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“Human beings going to their jobs and living their lives are unconscious. They don't know what's going on. They don't know why you are born or why you die.”

Knows Humans Jobs Humanity Dies Born Human Beings Buddhism Unconscious

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We live in a world of wars and wars alarms, of famines, of oppression. While there are many wonderful people in this world, you'll notice one curious fact about them, they all suffer, they all die, and sometimes those who are the nicest seem to suffer the most.”

People World Inspirational War Sometimes Facts Seems Suffering Dies Wonderful This World Buddhism Oppression Curious Alarms Famine

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Your existence is passing before you. Grains of sand in the hourglass. The Wicked Witch of the West has you in her castle and she's turned the hourglass over and the sand is running through. Will you be liberated or will you die? The only way you can beat death is liberation.”

“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

“Take the level of dedication that anyone had to get to the top in any field, and apply it to self-discovery. Except that when you get to the top of anything else, it washes away. You will die. The only thing that stays with you forever is your awareness.”

Inspirational Self Dies Levels Forever Awareness Fields Buddhism Discovery Self Discovery Dedication

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can stay in the safe, secure oblivion and pain of ignorance, not knowing, and just die. You'll just die, like everyone else, and shuffle into another incarnation that won't be very different.”

Inspirational Different Pain Dies Knowing Ignorance Buddhism Safe Secure Not Knowing Oblivion Incarnation Shuffle

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-knowledge, I guess, is hard. But I think pain is harder, personally. I think to be hopeless is very hard. I think to die without hope or to live without hope is very hard.”

Thinking Inspirational Self Hard Pain Dies Buddhism Harder Hopeless Self Knowledge Without Hope

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are certain protective forces in the universe that do watch over us, but the innocent die too.”

Inspirational Certain Dies Universe Force Watches Buddhism Innocent Protective

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Life hurts at times. It hurts to have a body at times, hurts to be born, hurts to live, hurts to die, but it can be ecstasy beyond comprehension. You can know that ecstasy. It is inside of you.”

Knows Inspirational Body Dies Born Hurt Buddhism Ecstasy It Hurts Comprehension Life Hurts

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you meditate deeply, you will see beyond life and death. You will see that you can't die and you can't be reborn. You are existence itself.”

Dies Existence Meditation Buddhism Life And Death Reborn

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When it comes time to die, you will not be afraid. By meditating, you will have already seen beyond life and death and you will see there is nothing to fear.”

Dies Meditation Buddhism Life And Death Meditating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A lot of people have this live or die attitude with mediation. It has to be all or nothing. I don't think it should be. It's a study that you follow for the rest of your life.”

People Thinking Should Dies Attitude Study Meditation Buddhism Rest Of Your Life Mediation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Beneath our transient physical bodies, we are made up of intelligent light. One's own body of light, the soul, is the most real part of oneself because it lives forever, it doesn't decay and die.”

Made Real Soul Body Light Dies Forever Buddhism Intelligent Oneself Decay Transient Physical Body

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

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

“Mind is not simply the collection of aggregate cells inside your brain. If you are only the grey matter, then when that dies, you won't exist any more. It's not that easy. You exist forever.”

Ifs Mind Matter Science Dies Easy Brain Forever Buddhism Cells Collections Reincarnation Grey Grey Matter

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it's simply meaningless. We don't live in order to die, we live in order to live.”

Bigs Form Order Dies Belief Heaven Deals Christianity Hell Buddhism Islam Meaningless Judaism Big Deal Heaven And Hell Christianity And Islam

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“If you're studying Buddhism you never really have enough time because you're going to die.”

Ifs Enough Dies Effort Study Buddhism Enough Time

Author:Frederick Lenz