Frederick Lenz Quotes

Our actions and experiences will direct us. In other words, we will be guided by the inherent emptiness of the things we choose to interact with.

We have ideas of God and nirvana or truth or enlightenment. These ideas will go away in nirvana because the suffusion is so complete and intense that nothing can be remembered.

The unlimited mind, the diamond mind of the Buddha, is your mind, if you can get in touch with it. Stop thinking so much and tap into that psychic part of your being.

Think about what is in front of you, if you must think.

Stop worrying about tomorrow. Stop thinking about yesterday. Mindfulness is to be here now, in the moment. Focus on this moment.

Look at how beautiful life is, and just keep looking until you see it. You don't see what is in front of you because you're so distracted by your thoughts.

Just see beauty as you walk around through your day. Feel things. Unhook from your thoughts and all the busy things you are doing. Start to look at life. This is mindfulness.

Awareness is wakefulness. Wakefulness is consciousness. Consciousness is limitless awareness.

No matter how many times you have failed you must keep going forward. Only when you have become humble will you begin to grasp the meaning of life.

None of this matters a bit. Yet, of course, it matters at that moment. So we try to be mindful of the moment; but it's fleeting.

Nirvana is very funny. It's not sincere particularly. It's rather frivolous, actually.

The life of an unenlightened person is filled with suffering.

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

You are going to die. Your physical body will disintegrate. You cannot help that.

It is possible to move to an enlightened state of mind from a lower bardo or level of awareness. It can happen, but it is extremely unlikely.

You have but a short time to live in this world. As you age, you will experience the pains of aging. If your hopes and joys rest upon the body, then you will suffer greatly.

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.

The world is futile when viewed through the persona of the body. The body is not simply the physical body but it's the body of knowledge of this world.

People don't really want to know the truth. The truth is that you are all dead in the future, everything that you do has no point, and all of the achievements of the human race are meaningless.

I see people driving cars, winding down the streets. I don't know where these people think they're going. They're going to the funeral home; that's about it.

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

There is nothing wrong with the world of physicality. There is nothing wrong with existence. It's perfect ... but it's terribly transient.

As I'm sure you know by now, most people aren't really very happy. Beyond their surface appearances, the smiles they wear for the rest of the world, most people are soul-sick.

There is suffering and there is joy. Your life is very short, and then you're back again for another and another, forever, unless you step off the wheel.

Most people lead lives of frustration and disapointment. They enjoy temporary pleasures and long-lasting suffering.

Your mind is filled with thoughts and desires. Your moods shift constantly. You are not sure what it is you want, it changes from moment to moment; there is little or no continuity in your life.

Who needs to go the horror movies? Just go outside or turn on the TV. Buddha called it the "nightmare of the day." Welcome to incarnate experience.

You cannot be born and you cannot die. You will exist in a universe that goes on forever. That is the ultimate horror from the Zen point of view. You could be unhappy forever.

It is much nicer to live in perfect mind, free from pain and agony. How painful it is to be unenlightened. Buddha called it "the nightmare of the day."

Everybody here is so caught up in the game of life they don't see death. They don't see beyond their deaths. They are on the wheel of birth and death.

Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment.

As long as you wish to separate yourself from the immortal consciousness, you will suffer. You will experience the pain of the separation, the abridgment of infinite mind in finite form.

We dream forever unless we awaken. We move from one dream to another, some beautiful, some we're the hero or the heroine, some horrible, some nonsensical, some boring.

All states of mind have different views. On the higher plateau, opportunities will open to you because you can see them.

What you will be in your next life is the sum total of the realizations that you have had in this lifetime.

Your states of mind do not occur randomly. They occur because of vibratory and karmic patterns.

Everything that you have done has led up to what you are now. Everything you do now will lead up to what you will be.

At the time of death, whatever you have focused on the most will determine your next life.

If you meditate and continue to have fun with yoga and Buddhism, you will amass knowledge and will move to a higher incarnation. In your next lifetime you will be much wiser, much happier.

Our adult personality is a mirror image of who we were in the last stage of our life in our previous incarnation.

I would suggest your awareness is your karma. How you feel generates your level of attention.

The essence of your awareness field definitely goes on after death. It goes through death, it goes into non-physical states for a time, and then eventually is pulled back and it reincarnates.

The karma that is most interesting is the mental karma because ultimately it generates physical action.

When you cause something to happen it causes a shift in your awareness. Shifts in your awareness ultimately will result in a pattern shift in your life.

You will be reborn. You will come from the inner to the outer again. This process goes on indefinitely.

If there wasn't a way around the samskaras, no one would ever become enlightened.

Karma exists within causality. It is three-dimensional. Free will exists outside of causality; it is not bound by karma.

The experiences you'll have, the people you'll love, the jobs, the joys, the sorrows, the way you'll die. It is all predestined, unless you will a change.

This lifetime right now you have a specific destiny. You are destined to die at a certain time, to make a certain amount of money, to have certain associations and friendships.

The state of mind that you are in causes you to act in a certain way. Your actions will bear results. The ultimate result of all karmas and actions is state of mind. You are your state of mind.