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“We play in the jungle gym of sexuality until our spirit takes us out into a clear field where we can see the stars, the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment. One of those radiances is the dance of sexuality.”

Play Spirit Stars Clear Fields Buddhism Thousand Ten Enlightenment Sexuality Gym Jungle Radiance

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The crown chakra is located several inches above the head, but it is not connected. The crown chakra, also known as the thousand-petal lotus of light, references the planes of light, of enlightenment.”

Light Known Buddhism Thousand Enlightenment Connected Planes Inches Crowns Petals Chakra Lotuses

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The thousand petal lotus of light, the crown center, really does not become operative until one is on the verge of enlightenment itself. Then you really don't have to meditate on it. The thousand petals gradually light up.”

Doe Light Buddhism Thousand Enlightenment Crowns Verge Petals Light Up Chakra Lotuses

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Once you have mastered the ten thousand states of mind, it's paranirvana, the absorption into the stillness forever.”

Mind States Forever Thousand Ten Enlightenment State Of Mind Stillness Absorption

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enlightenment is the ability to freely transact within the ten thousand states of mind without a continuous self or awareness”

Mind Self States Ability Awareness Thousand Ten Enlightenment State Of Mind

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.”

Ifs Persons Matter Happens Lasts Teacher Thousand Enlightenment Lifetime Complicated Things To Do Enlightened Boots Complicated Things

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Christianity has held back any further advances in human consciousness for the past thousand years. And for the past century it's been in direct conflict with its illegitimate offspring, Communism (again with a capital C). Both ask the individual to sacrifice his self-interest to the higher goals of the organization. (Which is okay by me as long as it's voluntary; but as soon as either becomes too big - and takes on that damned capital C - they stop asking for cooperation and start demanding it.) Any higher states of human enlightenment have been sacrificed between these two monoliths.”

“Put the mind in alignment with the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment and experience them in various gradations forever. That's the total purpose of a monk.”

Mind Purpose Forever Buddhism Thousand Ten Enlightenment Various Buddhist Monk Etiquette Alignment Radiance

Author:Frederick Lenz

“That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self is called enlightenment.”

Self Thousand Ten Enlightenment Delusion

Author:Dogen

“So he [Shoko Asahara] was insane but managed to convince a couple thousand people that he was enlightened. Western culture, which Japan is now definitely a part of, doesn't have an understanding of what Enlightenment is.”

People Culture Understanding Couple Thousand Enlightenment Western Insane Convince Japan Enlightened Western Culture

Author:Brad Warner

“Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and scientific theories. The Gospels on the other hand, deal only with the general relations between man and God and between man and man. Beyond that, they teach nothing and do not oblige people to believe anything. That alone, among a thousand reasons, is enough to show that Islam will not be able to hold its power long in ages of enlightenment and democracy, while Christianity is destined to reign in such ages, as in all others.”

“SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.”

People Food Civilization Thousand Enlightenment Hundred Vices Accepted Nine Forgiven Ninety Sauce Infallible Ninety Nine

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: A Selection of the Bitter Definitions of Ambrose Bierce

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: A Selection of the Bitter Definitions of Ambrose Bierce

“It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.”