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Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 20

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Emotions are there to enjoy life; but they are not used in self-reflection because they inhibit a proper reflection. They gunk us up.

Emotions are there to enjoy life; but they are not used in self-reflection because they inhibit a proper reflection. They gunk us up.

Reflection, Self, Enjoy Life

Continually reorder the mind and the mental structures, the ability to think in prescribed ways, to analyze in prescribed ways, and to stop thought for periods of time.

Thinking, Mind, Way

Being psychic does not necessarily mean seeing an event that has not yet occurred. It is rather seeing the inner nature of something.

Mean, Psychics, Events

Psychic development is not a fanatical, freaky study, predicting the future, talking to UFOs, and being able to find out curious facts that are basically irrelevant to one's time in life.

Talking, Psychics, Development

It is very hard to perceive the future on a regular basis simply because the future changes.

Bases, Perceive, Seeing

A person who is psychic is following a line of probability to see a probable future; but it can change. Another causal fact will interfere and that future won't happen.

Psychics, Lines, Facts

It is possible to contact higher beings who are not in the body. But the being you really want to contact is you.

Body, Want, Contact

Ultimately, thinking is a very inefficient method of processing data.

Thinking, Data, Method

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

In advanced meditation you become light. You transcend self, ego, time, space, and dimensionality.

Light, Self, Space

A time comes when you don't have to use meditation techniques anymore. You just sit down and you are nonexistence itself.

Meditation, Technique, Use

Simply by performing good actions and thinking good thoughts you will not attain enlightenment. It takes something more.

Thinking, Enlightenment, Action

To go to the very center of the mind of God, to be that, to become aware of our infiniteness, is the goal of Buddhism and along the way, to be as kind to others as possible without thinking that we are particularly wonderful.

Buddhism, Thinking, Goal

When you could get angry with someone and separate yourself from them, don't do that. If you have people who are difficult to deal with, be neither attracted nor repulsed. Go a step higher.

Buddhism, People, Steps

It is impossible to move on to new states of mind unless you seek the forgiveness of those you've offended.

Moving, Mind, Action

I've moved a lot of my students into a high state of mind, but they don't do the things I have shown them how to do. So then, they drop down into a lower stage of attention.

Buddhism, Mind, Attention

Personal power is a feeling that everybody is looking for called satisfaction. It is different from enlightenment, but you need personal power to become enlightened. Personal power is not the end of the process.

Feelings, Enlightenment, Different

The problem is with any practice is that it is a practice. That is why people don't win. The reason why people don't win is they get stuck in ideas, habits, and ways of seeing life.

Winning, Practice, Ideas

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.

Powerful, People, Sensual

The person who practices advanced meditation is usually not married, some are. They usually don't have children, some do. But chances are they will not marry or have children because it demands to much time.

Children, Practice, Meditation

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

Pain, Suffering, Enlightenment

Never settle for that which is easy and comfortable or the necessity of seeking that which is difficult and uncomfortable.

Never Settle, Action, Easy

Some people say that if you have sex you can't be enlightened. I think it isn't really so much whether you have sex or not, but it's what you're doing with your attention level during that time.

Sex, Buddhism, Thinking

Be concerned with the welfare of others without any sense of self-importance that one is better because one meditates or leads a certain type of life.

Self, Action, Welfare

We seek absolute neutrality in Buddhism. We don't want to be drawn into anything in particular. We don't want to be pushed away from anything in particular.

Buddhism, Neutrality, Want

Even a good self will create another good self in the next life, and another one, and that good self will never be enlightened. You'll be bound, life after life, by good karma.

Karma, Self, Next

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