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Suffering Quotes by Frederick Lenz

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The wheel of birth and death spins for everyone, yet the quotes point to an inner freedom beyond that cycle. They talk about letting go of fleeting attachments and dissolving the self to end suffering. A longing for home is described as a deep, eternal pull.

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Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment.

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Nirvana is the pure and perfect schness of thatness of being.

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There is a way to reach enlightenment and get beyond suffering.

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The life of an unenlightened person is filled with suffering.

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No one cares about you. No one cares. You will die and be forgotten.

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Suffering follows the lack of wisdom.

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Hell is everything. Heaven is nothing.

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Nirvana has nothing do with any of this. None of this is there.

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Nirvana isn't a physical place. It is not like going to heaven. It just means no more individualized awareness, no aggregate body…

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

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Nirvana is outside the fun house. You are walking around in the fun house forever.

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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.

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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.

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Most people suffer in love because of attachment. Attachment means we're interested in a net return on our investment.

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Who needs to go the horror movies? Just go outside or turn on the TV. Buddha called it the "nightmare of the…

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Something in you wants to go beyond, wants to be free from this endless round of perception. Enlightenment is that.

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Being on the path means we again meditate with joy. We deal with the suffering of life and the pain of existence…

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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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There is no movement in Nirvana. There is no sameness. And one does not consider it to be timeless because one is…

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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…

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People don't really want to know the truth. The truth is that you are all dead in the future, everything that you…

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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…

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There is suffering and there is joy. Your life is very short, and then you're back again for another and another, forever,…

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The source of their motivation ranges from what you might expect - from the seeking of money and publicity, to those who…

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In this lifetime you can lose everything. Everything passes here.

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Nothing is here in this world that is of any interest at all.

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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.

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If you suffer in love, if you have problems in love, it's because you don't have enough humility.

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Universes collide and conjoin inside us and beyond all is nirvana, the final, absolute resting place of the soul.

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Most people lead lives of frustration and disapointment. They enjoy temporary pleasures and long-lasting suffering.

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You suffer because you try to fulfill yourself. You think of yourself in a limited way.

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You're in a world of diversity. You see things through a glass darkly. There is a separation everywhere.

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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…

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Who has that perfect faith and trust? Only such a person with that faith and trust can be enlightened.

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You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering.

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Life is just masturbation in a sense, mentally. What people do is they just create a world out of their self-reflection.

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Nirvana is a state of perpetual bliss and ecstasy, unaffected by the transient ups and downs of its own creations.

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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…

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You are going to die. Your physical body will disintegrate. You cannot help that.

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The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.

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