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Buddhist Quotes by Frederick Lenz

180 Buddhist quotes by Frederick Lenz

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Humility simply means that you do a great job at everything and it isn’t a big deal. The sayings highlight that anyone can realize truth at any moment, without needing a tradition or lineage, and that perseverance, kindness, and hard work are key to self‑discovery. They also warn against believing you are destined to miss final liberation.

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Without humility, all spiritual progress stops.

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Don't preach about meditation.

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Buddhism is the study of how to be immeasurably happy.

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Buddhism doesn't come from anybody. It exists by itself.

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As Buddhists, our only task is to keep our room clean.

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Real Buddhism is about meditation.

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If you respect it in others, you respect it in yourself.

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Self-hate doesn't create enlightenment. It just causes you to not enjoy the current moment.

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If you can't think of an enlightened person positively, don't think of them at all.

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Tantric Buddhists don't believe in sin. Stupidity, yes, meaning we make ourselves or others suffer.

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From a Buddhist perspective, it is incorrect to always assume that we know what is best.

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Humor enables us to deal with and overcome many of the most painful and difficult situations in our lives.

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Some tried to kill him; there were assassination attempts. Some hated him ... this is par for the course.

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Our sense of being worthwhile, our sense of being good, our sense of being anything must go - Final clearance sale.

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One person's cult is another person's spiritual organization.

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The realms of light exist everywhere forever. But it is up to an individual to raise their mind to a level of…

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When we lack etiquette, we trash things. We trash each other. We trash the environment. We lose sight of the value of…

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I am the happiest person I've ever met. This is what Buddhist Yoga and a healthy dose of reading the Declaration of…

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If we don't get violent with ourselves, castigate ourselves, ostracize ourselves and excommunicate ourselves because we didn't live up to the standards…

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What is evil? There is no such thing. In Buddhism we don't recognize evil and therefore we don't give it any power…

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Computer science is fascinating. As you study computer science, you will find that you develop your mind. It is literally like doing…

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The gopis seek Krishna, another part of themselves that create ecstasy. The man seeks the woman, the woman seeks the man. The…

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If you are going to set out to develop mystical powers to impress your friends and do other things to your enemies,…

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To know that these are people who for a moment, in glory, in light, were true warriors, and you had the chance…

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What matters is that you meditate, you're seeking enlightenment, you're on the pathway to enlightenment, and you're having fun. Don't look for…

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Spiritual Balance is the obvious answer to the obsession that sometimes accompanies religious practice, occult practice, philosophical understandings - the assertion that…

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Human beings have become so afraid of the unknown, themselves, and each other that they deprive themselves of that innate ecstasy and…

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What's important is to be supportive of all who practice. Anyone on any level, even if they don't call it self-discovery, who…

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Most people think that an enlightened Buddhist Teacher is a fireman; His job is to put the fire out so that you…

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The Buddhist mind is more complicated than the Christian mind. It comes up with endless heavens, endless hells, endless earths, and then…

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This study is not for the amateur. It's not for the dilettante. It's not for the cult follower. It's not for someone…

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Don't care what anybody says about enlightenment, except the enlightened and those who seek it.

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Just because it doesn't work out for you, doesn't mean that it's not wonderful for someone else.

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Career success means making enough money to lead the kind of life you would like to lead as a practicing Buddhist.

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Humility simply means that you do a great job at everything and it isn't really a big deal.

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Buddhism is the study of changing who we are, modifying or perhaps totally restructuring ourselves as perceivers.

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Buddhism is simply a methodology, a way of becoming one with the part of ourselves that is happy.

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Buddhists believe that you are who you are today is because of who you have been in all your past lives.

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Even though it's not perceivable to the mind or senses, it's there and enlightenment is absolute freedom.

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I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point.

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You can draw power from everything in your life. In order to do that, everything has to be set up in a proper way.

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If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns.

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Enlightened people live in very charged states of attention, with a tremendous power circuiting through them.

Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it…

Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance.

The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations.

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You and I are both life. There's just the experience of every moment. We like to call them moments. There isn't really such a…

Why waste your time being around people who drag you down? You don't live forever, at least in this life.

Everybody here is so caught up in the game of life they don't see death. They don't see beyond their deaths. They are on…