to enlightenment, fast in comparison to some other paths, not fast for the person who practices it. There is no sense of speed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Practice, Path, Speed

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• It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clinches into place.

  Francis Crick

  Ideas, Feelings, Mind

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• By god the Buddhist means that from which the universe was born, the unborn of the Buddhist scriptures, and by soul that factor in the thing called man which moves towards enlightenment. Why need more be said of it, at any rate those who are not content with scholarship, but strive to attain that same enlightenment?

  Christmas Humphreys

  Buddhist, Moving, Mean

  Christmas Humphreys (1969). “An Invitation to the Buddhist Way of Life for Western Readers”

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