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“Without doubt machines will be able to determine the means and avenues to goals, but men will continue to set the goals themselves. For what machine can ever apply the considerations of compassion and justice which, as man's enlightenment spreads ... will enter ever more into the decisions that affect his future ... in the universe?”

Men Mean Able Universe Goal Justice Decision Business Compassion Doubt Enlightenment Machines Determine Spread Consideration Avenues

Author:Lewis Strauss

“Put on the music, and listen. Zazen means to sit, to listen. You're listening to enlightenment, to the universes, to the planes of mind.”

Mind Mean Universe Listening Enlightenment Planes Concentration

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What led me to my science and what fascinated me from a young age was the, by no means self-evident, fact that our laws of thought agree with the regularities found in the succession of impressions we receive from the external world, that it is thus possible for the human being to gain enlightenment regarding these regularities by means of pure thought”

World Humans Mean Self Facts Age Law Young Science Found Human Beings Pure Enlightenment Gains Agree Impression Fascinated Evident Young Age Succession Scientific Method Regularity

Author:Max Planck

“Enlightenment simply means that you've gotten above the body-mind complex. You've refined the self, dissolved it in the white light of eternity and gone through all the gradient shifts.”

Mind Mean Self Body Light White Gone Enlightenment Eternity Complexes Refined White Light

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enlightenment means having no human mind, no limitations. Your awareness is eternity, timeless, infinite, beyond boundaries, and yet it exists within all things.”

Mind Humans Mean Awareness Enlightenment All Things Eternity Infinite Boundaries Limitation Human Mind Timeless

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To be enlightened means that you really don't change, and yet you're nothing but change.”

Mean Enlightenment Enlightened Don't Change

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enlightenment doesn't simply mean being in heavenly states of mind. It doesn't mean being a saint.”

Mind Mean States Enlightenment Saint Heavenly State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enlightenment doesn't mean you know anything. It doesn't mean you don't know anything. It means that you've returned to the source, consciously.”

Knows Mean Source Enlightenment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enlightenment means that you've become a sophisticated perceiver, without letting anyone know that you're sophisticated.”

Knows Mean Enlightenment Sophisticated

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enlightenment simply means that you've run out of questions, and that the answers don't matter anymore.”

Mean Matter Running Answers Enlightenment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enlightenment means that you're in love with all of life, with not only immortality but mortality.”

Mean Enlightenment Immortality Mortality

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enlightenment means that you're living fully, and it means that you die fully. And then you go beyond life and death completely, everything, nothing, all, and beyond all.”

Mean Dies Enlightenment Life And Death Living Fully

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just is.”

Mean Doe Ideas Purpose Enlightenment Fixed Reincarnation True Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enlightenment just means that you don't have a structural self. It means you've flipped through the gradated realities. Nothing binds, nothing clings to you. You're unaffected by everything.”

Mean Self Reality Enlightenment Flipped

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Buddhists don't feel that enlightenment is particularly unusual. We feel that it's the natural state. Enlightenment simply means perceiving life directly as it is in all of its infinite, ever changing wonder, in all of its varied, myriad states of mind or as pari-nirvana, or whatever.”

Feels Mind Mean States Natural Wonder Enlightenment Infinite Buddhist State Of Mind Unusual

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enlightenment means that you're never the same. You move and shift as the quiescent state, in a body or out of it. And since the quiescent state is perpetual and endless ecstasy, therefore you are endless.”

Mean States Body Moving Enlightenment Endless Ecstasy Perpetual

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Becoming enlightened doesn't mean everything works your way.”

Way Mean Becoming Enlightenment Enlightened Becoming Enlightened

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Yes I say that I am enlightened. What does that mean? It means I live in a condition of light...There really is no primary self anymore.”

Mean Doe Self Light Conditions Enlightenment Primaries Enlightened

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enlightenment doesn't mean you stop being a student. Being a student is a state of mind. Enlightenment simply means that you are everything and everywhere. It doesn't preclude being a student.”

Mind Mean States Students Enlightenment State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Perpetual wakefulness doesn't mean you have all physical knowledge, that you can speak all languages, that you can fix cars...that is a storybook, Hollywood version of the enlightenment experience.”

Mean Speak Language Teacher Car Enlightenment Hollywood Versions Enlightened Perpetual

Author:Frederick Lenz

“An enlightened person doesn't know it all. Enlightenment simply means walking beyond this and all worlds into nirvana, which is beyond knowledge and ignorance.”

Knows World Mean Persons Teacher Ignorance Walking Enlightenment Enlightened Know It All Knowledge And Ignorance

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Woman knowing this was not right but not knowing what else to do, developed the only means to fight for their survival that they had, since their survival was dependent upon men, and that was to use sexuality to survive.”

Men Mean Use Fighting Women Knowing Survival Enlightenment Sexuality Dependent Not Knowing

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Being on the path means we again meditate with joy. We deal with the suffering of life and the pain of existence without perfect enlightenment with a smile.”

Mean Pain Joy Suffering Perfect Deals Existence Path Enlightenment Intention

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Zen is a very quick path. Zen is the path of meditation. The word Zen means emptiness or fullness, meditation. Meditation is the quickest path to enlightenment.”

Mean Path Meditation Enlightenment Emptiness Fullness Introduction Path To Enlightenment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“By god the Buddhist means that from which the universe was born, the unborn of the Buddhist scriptures, and by soul that factor in the thing called man which moves towards enlightenment. Why need more be said of it, at any rate those who are not content with scholarship, but strive to attain that same enlightenment?”

Men Needs Mean Said Soul Moving Universe Born Enlightenment Strive Rate Scripture Factors Buddhist Scholarship Unborn

Book:An Invitation to the Buddhist Way of Life for Western Readers

Source: An Invitation to the Buddhist Way of Life for Western Readers

“When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixations are not the same as valuable and laudable observances. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity; rituals are wrong when they provide lower satisfactions, like emotional stimulus instead of enlightenment; he or she should not be an ascetic who is only enjoying it.”

People Ifs Should Mean Self Enjoy Prayer Emotional Praying Enlightenment Satisfaction Obvious Valuable Vanity Ritual Beneficial Indulgence Stimulus Observance Self Indulgence Fixation

Book:Seeker After Truth

Source: Seeker After Truth