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“The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient beings experience this, the endless dance of life, the lila.”

Pain Suffering Pleasure Forever Birth Lifetime Rounds Endless Wheels Hinduism Life Death Sentient Beings Birth And Death

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All of the universes are but phantoms, mirages, and while they have their own essence, their own pantomime - they pass forgotten.”

Universe Essence Forgotten Hinduism Phantoms Mirages Pantomime

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization.”

World Self Dream Awareness This World Self Realization Realization Hinduism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The perceiver of the dream, the one whom the dream is unfolding before, is what we call the Self.”

Self Dream Hinduism Unfolding

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Once you have personally experienced enlightenment, you will see beyond the ocean of death to the everlasting shores of immortality.”

Ocean Enlightenment Immortality Shore Hinduism Everlasting

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

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

“The universe is always ecstasy and it's always perfect, but we don't perceive it that well. If we keep doing our yoga in every lifetime, we perceive it more correctly.”

Ifs Wells Universe Perfect Yoga Lifetime Perceive Ecstasy Hinduism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The planes of light exist. Yoga is a method of unifying the energies of the body, the mind, and the spirit and directing them towards infinity, the planes of light.”

Mind Body Light Spirit Energy Yoga Method Planes Infinity Hinduism Unifying

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Now, stopping thought is only the beginning. As Brahmananda, who was a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, once remarked: The inner life begins with samadhi. This is an awesome thought, I realize, for the average person who meditates, that it could begin with samadhi.”

Persons Realizing Average Hinduism Disciple Stopping Inner Life Average Person Samadhi

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Krishna once said to Arjuna: Consider the past and future with an equal mind, and pass the peanut M&M's.”

Mind Said Past Equal Hinduism Krishna Peanuts Arjuna

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You're much too hung up on all of your ideas and your desires. You still have not penetrated the essence of yoga.”

Stills Ideas Desire Yoga Essence Hinduism Hung

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sri Krishna is said to be an avatar, which is a human way of trying to define very big. That is to say that Sri Krishna is not from the local area network, but he has come from a world that is different because his mind is different.”

World Way Trying Mind Humans Said Different Bigs Areas Locals Hinduism Krishna

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The void is ready to snatch you up like a Pac Man machine and Laskshmi is on vacation. You chant Sring - and you get her answering machine.”

Men Ready Machines Hinduism Vacation Void Pacs Answering Machines

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Gods and goddesses are not what people think they are. Their names are terms with which we try to convey a certain experience, a state of consciousness.”

People Thinking Trying States Certain Names Term Consciousness Hinduism Goddess States Of Consciousness Gods And Goddesses

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Isis, the Egyptian goddess of renewal is symbolized for the Hindus by Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. Brahma is the creator, Vishnu the sustainer, and Shiva the transformer or destroyer - the Cycle of creation.”

Creation Creator Cycles Hinduism Goddess Renewal Isis Destroyers Egyptian Brahma Shiva Vishnu

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the Upanishads they talk about the path of the sun and the path of the moon. The path of the moon is rebirth. The path of the sun leads to self-knowledge, from which there is no return.”

Self Sun Path Return Moon Hinduism Self Knowledge Rebirth

Author:Frederick Lenz

“One path leads back to this world, to rebirth; one path leads beyond. Your soul stands at a crossword, trying to make a decision, flipping a coin, a nice image for the soul, I think.”

Thinking World Trying Soul Decision Path Nice This World Your Soul Hinduism Coins Rebirth Crosswords Flipping A Coin

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Yoga means we accept responsibility for the tasks in our life, and we know that being a king, being an enlightened teacher, being someone who sweeps the streets, we know that nothing is a greater yoga than anything else.”

Knows Mean Responsibility Accepting Greater Teacher Our Lives Streets Kings Yoga Tasks Enlightened Hinduism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We live in a world of careers. Work, as Sri Krishna points out in the Bhagavad Gita, is a necessary path for everyone attaining enlightenment. It is something that we all do. Some people work very hard at not working.”

People World Hard Careers Path Enlightenment Hinduism Krishna Gita

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The road for Arjuna is unexpected. Sri Krishna says you have to face that which you fear the most that which you're most attached to and eliminate it. In this case he has to fight a battle, and the battle is his attachments.”

Faces Fighting Cases Battle Unexpected Attachment Hinduism Krishna Arjuna

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Krishna says, fight. He says, go out on the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill; and whether they were your friends or not, you have to look at the big picture. In the big picture, you can't go kill anybody, you can't be killed.”

People Looks Bigs Jobs Fighting Hinduism Battlefields Krishna Big Picture

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A war is an incarnation. A battle is a day of your life. So we do one day at a time in self-discovery.”

War Self Battle One Day Discovery Self Discovery Hinduism Incarnation One Day At A Time

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everybody is in the waiting room of life. Yoga is not a waiting. It is a doing, today.”

Today Waiting Rooms Yoga Hinduism Waiting Rooms

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You have to be a warrior in order to become enlightened. If you think it's tough paying the bills, think about being everywhere all at once and doing everything in all the universes, simultaneously, past, present, and future.”

Ifs Thinking Past Order Universe Tough Bills Warrior Enlightened Hinduism Past Present Past Present And Future

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What Sri Krishna is saying, is that it's a terrible mistake to believe that this life we lead is real. Obviously it's real, but it doesn't last very long in its realness. It's very ephemeral and to mistaken the forms of life, the shapes that life takes, for reality, is not wise.”

