“Whenever you are in a perceptual field, it seems like it's ultimate. It's a self-wrapping consciousness. There doesn't seem or appear to be anything else other than the attention field that you're in.” SelfSeemsAttentionConsciousnessAwarenessFieldsIgnoranceBuddhismUltimateWrapping Author:Frederick Lenz
“Human beings go to church. The guy in the front dressed in black is the guy you defer to. He is in charge of the mysteries of universe, which ordinary human beings don't seem to have the inclination to understand.” HumansSeemsGuyHumanityUniverseBlackChurchHuman BeingsMysteryFrontsBuddhismOrdinaryInclination Author:Frederick Lenz
“While the comforts of modern civilization and technological success or economic success seem at the moment quite fulfilling, I can assure you that all of these things are transitory and will fall away.” I CanMomentsSeemsHumanityFallEconomicModernBuddhismComfortCivilizationFulfillingTechnologicalTransitoryModern CivilizationEconomic Success Author:Frederick Lenz
“With the frenzied pace in our own country, with the degenerating school system, with a crime rate that rises 30% a year, and with politicians that seem more interested in posturing than in governing, it has become more difficult, or should I say challenging, to achieve that inner symbiosis with life.” ShouldYearsCountrySeemsSchoolHumanityDifficultChallengesAchieveCrimeBuddhismPoliticianRatePaceShould IGoverningSchool SystemCrime RatesSymbiosis Author:Frederick Lenz
“You have to be courageous in life to allow a lightness to engage your being. It is easy to be a jerk. To be unhappy with all this weird stuff around us just seems to me to be such a waste. That's a jerk.” SeemsHappinessEasyStuffBuddhismWasteUnhappyCourageousJerkBe CourageousLightnessWeird Stuff Author:Frederick Lenz
“This culture seems to be so obsessed with sexuality, the good and the bad of it. Every advertisement, every preacher, everybody's concerned, one way or the other about sexuality.” WaySeemsCultureBuddhismConcernedSexualityOne WayObsessedPreacherAdvertisements 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.” PeopleWorldInspirationalWarSometimesFactsSeemsSufferingDiesWonderfulThis WorldBuddhismOppressionCuriousAlarmsFamine Author:Frederick Lenz
“You see, I'm a believer in the rhapsodic. I like things that are happy. For no particular reason, I just like them. Most people don't seem to be like that in this particular place, in this world. You can tell by what they focus on. Read a newspaper, watch a TV show, go to a movie, look at a life.” PeopleWorldInspirationalLooksReasonShowsSeemsWatchesFocusThis WorldParticularInspirational LifeTvsBuddhismBelieverNewspapersTv Shows Author:Frederick Lenz
“There is a certain degree of pain to be experienced in the search for self-knowledge, as there is a certain amount of joy. You just do it because you find yourself doing it. There just doesn't seem to be much else worthwhile.” InspirationalSelfSeemsPainJoyCertainBuddhismAmountDegreesFinding YourselfWorthwhileSelf KnowledgeJust Do It Author:Frederick Lenz
“These truths may seem simple and self-apparent and the words easy to say, but the states of mind that you live in as you progress are beautiful beyond description.” InspirationalMindMaySelfStatesSeemsBeautifulEasySimpleProgressBuddhismDescriptionState Of Mind Author:Frederick Lenz
“You are not what you seem to be. You are one of God's endless dreams in search of wakefulness. Meditation is wakefulness.” InspirationalDreamSeemsMeditationBuddhismEndlessBe You Author:Frederick Lenz
“In meditation we get a sense of the countless selves within ourselves, the different forms they take. Those that don't seem positive or helpful we push aside. Those that seem progressive we enjoy.” DifferentSelfSeemsFormEnjoyMeditationBuddhismHelpfulProgressive Author:Frederick Lenz
“When you are following dharma, you will be happy, at peace, still inside. There will be a sense of purpose to your life. Difficulties will not seem unconquerable.” StillsSeemsPurposeBuddhismDifficultyFollowingDharmaUnconquerable Author:Frederick Lenz
“When you are not following dharma, then you will not be at peace. You will not be happy. The simplest things will seem to be endless obstacles.” SeemsBuddhismFollowingObstaclesEndlessSimplestDharma Author:Frederick Lenz
“Have a wonderful sense of humor, particularly about yourself and your own situation. Yet don't simply laugh. Work to change and improve things even though, at times, it seems impossible.” SeemsSituationLaughingWonderfulImpossibleBuddhismSense Of HumorAbout YourselfDharma Author:Frederick Lenz
“We must be able to deal with ridicule and scorn, which it always seems that Buddhists receive. But we feel that it doesn't matter. God's laughing at us; God's laughing at God. We can take a joke too. We're pretty funny.” FeelsMatterSeemsAbleDealsLaughingBuddhismJokesBuddhistRidiculeScorn Author:Frederick Lenz
“Prophecy is rash, but it may be that the publication of D.T. Suzuki's first Essays in Zen Buddhism in 1927 will seem to future generations as great an intellectual event as William of Moerbeke's Latin translations of Aristotle in the thirteenth century or Marsiglio Ficino's of Plato in the fifteenth.” FirstsMaySeemsGenerationsCenturyEventsBuddhismIntellectualLatinProphecyPlatoEssaysTranslationsFuture GenerationPublicationZen Buddhism Author:D.T. Suzuki
“It seems to me that there's a terrible misunderstanding between us. It seems to me that I love you a great deal, my friends.” SeemsDealsLove YouBuddhismTerribleMy FriendsMisunderstandingRama Author:Frederick Lenz
“It is inevitable that, in the process of teaching an Asian religion in a Western country, many of the teachings will seem strange or unusual - in the same way that Christianity and Judaism may seem strange and unusual to people from the Far East.” PeopleWayMayCountrySeemsProcessChristianityTeachingStrangeBuddhismWesternEastInevitableUnusualJudaismAsianRamaChristianity And Judaism Author:Frederick Lenz
“That's what self-discovery seems to mean to most people. You're going to beat yourself up. You're going to reduce what you're supposed to be and do to a set of rules so you can defy them, or so you can perform them and feel smug.” PeopleFeelsMeanSelfSeemsBuddhismBeatsDiscoverySelf DiscoveryBuddhistSupposed To BeEtiquette Author:Frederick Lenz
“The spirit of the West, of America, is different than the East. The cultural conditioning is very different. It seems to be harder for people to work in teams, more difficult for people here to live in harmony, in a monastery.” PeopleDifferentSeemsAmericaSpiritDifficultTeamBuddhismHarderHarmonyWestEastConditioningMonasteries Author:Frederick Lenz
“The main reason people fail is they become attached to others who hold them back. Letting go of others and going forward may seem like a lonely and impossible task, but I assure you it is not.” PeopleMayReasonSeemsSuccessCareersImpossibleFailingBuddhismLetting GoTasksLonely Author:Frederick Lenz
“The abuse of power that seems to create the most unhappiness is when a person uses personal power to get ahead without regards to the welfare of others, or when power is used to go into the lower dimensional planes.” PersonsUseSeemsUsedBuddhismAbuseRegardPlanesWelfareUnhappinessPersonal PowerGet AheadAbuse Of Power Author:Frederick Lenz