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Frederick Lenz was an American author known for his profound understanding and unique insights into Zen Buddhism. His works blended Zen philosophy with modern life, resonating with readers worldwide.

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“Use power carefully. Don't be afraid to have it. Learn balance and wisdom in addition to the unlocking of the kundalini, if you wish to have a happy and enlightened life.”

Ifs Use Wish Buddhism Balance Enlightened Life Balance Unlocking

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Mysticism is concerned primarily with moving our awareness field from the beginning of the band of perception, the human band, up to the enlightened bands of perception.”

Humans Moving Awareness Fields Buddhism Band Perception Concerned Enlightened Mysticism

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“We remember a few people who've been enlightened. We build churches and edifices in their name. But few people, if any, feel that they could ever be like that; and if that's how they feel - that's how it will be.”

People Ifs Feels Remember Humanity Names Church Buddhism Enlightened Edifice

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“Overcoming fear is a critical factor for anyone who wishes to be really happy, or anyone who wishes to become enlightened”

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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 do with them here? They shoot them, crucify them, and get them out of the way because people are afraid of truth.”

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“The teaching that we receive is not necessarily very accurate. The value systems that our cultures have developed are not every open. They are very restrictive. We live in an age that is not enlightened.”

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“The planet earth is a sub-world, way below what's average, because if an enlightened being walked through New York City today, no one would see him or her. They wouldn't see the glow.”

Ifs World Way Today Earth Humanity Cities New York Planets Buddhism Average Enlightened New York City Planet Earth

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Let the rain of unhappy and tragic experiences fall, as sometimes it inevitably must, even in the lives of the enlightened masters. If your mind has become one with nirvana, you will remain happy at all times.”

Ifs Mind Sometimes Happiness Fall Masters Buddhism Rain Unhappy All Time Tragic Enlightened

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth and knowledge, to be God.”

Knows Inspirational Buddhism Noble Pursuit Enlightened Truth And Knowledge

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Once you are enlightened, you can do whatever you want without fear or sorrow. You can go snowboarding, get married, stay single, be rich and famous, or live unknown in a high Himalayan cave. It is up to you.”

Want Inspirational Can Do Rich Buddhism Sorrow Married Enlightened Caves Up To You Do Whatever You Want Snowboarding Staying Single

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“We see very few people who are satisfied. They say that the only ones who are really happy are the enlightened or the fools.”

People Inspirational Buddhism Fool Satisfied Enlightened Really Happy

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

Inspirational Existence Buddhism Enlightenment Enlightened

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“There are other options that no one ever told you about. These are things mom and dad never explained to you; your teachers didn't know; they weren't enlightened. They weren't luminous beings that stood out of time and space.”

Knows Inspirational Space Teacher Buddhism Mom Dad Enlightened Time And Space Luminous Mom And Dad

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

Inspirational Littles Practice Buddhism Enlightenment Yoga Each Day Enlightened Cumulative

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“Why become enlightened? Why join the military? Why get married? Why cross the ocean? It is a personal choice. There is something in a person that draws them to the light.”

Inspirational Persons Light Choices Military Buddhism Ocean Married Draws Crosses Enlightened Personal Choice

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When your consciousness expands you are in a world, literally, of light. You live in a world of light where nothing is solid. You don't have to be enlightened to have this experience. You just have to start the inner journey.”

World Inspirational Light Consciousness Journey Buddhism Enlightened Inner Journey

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-discovery is realistic. It's not built on ideas and philosophies. It's what works. Philosophies are nice if you like philosophies. But self-discovery is predicated on something that really brings you into enlightened states of mind.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

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

Doe Book Reading Meditation Buddhism Enlightenment Enlightened Reading Books

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Yoga means we accept responsibility for the tasks in our life, and we know that being a king, being an enlightened teacher, being someone who sweeps the streets, we know that nothing is a greater yoga than anything else.”

Knows Mean Responsibility Accepting Greater Teacher Our Lives Streets Kings Yoga Tasks Enlightened Hinduism

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“You have to be a warrior in order to become enlightened. If you think it's tough paying the bills, think about being everywhere all at once and doing everything in all the universes, simultaneously, past, present, and future.”

Ifs Thinking Past Order Universe Tough Bills Warrior Enlightened Hinduism Past Present Past Present And Future

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“Ramakrishna didn't suddenly become enlightened. We had years of him meditating, seeking, crying to Mother Kali, going in and out of samadhi; but after many years of this process, he was enlightened. He was no longer a finite individual.”

Years Mother Individual Process Cry Seeking Enlightened Hinduism Finite Meditating Samadhi Kali

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“If you are with a fully enlightened being, a jivan mukta, liberated soul, the quality of light is so clear, that you don't really know that it is there until later.”

Ifs Knows Soul Light Quality Clear Enlightened Hinduism Liberated

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“Focusing on an enlightened teacher is a doorway. It is not a person. We are focusing on the light that passes through them. We are moving through them into the planes of light and eventually to nirvana.”

