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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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“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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“How could being the entire cosmos and all of its wonder and all of its stages and cycles, and yet being that which is beyond them all, the invisible, be extinction? Extinction? The extinction of what, of whom? How can that which has never been be extinguished?”

Suffering Wonder Stage Buddhism Enlightenment Invisible Cosmos Cycles Extinction

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“We have to leave everything we have been, a perceiver, "I" as an individual. That is enlightenment.”

Has Beens Individual Enlightenment

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“Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting your awareness, your mind.”

Mind Book Self Reading Awareness Pure Enlightenment Self Knowledge Culmination

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“There is a still point in eternity. There is a still point where all things intersect. There is a still point beyond life, time, and death. Your experience of the still point is enlightenment.”

Stills Enlightenment All Things Eternity Life Time

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“It is called enlightenment, nirvana, God, truth, call it what you will. There is no activity other than the eternal activities of the universe, perfect being, the awareness of all suchness, knowledge.”

Universe Perfect Awareness Activity Eternal Enlightenment

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“Light by its very nature is endless. Therefore you can never say you've had the ultimate experience in light - it goes on forever.”

Light Forever Goes On Enlightenment Ultimate Endless

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“Once you have mastered the ten thousand states of mind, it's paranirvana, the absorption into the stillness forever.”

Mind States Forever Thousand Ten Enlightenment State Of Mind Stillness Absorption

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“Enlightenment doesn't occur by accident. It is a deliberate decision that someone makes again and again. It is something you grow into and develop in.”

Grows Decision Enlightenment Accidents Again And Again Deliberate

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“Nirvana is a step beyond. You dissolve into the universe. The universe dissolves into you until there is no longer a difference. There is no sense of individual self as perceiver.”

Self Universe Individual Differences Steps Enlightenment

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“There is no movement in Nirvana. There is no sameness. And one does not consider it to be timeless because one is not one. It is you, my friend, who go away.”

Doe Suffering Movement Buddhism Enlightenment My Friends Going Away Timeless Sameness

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“We've decided what we are. That's the dream. When the dream fades, it's not that we don't exist. How could we not exist since we never existed?”

Dream Enlightenment Decided Fades Nothingness

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“We erase ourselves; we go away. But we don't really go away, and we don't really erase ourselves, since we were never there to begin with. We weren't there to begin with in that what we are, or conceive of ourselves as, is a perception.”

Perception Enlightenment Going Away Erase

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“Enlightenment does not put an end to awareness. It puts an end to limited awareness. It doesn't necessarily put an end to incarnation. It puts an end to reincarnation.”

Doe Ends Awareness Enlightenment Reincarnation Incarnation

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“Enlightenment doesn't simply mean being in heavenly states of mind. It doesn't mean being a saint.”

Mind Mean States Enlightenment Saint Heavenly State Of Mind

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“Enlightenment doesn't mean you know anything. It doesn't mean you don't know anything. It means that you've returned to the source, consciously.”

Knows Mean Source Enlightenment

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“Enlightenment means that you've become a sophisticated perceiver, without letting anyone know that you're sophisticated.”

Knows Mean Enlightenment Sophisticated

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“Enlightenment simply means that you've run out of questions, and that the answers don't matter anymore.”

Mean Matter Running Answers Enlightenment

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“Enlightenment means that you're in love with all of life, with not only immortality but mortality.”

Mean Enlightenment Immortality Mortality

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“Enlightenment means that you're living fully, and it means that you die fully. And then you go beyond life and death completely, everything, nothing, all, and beyond all.”

Mean Dies Enlightenment Life And Death Living Fully

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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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“The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just is.”

Mean Doe Ideas Purpose Enlightenment Fixed Reincarnation True Life

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“Nirvana is very funny. It's not sincere particularly. It's rather frivolous, actually.”

Enlightenment Sincere Frivolous

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“Awareness is wakefulness. Wakefulness is consciousness. Consciousness is limitless awareness.”

Consciousness Awareness Enlightenment Limitless

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“Enlightenment has nothing to do with physical knowledge. It is the experience of existence. Existence is infinite. There are countless universes and creations taking place simultaneously.”

