“Within an atom there can be a billion kingdoms, endless. But all of them are bound by the cycle of birth and death. They all come into being for a while and then vanish.” WorldScienceBuddhismBirthBoundsBillionsEndlessKingdomsCyclesAtomsOther WorldsBirth And Death Author:Frederick Lenz
“Beyond this world there are myriad worlds, thousands of inter-dimensional planes with different types of beings going through other cycles of existence. Beyond all beings is something that is eternal.” WorldDifferentExistenceThis WorldBuddhismTypeEternalPlanesCyclesOther Worlds 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.” IfsHappensAgeHumanityBuddhismPeriodsOne DayIllusionGoldenCyclesFooledGolden AgeMirages 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.” PersonsEndsAgeHumanityDarkKnownChildhoodBuddhismProtectAspectPreservesCyclesDivisionIncarnationDark AgesShivaKaliVishnuKali Yuga Author:Frederick Lenz
“Things don't make you unhappy. People don't make you unhappy. You make yourself unhappy. Because you are in the cycle. You're stuck. You're stuck in time.” PeopleInspirationalIgnoranceBuddhismStuckUnhappyCyclesHappy PeopleUnhappy People Author:Frederick Lenz
“Meditation is the study of making the mind still. As your mind becomes still, a power enters you. This power transmogrifies your mind, it escalates your evolution and you begin to cycle through many incarnations in one lifetime.” MindStillsStudyMeditationBuddhismEvolutionLifetimeCyclesIncarnation Author:Frederick Lenz
“Meditation is when we go beyond incarnation, beyond all cycles, to immortality, to something that is not transient.” MeditationBuddhismImmortalityCyclesIncarnationTransient Author:Frederick Lenz
“How could being the entire cosmos and all of its wonder and all of its stages and cycles, and yet being that which is beyond them all, the invisible, be extinction? Extinction? The extinction of what, of whom? How can that which has never been be extinguished?” SufferingWonderStageBuddhismEnlightenmentInvisibleCosmosCyclesExtinction Author:Frederick Lenz
“Humility means freedom. It provides growth and takes you out of the cycle of change that you are currently in, which is stagnation.” MeanGrowthHumilityBuddhismCyclesStagnation Author:Frederick Lenz
“Buddhist nirvana ... is based on egolessness and is not anthropocentric but rather cosmological. In Buddhism, humans and the things of the universe are equally subject to change, equally subject to transitoriness or transmigration. A person cannot achieve emancipation from the cycle of birth and death until he or she can eliminate a more universal problem: the transience common to all things in the universe.” HumansPersonsProblemUniverseCommonAchieveSubjectsBuddhismBirthAll ThingsUniversalBuddhistCyclesEmancipationBirth And DeathTransience Book:Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue: Part one of a two-volume sequel to Zen and Western Thought Source: Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue: Part one of a two-volume sequel to Zen and Western Thought
“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.” EndsAgeDarknessWonderfulBuddhismSupposed To BeCyclesCosmicFourthRebirthDissolutionKaliKali Yuga Author:Frederick Lenz
“It's very important for the coming times to have a sound economic base and to be as mobile as possible. The energy lines will be shifting strongly as we enter into the end phase of the earth's cycle.” ImportantEndsEarthSuccessEnergySoundLinesCareersEconomicBuddhismCyclesPhasesShiftingMobile Author:Frederick Lenz
“A long time ago a very powerful race of Indians lived here. They were from another cycle; their being was of another composition. They are still here, even now, you can see them on the mountain rims.” LongStillsPowerfulRaceBuddhismMountainLong TimeCyclesCompositionLong Time AgoVery PowerfulRims Author:Frederick Lenz