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Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 124

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Your existence is passing before you. Grains of sand in the hourglass. The Wicked Witch of the West has you in her castle and she's turned the hourglass over and the sand is running through. Will you be liberated or

Your existence is passing before you. Grains of sand in the hourglass. The Wicked Witch of the West has you in her castle and she's turned the hourglass over and the sand is running through. Will you be liberated or will you die? The only way you can beat death is liberation.

Inspirational, Running, Buddhism

Things don't make you unhappy. People don't make you unhappy. You make yourself unhappy. Because you are in the cycle. You're stuck. You're stuck in time.

Inspirational, Ignorance, Buddhism

Well, what is God, then? God is that which watches. God is neither masculine nor feminine, although God can assume any form. God is that eternal reality that is in everything.

Inspirational, Buddhism, Reality

You should be drawing awareness from a deeper part of your being. Your deeper mind has everything already. It knows everything already. It has all the answers.

Inspirational, Buddhism, Drawing

The final result of all life is your awareness. Your awareness is existence.

Inspirational, Buddhism, Finals

The key to happiness, in my opinion, is taking the time to find out what your spirit wants you to do, and doing it.

Inspirational, Buddhism, Keys

To overcome stress you have to find out something. You've got to do some research and homework. You need to find out who you are today.

Inspirational, Stress, Buddhism

If you were just you, you would be happy. But of course, you don't know who or what you are. So how can you possibly be happy? That is why you have got to study Zen...or something.

Inspirational, Buddhism, Would Be

We are alive for a certain period of time in any given lifetime. We are competing against time. It is a race to see if we can wake up before we go to sleep again. That is the challenge.

Inspirational, Sleep, Buddhism

Life is an endless matrix of existence. And as you experience it in that pure form, that's what we call enlightenment.

Inspirational, Buddhism, Enlightenment

Life exists in countless forms in countless dimensions, in places that we simply cannot see. The essence of life - while it might not appear so when we watch television or watch our loved ones suffer - is good.

Inspirational, Buddhism, Essence

Once you are enlightened, you can do whatever you want without fear or sorrow. You can go snowboarding, get married, stay single, be rich and famous, or live unknown in a high Himalayan cave. It is up to you.

Inspirational, Buddhism, Snowboarding

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

The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing great joy and happiness.

Inspirational, Buddhism, People

The vast majority of the people who populate our planet live lives of quiet desperation that are all too often quite harsh and painful, lives in which events and circumstances usually don't turn out the way they had hoped or planned.

Inspirational, Live Life, Buddhism

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

Even the rich aren't often happy. Their wealth is at best only a temporary distraction. It doesn't make them immune to emotional and mental suffering, or to disease and death. They too must deal with loneliness, the deaths of loved ones and the frustrations and boredom of old age.

Inspirational, Loneliness, Buddhism

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

Fame does not make you happy. It just makes you look in the mirror a lot, worrying about how you look today for your audience.

Inspirational, Buddhism, Mirrors

Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical.

Inspirational, Taken, Buddhism

If you live for a very long while, you will have to watch your friends and loved ones die, your body age and lose its beauty and vigor, and your mental capacities fade.

Inspirational, Buddhism, Long

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

Time holds the final claim check for everything we gain or attain in this lifetime. All of our possessions, along with the people we love, are only loaned to us for a very short time by eternity.

Inspirational, Buddhism, People

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

Most successful people find out that the attainment of their goals doesn't necessarily bring them the happiness and joy they assumed; their happiness is short-lived.

Inspirational, Buddhism, Successful

Even the lucky ones, who do manage to become happy by attaining their goals, live each day in fear of losing whatever it is they may have gained.

Inspirational, Buddhism, Goal

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

We see very few people who are satisfied. They say that the only ones who are really happy are the enlightened or the fools.

Inspirational, Buddhism, People

The world you experience, every day and night of your life, is transient. They only last for the blink of an eye, and then they dissolve back into that unknowable and formless eternity.

Inspirational, Eye, Buddhism

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

You've got to make a person aware of how miserable they really are and show them how happy they can be. Otherwise, why should they seek this nebulous goal called self-discovery.

Inspirational, Buddhism, Discovery

There is an all powerful force or energy that creates all and draws all back into it. This is God. It is beyond intelligence, beyond analysis.

Inspirational, Powerful, Buddhism

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