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Hinduism Quotes by Frederick Lenz

83 Hinduism quotes by Frederick Lenz

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When the self dissolves, a super‑conscious awareness appears, bringing freedom from suffering. Frederick Lenz shares Krishna’s counsel to face fear and attachment, and to choose between rebirth and a beyond. He also likens the self to a wave that rises, fades, and returns to the ocean of existence.

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You're much too hung up on all of your ideas and your desires. You still have not penetrated the essence of yoga.

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Beyond the parameters of the self is an ocean ... and it's most excellent.

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Everybody is in the waiting room of life. Yoga is not a waiting. It is a doing, today.

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The perceiver of the dream, the one whom the dream is unfolding before, is what we call the Self.

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Krishna once said to Arjuna: Consider the past and future with an equal mind, and pass the peanut M&M's.

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If even one woman in the West were to become enlightened, it would change karmas on this planet.

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Yoga makes you free. It makes you happy. It gets you out of the traps that create human misery. It makes you…

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Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live.

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One day the play ends and the screen goes blank. There is nothing. Everything returns to its original formlessness - and then…

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Illumination in the outer world is to be happy no matter what is going on. In the inner world, it's more ineffable.…

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If you are not happier every day, if you don't see a progression of development, then you are certainly not practicing yoga…

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The road for Arjuna is unexpected. Sri Krishna says you have to face that which you fear the most that which you're…

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Trying to use the power of yoga to improve your life, this is a terrible mistake. Because all you are doing is…

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Self-realization doesn't imply loss, gain, even transition; it's only a settling. The separate sounds on the beach, the birds, the waves, the…

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Yoga is a science. It is the science of consciousness. Yoga suggests that there is more, other realms, other dimensions, and nirvana…

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We live in a world of careers. Work, as Sri Krishna points out in the Bhagavad Gita, is a necessary path for…

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You'll notice all around the Hindu temples couples, statues and drawings, in various erotic forms of love-making. This used to give the…

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Krishna says, fight. He says, go out on the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill; and whether…

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We're at the end of the cycle. You've all known it since childhood. In the Hindu division of the ages, this is…

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The dreams of the self are manifold and endless and they exist in all the myriad worlds and conditions that appear to…

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Now, stopping thought is only the beginning. As Brahmananda, who was a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, once remarked: The inner life begins…

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Krishna says meditate and you'll see the various ephemeral worlds, the various ephemeral beings, all of them going through the same thing;…

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To encounter such a being is considered the ultimate karmic blessing in the sense that your life will be so configured that…

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What Sri Krishna is saying, is that it's a terrible mistake to believe that this life we lead is real. Obviously it's…

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In order to create heat, you have to have something to burn. So what we do in yoga is, we burn ourselves…

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Self-realization is liberation. Liberation is self-realization.

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Sri Krishna refers, of course, to this world as a joyless, transient world. Obviously, he's never been to Disneyland.

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Beyond mind, beyond time, beyond space there is immortal awareness.

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The body comes and goes. This life, my friend, will come and go. It is a fleeting moment, an impulse in an…

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A war is an incarnation. A battle is a day of your life. So we do one day at a time in…

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The self plays among the waves of existence. It surfaces, it comes up for a while, and then it disappears again.

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Self-realization is a very quiet thing. It's not flashy. No one might see you light up a room. No one might observe…

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We are immortal life. Think of the opportunity of self-realization. What a gas!

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Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization.

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The awareness of place, space, or condition is not liberation. You can't say what it is, but you can sure say what…

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The awareness of liberation is not liberation. The awareness of time is not liberation.

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Those who seek liberation want to go beyond individualized perception. The essence of their being wants to dissolve back into the cosmos.

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Everything that you see before you with your physical eyes is an illusion. In other words, you are not seeing correctly. Life…

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When the sun sets, beautiful though it may be, billions of stars appear. The ego is but one sun. When that sun…

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In the Bhagavad-Gita Krishna says: Arjuna you cannot avoid action. Everyone is stuck in the world of action. The world of action…

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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.

Karma means changing planes of reality or changing fields of attention. There will be perhaps a resulting physical action stemming from the change of…

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…