Frederick Lenz Quotes

People are so tired. The world is set up to exhaust you and drain you. That's how humankind has devised their world. Life is not necessarily that way

Without enlightenment, everything in life is harsh. Sooner or later you see everyone you love die, unless you die first, of course. This causes you to suffer.

Hell is everything. Heaven is nothing.

Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment. There are joys, of course, and they should be enjoyed. There are sorrows, and they should be passed over briefly.

At this point you are so far away from what you really are, it's ridiculous.

Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see is an illusion.

None of this has ever been or will ever be; all is an appearance, all is an illusion. Illusions are truth. All illusions are real. We say illusion, meaning that they're shadows.

Illusions are shadows moving endlessly across the ground. The shadows are quite real but they're shadows. They have very little substance.

All the manifest forms of existence are but illusions. They are momentary displays of consciousness, flashes of lightening in the sky. They are there for a moment and then they are gone.

None of this exists. All important decisions in the universe occur someplace else.

The samsara is the sense of self. I've had past experiences. I'm aware of the moment. I will have future experiences.

The idea of self is dependent upon attraction, aversion and memory. Memory is simply a serial account of attractions and aversions that don't exist now except in imagination.

Personality is a manifestation of ego. Ego is the central sense of separateness that a person has from the rest of the universe. Personality is the form that that separateness take.

At the moment you're suffering from what we call Maya. Maya is illusion. Maya is a Sanskrit word that suggests that we have forgotten. We've forgotten the purpose of life.

There is illusion, the way you see things now, thinking that there is a tomorrow, there is a today, there is time and that there is life and death. Those are just appearances

You can be in a state of mind for a few seconds and forget that you were ever in any other state of mind. That's what we mean by illusion.

What gets frustrating for some people is the fact that you might get very high, but you find yourself pulled down again. There are forces of illusion or maya that cause us to make mistakes.

To suffer because of anything you see, feel or experience here in the world of moment to moment is a mistake. It is like becoming upset over a frightening dream.

You are separate from the universe, therefore you experience it.

As long as you exist, you are aware of the manifest universes through the senses, through feelings and through mind.

Reality is not the world as you perceive it. Reality is the world perceived through enlightenment. It's the same world; but it's not the same world.

Unlike the experience of nirvana, traveling to other dimensions will not take you beyond suffering, nor will it help you experience the limitless ecstasy of creation.

Everyone is afraid of enlightenment, knowledge, completion. People are afraid of being exposed.

It's only illusions that destroy us. It's illusions that convince us that we can't. It's the illusions of the transient that tell us that all this matters.

For every action there is a reaction. Karma can be examined within the structure of an hour, a year, a lifetime, a thousand lifetimes.

What is gone before is gone. All you have now are the results of your actions.

Karma has always existed, as have you, I, and all things in this wonderful universe.

Everything that exists in this or any other world or dimension, does so because of the way that things were in the previous moment. I call this the karma of moment.

The karma of immediate availability is the condition of your awareness field. The karma of potentiality is what is stored inside you from your past lives.

What you have done causes things to happen. Your situation in life now has been caused, is predicated upon, your previous actions. That is karma.

There are physical karmas. They are reactions and results from actions. But those are bound to a particular lifetime.

Karma doesn't mean that everything works out justly.

Karma is not a cop-out. The esoteric meaning of karma is that you are who you are, because of what you have done and who you have been.

Karma indicates action, but not necessarily physical action; nor is karma a result in the sense of a reward.

It is good not to think of karma as an alien force that is outside of yourself. You are the generator of karma. Karma is the energy patterns that emanate from your life.

Good and bad karma are just ways of evaluating causal experience. What you do affects your attention field.

Karma means changing planes of reality or changing fields of attention. There will be perhaps a resulting physical action stemming from the change of these fields of attention.

There is a popular conception about karma, and that is that as you sow, so shall you reap. That's only true if you're a farmer.

Karma simply means that whatever type of energy you project, or you allow to pass through your being, you will become for a period of time.

Your karma is the sum total of your awareness field. Your awareness field is comprised of all the experiences that you've had in this life and all other lives.

You are new at every moment. You are an extension of the previous moment of your awareness. You can radically change, if you unhook yourself from what you have been.

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.

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

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.

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

Karma will lead you to a larger more expansive happier view or a dinger darker view. That view will enable you to make choices and have experiences.

Karma is engendered by states of mind. If you are in a happy state of mind, that will engender one kind of karma. If you are in an unhappy state of mind, that will engender another kind of karma.

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.