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“If you had to pick between one or the other, I can't say which one is better; but I would certainly say, in my orientation, the light of samadhi is all-pervasive. Samadhi will free you.”

Ifs I Can Light Buddhism Picks Orientation Samadhi

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Some people travel to other dimensions in their astral bodies when they meditate. But astral traveling doesn't bring a person lasting happiness. If astral traveling is not done properly, it can be quite dangerous.”

People Ifs Persons Done Body Dangerous Buddhism Dimensions Lasting Lasting Happiness

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

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

“If you do well within this life, that awareness will be held within the causal structure, the part of us that lives from one lifetime to another. It will be available to you in your next life and in future lives.”

Ifs Wells Next Awareness Buddhism Structure Lifetime Available This Life Future Life Next Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you dig deeply, you will find that you are not a singular self but that there are many selves, many voices within you. The more conscious you are of those selves and the more you let them find expression through you, the more complete you will be.”

Ifs Self Voice Expression Buddhism Conscious Within You Dig Deep

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Some people speak of the Akashic Records as if they were on an IBM mainframe that's out there somewhere near the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.”

People Ifs Ends Universe Speak Records Buddhism Restaurants Ibm Mainframe

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Be neither attracted nor repulsed. You are watching a movie. If the visions are beautiful or horrible, Don't get caught up in them. Enjoy your popcorn.”

Ifs Beautiful Enjoy Vision Meditation Buddhism Caught Horrible Caught Up Popcorn

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you want to experience the unalloyed ecstasy of life, you can accomplish this through the twin Buddhist practices of meditation and mindfulness.”

Ifs Want Practice Meditation Buddhism Mindfulness Accomplish Buddhist Ecstasy Twins

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

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

“If you can't hold a person in your mind with a good thought, it is better not to think about them at all.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Persons Buddhism Mindfulness Good Thoughts

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you hold a negative thought, then it will become more powerful and not only will it send bad energy to the person, but it will crash your consciousness. All the hard work of meditating is sabotaged.”

Ifs Persons Hard Energy Powerful Consciousness Hard Work Buddhism Mindfulness Negative Crash Meditating Negative Thoughts Bad Energy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you think of others in a jealous way or if you become angry, immediately pause for a moment. It's going to pull you down and send negative energy. At that moment, pause and correct yourself.”

Ifs Thinking Way Moments Energy Buddhism Mindfulness Negative Down And Angry That Moment Jealous Pauses Negative Energy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If we try and direct our lives with only our limited rationalistic thoughts and our sense perceptions, then our actions and our activities will not be prefect.”

Ifs Trying Action Our Lives Buddhism Activity Perception Mindfulness Direct Our Actions Sense Perception

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

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

“Why do everything perfectly? Isn't perfection just an illusion? Tell me if it's an illusion if they don't fix your car perfectly next time you bring it in.”

Ifs Next Car Buddhism Mindfulness Illusion Perfection Next Time

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.”

Ifs Mind Desire Purpose Buddhism Mindfulness Picks Purpose Of Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If President Bush does a lousy job, then he'll lose power. If the guy at McDonalds who's selling burgers does a great job, then he'll be much more powerful than President Bush.”

Ifs Doe Jobs Guy President Loses Powerful Buddhism Mindfulness Selling President Bush Mcdonalds Great Job Burgers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are mindful in your work, if you put your best effort into it, then something comes back to you.”

Ifs Effort Buddhism Mindfulness Best Effort

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The unlimited mind, the diamond mind of the Buddha, is your mind, if you can get in touch with it. Stop thinking so much and tap into that psychic part of your being.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Buddhism Mindfulness Diamond Unlimited Psychics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Think about what is in front of you, if you must think.”

Ifs Thinking Fronts Buddhism Mindfulness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

“If you are not happier every day, if you don't see a progression of development, then you are certainly not practicing yoga or Buddhism and therefore you cannot be amassing any positive karma.”

Ifs Buddhism Development Yoga Karma Progression

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you meditate and continue to have fun with yoga and Buddhism, you will amass knowledge and will move to a higher incarnation. In your next lifetime you will be much wiser, much happier.”

Ifs Moving Next Fun Buddhism Higher Yoga Lifetime Having Fun Wiser Rebirth Incarnation Next Lifetime

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 can go shopping and pick up some Bounty Towels, the three pack, I can go home and open those up and look at them and see more infinity than in the Buddha's best meditation. If I can't do that, that means I'm wrapped by the Buddha's best meditation.”

Ifs Looks Mean I Can Home Three Teacher Meditation Buddhism Picks Enlightened Infinity Shopping Packs Towels Bounty

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.”

Ifs Mind Desire Silence Buddhism Stillness Dharma

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.”

Ifs Spiritual Desire Waiting Forever Study Acceptance Buddhism Gods Will Rising Frustration Rise Above Dharma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Very often, in order to bring about stillness we have to be tirelessly active in the outer world. You might suppose this would agitate the mind. It will not, if it is the dharma.”

