Frederick Lenz Quotes About Nothingness
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The more perfectly you can refine the process of Frisbee, the tighter your energy is and the more you become one with the nothingness of the Frisbee, the nothingness of the play.
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When you visit Nirvana, there is neither existence nor nonexistence. Your baggage never arrives because there is no one there to claim it.
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The Frisbee is a round disk. That's the somethingness. But it has another side; it has a nothingness which you cannot perceive with your physical mind or your senses.
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When you laugh at the world, the world dissolves.
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There is no self, yet we all exist. All phenomena are "empty," yet they have Buddha nature.
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Life is a series of dreams, a series of interlocking awarenesses. I don't necessarily believe in linear time. Everything happens all at once forever.
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Everything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. It's an illusion. It's a hallucination.
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There is no deterioration and there is no creation. There are projections, moments of existence. Each moment is perfect.
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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.
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The way of nothingness is the way of Zen. It is just a term. The contemplation of nothingness or everythingness is where everything starts.
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What is incarnation? Incarnation is self-reflection. The universe that we are in is constructed, is a reflection of ourselves. We picked the dimension according to our self-reflection.
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The way you become happy is by realizing that there is no self. No self at all, not a silly millimeter of self. You don't exist. When you know this, you will be happy.
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The world is empty - all of the people and places, the earth, the seas, mountains, deserts, forests and cities, and the beings that inhabit them, are unchangeable.
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There is no self. There is nobody home. No forwarding address, no zip code. Address unknown.
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All incarnations are lived at once, and yet there does seem to be a linear sense of time when you're in the vortex of time and space, when your consciousness is fixated in a body.
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We are made up of nothing. There is no self. We are whatever we decide we are.
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We aren't anything in particular. There is no self. There are only ideas and states of mind.
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We were never there to begin with. What we are, or conceive of ourselves as, is a perception.
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The world wasn't created. It is created anew at every moment by mind.
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Everything has a nothingness. On the other side of physical reality, there is another world, and in that world, everything is something else.
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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?
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Zen has lost its zip, if you will, or its nothingness and has become ritualistic Its established in monastaries with strict codes of koan study.
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Old Zen is the way of nothingness, the way of having a good time.
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This is simple meditation, nothingness and everythingness, the color and the form, death and the void, the end and the beginning, a beginningless end with an endless beginning, Pretty clever if you ask me.
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Nirvana is a very exclusive club - no one is in it.
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Some types of nothing are more fun than other types of nothing.
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You are fighting against nothingness all the time by creating a series of shields that you call personality, life history, feelings, ideas, and ways of seeing.
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You're a part of me. I'm a part of you and we are all a part of this great nothingness.
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None of this exists. All important decisions in the universe occur someplace else.
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Nirvana is something that cannot be known here. I know it seems incongruous, but it is only incongruous from the perspective of the dialectical consciousness of division, of time and space
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