“No self-effort in the direction of enlightenment is ever wasted. Even if you don't become fully enlightened in a given lifetime, you will be much happier and more aware.” IfsSelfGivenEffortEnlightenmentLifetimeEnlightenedRebirth Author:Frederick Lenz
“It is not special to be enlightened, just different. An enlightened person is someone who has dedicated not just this lifetime but thousands of lifetimes to becoming awareness.” PersonsDifferentSpecialAwarenessBecomingEnlightenmentLifetimeEnlightenedDedicated Author:Frederick Lenz
“I have not in this lifetime yet met one person who earnestly seeks enlightenment in the West. Not one person.” PersonsMetsEnlightenmentLifetimeWest Author:Frederick Lenz
“It's a very complicated matter to become enlightened. If it happens to a person without a teacher in this lifetime, you can bet their boots, they've had about a thousand teachers in their last thousand lives because it's a very complicated thing to do.” IfsPersonsMatterHappensLastsTeacherThousandEnlightenmentLifetimeComplicatedThings To DoEnlightenedBootsComplicated Things Author:Frederick Lenz
“People who are enlightened in previous lifetimes have a certain degree of difficulty in regaining their enlightenment. Sometimes it comes in childhood. Sometimes it takes many years to reintegrate the personality structure that they gained when they first entered into this world.” PeopleWorldYearsFirstsSometimesCertainTeacherChildhoodThis WorldPersonalityDegreesEnlightenmentDifficultyStructureLifetimeEnlightened Author:Frederick Lenz
“In the enlightenment cycle, attention is paid to bringing back the awareness field from other lives. This does not simply mean memory, but rather the internal power and intelligence that you have amassed in other lifetimes.” MeanDoeMemoriesAttentionAwarenessFieldsEnlightenmentPaidLifetimeInternalsConcentrationCycles Author:Frederick Lenz
“You are going around on the wheel again and again. You go around and around from lifetime to lifetime. You never quite wake up. Enlightenment is waking up.” SufferingBuddhismEnlightenmentWake UpLifetimeWheelsWakingAgain And AgainNever Quit Author:Frederick Lenz
“Let's consider: at the time of the Buddha, when he attained enlightenment, according to the old texts, in the first watch of the night, he went through all of his past lifetimes. Then in the second watch of the night, his mind opened still further and encompassed the coming into being and dying and re-coming into being of all beings, everywhere. The third watch of the night, he realized interdependent origination. He realized interdependent origination because he saw it. It wasn't some theory he thought up. He saw it. That was his enlightenment experience. That was why he was a Buddha.” MindFirstsStillsPastNightWatchesSawsDyingTheoryEnlightenmentThirdsLifetimePast Life Author:Tenzin Palmo
“I have made a vow to attain Enlightenment in the female form - no matter how many lifetimes it takes.” MadeMatterFormEnlightenmentFemaleLifetimeVowFemale Form Author:Tenzin Palmo