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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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“Enlightenment occurs when your mind merges with nirvana, with what Tibetans call the Dharmakaya, the clear light of reality, which is the highest plane of transcendental wisdom and perfect understanding.”

Mind Reality Light Understanding Perfect Clear Buddhism Highest Enlightenment Planes Transcendental Tibetan

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“Enlightenment simply means that you've gotten above the body-mind complex. You've refined the self, dissolved it in the white light of eternity and gone through all the gradient shifts.”

Mind Mean Self Body Light White Gone Enlightenment Eternity Complexes Refined White Light

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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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“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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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“The waking dreams of life as most people know them are spiritual experiences, but there is another order of spiritual experience and that's to be in the garden of the heart, in the perfect stillness, where the white light of eternity meets the white light of eternity.”

People Knows Heart Dream Light Spiritual Order White Perfect Enlightenment Garden Eternity Waking Stillness Spiritual Experience White Light

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The enlightened teacher is someone who has become absorbed in eternity. While they may have a body like others, the essence of their being is light.”

May Body Light Teacher Essence Eternity Enlightened Bhakti Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sometimes beings come forth from that realmless realm. Light incarnates and wanders around through the samsara, kind of looking at itself in various countless forms. We call beings that come from that realm "enlightened".”

Kind Sometimes Light Form Teacher Various Wander Realms Enlightened Samsara

Author:Frederick Lenz

“An enlightened master is a perpetual source of the cosmic light because his mind is always merged with nirvana.”

Mind Light Teacher Masters Source Enlightened Cosmic Perpetual

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

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

“When you are enlightened, your physical body will still feel pain if you get hurt, but you will not be overwhelmed even by extreme physical pain, because your mind is filled with light, love and understanding.”

Ifs Feels Mind Stills Body Light Pain Understanding Hurt Teacher Filled Extremes Enlightened Overwhelmed Physical Body Physical Pain

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

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

“If you are a student of an enlightened master, you can literally tap into his aura, anywhere and at anytime. All you have to do is meditate on your Buddhist master and the light will come into your mind.”

Ifs Mind Light Teacher Students Masters Buddhist Enlightened Auras

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

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

“Almost anyone can see the golden light in an enlightened master's aura when the master meditates, unless, of course, the person is blocked up psychically.”

Persons Light Courses Teacher Masters Golden Enlightened Auras Blocked Golden Light

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

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

“It's nice if you love a liberated person, and you should, because they love you. They're lovable. They're children playing in a very, very unusual world filled with vortexes of dancing darkness and light.”

Ifs World Should Children Persons Light Darkness Teacher Nice Love You Filled Dancing Enlightened Unusual Light And Darkness Liberated Lovable Children Playing Vortex

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If the teacher is truly enlightened, energy and light is always coming forth from them. To be in their physical presence is a great boon, not of the teacher but of that light which passes through them.”

Ifs Light Energy Teacher Enlightened Boon Energy And Light

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The role of the teacher is to make sure that the practice is pure. By guiding the student, you make sure that they are really going into the planes of light and not fooling themselves.”

Light Roles Practice Teacher Students Pure Planes Enlightened

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To see someone manifest all the astral lights, to be surrounded by light, to have light emanating from their body, pulsing waves of gold light - this is the miracle of enlightenment.”

Body Light Teacher Enlightenment Gold Miracle Wave Enlightened Manifest

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It seems strange, since the aspect of a woman is power and that her subtle physical body conducts light very well, that more women don't attain enlightenment than men. I would suggest that the reason this is so, is cultural.”

Men Wells Reason Body Light Seems Women Strange Enlightenment Aspect Subtle Physical Body

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Jesus Christ was a simple man walked around, did a few miracles, said a few things and died. It was enough for him to say what he felt and glow with the light of eternity.”

Men Said Enough Light Jesus Felt Christ Simple Christianity Jesus Christ Eternity Miracle Died Simple Man

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We know that many of the apostles of Christ were killed. Eleven out of 12 met violent deaths when they were just talking about God and light.”

Knows Light Christ Talking Christianity Mets Violent Eleven Apostles Violent Death

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you see paintings of some of the saints, or of Christ, they all have lights around their heads. What the painters are trying to convey is the psychic light, which is around everyone.”

Trying Light Christ Christianity Painting Saint Painter Psychics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everything is God. Everything is light. It is only when we live in illusions, when there are shadows in our mind that we are afraid.”

Mind God Light Illusion Shadow

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We forget about the space between the stars, the pure and perfect space that's also the eye of God. To penetrate the mystery is to become the mystery; to penetrate infinity is to become infinity; to penetrate light is to become light.”

