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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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“The time we waste never comes again. The opportunities we miss never come again. The loves we lose never come again. Indeed, in this world of constant change we are fortunate that these things never come again.”

World Suffering Opportunity Loses Missing This World Waste Constant Fortunate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You're in a world of diversity. You see things through a glass darkly. There is a separation everywhere.”

World Suffering Diversity Glasses Separation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People are so tired. The world is set up to exhaust you and drain you. That's how humankind has devised their world. Life is not necessarily that way”

People World Way Life Is Suffering Tired Humankind Drains World Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness is not freedom. You may become happy tomorrow; but I assure you, your happiness will be smashed by the pains of your body as you age, by the all-encompassing death that swallows up everything and everyone in this world.”

World May Body Age Pain Suffering This World Tomorrow Your Body

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You don't know why, but you know you have to go home. It's an eternal longing. It's Marvell's drop of dew wanting to go back to the sky. We're drawn by a force we don't understand, through worlds, through experience.”

Knows World Home Suffering Force Sky Eternal Longing Dew

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Samsara is the world appearance, the cycle of rebirth, the physically manifest universes and states of mind that you perceive through the medium of ego.”

World Mind States Universe Ignorance Ego Appearance Mediums Perceive Cycles Manifest State Of Mind Rebirth Samsara

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To suffer because of anything you see, feel or experience here in the world of moment to moment is a mistake. It is like becoming upset over a frightening dream.”

World Feels Moments Dream Suffering Mistake Ignorance Becoming Upset Frightening

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Reality is not the world as you perceive it. Reality is the world perceived through enlightenment. It's the same world; but it's not the same world.”

World Reality Ignorance Enlightenment Perceive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We're not really indigenous to this world, this world being a temporal plane of reality.”

World Reality This World Planes Reincarnation Indigenous

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Reincarnation is an apprehension of a movement and the movement occurs in time. Without time, there is no reincarnation. Reincarnation is a reflection of time in this world.”

World Movement This World Reflection Reincarnation Apprehension

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

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

“Everything that exists in this or any other world or dimension, does so because of the way that things were in the previous moment. I call this the karma of moment.”

World Way Doe Moments Karma Dimensions Other Worlds

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

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

“There are physical karmas that carry through death. Jesus Christ may no longer be with us but his effects continue on in the world. Those waves will be passed on from one person to another to another.”

World May Persons Jesus Christ Effects Jesus Christ Wave Karma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“So, those who hate, those who are violent in nature, live in a world of hate and fear and violence inside themselves, inside their minds, inside their awareness.”

World Mind Hate Violence Awareness Karma Violent Karma Yoga Hate And Fear

Author:Frederick Lenz

“At the time of death we walk through a doorway and our spirit, which is very thin, slides through into another world.”

World Death Spirit Walks Slides Doorways Another World

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Life is forever. Death is only a temporary abridgment. It is just a state of transition where you will move from one world into another. You will move from the physical to the causal, from matter into pure energy.”

World Matter States Moving Life Is Death Energy Forever Pure Temporary Transition

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you die you pass into inner worlds and continue to perceive. Death is not the dissolution of the self. Death is rather just a change in perception.”

World Self Death Dies Perception Perceive Inner World Dissolution

Author:Frederick Lenz

“At the end of this lifetime, you will leave this world. Your awareness field will stay together in a certain sense and then it will seek to return to things that are familiar. You will reincarnate.”

World Ends Together Certain Awareness Fields This World Return Lifetime Familiar Rebirth

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Think of what you love most in this world. This is what you will come back to in your next life.”

Thinking World Next This World Rebirth What You Love Next Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Beyond this world and beyond all other worlds there is an all-perfect light. It is pure intelligence, ecstasy, peace and happiness. It is the light that shines beyond darkness, time, space and dimensionality.”

World Light Space Perfect Darkness This World Pure Enlightenment Shining Ecstasy Other Worlds Peace And Happiness

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“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

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

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

“There are beings who come into this world, from time to time, not simply with miraculous powers, which we call the siddhas, but with a miraculous awareness that is so strong yet so subtle that anyone or anything that touches that awareness is transformed forever.”

