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Tag Name "Buddhism" (1673)

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Beyond the subtle body we have something called the causal body that's more what we are. We are a series of interconnecting awarenesses. It's like a molecular bond, DNA, a double-helix, and we can change that.
Frederick Lenz
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There is wisdom in not letting anyone really know who you are or what you are like. If you define yourself, people hold you in their mind a certain way making it difficult to change.
Frederick Lenz
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The only way you will advance spiritually is through humility.
Frederick Lenz
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How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places.
Frederick Lenz
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Then there are most of my students who don't know a whole lot about love. You don't know what fun love is. I will remain inaccessible to you until you learn how to love.
Frederick Lenz
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You have people who are good at English but don't have the training in Buddhism or Shambhala, or they have the training but are not good in English. Getting that mixture is really rare.
Sakyong Mipham
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Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Gautama Buddha
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Celibacy doesn't make you enlightened, otherwise every nun or priest in Buddhism or Christianity would be enlightened. People who don't date and can't get any action would be enlightened.
Frederick Lenz
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Always walk in peace and beauty in grace and love, speak only truth and you will be blessed. Where we are, let there be light.
Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
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Buddhism strongly discourages blind faith and fanaticism.
Dalai Lama
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If you seek the realms of light, the best thing to do is to meditate with love and the gentle aliveness. Meditation should not be forced.
Frederick Lenz
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You perceive yourself as being solid and physical, limited to a body. You are made up of light, endless mind. The way you see life is a limited state of mind.
Frederick Lenz
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Discrimination means keeping the negative and unhappy thoughts away and allowing the pretty thoughts to come inside you.
Frederick Lenz
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The work that most people do in the world tends to deaden them, deadens their mind, uses up their energy and they get a paycheck and old age and not much energy. You get the check and they get your energy. That energy is translated into corporate dollars.
Frederick Lenz
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In the beginning what is necessary is to feel that there is something worthwhile to be attained otherwise we won't do it.
Frederick Lenz
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In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference between them.
Frederick Lenz
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Begin with your daily life. Take your life as a challenge and try to bring yourself into harmony with each thing in your life.
Frederick Lenz
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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.
Frederick Lenz
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Most people have no idea how unhappy they are because they don't know what happiness is. When they get a little break from their total pain, they feel a little better and they call it happiness.
Frederick Lenz
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You must have total and impeccable trust in eternity. Whether you like it or not, eternity's in charge, so you might as well trust. You will feel better.
Frederick Lenz
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Right and wrong are concepts that only have meaning in this world, so by sorting existence on those characteristics, we are defining ourselves to exist only in this world.
Frederick Lenz
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I've worked in the prison system, on death row and maximum security. I did that work for six years. I've worked with some of the most difficult people in our society. Buddhism was accessible and helpful for these individuals.
Joan Halifax
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The place that you gain the most power is within your own mind. Stopping thought generates power. That is why people meditate. The longer you can stop thought, the more power you gain.
Frederick Lenz
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Our past affects us, our present affects us, and even our future can affect us. We live in the relative world of time and space.
Frederick Lenz
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