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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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“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 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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“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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“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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“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 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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“The dreams of eternity are the states of mind. When we wake up from the dreams there's only enlightenment. There could never be anything else.”

Mind States Dream Enlightenment Eternity Wake Up State Of Mind

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“Enlightenment means that you're never the same. You move and shift as the quiescent state, in a body or out of it. And since the quiescent state is perpetual and endless ecstasy, therefore you are endless.”

Mean States Body Moving Enlightenment Endless Ecstasy Perpetual

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“The wonder of immaculate, perfect, pure mind is that when it is in its perfect, extant state without confusion, it can be anything it wants to be.”

Want Mind States Perfect Wonder Pure Enlightenment Confusion Immaculate

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“Enlightenment doesn't mean you stop being a student. Being a student is a state of mind. Enlightenment simply means that you are everything and everywhere. It doesn't preclude being a student.”

Mind Mean States Students Enlightenment State Of Mind

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“Sometimes when you are with an enlightened teacher, you will feel both pleasant and unpleasant things magnified. That happens when you meditate with someone who goes into very strong states of altered consciousness.”

Feels Sometimes States Happens Strong Consciousness Teacher Pleasant Enlightened Very Strong Altered

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“When you sit with an enlightened teacher physically, the teacher moves in and out of different states of mind. That is how you learn to do it yourself.”

Mind Different States Moving Teacher Enlightened State Of Mind Do It Yourself

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“An enlightened person is not in touch with all the ten thousand states of mind simultaneously always. It would be very hard to go shopping let alone drive the car.”

Mind Persons Hard States Would Be Teacher Car Thousand Ten Enlightened State Of Mind Shopping

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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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“The enlightened being can look through states of mind, but they are also outside of them.”

Mind Looks States Teacher Enlightened State Of Mind

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“The teacher will be moving through thousands of states of mind and sometimes beyond mind. While you are with the teacher, be sensitive to that. Without being flaky and devotional, develop respect for the teacher, just as the teacher respects you.”

Mind Sometimes States Moving Teacher Sensitive Enlightened State Of Mind Devotional

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“If you have done your homework, then the slightest motion from the teacher can cause you to spin into hundreds of different states of mind. That can only happen for the prepared individual.”

Ifs Mind Different States Done Happens Individual Causes Teacher Prepared Enlightened State Of Mind Homework

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“An enlightened person has real power and when they think a good thought, the tremendous power of attention causes their students to actually lift up into those states. It brings a power into their lives.”

Thinking Persons Real States Causes Attention Teacher Students Lifts Enlightened Good Thoughts Real Power

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“An enlightened person lives in the world, passes through the ten thousand states of mind, but they are not bound by them. They can go beyond perception.”

World Mind Persons States Teacher Thousand Ten Perception Bounds Enlightened State Of Mind

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“The teaching process is lengthy because there are many, many states of mind to go through. And in each state of mind there is a different aggregate of self to be explored.”

Mind Different Self States Process Teacher Teaching Enlightened State Of Mind Lengthy

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“An enlightened being comes into the world because they can help. They are off the wheel. They will experience different states of mind. They will suffer. They will know joy. But ultimately, they are free of all that.”

Knows World Mind Different States Helping Joy Suffering Teacher Wheels Enlightened State Of Mind

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“No one can bring you into higher states of attention permanently. I can take an individual and i can change their awareness. That's easy. But how long will it last?”

Long I Can States Lasts Individual Easy Attention Teacher Awareness Higher Enlightened

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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

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“What is a woman? A woman is chaos. Chaos is the naturally perfect state of all things.”

States Women Perfect Enlightenment All Things Chaos

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“Meditation erases conditioning. It allows a person to channel the kundalini energy through their subtle physical body and reach enlightened states of awareness.”

Persons States Body Energy Women Meditation Awareness Enlightenment Subtle Enlightened Conditioning Erase Physical Body

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“We all have auras. But it's much easier to see the aura of someone who is in a state of samadhi or other profound state of awareness.”

States Christianity Awareness Easier Profound Auras Samadhi

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“Paradise is not the place you go when you die. Paradise is when your mind is in a perfect state.”

Mind States Dies Perfect Christianity Paradise Places You Go

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“Heaven is a state of awareness. Hell is a state of awareness.”