World Strong Forever Teacher Awareness This World Subtle Enlightened Transformed Miraculous

Author:Frederick Lenz

“An enlightened person doesn't know it all. Enlightenment simply means walking beyond this and all worlds into nirvana, which is beyond knowledge and ignorance.”

Knows World Mean Persons Teacher Ignorance Walking Enlightenment Enlightened Know It All Knowledge And Ignorance

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

“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

“Liberated souls are a rare commodity in this world. They are no better; it's just you, a little later, in the next act or in the next play.”

World Littles Soul Play Next Teacher This World Enlightened Commodity Liberated Next Play

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you meditate with an enlightened teacher, you will feel something from them. They just dissolve completely, absorption in nirvana, where they don't even have physical contact with this world anymore.”

World Feels Teacher This World Contact Enlightened Absorption

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is obstruction. Enlightenment is not very popular in this world. History tells us that enlightened teachers who made themselves largely available to human beings had problems.”

World Humans Made Problem Human Beings Teacher This World Enlightenment Available Enlightened World History Obstruction Very Popular

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Once in a while an enlightened teacher goes out into the world and spreads the dharma. They attract some attention, and it is a great spectacle to see who and why and what is drawn.”

World Attention Teacher Spread Enlightened Dharma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Nonphysical beings are drawn to enlightened beings. Some come to aid them in there work; some come to interfere. Some just come to watch. Enlightenment is rare in this world.”

World Watches Teacher This World Enlightenment Aids Enlightened Interfere

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

“An enlightened teacher has so much power that when they meditate, a tremendous aura builds up around them. The aura will open up your aura and increase it. You will move into a higher plane of knowledge. You will gain a new view of the world.”

World Moving Views Teacher Higher Gains Increase Planes Enlightened Auras

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is not the responsibility of the enlightened teacher to bring the student to enlightenment. That may be true in the classroom, but in the world of enlightenment you have to find it, enter into it.”

World May Responsibility Teacher Students Enlightenment Being True Enlightened Classroom

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you sit with an enlightened teacher and silent your mind as they go into nirvana, suchness, the pure power of their aura will bring you on a journey into the world of perfection.”

Ifs World Mind Teacher Journey Pure Perfection Silent Enlightened Auras

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are some teachers who just perform miracles. They can manifest things from the other world into this world. They have siddha powers. They are not necessarily enlightened.”

World Teacher This World Miracle Enlightened Manifest Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The most important problem for our world to solve is the inequality of men and women.”

Men World Important Problem Women Enlightenment Men And Women Solve Inequality Our World Men Women

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The world has never had a greater need for enlightened women and men.”

Men World Needs Women Greater Enlightenment Men And Women Enlightened Men Women

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A man, as we see in this world, is chaos, but he doesn't recognize that fact so he tries to bring order into everything. Order is disorder. Order creates disorder.”

Men World Trying Facts Order Women This World Enlightenment Chaos Disorder

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In their confusion and delusion, men hate the womb that gives them birth. Not all men, certainly , but enough men to run the world.”

Men World Giving Enough Running Hate Women Birth Enlightenment Confusion Delusion Womb

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Men are suppressing woman politically, philosophically, socially, through denying them education, equal rights, equal employment, and just by setting up a description of the world in which a woman views herself as a vessel, as someone who's only there to have children, as someone who can't succeed, even spiritually.”

Men World Children Women Views Rights Succeed Equal Enlightenment Setting Settings Employment Description Vessel Equal Rights Suppressing

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Review your description of the world, what it is to be a woman, and see how inadequate it is.”

World Women Enlightenment Description Reviews Inadequate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Much of the time your attention is directed towards the world of sexuality, it's done through the second attention of a woman - not simply in your physical presence but from thousands of miles away.”

World Done Women Attention Enlightenment Sexuality Miles Miles Away

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Women do not help each other attain enlightenment because in the description of the world they've been given, unlike that of men, it's every woman for herself in order to survive.”

Men World Helping Order Given Women Enlightenment Description Helping Each Other

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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