Universe Existence Creation Enlightenment Infinite

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“If you are liberated then you can be in the crowd and there is no crowd. You can be surrounded by the world and their is no world. You have shattered the prism of illusion.”

Ifs World Enlightenment Illusion Crowds Liberated Shattered Prisms

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“We have ideas of God and nirvana or truth or enlightenment. These ideas will go away in nirvana because the suffusion is so complete and intense that nothing can be remembered.”

Ideas Enlightenment Intense Remembered Going Away

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“From the point of view of enlightenment, none of this has ever even been. All time and space, all the conditions that are apparent in the absence of enlightenment are unreal.”

Space Views Conditions Enlightenment Point Of View Absence All Time Time And Space Unreal

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“I have not in this lifetime yet met one person who earnestly seeks enlightenment in the West. Not one person.”

Persons Mets Enlightenment Lifetime West

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“A better name for nirvana might be endless love. Love not even in the sense that we see it if we're watching the romantic movie, but love in a sense of no absence.”

Ifs Might Names Enlightenment Absence Endless Endless Love

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“The day-to-day life we lead has nothing to do with enlightenment. It is just around the corner, and we don't see it.”

Enlightenment Corners Day To Day Around The Corner Day Life Day To Day Life

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“Enlightenment is the ability to freely transact within the ten thousand states of mind without a continuous self or awareness”

Mind Self States Ability Awareness Thousand Ten Enlightenment State Of Mind

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“The universe is endless. Enlightenment is endless. You have only touched the outer periphery of the endless still center of perfect being.”

Stills Universe Perfect Enlightenment Endless Touched Periphery

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“There is no way to explain enlightenment. It is just a word to indicate something beyond, something very, very far beyond the normal human condition.”

Way Humans Conditions Normal Enlightenment Human Condition

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“After enlightenment your body changes tremendously; its very molecular structure changes just because the kundalini is always streaming through you.”

Body Enlightenment Structure Your Body Streaming Body Change

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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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“Enlightenment just means that you don't have a structural self. It means you've flipped through the gradated realities. Nothing binds, nothing clings to you. You're unaffected by everything.”

Mean Self Reality Enlightenment Flipped

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“Enlightenment is not a finite state. It's not something that you just do and it's done. It goes on forever.”

States Done Forever Goes On Enlightenment Finite

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“Buddhists don't feel that enlightenment is particularly unusual. We feel that it's the natural state. Enlightenment simply means perceiving life directly as it is in all of its infinite, ever changing wonder, in all of its varied, myriad states of mind or as pari-nirvana, or whatever.”

Feels Mind Mean States Natural Wonder Enlightenment Infinite Buddhist State Of Mind Unusual

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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.”

People Knows Wells Real Care Christ Christianity Planets Enlightenment Enlightened

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“The world of enlightenment doesn't know of its own existence. We're beyond both the knower and known. There's no conceptual identity whatsoever.”

Knows World Existence Known Identity Enlightenment

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“Nirvana's not like anything you've ever known or experienced because it can't be known or experienced.”

Known Enlightenment

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“Enlightenment is an ocean of awareness that slides through the human part of us and dissolves it, and leaves us forever in eternity.”

Humans Forever Awareness Ocean Enlightenment Eternity Slides

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“We can't say what enlightenment is, we can't say what it isn't, because these are words and words have nothing to do with reality.”

Reality Enlightenment

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“Words are a human way of trying to describe things. But they're much more of interference than they are a help in the world of enlightenment.”

World Way Trying Humans Helping Enlightenment Interference

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“When I talk about the realm of spirit, happiness, nirvana, enlightenment, I'm not talking about something ideal or imaginary. There are realms of light that exist, that have always existed and will always exist. They're much more solid than the transient perceived reality that you're currently experiencing”

Reality Light Spirit Talking Enlightenment Ideals Realms Imaginary Not Talking Transient Perceived Reality

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“You see, that's the fun of Buddhism. We do have a wild card in the deck that can't be explained, that changes value continuously, and that's enlightenment.”

Values Fun Buddhism Enlightenment Cards Deck

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“The enlightenment experience is not what you think. How could it be anything that you can configure, anything you can imagine, any way that you think it should be?”

Thinking Way Should Imagine Enlightenment

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About the Author

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

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