Believe Long Real Reality Lasts Form Mistake Wise Terrible Shapes This Life Hinduism Mistaken Krishna Ephemeral Realness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are people in the Himalayas who are thousands of years old. But that's just a power, you see. It would seem to me that would suggest a tremendous aversion to the experience of death.”

People Years Seems Death Hinduism Aversion Himalayas

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The body comes and goes. This life, my friend, will come and go. It is a fleeting moment, an impulse in an eternal reality.”

Moments Body Reality Eternal My Friends This Life Impulse Hinduism Fleeting Comes And Goes Fleeting Moments

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sri Krishna refers, of course, to this world as a joyless, transient world. Obviously, he's never been to Disneyland.”

World Courses This World Hinduism Krishna Transient Disneyland

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The dreams of the self are manifold and endless and they exist in all the myriad worlds and conditions that appear to have solidity. When you're dreaming at night, something seems very real, but when you wake up the dream is gone and so is all that apparent solidity.”

World Real Self Dream Seems Night Gone Conditions Wake Up Endless Hinduism Manifold Solidity Dreaming At Night

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Yoga is a science. It is the science of consciousness. Yoga suggests that there is more, other realms, other dimensions, and nirvana - the central nexus where all this comes from.”

Consciousness Yoga Realms Dimensions Hinduism Nexus

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You have to elevate yourself to that point and bring your mind into the Godhead, into nirvana, into that perfect and pure radiant knowledge. It will not come to you. It never does.”

Mind Doe Perfect Pure Hinduism Radiant

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Those who seek liberation want to go beyond individualized perception. The essence of their being wants to dissolve back into the cosmos.”

Want Perception Essence Liberation Cosmos Hinduism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-realization doesn't imply loss, gain, even transition; it's only a settling. The separate sounds on the beach, the birds, the waves, the wind. They all come together again, they blend, they harmonize.”

Self Together Sound Loss Wind Bird Gains Wave Self Realization Realization Beach Settling Transition Hinduism Together Again

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Yoga makes you free. It makes you happy. It gets you out of the traps that create human misery. It makes you vibrate faster.”

Humans Yoga Misery Faster Hinduism Traps Make You Happy Vibrate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the Far East, studying yoga is comparable to a mixture of attending one of the best Western universities, and of being an intrepid explorer.”

Study Yoga Western University East Hinduism Mixtures Explorers Attending

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Ramakrishna didn't suddenly become enlightened. We had years of him meditating, seeking, crying to Mother Kali, going in and out of samadhi; but after many years of this process, he was enlightened. He was no longer a finite individual.”

Years Mother Individual Process Cry Seeking Enlightened Hinduism Finite Meditating Samadhi Kali

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The smoke from the fire passes through the building and the soot affixes itself to the walls. The smoke passes through the air and keeps going - liberation.”

Fire Air Building Wall Smoke Liberation Keep Going Hinduism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The awareness of liberation is not liberation. The awareness of time is not liberation.”

Awareness Liberation Hinduism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The awareness of place, space, or condition is not liberation. You can't say what it is, but you can sure say what it isn't.”

Space Conditions Awareness Liberation Hinduism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sri Krishna's message is the message of anyone who comes from far away. His message is the same as Buddha, Lao Tsu, Bodhidharma, Milarepa, Padmasambhava.”

Messages Hinduism Far Away Krishna Laos

Author:Frederick Lenz

“One day the play ends and the screen goes blank. There is nothing. Everything returns to its original formlessness - and then another dream begins.”

Ends Play Dream Return One Day Originals Screens Hinduism Blank

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Krishna says meditate and you'll see the various ephemeral worlds, the various ephemeral beings, all of them going through the same thing; some are rich, some are poor, some are more knowledgeable, some are less knowledgeable - in countless myriad universes, forever.”

World Universe Poor Forever Rich Various Hinduism Krishna Ephemeral Knowledgeable

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We are immortal life. Think of the opportunity of self-realization. What a gas!”

Thinking Self Opportunity Self Realization Realization Gas Immortal Hinduism Immortal Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Beyond the parameters of the self is an ocean ... and it's most excellent.”

Self Ocean Excellent Hinduism Parameters

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In order to create heat, you have to have something to burn. So what we do in yoga is, we burn ourselves up to create light.”

Light Order Yoga Heat Hinduism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Yoga means we go a step further back. In yoga we go to the cause. The cause of pain is not the world. The cause of pain is us.”

World Mean Pain Causes Steps Yoga Hinduism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When the sun sets, beautiful though it may be, billions of stars appear. The ego is but one sun. When that sun sets, there are endless suns, endless horizons beyond it.”

May Beautiful Stars Sun Ego Billions Endless Horizon Hinduism Sun Set

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Yoga is a removal of the conscious awareness from the world as you know it - the world that you've constructed - through your focus within your mind, to something else.”

Knows World Mind Focus Awareness Conscious Yoga Hinduism Removal Conscious Awareness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Trying to use the power of yoga to improve your life, this is a terrible mistake. Because all you are doing is binding yourself more. You're putting more of your attention into the transient world.”

World Trying Use Attention Mistake Terrible Yoga Hinduism Transient Binding Improve Your Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Observe your actions but be so busy that you never contemplate their possible effects. It is only this consciousness that leads to liberation. Everything else is illusion.”

Action Consciousness Effects Illusion Busy Liberation Hinduism Contemplating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Illumination in the outer world is to be happy no matter what is going on. In the inner world, it's more ineffable. It's harder to express.”

World Matter Harder No Matter What Hinduism Illumination Inner World Ineffable Outer Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

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