God Light Eye Stars Space Perfect Forget Mystery Pure Infinity Penetrate Space Between

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Life is light and consciousness. Beyond this world and other worlds, beyond time and space and dimension, beyond what we call duality, is God”

World God Light Life Is Space Consciousness This World Dimensions Time And Space Duality Other Worlds

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“To just burn out, to give up just because things don't go your way, to assume that there is no God, no infinite light - I think that's pretty petty, personally.”

Thinking Way Giving God Light Giving Up Infinite Assuming Petty There Is No God Burn Out

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People are timid. They don't take chances. Naturally, they're bound. They are afraid of the light. They are afraid of their own power. In the land of willpower, anything is possible.”

People Light Chance Power Land Bounds Willpower Take A Chance Anything Is Possible

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the light we can see what is and what is not. We know what is right and what is inappropriate.”

Knows Light Buddhism Dharma Inappropriate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All questions about the Self, fall away in the white light of eternity, in nirvana, because then we have awakened from the dream.”

Self Dream Light Fall White Yoga Eternity Awakened White Light

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All the concepts, all knowings, all truths, all religous systems, all beliefs, fall away in the white light of eternity.”

Light Fall Belief White Knowing Yoga Concepts Eternity White Light

Author:Frederick Lenz

“At the end of the dream, on the other side of the rainbow, there's only light.”

Ends Dream Light Sides Yoga Rainbow

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the white light of eternity, there is only eternity.”

Light White Yoga Eternity White Light

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The most successful way to combat these dark clouds that come between the light of you and that which you love, is to feel that love itself will rescue you.”

Way Feels Light Dark Love Is Successful Yoga Clouds Combat Rescue Bhakti Yoga Dark Clouds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We sit in meditation and cry to God, we cry to the light, as little children, knowing God will do everything for us.”

Children Littles Light Knowing Meditation Cry Yoga Gods Will Knowing God Bhakti Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As we love truly and deeply, we see the white light of truth in them. Seeing this reminds us that the same light exists within us too - As the Tibetans say: "Recognition is liberation."”

Light White Seeing Yoga Recognition Liberation Tibetan Bhakti Yoga White Light

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Try to have a more expanded sense of that which you are. Feel that you are eternity. There's only goodness. There's only light.”

Feels Trying Light Goodness Yoga Eternity Bhakti Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The heart is a place of great light and their are different gradations of light that pass through the heart.”

Heart Different Light Yoga Bhakti Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Think of a star. A star burns its very substance to give light to others. You need to be like a star.”

Thinking Needs Giving Light Stars Yoga Karma Substance Karma Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We see the one light, the one unified reality that we see in others, is the same reality that is within ourselves. We are one with all of existence.”

Reality Light Existence Yoga Karma Unified Karma Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving you have no time for this. You just push these emotions out.”

People Giving Self Light Emotion Yoga Guilt Karma Pity Indulge Self Pity Indulge In Karma Yoga Self Giving

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Because someone is a lama or is part of a monastic order or claims to be part of a succession, doesn't really mean they know anything. Always examine the individual's consciousness, their ability to transmit light.”

Knows Mean Light Order Individual Ability Consciousness Claims Really Mean Succession Transmit Lama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you seek eternity and light and luminosity, seek humility first ... first things first.”

Ifs Firsts Light Humility Buddhism Eternity First Things First

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Purity is light. Not just an ordinary light, but a transcendental light.”

Light Buddhism Ordinary Purity Transcendental

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Unless you have a great deal of purity, it's difficult to retain the higher light.”

Light Difficult Deals Buddhism Higher Purity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is only one prayer and that is prayer for light, for purity, for perfection.”

Light Prayer Buddhism Perfection Purity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Purity is receptivity, the ability to sit and wait patiently, for as long as necessary, for the coming of the light.”

Long Light Waiting Ability Buddhism Purity Receptivity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When the mind is not only silent, but that part of the mind that could become conscious that the mind is silent dissolves in light, then we see and feel purity. We become it, the purity of the eternal light.”

Feels Mind Light Buddhism Eternal Conscious Silent Purity Eternal Light

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The transcendental light permeates your being and washes away impurity. All those different selves which are limited and binding and hurting are washed away.”

Different Self Light Hurt Buddhism Purity Binding Transcendental Impurity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Spend time with spiritual friends, those who seek light. Purity is gained through strength.”

Light Spiritual Buddhism Purity End Times Spend Time

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Purity is developed through caring. You need to care about light and the matters of light, truth, religion and spirituality.”

Needs Matter Light Care Spirituality Buddhism Caring Purity

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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