Enlightenment Quotes - Page 39

• I can understand pathways to enlightenment where people shun certain aspects of the sensual world because they feel that these aspects are very powerful; they're not in a position to control their appetites.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, People, Sensual

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• The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and suffering.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Suffering, Doe

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• You're an emanation of enlightenment. Enlightenment, which is the universe, has created the hallucination that is you in a form that shifts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hallucinations, Form, Universe

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• All souls do not reach enlightenment. Some souls reach a certain point and stay there. Some souls actually decline and go into different cycles.

  Frederick Lenz

  Soul, Different, Decline

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• Every moment gives birth to the next moment and influences it. Getting out of that chain of perpetual being is getting off the wheel of birth and death. That is enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Giving, Next, Wheels

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• The process of eliminating the samskaras and reaching complete enlightenment is very technical, wonderful, and mystical process.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wonderful, Reaching, Process

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• If you seek enlightenment, then career is a very important idea on your agenda.

  Frederick Lenz

  Careers, Ideas, Important

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• It is possible to renounce everything and attain enlightenment. But most people don't want to renounce; they wish to run away from responsibility and hard work.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Running, Hard Work

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• Ashrams often become places where there is a hierarchy and a pecking order and not much enlightenment. That is what some people are drawn to. But that has nothing to do with enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Order, People, Hierarchy

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• You must learn to meditate and stop your thoughts. You must overcome all egotism and selfishness by serving others. You must cleanse your mind so that enlightenment will find a happy place to reside there.

  Frederick Lenz

  Effort, Mind, Selfishness

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

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• You may have thousands of lives to go between now and before you're a real hard-core seeker of enlightenment, hardcore meaning you just love it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Effort, May

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• The secret teaching was the bodhisattva ideal, to live for others, for the welfare of all beings. That's enlightenment, not some flashy state of luminosity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teaching, Compassion, Secret

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• It's suggested that enlightenment has some tremendous compassion, some driving necessity to help humanity. I don't think that's the case at all. I think humanity wishes it were the case since it's humanity that writes the various scriptures.

  Frederick Lenz

  Writing, Thinking, Compassion

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• Enlightenment is a timeless void. It's an emptiness that's filled with the most excellent light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Void

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• Fish sense, applied in the field, is what the old Zen masters would call enlightenment: simply the ability to see what's right there in front of you without having to sift through a lot of thoughts and theories and, yes, expensive fishing tackle.

  John Gierach

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  John Gierach (2013). “Trout Bum”, p.24, Graphic Arts Books

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• With the use of psychedelics, it was all based around the Tibetan Book of the Dead, using them to experience enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Book, Use, Rama

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• Rama is a fairly common name in India. It symbolizes an individual who is interested both in enlightenment and martial arts. I do not claim to have any past life connection with the historical Rama. It's just a name I liked.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Past, Names

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• I personally, only work with people in my business who show excellence. I have a business, the business of enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Excellence, Rama

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• I teach meditation and the pathway to enlightenment because I know that there are other people who, like i did a long time ago and continue to, want to climb that mountain to the highest light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Long

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• I personally have fun with enlightenment, the study and the teaching of it. I get a kick out of doing it different ways because I don't think there is a "way".

  Frederick Lenz

  Fun, Teaching, Buddhism

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• One evening you may learn about enlightenment, koans, meditation and personal power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Evening

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• I am very interested in the enlightenment of women. Very few teachers of advanced self discovery work with women, and if they do it's usually in a very second handed way. They treat women as second class citizens.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Class

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• I've never met anyone who's serious about enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Rama, Serious

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• When I meditate, people see manifestations of light when I go into samadhi and through the samadhis. Sometimes the energy of enlightenment is so clear that people don't realize that their attention has been elevated.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, People

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• I like Miracles. They inspire me. Miracles are the fun of enlightenment. When a teacher does a miracle, and everyone sees it, they have faith in what the teacher has to say about self-discovery.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Fun, Buddhism

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