Frederick Lenz Quotes about Buddhism - Page 28

I feel that there's a certain danger in always being in a lovely rural setting. You can lose touch.

I feel that there's a certain danger in always being in a lovely rural setting. You can lose touch.

Buddhism, Lovely, Danger

It's certainly easy to meditate on top of a mountain, but one should be also able to meditate in the heart of the city.

Heart, Buddhism, Cities

There are millions of little opportunities out there to advance yourself. But you need the personal power to see how to do it.

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Buddhism, Opportunity, Needs

You can live in the world and have friends, family and possessions. But don't take them all too seriously. Death removes everything. Feel death is every moment, as life is every moment.

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Buddhism, World, Life Is

Molecules are moving. Universes are colliding. Generations are being born and dying simultaneously, throughout eternity. As one of our great American poets, Walt Whitman, once said: "I contain multitudes."

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Moving, Buddhism, Dying

Life is not dependent upon our classifications and our categories, our science. But we are. We find it interesting and helpful.

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Buddhism, Science, Interesting

One function of the intellect is to catalog. But cataloging doesn't change anything. If we call it a rose, or by any other name, it still smells as sweet. The name doesn't really matter. It is convenient for us.

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Sweet, Buddhism, Science

A categorization implies a hierarchical way of seeing things. Life is really relational, not hierarchical. Hierarchical is a human way of looking at things. Relational is much more the way things are. Everything is connected.

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Buddhism, Science, Way

In reality, as any physicist will tell you, the physical world is made up of moving energy. All matter is energy.

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Moving, Buddhism, Science

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

The world glows all the time. All of the things that you have come to understand aren't. The greatest thinkers in the world see very little compared to the enlightened.

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Buddhism, Science, World

There's no way we can possibly understand anything. But we can see things, we can perceive things, and we can wonder. We can just be in a world of awe and wonder. That's the best we can do.

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Buddhism, Science, Awe And Wonder

Things are not necessarily logical. Logic is a secondary source reference. Everything is what it is. We have decided to apply rationale to things. It makes us feel better.

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Buddhism, Feel Better, Science

The body is a very low level machine language. The language of the soul, of the mind, is much more evolved.

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Buddhism, Science, Soul

To think the universe is only composed of the physical universe is to be rather shortsighted.

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Buddhism, Science, Thinking

The shortest distance between two points is your mind. It's not a straight line.

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Distance, Buddhism, Science

There is only eternity. That's our real body. The stars are our blanket. Time doesn't even exist, except in our own minds.

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Stars, Real, Buddhism

There is no time. There is no space. There is no condition. There is only awareness, awareness of these ideas.

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Buddhism, Science, Ideas

Time is a convenient filing system human beings have devised to segregate their experiences.

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Buddhism, Science, Filing

A surfer is poised on a wave on his board, cutting quickly to the left. He'll always be there, in that moment. He's never left it. He had no birth, he didn't go to school, he didn't purchase the board; none of those things ever were.

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School, Buddhism, Cutting

Time is not a movement in space. Space is a movement in time.

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Buddhism, Science, Space

Time does not really exist as we know it; rather it's a transfiguration of a concept in which mortality, mutability, is conditioned.

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Buddhism, Science, Doe

I would suggest to you that at this moment you are the only self that you have ever had; you've never had a childhood; there wasn't a five-minute-ago time.

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Buddhism, Science, Self

Nothing is distinct and separate.

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Buddhism, Science

Words are inaccurate pointers to reality and should by no means be trusted.

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Mean, Buddhism, Science

Thoughts can increase our understanding of a subject, or they can just as easily constrict or block our understanding of a subject. It very much depends upon the language we are thinking in.

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Block, Buddhism, Science

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