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Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 60

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It takes quite a bit of time to become enlightened. But it really is not so different from learning any other art; all you need is time, a good teacher, and practice.

It takes quite a bit of time to become enlightened. But it really is not so different from learning any other art; all you need is time, a good teacher, and practice.

Teacher, Art, Practice

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

It's not what you do - it's the intensity of your feeling that determines how far you go in the spiritual life.

Spiritual, Effort, Feelings

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.

Effort, Mind, Enlightenment

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

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.

Real, Effort, Enlightenment

When you could be sloppy, you're not. When you could be indulgent, you're not. When you could be sad, you laugh instead. If you fall down, you pick yourself up again and again and again.

Fall, Buddhism, Laughing

You could go through incarnations forever and never become enlightened, unless of course you do something about it.

Effort, Forever, Enlightened

In Buddhism what we seek to do is change ourselves into someone who's beautiful to be.

Beautiful, Buddhism, Effort

If you're studying Buddhism you never really have enough time because you're going to die.

Buddhism, Effort, Enough Time

Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it is shared, you are down in duality.

Light, Effort, Eternity

You can't teach someone to be enlightened. It's something you have to go and do. You can't teach someone to meditate well. It's something you have to go and do.

Effort, Enlightened, Teach

Eventually light prevails, you just have to be patient. So practice Buddhism, learn to be enlightened, put a smile on your face, go find a great teacher, meditate, and stay funny.

Teacher, Buddhism, Light

Compassion allows us to accept everything. That's why there's always a tear in the eye of the Buddha that no one sees, for the pain and suffering of others.

Pain, Eye, Compassion

The only reason you feel pain is because you're so busy looking at yourself instead of looking at the wonderful patterns of light. If you become absorbed in the wonderful patterns of light, then there's no pain.

Pain, Buddhism, Light

All things are void. So how possibly could there be any obscurations since everything is void, when you're void itself? There's only the void. In the void, there's only shining, perfect clear light of reality.

Buddhism, Reality, Light

Nirvikalpa samadhi or sahaja samadhi is all the way up. You get above the cloud line to the land of eternal snows and it's ecstasy beyond ecstasy.

Buddhism, Clouds, Land

The planes of light give you the power to rise above circumstance, the power to rise above your desires and your aversions.

Buddhism, Light, Giving

There are different worlds, endless worlds, and different beings come from different worlds. In my particular case, I come from the stillness. We call it the dharmakaya, the clear light of reality. I know it quite well.

Buddhism, Reality, Light

I live in the constant newness of aspiration. Whatever I think, I ignore. Whatever I feel, I don't trust. Yet I listen to my thoughts and follow my feelings.

Thinking, Feelings, Rama

I think I'm on an angle. I'm on an oblique angle through all of existence.

Thinking, Rama, Angle

At a very early age I was attracted to light, as most children are.

Children, Light, Age

In my very early childhood, when I was only 3 or 4 or 5, I would enter for many hours into meditative states in which the world would become light and energy and I would transcend the boundaries of the senses.

Light, Childhood, Energy

I was sitting outside in our backyard on a summer day, I was around six, and suddenly the whole world dissolved before my eyes and I found myself in a timeless world of light.

Summer, Eye, Light

Several hours later, I heard my mother calling me to come into the house, and it never occurred to me that this was an experience that other children didn't have on a regular basis.

Mother, Children, House

I had a mother who was very developed psychically and spiritually. She was, in a way, an opposite of my father, a complete liberal, interested in woman's liberation before it was the fashion.

Mother, Fashion, Father

I had a father who was strong and kind and loving beyond ... at the same time who was extremely puritanical, who had been raised in a religion with extensive morality.

Strong, Father, Rama

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