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Pain Quotes by Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz talks about pain as an illusion that hides deeper truth. He says real hardship can open the way to enlightenment, especially in places like bustling cities where suffering is strongest. He also notes that the path to joy is easier than staying stuck in endless pain.

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Grow up. Get a life. Life is pain. Anybody who tells you something other than that is trying to sell you something.

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I too have experienced the extreme pain of living, but I have also experienced some of its remarkable ecstasy.

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Pain and frustration vanish in the sunlight of your smile.

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

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In meditation, we are going back into the light. All our pain will be taken away, our frustration.

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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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There is always going to be pain. There is always going to be pleasure. But what is not always going to be…

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There is a certain degree of pain to be experienced in the search for self-knowledge, as there is a certain amount of…

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Tantra is for the desperate. Unless you've really experienced pain and suffering, tantra won't work. Unless you've really experienced exultation and ecstasy,…

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You have but a short time to live in this world. As you age, you will experience the pains of aging. If…

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We've developed a very complex filing system for existence. We see things in terms of good or bad. We feel happiness, joy,…

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The pathway to enlightenment is joyful. It may sound harsh. I suggest just the opposite. It is rather easy compared to the…

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Compassion allows us to accept everything. That's why there's always a tear in the eye of the Buddha that no one sees,…

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There's really no pain in the realm of the higher astral. A lot of spirits are playing mini-golf having a good time.

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When you draw from the endless awareness of nirvana, you are no longer a slave to fortune. When pleasant experiences come your…

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I think I've learned more from women than anyone else, and perhaps from love - what a wonderful testing ground, what a…

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Eve was blamed for the fall of man, and in return all women to come were to inheret her karmic responsibility for…

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As you go into light for longer and longer periods, as you progress in your meditation practice, you transform, you become illumined,…

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Success, failure, pain, small furry animals, household products, freeways, Star Wars systems - all are interlinked in the dance of tantra, the…

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Most people have no idea how unhappy they are because they don't know what happiness is. When they get a little break…

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Only real love of the infinite will motivate you. While pain motivates, once we feel comfortable and the pain has stopped, we'll…

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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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The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world,…

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Learn to be happy in any and all circumstances, whether you're experiencing pleasure or pain, whether there's loss or gain, whether the…

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If you're a sniveler, a whiner, a complainer, you will never be happy. We all have that side. Get a little stoical…

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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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It is better when you are in the world. You know how much pain there is. You can tell how established you…

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When you are enlightened, your physical body will still feel pain if you get hurt, but you will not be overwhelmed even…

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I think that pain gives us appreciation of joy - it's a package deal. And I definitely think that the joys of…

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Life hurts at times. It hurts to have a body at times, hurts to be born, hurts to live, hurts to die,…

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If your life is based around your being comfortable, you're not very comfortable. You suffer quite a bit - becuase in the…

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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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Love makes you wise. Love unites. Pain divides. Hate divides even more. Hate separates and brings us down to a very physical…

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It is much nicer to live in perfect mind, free from pain and agony. How painful it is to be unenlightened. Buddha…

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The attainment of enlightenment makes you happy forever. It frees you from the mental and emotional pains that human beings experience every…

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Just to exist, just to be, to take a breath, to feel that, whether its pleasure or pain, loss or gain, just…

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I don't really have a problem with the pain of life. Perhaps that is because I am a martial artist and I…

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The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and…

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The world appears solid to most people. It is filled with their pain, their desires, their private ecstasies, their expectations. They are…

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If you want to help people, if you care, go to the cities. The city is where the pain is the greatest…

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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…