Enlightenment Quotes - Page 34

• It is not special to be enlightened, just different. An enlightened person is someone who has dedicated not just this lifetime but thousands of lifetimes to becoming awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Special, Different, Becoming

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• What the enlightened person sees no one could ever tell or describe. Wonder beyond belief. We live in a universe filled with wonder. It is wonder just to live.

  Frederick Lenz

  Belief, Wonder, Enlightened

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• People think that if you are enlightened you are not in touch with the pulse of the physical. Au contraire! The higher you go, the deeper you become, and the more conscious you are of the physical and the sensorial.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, People, Pulse

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• How could being the entire cosmos and all of its wonder and all of its stages and cycles, and yet being that which is beyond them all, the invisible, be extinction? Extinction? The extinction of what, of whom? How can that which has never been be extinguished?

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Suffering, Cosmos

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• We have to leave everything we have been, a perceiver, "I" as an individual. That is enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Individual, Has Beens

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• Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting your awareness, your mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Book, Reading, Self

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• There is a still point in eternity. There is a still point where all things intersect. There is a still point beyond life, time, and death. Your experience of the still point is enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Eternity, Life Time, Stills

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• It is called enlightenment, nirvana, God, truth, call it what you will. There is no activity other than the eternal activities of the universe, perfect being, the awareness of all suchness, knowledge.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perfect, Awareness, Eternal

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• Light by its very nature is endless. Therefore you can never say you've had the ultimate experience in light - it goes on forever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Forever, Goes On

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• Once you have mastered the ten thousand states of mind, it's paranirvana, the absorption into the stillness forever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Forever, Mind, States

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• Enlightenment doesn't occur by accident. It is a deliberate decision that someone makes again and again. It is something you grow into and develop in.

  Frederick Lenz

  Decision, Grows, Again And Again

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• Nirvana is a step beyond. You dissolve into the universe. The universe dissolves into you until there is no longer a difference. There is no sense of individual self as perceiver.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Differences, Steps

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• There is no movement in Nirvana. There is no sameness. And one does not consider it to be timeless because one is not one. It is you, my friend, who go away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Suffering, Going Away

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• We've decided what we are. That's the dream. When the dream fades, it's not that we don't exist. How could we not exist since we never existed?

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Fades, Decided

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• We erase ourselves; we go away. But we don't really go away, and we don't really erase ourselves, since we were never there to begin with. We weren't there to begin with in that what we are, or conceive of ourselves as, is a perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perception, Going Away, Erase

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• Enlightenment does not put an end to awareness. It puts an end to limited awareness. It doesn't necessarily put an end to incarnation. It puts an end to reincarnation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Doe, Awareness, Reincarnation

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• Enlightenment doesn't simply mean being in heavenly states of mind. It doesn't mean being a saint.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Mind, Saint

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• Enlightenment doesn't mean you know anything. It doesn't mean you don't know anything. It means that you've returned to the source, consciously.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Source, Knows

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• Enlightenment means that you've become a sophisticated perceiver, without letting anyone know that you're sophisticated.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Sophisticated, Knows

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• Enlightenment simply means that you've run out of questions, and that the answers don't matter anymore.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Mean, Answers

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• Enlightenment means that you're in love with all of life, with not only immortality but mortality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Immortality, Mortality

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• Enlightenment means that you're living fully, and it means that you die fully. And then you go beyond life and death completely, everything, nothing, all, and beyond all.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Life And Death, Living Fully

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• It is possible to move to an enlightened state of mind from a lower bardo or level of awareness. It can happen, but it is extremely unlikely.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Mind, Levels

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• The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Ideas, True Life

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• Nirvana is very funny. It's not sincere particularly. It's rather frivolous, actually.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sincere, Frivolous

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