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“Everyone has sunk on this plane to such a low state of consciousness, it is the natural state. We have deviated so far from the norm in this age of darkness.”

States Age Humanity Natural Consciousness Darkness Buddhism Lows Planes Norm States Of Consciousness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“This is a dark age. That's not news. It's a dark time when we have to be particularly aware of danger.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“This is the age of electrical energy. The age of atomic energy hasn't really dawned yet, not in the way that atomic energy has evolved in other worlds.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The 1990's will be a determining period of time for another cycle. If humanity during this time chooses to throw away a lot of the mirages and illusions it's fooled itself with, we will enter a very bright and golden age. It won't happen in one day.”

Ifs Happens Age Humanity Buddhism Periods One Day Illusion Golden Cycles Fooled Golden Age Mirages

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We live in the dark ages. If an intelligent society can destroy itself in large numbers and places the largest amount of revenues in instruments of destruction, it is certainly not an evolved society or an intelligent society.”

Ifs Age Humanity Dark Numbers Buddhism Amount Destruction Intelligent Instruments Revenue Dark Ages Large Numbers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The teaching that we receive is not necessarily very accurate. The value systems that our cultures have developed are not every open. They are very restrictive. We live in an age that is not enlightened.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“This is still a very primitive age, and I'm afraid they may not get much further here.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“That's why we call this a dark age. It's a dark age in the sense that there are so many people on the earth who are un-attuned that they create such a level of white noise, in a sense, that it drowns out things that we'd like to see.”

People Age Earth Humanity Dark White Levels Buddhism Noise Dark Ages White Noise

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We're at the end of the cycle. You've all known it since childhood. In the Hindu division of the ages, this is the Kali Yuga, the dark age. At the end of a cycle, Vishnu takes incarnation as a person. Vishnu is that aspect of God that preserves and protects life. When Vishnu leaves, Shiva comes.”

Persons Ends Age Humanity Dark Known Childhood Buddhism Protect Aspect Preserves Cycles Division Incarnation Dark Ages Shiva Kali Vishnu Kali Yuga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The world is entering another dark age. After 1985, the Maya will be so thick that it will be difficult to advance spiritually without a strong foundation.”

World Age Humanity Strong Difficult Dark Buddhism Foundation Thick Entering Dark Ages Strong Foundation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Eternity becomes more beautiful as we age, if we age well. If we age poorly, then we don't improve our minds; we don't refine all the aspects of our being.”

Ifs Mind Wells Age Beautiful Health Buddhism Aspect Eternity Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Even the rich aren't often happy. Their wealth is at best only a temporary distraction. It doesn't make them immune to emotional and mental suffering, or to disease and death. They too must deal with loneliness, the deaths of loved ones and the frustrations and boredom of old age.”

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

“If you live for a very long while, you will have to watch your friends and loved ones die, your body age and lose its beauty and vigor, and your mental capacities fade.”

Ifs Inspirational Long Body Age Suffering Dies Loses Watches Buddhism Capacity Your Body Loved Ones Fades Vigor

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

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

“As you do your daily meditations, your life will change. Most people change between the ages of zero to four. The older we get the less we change. When we meditate we become perpetually young.”

People Age Young Four Meditation Buddhism Zero Daily Meditation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation is not impractical or unrealistic, nor is it difficult to integrate with any lifestyle or age, in that it's timeless, although it occurs in time.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is no such thing as a miracle. A miracle is just what somebody else doesn't understand. If we went back into the Stone Age and we lit a match, they'd say, "Ahh miracla, miracla!"”

Ifs Age Teacher Buddhism Stones Miracle Enlightened Lit Rama Stone Age

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think that we all at some point are in search of something - a higher power, whatever you want to call it, the meaning of life. I know I was, especially at even my son's age in my 20s, and dabbling in Eastern philosophies and yoga and Buddhism and Christianity and Islam. I kind of touched them all, you know, just trying to figure out the meaning of life or if nothing else, figure myself out.”

“As I study both the exoteric and the esoteric schools of Buddhism, they maintain that human beings are endowed with Dharma-nature by birth. If this is the case, why did the Buddhas of all ages - undoubtedly in possession of enlightenment - find it necessary to seek enlightenment and engage in spiritual practice?”

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Author:Dogen

“This is the fourth age, the Kali Yuga, and it's a time of great darkness. At the end of this age, there's supposed to be a cosmic dissolution and then life begins anew. It's a wonderful cycle of rebirth.”

Ends Age Darkness Wonderful Buddhism Supposed To Be Cycles Cosmic Fourth Rebirth Dissolution Kali Kali Yuga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The work that most people do in the world tends to deaden them, deadens their mind, uses up their energy and they get a paycheck and old age and not much energy. You get the check and they get your energy. That energy is translated into corporate dollars.”

People World Mind Use Age Success Energy Careers Buddhism Dollars Checks Old Age Corporate Paychecks

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most people are taught from an early age on, to conceive of themselves as losers. They are taught that there are a very special few who are eminently successful in life.”

People Age Success Careers Successful Special Taught Buddhism Loser

Author:Frederick Lenz