Frederick Lenz Quotes About Hinduism
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Observe your actions but be so busy that you never contemplate their possible effects. It is only this consciousness that leads to liberation. Everything else is illusion.
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In the Far East, a peasant has no problem that someone can be born from another universe into a human body, walk up to their hut one day and ask for something to eat and transport them into infinite galaxies of awareness.
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The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient beings experience this, the endless dance of life, the lila.
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When the sun sets, beautiful though it may be, billions of stars appear. The ego is but one sun. When that sun sets, there are endless suns, endless horizons beyond it.
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Psychic development is a necessary skill in leading a successful and happy life. Your intellectual processes and your senses don't give you enough information to distinguish the real from the unreal.
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Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization.
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Yoga makes you free. It makes you happy. It gets you out of the traps that create human misery. It makes you vibrate faster.
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Illumination in the outer world is to be happy no matter what is going on. In the inner world, it's more ineffable. It's harder to express.
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If you are with a fully enlightened being, a jivan mukta, liberated soul, the quality of light is so clear, that you don't really know that it is there until later.
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A very advanced master can glow so strongly that you see divine in them. You look into them and you see infinity constantly changing, evolving and radiating in new forms.
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Tantra is the perception of the oneness and the perfection of all things. Not just the perception of light, but the perception of darkness, seeing God in both beauty and horror.
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The smoke from the fire passes through the building and the soot affixes itself to the walls. The smoke passes through the air and keeps going - liberation.
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Now, stopping thought is only the beginning. As Brahmananda, who was a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, once remarked: The inner life begins with samadhi. This is an awesome thought, I realize, for the average person who meditates, that it could begin with samadhi.
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The universe is always ecstasy and it's always perfect, but we don't perceive it that well. If we keep doing our yoga in every lifetime, we perceive it more correctly.
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Gods and goddesses are not what people think they are. Their names are terms with which we try to convey a certain experience, a state of consciousness.
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Sri Krishna refers, of course, to this world as a joyless, transient world. Obviously, he's never been to Disneyland.
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The body comes and goes. This life, my friend, will come and go. It is a fleeting moment, an impulse in an eternal reality.
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In the Far East, studying yoga is comparable to a mixture of attending one of the best Western universities, and of being an intrepid explorer.
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The cool thing about the universe is that it can format itself into tiny little manifestations that are not entirely aware of all aspects of life.
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You're much too hung up on all of your ideas and your desires. You still have not penetrated the essence of yoga.
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Sri Krishna's message is the message of anyone who comes from far away. His message is the same as Buddha, Lao Tsu, Bodhidharma, Milarepa, Padmasambhava.
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The planes of light exist. Yoga is a method of unifying the energies of the body, the mind, and the spirit and directing them towards infinity, the planes of light.
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Those who seek liberation want to go beyond individualized perception. The essence of their being wants to dissolve back into the cosmos.
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One day the play ends and the screen goes blank. There is nothing. Everything returns to its original formlessness - and then another dream begins.
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When all of the selves have been dissolved, you will enter into the super-conscious awareness. Then, you are free. Then, there is no suffering. Then, there is no attachment.
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One path leads back to this world, to rebirth; one path leads beyond. Your soul stands at a crossword, trying to make a decision, flipping a coin, a nice image for the soul, I think.
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We are immortal life. Think of the opportunity of self-realization. What a gas!
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Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live.
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The perceiver of the dream, the one whom the dream is unfolding before, is what we call the Self.
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The awareness of liberation is not liberation. The awareness of time is not liberation.
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