“You're standing in a closet, and you've been in it so long that you can't remember that there's anything else, that there's a huge house with lots of rooms and there are lands outside the house and planets and universes and creations” WorldLongRememberUniverseHouseRoomsLandCreationIgnorancePlanetsHugeBuddhismStandingClosetsOther Worlds Author:Frederick Lenz
“I can assure you, as a practitioner of Buddhism, that there are ten thousand states of mind, at least, give or take a few billion.” WorldGivingMindI CanStatesIgnoranceBuddhismThousandTenBillionsState Of MindOther Worlds Author:Frederick Lenz
“Everything is perception. A hallucination is a perception of a certain reality. It is a perception of a certain state of mind.” MindStatesRealityCertainAwarenessIgnoranceBuddhismPerceptionState Of MindHallucinations Author:Frederick Lenz
“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
“It's fun to go to a supermarket or a park or a shopping mall where human beings convene. They're so caught up in their own personal reality as to not see life, except in terms that add to or detract from their movie.” InspirationalHumansRealityFunTermHuman BeingsIgnoranceBuddhismAddCaughtParksShoppingCaught UpMallsSupermarkets Author:Frederick Lenz
“There's a different film being made in every mind. And of course, the star of the film is the mind, the personality, the self.” InspirationalMindMadeDifferentSelfFilmCoursesStarsIgnoranceBuddhismPersonality Author:Frederick Lenz
“You're bound by the frame. You've become so engrossed in the movie of your life that you have forgotten that you're sitting there watching.” InspirationalIgnoranceBuddhismSittingBoundsForgotten Author:Frederick Lenz
“Things don't make you unhappy. People don't make you unhappy. You make yourself unhappy. Because you are in the cycle. You're stuck. You're stuck in time.” PeopleInspirationalIgnoranceBuddhismStuckUnhappyCyclesHappy PeopleUnhappy People 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.” InspirationalDifferentPainDiesKnowingIgnoranceBuddhismSafeSecureNot KnowingOblivionIncarnationShuffle Author:Frederick Lenz
“Life isn't complicated. The reason it appears complicated to you is because you are in a very distorted state of mind. That's the basic premise of Buddhism - that you're in a very distorted state of mind.” MindStatesReasonIgnoranceBuddhismComplicatedState Of MindPremises Author:Frederick Lenz
“Ignorance, vulnerability, fear, anger, and desire are expressions of the infinite potential of your buddha nature. There's nothing inherently wrong or right with making such choices. The fruit of Buddhist practice is simply the recognition that these and other mental afflictions are nothing more or less than choices available to us because our real nature is infinite in scope.” RealDesireChoicesPracticeIgnoranceExpressionBuddhismInfiniteFruitAvailableBuddhistRecognitionVulnerabilityAfflictionScopeBuddha NatureInfinite PotentialWrong Or Right Book:The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness Source: The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness
“If you attain liberation do not feel that it matters or it is important. You had nothing to do with it. If you are bound by ignorance do not feel bad. You had nothing to do with it.” IfsFeelsImportantMatterIgnoranceBuddhismBoundsBuddhistLiberationEtiquette Author:Frederick Lenz
“Do not feel that you are destined to enlightenment in this life. You have no idea. This is an illusion of selfhood. It's gross ignorance and egotism.” FeelsIdeasIgnoranceBuddhismEnlightenmentIllusionBuddhistThis LifeNo IdeaDestinedGrossEtiquetteEgotism Author:Frederick Lenz