Frederick Lenz Quotes

Enlightenment does not put an end to awareness. It puts an end to limited awareness. It doesn't necessarily put an end to incarnation. It puts an end to reincarnation.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

From the point of view of enlightenment, none of this has ever even been. All time and space, all the conditions that are apparent in the absence of enlightenment are unreal.

I have not in this lifetime yet met one person who earnestly seeks enlightenment in the West. Not one person.

A better name for nirvana might be endless love. Love not even in the sense that we see it if we're watching the romantic movie, but love in a sense of no absence.

The day-to-day life we lead has nothing to do with enlightenment. It is just around the corner, and we don't see it.

Enlightenment is the ability to freely transact within the ten thousand states of mind without a continuous self or awareness

The universe is endless. Enlightenment is endless. You have only touched the outer periphery of the endless still center of perfect being.

There is no way to explain enlightenment. It is just a word to indicate something beyond, something very, very far beyond the normal human condition.

After enlightenment your body changes tremendously; its very molecular structure changes just because the kundalini is always streaming through you.

If one is enlightened, one does not perceive life with North, South, East and West. There is no California, there is no New York. In a higher bonding state of attention, everything is fluid light.

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.

Enlightenment is not a finite state. It's not something that you just do and it's done. It goes on forever.

Be enlightened for you, just for you. No one else knows or cares. They crucified Christ, you know. They don't take real well, on this planet, to the people who see things differently.

The world of enlightenment doesn't know of its own existence. We're beyond both the knower and known. There's no conceptual identity whatsoever.

Nirvana's not like anything you've ever known or experienced because it can't be known or experienced.

Enlightenment is an ocean of awareness that slides through the human part of us and dissolves it, and leaves us forever in eternity.

We can't say what enlightenment is, we can't say what it isn't, because these are words and words have nothing to do with reality.

Words are a human way of trying to describe things. But they're much more of interference than they are a help in the world of enlightenment.

You see, that's the fun of Buddhism. We do have a wild card in the deck that can't be explained, that changes value continuously, and that's enlightenment.

The enlightenment experience is not what you think. How could it be anything that you can configure, anything you can imagine, any way that you think it should be?

The dreams of eternity are the states of mind. When we wake up from the dreams there's only enlightenment. There could never be anything else.

Since infinity is by its very nature infinite, then enlightenment by its very nature is infinite, and thus can be experienced in infinite ways, by itself or without itself

The effort to lift one's self into perfect enlightenment is a profound thing. It has nothing to do with individual will. It's a refraction of the cosmos. The cosmos delights in itself.

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.

When someone says to me "I want to be enlightened." I immediately take a vacation because I know that the person isn't serious. I've never met anyone who's serious about enlightenment

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.

When the spirit is understood, then life becomes not at all common, but a constant magical circus in which you see yourself reflected in all forms and all formlessness.

Enlightened beings are rare in the universe. They are the joker in the deck. They are outside the circle.

Enlightened teachers are not logical. They don't function from levels that are understandable to the human mind. They're not religious. Religions form around them, usually after they've died.

The truly enlightened are not necessarily very religious. Religon is a convienent description to take care of our fears, to passify us.

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.

The enlightened teacher is someone who has become absorbed in eternity. While they may have a body like others, the essence of their being is light.

An enlightened master is a perpetual source of the cosmic light because his mind is always merged with nirvana.

The teacher is not a person; they're a field of energy. They're a series of levels of attention. While they have a body and appear to be there, they're not.

If you ever want to study acting you should be around an enlightened person for a while, because all they do is play roles, since they no longer have a self.

True teachers of enlightenment are hard to find. The popular ones, of course, usually aren't enlightened because how could they be? They just tell people what they want to hear.

Good teachers are not known for telling you what you want to hear, and consequently they're rarely popular because they tend to offend people on a regular basis by their mere presence on earth.

Advanced Teachers always forgive. It is inevitable that anyone who seek knowledge and power will make many mistakes.

An enlightened teacher has personal power. Sitting and meditating with an enlightened teacher in a meditation hall or at a power spot can change you forever.