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“The universe is complicated and we're not going to get it all in one night or one incarnation or one infinity.”

Wisdom Night Universe Buddhism Complicated Infinity One Night Incarnation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the dead world of the Western mind all that is seen are shades of gray. There's a cloud over every experience. There's no possibility of divine incarnation, divine intervention, let alone that one's self in every moment is divine.”

World Mind Self Moments Humanity Possibility Divine Buddhism Western Clouds Gray Shade Intervention Incarnation Divine Intervention Shades Of Gray

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

“A soul mate is not necessarily someone with whom you set up housekeeping. Your soul and their soul have a multi-incarnation attraction.”

Soul Buddhism Sexuality Attraction Your Soul Mates Incarnation Soul Mate Housekeeping

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You need something. Not just to get through the day, but to get through the incarnation. You need to find that power, that perfect unity.”

Inspirational Needs Perfect Buddhism Unity Incarnation

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

“People who are drawn to meditation have had lots of incarnation in the world of experience, and we know the score. We know that experience is great, but it's not enough.”

People Knows World Inspirational Enough Meditation Buddhism Score Incarnation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Examine your experience of the incarnation so far and realistically add up the moments of happiness and unhappiness and you tell me, oh somewhat vaguely nobly born, you tell me, what has it been like for you?”

Inspirational Moments Born Buddhism Add Unhappiness Incarnation Moments Of Happiness

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.”

Mind Stills Study Meditation Buddhism Evolution Lifetime Cycles Incarnation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation is when we go beyond incarnation, beyond all cycles, to immortality, to something that is not transient.”

Meditation Buddhism Immortality Cycles Incarnation Transient

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The causal body is the part of a person that lives forever. It is what you would call the soul. It doesn't dissolve along with the physical and astral bodies at the end of an incarnation.”

Persons Soul Ends Body Forever Buddhism Incarnation

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

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

“It is your causal body that is the real you. At the end of each incarnation, it carries the knowledge and karmic patterns of that lifetime, in addition to all of your other previous lifetimes, into your next lifetime.”

Real Ends Body Next Buddhism Lifetime Patterns Carrie Incarnation Real You Next Lifetime

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

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

“As incarnations go by, the atom gets more complex. That is, your being, the part of you that reincarnates from lifetime to lifetime, the aggregate, grows thicker and denser.”

Grows Buddhism Lifetime Complexes Atoms Incarnation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Whatever you have learned in your previous incarnations is retained within your causal body, your multi-lifetime body of energy that lives from one incarnation to another.”

Body Energy Buddhism Lifetime Incarnation

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

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

“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

“Intentional suffering and the postponement of happiness is not yoga or Buddhism. It will not lead to a better incarnation.”

Suffering Buddhism Yoga Intention Incarnation Postponement

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As an incarnation of love you put up with flack until it becomes detrimental to a person.”

Persons Love You Buddhism Incarnation Rama Detrimental

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It has been my experience as a teacher over the years and incarnations that what really counts are not techniques. What really counts is spirit, love. What really counts is a sense of propriety and dedication.”

Years Has Beens Spirit Teacher Buddhism Technique Buddhist Dedication Etiquette Incarnation Propriety Spirit Love

Author:Frederick Lenz

“How do you become enlightened? Have fun, meditate, don't take yourself too seriously, brush between incarnations and have a good teacher.”

Fun Teacher Buddhism Buddhist Having Fun Enlightened Brushes Etiquette Incarnation Good Teacher

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Perhaps you're not the next Buddha. Perhaps you're not the Maitreya. Perhaps that's not your job in this incarnation. Perhaps you have to enjoy life and learn about life through whatever way that you find yourself going.”

Way Jobs Next Enjoy Buddhism Buddhist Finding Yourself Enjoy Life Etiquette Incarnation

Author:Frederick Lenz