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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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“What gets frustrating for some people is the fact that you might get very high, but you find yourself pulled down again. There are forces of illusion or maya that cause us to make mistakes.”

People Facts Might Force Causes Mistake Ignorance Illusion Making Mistakes Finding Yourself Frustrating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everyone is afraid of enlightenment, knowledge, completion. People are afraid of being exposed.”

People Ignorance Enlightenment Exposed Completion

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“Most people don't why they are born or why they die. They have no understanding of the forces in life that pull them and push them to their death and another rebirth in this or another world.”

People World Dies Force Understanding Born Reincarnation Rebirth Another World

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“Reincarnation is not necessarily linear. Sometimes people actually become more immersed in darkness or illusion than they were in previous lifetimes.”

People Sometimes Darkness Illusion Lifetime Reincarnation Linear

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“To think you can just go out and help people and somehow get a better life is not reincarnation as I know it. A better life comes from being happy and inner realizations. Now if helping others adds to that, well then, it's great.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Wells Helping Life Is Add Helping Others Realization Reincarnation Better Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Reincarnation is not what a lot of people think. Yes, we are eternal. No, everyone does not attain enlightenment; it's not necessary; life is smarter than we are.”

People Thinking Doe Life Is Eternal Enlightenment Smarter Reincarnation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When a person who has had highly evolved past lives is going through a strong past-life transit, that person comes to know things about life, death and other dimensions that most people in our world aren't aware of.”

People Knows World Persons Past Life Is Strong Dimensions Our World Reincarnation Life Death Past Life

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

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

“The experiences you'll have, the people you'll love, the jobs, the joys, the sorrows, the way you'll die. It is all predestined, unless you will a change.”

People Way Jobs Joy Dies Sorrow Karma Predestined

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Free will exists within each of us. Most people choose not to use their free will, so consequently they rarely alter their karmic patterns.”

People Use Patterns Karma Free Will

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“Many people excuse themselves by claiming that they don't have to do work anymore because they are beyond it. They are simply afraid of getting their hands dirty. Getting your hands dirty washes your being.”

People Hands Success Careers Buddhism Excuse Karma Dirty

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

“Enlightenment is a perfect state of mind. It is the direct seeing of reality. The world most people see, which they call life, is really just a dream.”

People World Mind States Dream Reality Life Is Perfect Seeing Enlightenment Direct State Of Mind Just A Dream

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

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

“People who ponder too much about the subject of enlightenment don't progress very fast. It is interesting to know it's there, but you can't know what it's like until you get there.”

People Knows Interesting Too Much Progress Subjects Enlightenment Pondering

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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.”

People Trying Helping Teacher Trouble Enlightenment Spread Awful Enlightened Interfere Rumor

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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.”

People Can Do Enlightenment Miracle 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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“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

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.”

People Ifs Thinking World Different Would Be Religious Practice Enlightenment Cards Description Enlightened Hallmark Religious Practices Hallmark Card

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

“True teachers of enlightenment are hard to find. The popular ones, of course, usually aren't enlightened because how could they be? They just tell people what they want to hear.”

People Want Hard Courses Teacher Enlightenment Enlightened True Teacher

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“Good teachers are not known for telling you what you want to hear, and consequently they're rarely popular because they tend to offend people on a regular basis by their mere presence on earth.”

People Want Earth Known Teacher Bases Mere What You Want Enlightened Good Teacher

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Even enlightened people think of themselves as beginners. They probably think of themselves as beginners more than others do - perpetual beginners who begin again each moment because their subject is endless.”

People Thinking Moments Teacher Subjects Endless Enlightened Perpetual Beginners Begin Again

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most people who have been enlightened in previous incarnations normally begin to regain their past-life enlightenment around the age of twenty-nine, when their astrological Saturn return takes place.”

People Has Beens Age Past Teacher Return Enlightenment Twenties Nine Enlightened Incarnation Rama Past Life Saturn

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In this whole world, there are actually very few people who study meditation with an enlightened master. This is because there are not very many enlightened masters on the entire earth.”

People World Whole Earth Study Teacher Meditation Masters Whole World Enlightened

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

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

“Being a siddha master is indeed a great accomplishment, but it is not the same as being enlightened. People confuse siddha masters, who have the power to perform miracles, with enlightened masters who can enter into samadhi.”

People Teacher Masters Miracle Accomplishment Enlightened Samadhi Great Accomplishment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you respect your teacher, you do better. Respect is only good because it will help you. Real liberated people, what can you do for them? They've got everything. They are everything. They don't need to be worshipped or adored.”

People Ifs Needs Real Helping Teacher Enlightened Liberated

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“While people who are enlightened are worthy of respect, to put them on a pedestal is a mistake. To undervalue them is also a mistake.”

People Mistake Teacher Worthy Enlightened Pedestal

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“Many people claim to be liberated...it's an endless list! According to "moi", as Ms. Piggy would say, there are currently, on this earth, 12 beings who are self-realized. Eleven are men, one is a woman. Most of them are in the Far East, most of them you've never heard of and probably never will.”

