Frederick Lenz Quotes
At the time of death, whatever you have focused on the most will determine your next life.
What you will be in your next life is the sum total of the realizations that you have had in this lifetime.
The state between birth and death is not sympathetic. It is a flow system. Whatever your conscious level is, that is how you will reincarnate.
The disembodied being stays in the same state of mind that it was in when it was embodied, unless it does something to change that while it is out of the body.
There are ten thousand states of mind. The culmination of the states of mind you have gone through will create your next lifetime.
If you'd like to have a better incarnation, then have one now. If that's your attitude, just let go and meditate and try to be as wise and compassionate, as understanding as you can.
No self-effort in the direction of enlightenment is ever wasted. Even if you don't become fully enlightened in a given lifetime, you will be much happier and more aware.
The experience of the next life is too far away to really be concerned with. It will be an outgrowth of this incarnation and what happens between birth and death.
Our knowledge, experience, and wisdom can assist us in gaining more from this life, which will correctly set up our next life.
If you feel some tremendous pressure to do everything perfectly so you won't have a horrible incarnation in your next life - that type of fear is unnecessary. Life is not that finicky.
A better lifetime comes from not some karmic scale but from inner knowledge. Inner knowledge makes you happy. In other words, it is not as if someone is checking!
Go directly to Nirvana. Don't pass go - or you'll have kids, you'll grow old together, you'll be born into another realm where you'll forget that there was even nirvana.
I'm not big on the after-death experience. If you've done a very good job in your current lifetime, then your next lifetime will be set up for you.
Think of what you love most in this world. This is what you will come back to in your next life.
The universe is pretty cool. You always exist in one form or another. You are a wave and you are changing and moving from one level to another.
Enlightenment is not a state of mind, yet all states of mind are contained within it.
Enlightenment is really worth seeking. It is the only thing that gives you permanent happiness. When you experience the ecstasy of enlightenment, everything is alright.
Enlightenment, meditation is really a shift in perception. It's not a thing that you go and do or become, since you're already that.
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.
When you are enlightened and have united your mind with the deepest and most ancient part of the mind of the universe, you are not affected by suffering the way other people are.
Spiritual knowledge is the experience of enlightenment, and requires an understanding of the inner-most workings of the enlightenment cycle.
Enlightenment means having no human mind, no limitations. Your awareness is eternity, timeless, infinite, beyond boundaries, and yet it exists within all things.
All beings exist ultimately in a condition of inner enlightenment. Enlightenment is in all things.
Enlightenment is a perfect state of mind. It is the direct seeing of reality. The world most people see, which they call life, is really just a dream.
Normally the experience of enlightenment occurs in stages. A person will usually have many small enlightenments before full enlightenment dawns.
It is vain to think that we choose, that our own energy, our own intellect will create the possibility of us experiencing a higher order of existence. Liberation is to know you are that.
People who ponder too much about the subject of enlightenment don't progress very fast. It is interesting to know it's there, but you can't know what it's like until you get there.
A person who is enlightened does not have to reincarnate, or they may. If they chose not to, they can go beyond the wheel, and slide into nirvana.
There's not really a whole lot you could say about liberation. The closest experience you can have of it is to come meditate with someone who is liberated.
Enlightenment is a lot like dying. You might wonder why there aren't more enlightened people. It is because they are afraid to die.
Enlightened teachers and people who help them, have a lot of trouble. People try to interfere with the work and spread awful rumors about you.
Most enlightened people can do miracles. Some have powers, some don't. Some people who have developed powers aren't enlightened.
What is enlightenment, anyway? I don't know if I can really put it into words, perhaps you can. I can't.
To be enlightened means that you really don't change, and yet you're nothing but change.
There is no final stage in nirvana. Nirvana is beyond definition. It is not quantifiable.
You have to become that infinite formless creation, which is life, to know it. It cannot be known in an intellectual sense. That is enlightenment.
It is not special to be enlightened, just different. An enlightened person is someone who has dedicated not just this lifetime but thousands of lifetimes to becoming awareness.
What the enlightened person sees no one could ever tell or describe. Wonder beyond belief. We live in a universe filled with wonder. It is wonder just to live.
We have to leave everything we have been, a perceiver, "I" as an individual. That is enlightenment.
Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting your awareness, your mind.
There is a still point in eternity. There is a still point where all things intersect. There is a still point beyond life, time, and death. Your experience of the still point is enlightenment.
Light by its very nature is endless. Therefore you can never say you've had the ultimate experience in light - it goes on forever.
Once you have mastered the ten thousand states of mind, it's paranirvana, the absorption into the stillness forever.
Enlightenment doesn't occur by accident. It is a deliberate decision that someone makes again and again. It is something you grow into and develop in.
Nirvana is a step beyond. You dissolve into the universe. The universe dissolves into you until there is no longer a difference. There is no sense of individual self as perceiver.
There is no movement in Nirvana. There is no sameness. And one does not consider it to be timeless because one is not one. It is you, my friend, who go away.
We've decided what we are. That's the dream. When the dream fades, it's not that we don't exist. How could we not exist since we never existed?