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Ideas Quotes by Frederick Lenz

89 Ideas quotes by Frederick Lenz

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A meditator sits still, yet Lenz says the mind still clings to ideas about practice and liberation. He points out that chasing a perfect idea can become another attachment, and that life itself feels like a dream we keep dreaming. His words push us to question habits and see the endless spirit beyond thoughts.

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The ideas that we have about self are an aggregate within a state of mind, and they chain us to a state…

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To go within doesn't mean to become enraptured with who you are, or to become enraptured with ideas of who you are.

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Don't try and understand this with your mind. There will be no absolute knowing, no certainty in these thoughts and philosophies and…

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The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.

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We cut up time and space and mind and place and being and non-being. We create a world of ideas. This is…

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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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Wisdom isn't to know these words. Wisdom isn't to have ideas or philosophies - those are just thoughts. Wisdom is to be…

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Do not feel that you are destined to enlightenment in this life. You have no idea. This is an illusion of selfhood.…

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We were imprinted with a value system as young children. The sensory experiences of life can trigger and stimulate a variety of…

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In this world we see nothing but diversity. Everyone thinks separate ideas and wants to develop a separate identity. They fight wars…

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Women must work doubly hard to overcome their conditioning in order to become enlightened. They must erase both conscious and unconscious ideas…

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Purity is something that can be consciously developed. Expect to have impure moments, thoughts, and ideas. One day they will go away,…

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Self-discovery is a very advanced art. What we're doing basically is screwing around with what you're made up of. We're taking awarenesses,…

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You are fighting against nothingness all the time by creating a series of shields that you call personality, life history, feelings, ideas,…

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Master Fwap, who told me that snowboarding, or any activity could be improved by the practice of meditation. Since I had had…

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Some people go into tantra with the idea, sort of an intellectual approach, that now they can just do everything and stay…

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

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Zen is about breaking out of your ideas and experiencing life and not ideas.

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We aren't anything in particular. There is no self. There are only ideas and states of mind.

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If you seek enlightenment, then career is a very important idea on your agenda.

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Men, through the ideas they have, project a field of attention that limits women.

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If you want to follow the path of love, it's a good idea to meditate on the heart chakra everyday. The heart…

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The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self…

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Forever is not an idea or a concept, it is reality. All of the things here come from forever. We call forever…

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The idea is easy to understand. All of life is a dream. You have dreamed everything that you are and everything you…

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Fear is just an idea in the mind that limits you. You cannot become enlightened if you are afraid, nor can you…

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When most people see a tree, they don't see a tree at all. They see an idea that they have developed of…

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Stopping thought also involves shifting your values. Thought is stimulated by ideas that we have about life and the world.

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The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just…

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There won't be emptiness. Emptiness is just another idea, another illusion.

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The Self is infinite. The Self is eternal. You are that Self. Beyond words, thoughts, ideas, forms and belief systems. There is…

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Close the eyes, and focus on the third eye, the heart chakra, or the navel center. It is a good idea to…

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You can enjoy the ideas of salvation, as long as you realize that there's no one to be saved.

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In order to go beyond ideas to direct realization, it's essential to have a great deal of purity.

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To perfect your nature doesn't mean to have some idea of what a perfect person is and to simply be that. That…

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Enlightenment has nothing to do with being spiritual. Being spiritual is just an idea - it's another ring of perception.

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It is better to agree with a "wrong" idea than to press a "right" idea on other people.

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Everything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. It's an illusion. It's a hallucination.

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Kirshna says its better to be a winner than a loser. It runs counter to what a lot of people whould think,…

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My teenage freinds when I was growing up, they have no idea that I attained liberation but I help them. They don't…

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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…