People Men Self Earth Teacher Heard Claims East Lists Endless Enlightened Eleven Liberated Piggy

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“The abuse of power manifests with phony spiritual teachers and phony gurus who tell you how to run your life and what to wear and what to eat, all that sort of stuff. They abuse. People don't realize that, listen to them and ruin their lives.”

People Running Spiritual Stuff Realizing Teacher Abuse Ruins Enlightened Guru Phony Abuse Of Power Spiritual Teachers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Once in while a teacher may make a recommendation, it is usually after going through the basic Socratic method of trying to get people to figure it out themselves. A good teacher challenges your mind, your intellect, and your spirit.”

People Trying Mind May Spirit Challenges Teacher Figures Method Intellect Enlightened Good Teacher Recommendations Socratic

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“There is deception. People who think they are enlightened and it's just ego.”

People Thinking Teacher Ego Deception Enlightened

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“Enlightened people live in very charged states of attention, with a tremendous power circuiting through them.”

People States Attention Teacher Enlightened

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“People who are enlightened in previous lifetimes have a certain degree of difficulty in regaining their enlightenment. Sometimes it comes in childhood. Sometimes it takes many years to reintegrate the personality structure that they gained when they first entered into this world.”

People World Years Firsts Sometimes Certain Teacher Childhood This World Personality Degrees Enlightenment Difficulty Structure Lifetime Enlightened

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People come to a teacher to learn self-discovery. A teacher who just wants to keep you on a string forever, the god-guru concept, a teacher like that is very abusive. Those people are actually usually taking their students energy.”

People Want Self Energy Forever Teacher Students Concepts Discovery Self Discovery Enlightened Strings Guru Abusive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Miracles have a purpose. Miracles help people believe in enlightenment. The real miracle is the transformation of consciousness from limitation and pain to enlightenment and ecstasy.”

People Believe Real Helping Pain Purpose Consciousness Teacher Enlightenment Miracle Transformation Limitation Enlightened Ecstasy

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“Some people see teachers and they associate the feelings of the other students who are present with the teacher. They psychically connect with all those hundreds of minds and they don't key to the teacher at all.”

People Mind Feelings Teacher Students Keys Enlightened Associates

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“Those secrets are things that most people don't learn, because they are not enthusiastic enough, or bright enough, or patient enough, or funny enough; or still enough.”

People Stills Enough Secret Teacher Patient Enlightened Enthusiastic

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“The teacher will perform miracles. Not just to delight and amuse people, but showing them that miraculous occurrences indicate that there is something more.”

People Teacher Miracle Delight Enlightened Miraculous

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“Very few people become enlightened in any given lifetime. On the planet earth their might be a dozen who are fully enlightened and several thousand who live in enlightened states of mind.”

People Mind States Might Earth Given Teacher Planets Thousand Lifetime Enlightened State Of Mind Dozen Planet Earth

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most people think that an enlightened Buddhist Teacher is a fireman; His job is to put the fire out so that you can live in your home safely. But seeker beware! A fully enlightened Buddhist teacher is an arsonist! His job is to set your spirit on fire...by feeding the flames of your soul with love.”

People Thinking Soul Home Jobs Spirit Fire Teacher Buddhist Your Soul Flames Enlightened Feeding Seekers Fireman Arsonists

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“People always say, 'A good man is hard to find.' You've never heard that about women, have you?”

People Men Hard Women Heard Enlightenment Good Man

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“When you wish to subjugate a people, you have to convince them of their own inherent weakness.”

People Wish Women Enlightenment Weakness Convince Inherent

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“People would start to follow him and they'd say: "Well why should I follow the Romans? This man says I can be free and do what I want." So he had to be put out of the way quickly because he was a revolutionary.”

People Men Way Want Should Wells I Can Christianity Revolutionary Should I

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“Most people's Gods are self-reflective. God just has to be like you. You get concerned, so you assume God must get concerned. You get pissed off, so you assume God must get pissed off. You're attached to things that you create, so you assume that God would be.”

People Self God Would Be Like You Concerned Assuming Pissed Off

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“Some people think God should in some way come to you and assist you, should answer your prayers. Why? It exists in perfect ecstasy beyond the dualistic consciousness. It's totally oblivious to you. It has no interest in your life or your death - it doesn't matter.”

People Thinking Way Should Matter God Interest Prayer Answers Perfect Consciousness Ecstasy Our Prayers Oblivious

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“It's amazing to me how many people who profess to be spiritual seekers are self-seekers, and how few of them ever consider God.”

People Self God Spiritual Seekers

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“Some people say: "There is no God; because, if there was a God, God would stop all the suffering." Nonsense! God is oblivious to suffering. God is beyond suffering. That's what makes God, God, by definition.”

People Ifs God Suffering Definitions Nonsense There Is No God Oblivious

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“Does power bring happiness? Does it bring refinement? Does it bring humor? Does it bring a good-heartedness, or is it just cold? Power is never cold. Cold people may use power in cold ways.”

People Way May Doe Use Power Cold Old People Refinement

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“Power is very much like the wind. It comes and goes; no one really owns it. People are foolish enough to think they possess power. You don't possess power, power possesses you. Power uses you.”

People Thinking Enough Use Power Wind Foolish Comes And Goes

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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