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Cosmology Quotes by Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz describes how the Buddha’s first talks attracted a few followers who recognized his enlightenment. He explains that learning the Enlightenment Cycle can lift you above everyday joys and sorrows. He also says Buddhism tries to quiet the self, uses humor to face pain, and exists on its own without a founder.

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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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Real Buddhism is about meditation.

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I personally don't subscribe to any particular cosmology or beleif system. I'm a seer.

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

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

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The essence of all practice is to be cool. Life is not worth getting excited about because whatever you perceive is an…

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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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Buddhism has existed forever, just like we have, and occasionally it's codified; it's put together into a system by someone who likes…

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Prana is an element of energy. Energy is a manifestation of a certain principle which in Indian cosmology they call shakti, or…

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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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From my own personal encounters and studies with both Tantric and Zen Buddhist monks, I have found them to be humorous, warm,…

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Buddhism isn't about temples, and incense, and shaved heads, and robes. It's not about church. There are aspects of Buddhism that involve…

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Self discovery doesn't not seek to bring you answers about your personal life or philosophically comfort you about life and death. What…

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The essential premise of Buddhism is that there is enlightenment, there is nirvana. Beyond this world, beyond all worlds, there's something radiant,…

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In the Far Eastern languages we have many different words to describe the varying degrees of reality that a thing, a state…

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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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The Buddha gave his first talks, and three or four ascetics became his first disciples. They recognized his enlightenment.

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The Buddhist message is a message not of the negation of life, but one of affirmation.

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His second cycle of teachings discusses the cosmology of the universes. But in his later years, he wrote the tantric texts.

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Buddhism leads you to the awareness that all things are holy. Everything is holy. The dark has its own light, in other…

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According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through.

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A time comes when it isn't enough to read about Buddha, we wish to have that happen to ourselves. That's when we…

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As long as we remain self-reflective and keep looking at who and what we are, as long as we keep our analysis…

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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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Buddhism is the study of the way the mind works. One has to be able to hold a large number of relational…

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Knowledge of the Enlightenment Cycle, of the ways that inner dimensions and nirvana work, lifts you far above the transient sorrows, pains,…

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Buddhism suggests there are no elect. Everything rests upon your own self-effort, which is the good news because that means you don't…

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Occasionally, in each age and in different lands, a Buddha is born, that is to say, an enlightened person...they re-codify the ways,…

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The pathway to enlightenment is beautiful. There are a lot of wonderful things that happen along the way. Win or lose, you…

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The thing about Buddhism is that it stresses attainment of something ineffable, that is where it differs from other religions in that…

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Behind the transient reality, there is something else. It is a deeper, more permanent and unchanging reality that we Buddhists call nirvana.

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Buddhism is the study of power initially. It takes a certain amount of power to even know your potential - to have…

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In Buddhism we don't really believe in sin and salvation as Westerners would define them. We believe in the limitless possibilities of…

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Buddhism is yoga. Yoga started, who knows when? A long time ago, when the first person found that they could still their…

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Beyond learning and unlearning is awareness, and beyond awareness is consciousness, and beyond consciousness is immortality, and beyond immortality is dharma and…

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Over a period of years he collected thousands of discples. Many became his students. Many didn't become his students but whenever he…

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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…