Ifs World Mind Might Order Buddhism Active Stillness Dharma Outer Worlds Agitate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you have humility you are halfway to God-realization.”

Ifs Humility Buddhism Realization Halfway

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you seek eternity and light and luminosity, seek humility first ... first things first.”

Ifs Firsts Light Humility Buddhism Eternity First Things First

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We prefer humility in others - and if we prefer it in others - we can soon prefer it in ourselves.”

Ifs Humility Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Real humility is something that no one else will see. No one will know about your humility, if it's real.”

Ifs Knows Real Humility Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you wish to cultivate humility, then you should associate with those who are humble.”

Ifs Should Wish Humility Buddhism Humble Associates

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you suffer in love, if you have problems in love, it's because you don't have enough humility.”

Ifs Enough Problem Suffering Humility Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you really have humility when you love, there is only one thought: "What can I do for my beloved?"”

Ifs Humility Buddhism Beloved

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?”

Ifs Humans Age School Spiritual Human Beings Practice Cases Study Buddhism Birth Enlightenment Possession Dharma Spiritual Practice Esoteric

Author:Dogen

“When you could get angry with someone and separate yourself from them, don't do that. If you have people who are difficult to deal with, be neither attracted nor repulsed. Go a step higher.”

People Ifs Action Difficult Deals Steps Buddhism Higher Angry Right Action

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Some people say that if you have sex you can't be enlightened. I think it isn't really so much whether you have sex or not, but it's what you're doing with your attention level during that time.”

People Ifs Thinking Action Sex Levels Attention Buddhism Enlightened Right Action

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions. It sanctified, quite like Mohammedism, extermination and tyranny. All this would have been impossible if, like Buddhism, it had looked only for peace and the liberation of souls. It looked beyond; it dreamt of infinite blisses and crowns it should be crowned with before an electrified universe and an applauding God... Buddhism had tried to quiet a sick world with anesthetics; Christianity sought to purge it with fire.”

“In Buddhism you study how to release the kundalini to the levels that would certainly afford career success. If we move it further, into the planes of knowledge and wisdom, it enables the practitioner to do just about anything.”

Ifs Moving Levels Careers Study Buddhism Release Planes Knowledge And Wisdom Career Success

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you could be sloppy, you're not. When you could be indulgent, you're not. When you could be sad, you laugh instead. If you fall down, you pick yourself up again and again and again.”

Ifs Fall Effort Laughing Buddhism Picks Again And Again Falling Down Sloppy Pick Yourself Up

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

“The only reason you feel pain is because you're so busy looking at yourself instead of looking at the wonderful patterns of light. If you become absorbed in the wonderful patterns of light, then there's no pain.”

Ifs Feels Reason Light Pain Wonderful Buddhism Busy Patterns No Pain

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you think it makes a difference if I have ten thousand sports cars, ten million girlfriends and lead a very flashy life ... I don't think you should work with any teacher because you don't know what it is all about yet.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Should Sports Differences Millions Teacher Car Buddhism Thousand Ten Girlfriend Making A Difference Rama Flashy Sports Cars

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I am very interested in the enlightenment of women. Very few teachers of advanced self discovery work with women, and if they do it's usually in a very second handed way. They treat women as second class citizens.”

Ifs Way Self Class Teacher Buddhism Citizens Enlightenment Discovery Treats Self Discovery Rama Second Class Citizens

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Transmission does not have to take place physically. The student doesn't have to be sitting across from you. But it's easier if they are because the vibration of the teacher is strongest in the physical proximity of the teacher.”

Ifs Doe Teacher Students Buddhism Easier Sitting Strongest Vibrations Rama Transmission Proximity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If I used justice, you'd all be dead. The karma that you throw at me when you don't like me - if I just let it come back, you'd all be destroyed in no time.”

Ifs Used Justice Buddhism Karma Like Me Destroyed Rama Don't Like Me You Don't Like Me

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism in America".”

Ifs Writing America Meditation Teaching Wind Buddhism West Autobiography Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you want to be liberated, if you choose to be what I am, then you've chosen freedom. You can do this.”

Ifs Want Can Do Buddhism Chosen You Choose Liberated Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I don't think of myself as a guru but as a teacher. If one means 'guru' in the original sense a 'dispeller of darkness' then that certainly is my purpose.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Purpose Darkness Teacher Buddhism Originals Guru Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically 'in'. But if we were to apply for a financial aid grant as a cult, I'm afraid we would be turned down for lack of proper qualifications.”

Ifs Would Be Buddhism Financial Aids Grants Phenomenon Cult Rama Qualifications Turned Down Financial Aid

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When I leave the body someday, I can help people just as effectively if they focus upon me.”

People Ifs I Can Helping Body Focus Buddhism Someday Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

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