States God Heaven Hell Awareness

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“If we really reflect and discriminate, we'll find that all things are created by our perception, that all states exist within the mind.”

Ifs Mind States Perception Yoga All Things All State

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“In the most advanced state of love we don't love for any reason or purpose. We don't even direct our love necessarily to an object.”

States Reason Purpose Objects Yoga Direct Our Love Bhakti Yoga

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“If you were in a perfected state of consciousness, you would only see perfection in all things.”

Ifs States Consciousness Yoga All Things Perfection Bhakti Yoga States Of Consciousness

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“Whenever you engage in a selfless action that contributes to the welfare of others, this will create a vibratory pattern that will lead you into higher states of mind.”

Mind States Action Higher Yoga Patterns Karma Welfare State Of Mind Selfless Karma Yoga Right Action

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“When you're going though a difficult time, forget about yourself for a while. Go do something for someone else. This is the fastest way to pull yourself out of a negative state.”

Way States Difficult Forget Yoga Negative Karma About Yourself Difficult Times Karma Yoga

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“We could be unhappy and discouraged for ourselves, but we're trying to be in a high vibratory state so we can be of service to others.”

Trying States Yoga Karma Unhappy Discouraged Service To Others Karma Yoga

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“Meditation without selfless giving is not enough. You may go into very high states of consciousness but the rough edges will still be there - there may be lots of selfish motives lurking within the self - that you don't see.”

“The study of Buddhism is essentially the study of modification, how we modify the state of mind we're in, how we modify the realm we're in.”

Mind States Study Buddhism Realms State Of Mind Modification

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“Selectively pick a teacher, one that you respect, not just someone who can talk with wonderful poetic figures about enlightenment, but someone who has the personal power to bring you into altered states of awareness.”

States Teacher Wonderful Awareness Figures Enlightenment Picks Poetic Altered Personal Power Altered States

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“We aren't anything in particular. There is no self. There are only ideas and states of mind.”

Mind Ideas Self States Particular State Of Mind Nothingness

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“Feel the underlying meaning of the teachings that are espoused by me or anyone else. The word's don't mean much. Words are supposed to be catalysts for higher states of attention. That is where the action is.”

Feels Mean States Action Attention Teaching Higher Supposed To Be Catalyst

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“Nothing is any particular way. It's your state of mind that creates reality.”

Way Mind States Reality Particular State Of Mind Introduction

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“According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through.”

Mind Different States Views Thousand Ten Buddhist State Of Mind Introduction Cosmology Zen Buddhist

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“In Zen we classify ten thousand different states of mind, different ways of seeing life. There is something beyond the ten thousand states of mind that we call nirvana.”

Way Mind Different States Seeing Thousand Ten Different Ways State Of Mind Introduction

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“Each of the ten thousand states of mind presents you with a different view of essence and experience.”

Mind Different States Views Thousand Ten Essence State Of Mind Introduction Different Views

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“Opportunities, creative ideas or the lack of them, happiness, frustration, brilliance, talent, success and failure - all are determined by the state of mind that you're in.”

Mind Ideas States Opportunity Creative Talent Determined Frustration State Of Mind Introduction Brilliance Success And Failure Creative Ideas

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“Most persons spend their lives stuck in relatively low states of mind. In these states of mind their views of themselves and the world around them are often severely limited.”

World Mind Persons States Views Lows Stuck State Of Mind Introduction

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“Through the study of Zen you can learn to move from lower to higher states of mind at will. Higher states of mind offer you a much more accurate picture of reality.”

Mind States Reality Moving Study Higher Offers State Of Mind Accurate Introduction

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“In advanced Zen a person comes to realize that the existence of things and their ability to perceive them correctly is completely dependent upon their state of mind.”

Mind Persons States Realizing Ability Existence Perceive Dependent State Of Mind Introduction

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“From the highest state of mind you have a window whereby you could perhaps move beyond all states of mind, to enlightenment.”

Mind States Moving Highest Enlightenment Window State Of Mind Introduction All State

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“Meditation is the way the mind is. That's why in Zen they call it the natural state, which means you don't have to go and do anything to meditate.”

Way Mind Mean States Natural Meditation Introduction

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About the Author

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

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