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When the mind is not only silent, but that part of the mind that could become conscious that the mind is silent dissolves in light, then we see and feel purity. We become it, the purity of the eternal light.
- Frederick Lenz
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Purity is also developed in action. Purity is developed when we love.
- Frederick Lenz
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As you engage your mind in the scriptures, your mind will become pure.
- Frederick Lenz
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The scriptures recommend love and service to the enlightened to develop purity.
- Frederick Lenz
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Search this world and find that being who you feel has the greatest light and become their apprentice.
- Frederick Lenz
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Learn from the purity of nature.
- Frederick Lenz
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The body will blossom and fade, but you will remain after this body of yours has gone away. This knowledge allows you to love the body without attachment. Thus, the body becomes absolutely pure.
- Frederick Lenz
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Look at the big picture of the wheel of life. Above it, there is a Buddha. He is pointing, not towards the wheel, but away from it. He is indicating that there is something else - nirvana.
- Frederick Lenz
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Nirvana is the other side, the source of all things, where all the aggregates come from, where the templates of infinity are.
- Frederick Lenz
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Nirvana bears no resemblance to anything in your current perceptual field.
- Frederick Lenz
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We could take all the pleasures that have ever been and will ever be in all the universes and add them up into one experience. If you were absorbed in nirvana, it wouldn't be noticed.
- Frederick Lenz
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You are going around on the wheel again and again. You go around and around from lifetime to lifetime. You never quite wake up. Enlightenment is waking up.
- Frederick Lenz
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Nirvana is the pure and perfect schness of thatness of being.
- Frederick Lenz
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Nirvana has nothing do with any of this. None of this is there.
- Frederick Lenz
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Nirvana is a state of perpetual bliss and ecstasy, unaffected by the transient ups and downs of its own creations.
- Frederick Lenz
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Somewhere there is an essence. It is not a physical somewhere. There is no sense of world, of time and space. That is nirvana.
- Frederick Lenz
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At the beginning and the middle and the end of all things, there is only the perfection of enlightenment that is nirvana.
- Frederick Lenz
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What we discover is it was not the waves or the birds or the wind that were standing out and being separate from existence; it was we who were standing out and being separate from existence.
- Frederick Lenz
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There is a still center of the universe. Within that still center are all things, all achievements, all loses, everything and nothing exist there.
- Frederick Lenz
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All the joys in all the worlds of all beings who have ever been or will ever be, will never equal the perfection of one moment of absorption into the stillness of nirvana.
- Frederick Lenz
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When your mind is flooded with the pure light of nirvana, which is happiness itself, you will be delighted with whatever occurs to you.
- Frederick Lenz
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Unlike the transient days of our lives that constantly come and go, nirvana has always been, is now, and always will be.
- Frederick Lenz
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Only the enlightened are consistently happy. Their happiness is not predicated upon the events and experiences that take place in this world. Instead it is based on the boundless inner energy they gain from their connection with the world of enlightenment.
- Frederick Lenz
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Sensations of peace, joy, and love will enter into you. They will be very subtle at first. Then they will grow stronger.
- Frederick Lenz
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There are some great stories in The Second Ring of Power about how Don Juan and Don Genaro found their apprentices and what they went through to fool their students into seeking light.
- Frederick Lenz
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I've never met anyone who's serious about enlightenment.
- Frederick Lenz
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The next best thing is to work with those who are not quite there yet to bring them up to that level.
- Frederick Lenz
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If you want to be liberated, if you choose to be what I am, then you've chosen freedom. You can do this.
- Frederick Lenz
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That's my sole purpose in life is to sit here today and tell you that you can do this, in any life. You can do this in one of your past lives, in a future life, or right now. I prefer now.
- Frederick Lenz
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I select people to work more closely when they are prepared to and I see that. They don't have to tell me. I know. I will give them a task of some type, and that task becomes the koan between us.
- Frederick Lenz
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When I sit with my students and meditate with them, I channel the kundalini directly into them. I bring them to plane after plane of consciousness. What they would do in 100 years of meditation, I can do in an hour with them.
- Frederick Lenz
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You can increase your capacity to absorb the mystical kundalini. I have 3 or 4 students who are on the path of mysticism, they can absorb more of it.
- Frederick Lenz
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You don't need to be able to absorb a tremendous amount of the mystical kundalini to realize God.
- Frederick Lenz
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As you sit in this light from week to week, you will transform and grow and develop. It washes away the samskaras, the past-life tendencies. It washes away the karmic tendencies from this life.
- Frederick Lenz
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Buddhism has always been a religion for people who've worked their way through a cycle of materialism and still feel discontented and want more, or have questions that their state of prosperity is not answering.
- Pankaj Mishra
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Buddhism doesn't really have much time for political mass-movements. We are so trained to think of politics in terms of acting collectively, acting as part of mass-movements, that it's become hard for us to imagine a form of politics that is based on a high degree of introspection and self-examination.
- Pankaj Mishra
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I know that Buddhism is to Hinduism what Protestantism is to Roman Catholicism, only in a much stronger light, to a much greater degree.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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I think what's important and extraordinarily practical about Buddhism, is that it offers very concrete methods for people to work with.
- Pankaj Mishra
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Buddhism resonated very powerfully with a lot of my preoccupations.
- Pankaj Mishra
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Yet it would be unfair to the generality of our kind to ascribe to their intellectual and moral weakness the gradual divergence of Buddhism and Christianity from their primitive patterns. For it should not be forgotten that by their glorification of poverty and celibacy both these religions struck straight at the root not merely of civil society but of human existence. The blow was parried by the wisdom or the folly of the vast majority of mankind, who refused to purchase a chance of saving their souls with the certainty of extinguishing the species.
- James G. Frazer
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I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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We all need a place that is safe and wholesome enough for us to return for refuge. In Buddhism, that refuge is mindfulness.
- Nhat Hanh
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I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life
- Nhat Hanh
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One of Buddhism’s main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.
- Goldie Hawn
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Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you.
- Nhat Hanh
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I'm interested in Buddhism. Of all the organized religions, that to me is the only one that makes even vague sense. I just don't have the discipline for that kind of practice.
- Debbie Harry
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When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love.
- Nhat Hanh
Collection: Buddhism
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There’s a phrase in Buddhism, ‘Beginner’s mind.’ It’s wonderful to have a beginner’s mind.
- Steve Jobs
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