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Ignorance Quotes by Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz describes life as the wave of Samsara, where thoughts are like shadows moving across the ground. He says enlightenment goes beyond knowledge and ignorance, and that personality is just an ego that creates a sense of separateness from the universe.

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As long as you exist, you are aware of the manifest universes through the senses, through feelings and through mind.

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Everything is perception. A hallucination is a perception of a certain reality. It is a perception of a certain state of mind.

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The things you see are real, but they are not a complete seeing - Samsara.

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The Samsara is the movement of life. And you, an individual self, a form, a moment on a wave, are bound.

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You are separate from the universe, therefore you experience it.

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At this point you are so far away from what you really are, it's ridiculous.

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The samsara is the sense of self. I've had past experiences. I'm aware of the moment. I will have future experiences.

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There's a different film being made in every mind. And of course, the star of the film is the mind, the personality,…

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You're bound by the frame. You've become so engrossed in the movie of your life that you have forgotten that you're sitting…

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You're standing in a closet, and you've been in it so long that you can't remember that there's anything else, that there's…

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I don't think you see your minds. I think you see your thoughts; you see your desires; you see your relatives, friends,…

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None of this has ever been or will ever be; all is an appearance, all is an illusion. Illusions are truth. All…

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All the manifest forms of existence are but illusions. They are momentary displays of consciousness, flashes of lightening in the sky. They…

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The idea of self is dependent upon attraction, aversion and memory. Memory is simply a serial account of attractions and aversions that…

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In the realm of the higher astral, it's just fun. We're on the honeymoon and we love each other so much that…

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There is illusion, the way you see things now, thinking that there is a tomorrow, there is a today, there is time…

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None of this exists. All important decisions in the universe occur someplace else.

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Everyone is afraid of enlightenment, knowledge, completion. People are afraid of being exposed.

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Reality is not the world as you perceive it. Reality is the world perceived through enlightenment. It's the same world; but it's…

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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 fall into states of illusion - we forget all this. We get caught up in desires, frustrations, political movements, philosophies, religions,…

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Samsara is the world appearance, the cycle of rebirth, the physically manifest universes and states of mind that you perceive through the…

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Whenever you are in a perceptual field, it seems like it's ultimate. It's a self-wrapping consciousness. There doesn't seem or appear to…

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Personality is a manifestation of ego. Ego is the central sense of separateness that a person has from the rest of the…

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So when we wake from the ignorance of this world, the dream of existence, all of the experiences that we have ever…

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This solidity is not true. The apparent solidity is the delusion of the senses and of the self. Everything is made up…

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It's only illusions that destroy us. It's illusions that convince us that we can't. It's the illusions of the transient that tell…

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Life isn't complicated. The reason it appears complicated to you is because you are in a very distorted state of mind. That's…

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The stars in the sky last for billions of years. That's nothing to the mind, nothing. It's an instant, a millisecond. The…

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Unlike the experience of nirvana, traveling to other dimensions will not take you beyond suffering, nor will it help you experience the…

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An enlightened person doesn't know it all. Enlightenment simply means walking beyond this and all worlds into nirvana, which is beyond knowledge…

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You can be in a state of mind for a few seconds and forget that you were ever in any other state…

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Illusions are shadows moving endlessly across the ground. The shadows are quite real but they're shadows. They have very little substance.

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If you attain liberation do not feel that it matters or it is important. You had nothing to do with it. If…

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Things don't make you unhappy. People don't make you unhappy. You make yourself unhappy. Because you are in the cycle. You're stuck.…

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You can stay in the safe, secure oblivion and pain of ignorance, not knowing, and just die. You'll just die, like everyone…

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It's fun to go to a supermarket or a park or a shopping mall where human beings convene. They're so caught up…

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At the moment you're suffering from what we call Maya. Maya is illusion. Maya is a Sanskrit word that suggests that we…

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To suffer because of anything you see, feel or experience here in the world of moment to moment is a mistake. It…

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The burden you are carrying around is the burden of self. You seek release from that. You want to let it all…

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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…