Buddhism Quote by Frederick Lenz

There are certain people who people think are enlightened. The problem with the word enlightenment is what you mean by it.

— Tenzin Palmo

No one on this earth attains enlightenment anymore without an enlightened master as a guide, unless that person was enlightened in many previous incarnations.

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Frederick Lenz

Very few people become enlightened in any given lifetime. On the planet earth their might be a dozen who are fully enlightened and several…

— Frederick Lenz

To be completely enlightened means that you're a Buddha.I don't speak of enlightenment.

— Tenzin Palmo

People get very deep experiences and they think they're enlightened. That's not enlightenment, that's just some realization.

— Tenzin Palmo

To be enlightened is to know oneself and not run away.

— Veronique Vienne

Enlightenment is a lot like dying. You might wonder why there aren't more enlightened people. It is because they are afraid to die.

— Frederick Lenz

The world of enlightenment, and that which creates enlightenment, is much different than what most people would think. Most people have Hallmark Card descriptions…

— Frederick Lenz

Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as an enlightened person. There is only enlightened activity.

— Shunryu Suzuki

To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality. It is…

— Robert Thurman

Strictly speaking, "you" cannot become enlightened, because who you take yourself to be is like a ripple in the ocean of consciousness - or…

— Eckhart Tolle