Enlightenment Quotes - Page 35

• Awareness is wakefulness. Wakefulness is consciousness. Consciousness is limitless awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Consciousness, Awareness, Limitless

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• We have ideas of God and nirvana or truth or enlightenment. These ideas will go away in nirvana because the suffusion is so complete and intense that nothing can be remembered.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ideas, Going Away, Intense

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• From the point of view of enlightenment, none of this has ever even been. All time and space, all the conditions that are apparent in the absence of enlightenment are unreal.

  Frederick Lenz

  Views, Space, Absence

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• I have not in this lifetime yet met one person who earnestly seeks enlightenment in the West. Not one person.

  Frederick Lenz

  West, Lifetime, Mets

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• The day-to-day life we lead has nothing to do with enlightenment. It is just around the corner, and we don't see it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Day Life, Day To Day, Corners

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• Enlightenment is the ability to freely transact within the ten thousand states of mind without a continuous self or awareness

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Mind, Awareness

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• The universe is endless. Enlightenment is endless. You have only touched the outer periphery of the endless still center of perfect being.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perfect, Endless, Periphery

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• There is no way to explain enlightenment. It is just a word to indicate something beyond, something very, very far beyond the normal human condition.

  Frederick Lenz

  Way, Normal, Human Condition

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• After enlightenment your body changes tremendously; its very molecular structure changes just because the kundalini is always streaming through you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Body, Streaming, Structure

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• If one is enlightened, one does not perceive life with North, South, East and West. There is no California, there is no New York. In a higher bonding state of attention, everything is fluid light.

  Frederick Lenz

  New York, Light, California

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• Enlightenment just means that you don't have a structural self. It means you've flipped through the gradated realities. Nothing binds, nothing clings to you. You're unaffected by everything.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Reality, Self

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• Enlightenment is not a finite state. It's not something that you just do and it's done. It goes on forever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Forever, Done, Goes On

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• Be enlightened for you, just for you. No one else knows or cares. They crucified Christ, you know. They don't take real well, on this planet, to the people who see things differently.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, People, Care

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• The world of enlightenment doesn't know of its own existence. We're beyond both the knower and known. There's no conceptual identity whatsoever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Identity, World, Existence

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• Nirvana's not like anything you've ever known or experienced because it can't be known or experienced.

  Frederick Lenz

  Known

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• Enlightenment is an ocean of awareness that slides through the human part of us and dissolves it, and leaves us forever in eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ocean, Forever, Slides

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• We can't say what enlightenment is, we can't say what it isn't, because these are words and words have nothing to do with reality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality

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• Words are a human way of trying to describe things. But they're much more of interference than they are a help in the world of enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Trying, World, Way

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• When I talk about the realm of spirit, happiness, nirvana, enlightenment, I'm not talking about something ideal or imaginary. There are realms of light that exist, that have always existed and will always exist. They're much more solid than the transient perceived reality that you're currently experiencing

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, Light, Talking

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• You see, that's the fun of Buddhism. We do have a wild card in the deck that can't be explained, that changes value continuously, and that's enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fun, Buddhism, Cards

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• The enlightenment experience is not what you think. How could it be anything that you can configure, anything you can imagine, any way that you think it should be?

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Way, Imagine

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• It's a very complicated matter to become enlightened. If it happens to a person without a teacher in this lifetime, you can bet their boots, they've had about a thousand teachers in their last thousand lives because it's a very complicated thing to do.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Boots, Matter

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• The dreams of eternity are the states of mind. When we wake up from the dreams there's only enlightenment. There could never be anything else.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Mind, Wake Up

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• Since infinity is by its very nature infinite, then enlightenment by its very nature is infinite, and thus can be experienced in infinite ways, by itself or without itself

  Frederick Lenz

  Way, Infinity, Infinite

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• Enlightenment is x-rated, honey; if you haven't checked it out. It's hot, it's vivacious. You're going to take your mind and merge it with the entire cosmos.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Hot, Cosmos

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