“When the answer doesn't come, it's not supposed to come yet. Don't make eternity try and conform to what you want. That's desire. desire leads to frustration.” WantTryingWisdomDesireAnswersBuddhismEternityWhat You WantFrustrationConform Author:Frederick Lenz
“This world is not a middle point in evolution. It's one step down from the middle point in evolution. This is the world of desire and fulfillment, frustration, but at least once in a while you can go to Burger King.” WorldDesireHumanityStepsMiddleThis WorldBuddhismEvolutionKingsFulfillmentFrustrationBurgersBurger King Author:Frederick Lenz
“People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being will follow their desires without mitigation.” PeopleHumansDesireHumanityLinesHuman BeingsBuddhismPunishmentAssumptionMentality Author:Frederick Lenz
“The condition of humankind is not good, in the sense that the illusory prisons we create for ourselves through our desires and our frustrations are unhappy.” DesireHumanityConditionsBuddhismPrisonUnhappyFrustrationHumankindIllusory Author:Frederick Lenz
“Happiness is just being you, where you are right now. Allow yourself to be you. Shut off all the silly thoughts and desires and crazy emotions” HappinessDesireEmotionCrazyBuddhismRight NowSillyWhere You AreBe YouJust BeingJust Being You Author:Frederick Lenz
“Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness.” WorldMindStillsSelfHappinessDesireLosesBuddhismInvolvedStillnessCentering Author:Frederick Lenz
“Most people think happiness comes from experiences in the world. The fulfillment of desire causes a type of happiness. But as soon as they experience passes, the happiness passes.” PeopleThinkingWorldHappinessDesireCausesBuddhismTypeFulfillment Author:Frederick Lenz
“The fulfillment of desire does not necessarily make you happy because there is a satiation factor. You can get some apple pie and eat it. If this is what makes you happy, why not eat ten?” IfsDoeHappinessDesireBuddhismTenFactorsFulfillmentApplesWhy NotPieMake You HappyApple PieSatiation Author:Frederick Lenz
“It's necessary when you follow the path of love to love those around you first. Desire tells us that we should have someone else in our life.” ShouldFirstsDesirePathOur LivesBuddhismShould HaveSexualityPath Of Love Author:Frederick Lenz
“Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical.” InspirationalDesireTakenBuddhismExtremesFulfillmentCynical Author:Frederick Lenz
“As a sensitive person around other people, you feel their desires, you feel their angers, and you feel their frustrations. You begin to believe that these desires, angers, and frustrations are yours.” PeopleInspirationalFeelsBelievePersonsDesireBuddhismSensitiveFrustrationSensitive PersonAnger And Frustration Author:Frederick Lenz
“The world appears solid to most people. It is filled with their pain, their desires, their private ecstasies, their expectations. They are that world - nothing glows.” PeopleWorldInspirationalPainDesireBuddhismExpectationsFilledEcstasy Author:Frederick Lenz
“You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus to meditate.” GivingUseDesireMeditationBuddhismEgoGoing AwayInnateImpetus Author:Frederick Lenz
“You start meditation as an average human being who is filled with vagueness and not much purpose or definition, who is controlled by their desires, your mind spins all over the place, your senses spin all over the place, out of control.” MindHumansDesirePurposeHuman BeingsMeditationBuddhismFilledAverageDefinitionsSensesControlledVagueness Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you are just spaced out and you have no purpose in life, you pick everything up. Everybody else's thoughts will come into your mind, everyone else's desires.” IfsMindDesirePurposeBuddhismMindfulnessPicksPurpose Of Life Author:Frederick Lenz
“Naturally, to follow dharma, we have to find out what it is. You have to struggle with it. The answer will not come easily. You will be swayed by your desires, conditioning, and those around you who have ideas about what you should do, what is proper, what is improper.” ShouldIdeasDesireAnswersStruggleBuddhismDharmaConditioning Author:Frederick Lenz
“You can lie to yourself and fool yourself and rationalize that the choice you're making is what is right and what is true and what leads to liberation, when it's actually only the fulfillment of desire.” LyingDesireChoicesBuddhismFoolLiberationFulfillmentDharmaRationalize Author:Frederick Lenz
“When you meditate you can stand back from your desire. When you silence the mind and there is stillness, only then can you tell if a desire is dharma.” IfsMindDesireSilenceBuddhismStillnessDharma Author:Frederick Lenz
“It is acceptance of the will of God - waiting, if necessary, forever, happily rising above your desires and above your frustrations to always do what is right. Always do what is right. This is the spiritual study.” IfsSpiritualDesireWaitingForeverStudyAcceptanceBuddhismGods WillRisingFrustrationRise AboveDharma Author:Frederick Lenz
“To run away from life and desire is impossible because you are life and you have desire. Accept that this is part of your physical condition and see that these aspects are not really indigenous to what you are.” RunningDesireAcceptingImpossibleConditionsBuddhismAspectPurityRunning AwayIndigenous Author:Frederick Lenz
“To become pure is not difficult. Make the choices that will lead you to freedom and liberation - not enslavement to the wills, actions and desires of others.” ActionDesireChoicesDifficultBuddhismPureLiberationPurityEnslavement Author:Frederick Lenz
“Ignorance, vulnerability, fear, anger, and desire are expressions of the infinite potential of your buddha nature. There's nothing inherently wrong or right with making such choices. The fruit of Buddhist practice is simply the recognition that these and other mental afflictions are nothing more or less than choices available to us because our real nature is infinite in scope.” RealDesireChoicesPracticeIgnoranceExpressionBuddhismInfiniteFruitAvailableBuddhistRecognitionVulnerabilityAfflictionScopeBuddha NatureInfinite PotentialWrong Or Right Book:The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness Source: The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness
“As you go into light for longer and longer periods, as you progress in your meditation practice, you transform, you become illumined, you overcome all limitation, all sorrow, and all pain. You learn not to be bound by desire, and eventually you transcend death itself.” LightPainDesirePracticeMeditationProgressBuddhismPeriodsSorrowOvercomingBoundsLimitationMeditation Practice Author:Frederick Lenz
“The planes of light give you the power to rise above circumstance, the power to rise above your desires and your aversions.” GivingLightDesireBuddhismCircumstancesPlanesRise AboveAversion Author:Frederick Lenz
“Some come to a teacher for power. They still have all the desires, angers and jealousies of an unevolved person. Consequently, they become destructive both to themselves and to others.” PersonsStillsDesireTeacherBuddhismDestructiveRama Author:Frederick Lenz