Enlightened Quotes by Frederick Lenz

Becoming enlightened is not special, but it's unusual.

— Frederick Lenz

Buddhism is all about secrets.

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Frederick Lenz

Advanced Teachers always forgive. It is inevitable that anyone who seek knowledge and power will make many mistakes.

— Frederick Lenz

The scriptures recommend love and service to the enlightened to develop purity.

— Frederick Lenz

The enlightened being can look through states of mind, but they are also outside of them.

— Frederick Lenz

How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places.

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Frederick Lenz

An enlightened master is a perpetual source of the cosmic light because his mind is always merged with nirvana.

— Frederick Lenz

Once in a while an enlightened teacher goes out into the world and spreads the dharma. They attract some attention, and it…

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It takes quite a bit of time to become enlightened. But it really is not so different from learning any other art;…

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When you sit with an enlightened teacher physically, the teacher moves in and out of different states of mind. That is how…

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Whether it's a fully enlightened Christ or Buddha, or just a more aware Martin Luther King, Kennedy or Gandhi, what did they…

— Frederick Lenz

It is important to monitor your mind constantly. This is particularly important if you are studying with an enlightened teacher, because you…

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Human beings have illusions. The enlightened don't have illusions. They see things as they are, and in that seeing, they see ecstasy…

— Frederick Lenz

The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth…

— Frederick Lenz

Simply because you can perform feats of power does not mean you are, in the classical sense, fully enlightened. It means that…

— Frederick Lenz

Only the enlightened are consistently happy. Their happiness is not predicated upon the events and experiences that take place in this world.…

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Frederick Lenz

As an enlightened teacher of Buddhism, I'd like to welcome you to the pathway to enlightenment. I'd like to encourage you to…

— Frederick Lenz

To deal with someone from other infinites is problematic at times, to deal with a true master of all the realms of…

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Even to the sage who's doing Sahaja Samadhi, the great guru, I'd say: "Hey buddy, you know, I like the robes and…

— Frederick Lenz

I can go shopping and pick up some Bounty Towels, the three pack, I can go home and open those up and…

— Frederick Lenz

If it's real enlightenment...you're dealing with someone who's broken through every rule, every barrier, every do and do not, and they've reached…

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If you become very close to your teacher, if you do well in your meditation, a deep emotional bond will develop between…

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Becoming enlightened doesn't mean everything works your way.

— Frederick Lenz

Enlightenment is cumulative. You become a little more enlightened each day as you practice yoga and Buddhism.

— Frederick Lenz

Most teachers are not enlightened. Very few are. That doesn't mean they are not great teachers.

— Frederick Lenz

It is possible to wake up very quickly, to become enlightened, or you can do it gradually.

— Frederick Lenz

Anybody or anything can become enlightened because enlightenment is the very nature of existence itself.

— Frederick Lenz

To be enlightened means that you really don't change, and yet you're nothing but change.

— Frederick Lenz

It is incumbent upon the student to go to the teacher to learn.

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Frederick Lenz

There is deception. People who think they are enlightened and it's just ego.

— Frederick Lenz

An individual has to be tenacious enough to become enlightened.

— Frederick Lenz

We see an enlightened teacher to gain a sense of humor, to learn balance and proportion and of course to learn wisdom.

— Frederick Lenz

An enlightened person is someone who shifts from one plateau of knowledge to another.

— Frederick Lenz

Do not be a sniveler. Do not say you can't be happy, you can't be enlightened. How do you know? It is…

— Frederick Lenz

Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself.

— Frederick Lenz