Persons Light Moving Teacher Planes Enlightened Doorways Visualization

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“You can't just sit in emptiness. Even the enlightened don't sit in emptiness. We call it emptiness - but we move our mind into a world of light.”

World Mind Light Moving Emptiness Enlightened

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“If we get above the individualized soul's journey, you will see that we are all one. We are all one light. In that sense, we are all enlightened.”

Ifs Soul Light Journey Enlightened Reincarnation

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“If there wasn't a way around the samskaras, no one would ever become enlightened.”

Ifs Way Karma Enlightened Samskara

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“Good karma leads to rebirth also. The desire for higher states of mind is a desire. When you are fixated on higher states of mind, you don't become enlightened.”

Mind States Desire Higher Karma Enlightened State Of Mind Rebirth Good Karma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“No self-effort in the direction of enlightenment is ever wasted. Even if you don't become fully enlightened in a given lifetime, you will be much happier and more aware.”

Ifs Self Given Effort Enlightenment Lifetime Enlightened Rebirth

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you are enlightened and have united your mind with the deepest and most ancient part of the mind of the universe, you are not affected by suffering the way other people are.”

People Way Mind Suffering Universe United Enlightenment Ancient Enlightened Affected

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“If one becomes enlightened, as I did in past incarnations, we leave the structural universes behind. We don't even have past incarnations because the form that had those incarnations has dissolved into the clear light of reality.”

Ifs Reality Light Past Form Universe Behinds Clear Enlightenment Enlightened Incarnation

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“A person who is enlightened does not have to reincarnate, or they may. If they chose not to, they can go beyond the wheel, and slide into nirvana.”

Ifs May Persons Doe Enlightenment Wheels Enlightened Slides

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

People Might Dies Wonder Dying Enlightenment Enlightened

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“Enlightened teachers and people who help them, have a lot of trouble. People try to interfere with the work and spread awful rumors about you.”

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“Most enlightened people can do miracles. Some have powers, some don't. Some people who have developed powers aren't enlightened.”

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

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“It is not special to be enlightened, just different. An enlightened person is someone who has dedicated not just this lifetime but thousands of lifetimes to becoming awareness.”

Persons Different Special Awareness Becoming Enlightenment Lifetime Enlightened Dedicated

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“What the enlightened person sees no one could ever tell or describe. Wonder beyond belief. We live in a universe filled with wonder. It is wonder just to live.”

Persons Universe Belief Wonder Enlightenment Filled Enlightened

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“People think that if you are enlightened you are not in touch with the pulse of the physical. Au contraire! The higher you go, the deeper you become, and the more conscious you are of the physical and the sensorial.”

People Ifs Thinking Higher Enlightenment Conscious Deeper Enlightened Pulse

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“It is possible to move to an enlightened state of mind from a lower bardo or level of awareness. It can happen, but it is extremely unlikely.”

Mind States Happens Moving Levels Awareness Enlightenment Enlightened State Of Mind Unlikely

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“If one is enlightened, one does not perceive life with North, South, East and West. There is no California, there is no New York. In a higher bonding state of attention, everything is fluid light.”

Ifs Doe States Light Attention New York Higher Enlightenment West South East Perceive California Enlightened Fluid Bonding East And West

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“Be enlightened for you, just for you. No one else knows or cares. They crucified Christ, you know. They don't take real well, on this planet, to the people who see things differently.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's a very complicated matter to become enlightened. If it happens to a person without a teacher in this lifetime, you can bet their boots, they've had about a thousand teachers in their last thousand lives because it's a very complicated thing to do.”

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Author: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 of what creates enlightenment. And if their descriptions were correct, then everyone who is in religious practice would be enlightened.”

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“Becoming enlightened doesn't mean everything works your way.”

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“Yes I say that I am enlightened. What does that mean? It means I live in a condition of light...There really is no primary self anymore.”

Mean Doe Self Light Conditions Enlightenment Primaries Enlightened

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“When someone says to me "I want to be enlightened." I immediately take a vacation because I know that the person isn't serious. I've never met anyone who's serious about enlightenment”

Knows Want Persons Serious Mets Enlightenment Enlightened Vacation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enlightened beings are rare in the universe. They are the joker in the deck. They are outside the circle.”

Universe Teacher Circles Enlightened Deck

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“Enlightened teachers are not logical. They don't function from levels that are understandable to the human mind. They're not religious. Religions form around them, usually after they've died.”

Mind Humans Form Religious Levels Teacher Function Died Enlightened Logical Human Mind

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“The truly enlightened are not necessarily very religious. Religon is a convienent description to take care of our fears, to passify us.”

Care Religious Teacher Take Care Description Enlightened

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“Perpetual wakefulness doesn't mean you have all physical knowledge, that you can speak all languages, that you can fix cars...that is a storybook, Hollywood version of the enlightenment experience.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

Born: February 9, 1950
Died: April 12, 1998
Known for: Author
Quotes: 4397

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