Enlightenment Quotes - Page 33

• Put on the music, and listen. Zazen means to sit, to listen. You're listening to enlightenment, to the universes, to the planes of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Listening, Mind

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• According to accounts of the Buddha's life, it would seem that he had a very deep relationship with nature. He was not born in the royal palace but in a park, under a sala tree. He attained complete enlightenment under the bodhi tree and left this earth to enter Parinirvana, again, between three sala trees. It would seem that the Buddha was very fond of trees.

  Dalai Lama

  Tree, Royal Palaces, Earth

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• Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Suffering, Pure

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• Without enlightenment, everything in life is harsh. Sooner or later you see everyone you love die, unless you die first, of course. This causes you to suffer.

  Frederick Lenz

  Suffering, Firsts, Causes

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment. There are joys, of course, and they should be enjoyed. There are sorrows, and they should be passed over briefly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Joy, Sorrow

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• Reality is not the world as you perceive it. Reality is the world perceived through enlightenment. It's the same world; but it's not the same world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Reality, World

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• Everyone is afraid of enlightenment, knowledge, completion. People are afraid of being exposed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, People, Exposed

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• Reincarnation is not what a lot of people think. Yes, we are eternal. No, everyone does not attain enlightenment; it's not necessary; life is smarter than we are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, People, Doe

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• My favorite cause is the enlightenment of others. I think that is the best place to put money. You get the highest yield in terms of karma on your money.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Thinking, Yield

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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, Lifetime

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• We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet.

  Nhat Hanh

  Needs, Earth, Planets

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• The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.

  Dogen

  Sky, Painting, Birth

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• The process of education takes place in the field of consciousness; the prerequisite to complete education is therefore the full development of consciousness - enlightenment. Knowledge is not the basis of enlightenment, enlightenment is the basis of knowledge.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Development, Fields, Consciousness

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• It is perhaps wrong to say that the enemy of enlightenment is logic; rather, it is dualistic, verbal thinking. In fact, it is even more basic than that: it is perception.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Thinking, Perception, Enemy

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• So an ancient once said, "Accept the anxieties and difficulties of this life". Don't expect your practice to be clear of obstacles. Without hindrances the mind that seeks enlightenment may be burnt out. So an ancient once said, "Attain deliverance in disturbances".

  Kyongho

  Practice, Anxiety, Mind

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• What led me to my science and what fascinated me from a young age was the, by no means self-evident, fact that our laws of thought agree with the regularities found in the succession of impressions we receive from the external world, that it is thus possible for the human being to gain enlightenment regarding these regularities by means of pure thought

  Max Planck

  Mean, Science, Law

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• I have taken special interest in these accounts [of UFOs].. I think there may be substance to some of these reports... I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment on this subject.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Taken, Thinking, People

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• In the firm belief that the American public deserves a better explanation than that thus far given by the Air Force, I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena. I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs, and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment of the subject.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Thinking, Air, People

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• We have always tried to be guided by the basic idea that, in the discovery of knowledge, there is great entertainment - as, conversely, in all good entertainment, there is always some grain of wisdom, humanity, or enlightenment to be gained.

  Walt Disney

  Discovery, Ideas, Humanity

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• Often in history we see that religion, which was meant to raise us and make us better and nobler, has made people behave like beasts. Instead of bringing enlightenment of them, it has often tried to keep them in the dark; instead of broadening their minds, it has frequently made them narrow-minded and intolerant of others.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Dark, People, Mind

  Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi (1963). “India's quest: being letters on Indian history from 'Glimpses of world history.'”, Asia Publishing House

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• Enlightenment is the complete awareness of life without mental modifications.

  Frederick Lenz

  Awareness, Modification, Awareness Of Life

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• Enlightenment is not a state of mind, yet all states of mind are contained within it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, States, All State

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• There is no final stage in nirvana. Nirvana is beyond definition. It is not quantifiable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Finals, Definitions, Stage

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• It is the way it is. But it is not the way it appears to be. Enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Way

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• You have to become that infinite formless creation, which is life, to know it. It cannot be known in an intellectual sense. That is enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Intellectual, Infinite, Creation

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