Frederick Lenz Quotes About Perception
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Buddhism is perception, gaining control of the mind and directing one's attention, to raise the kundalini energy so that it flows with such volatility and force that we simply perceive life correctly.
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Self discovery doesn't not seek to bring you answers about your personal life or philosophically comfort you about life and death. What it does is bring you into reality as perception itself.
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Karma means who you are and where your awareness field is on the band of perception.
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Everything is a state of mind. Astral travel is the ability to wander through different states of mind and develop psychic perceptions.
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The psychic perception is a feeling as opposed to a thinking. Not a feeling that is engendered through emotion necessarily. It comes from the psychic plane of intuition, which is another stage of our mind.
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Something in you wants to go beyond, wants to be free from this endless round of perception. Enlightenment is that.
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Humility does not live in the prison of illusion that says that this world is a dark and terrible place. Those perceptions are phantoms; everything is eternity, God, divine.
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They get you when you're young. When you are a kid, you are conditioned. You are taught language, customs, and right and wrong. You are filled with fears. This conditioning interferes with your psychic perception.
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The way of Zen is to become independent and strong. Don't rely on others for perceptions of life and truth. Do it individually. Go to a teacher of Zen to learn how to do that, not to get answers for individual life situations.
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When you die you pass into inner worlds and continue to perceive. Death is not the dissolution of the self. Death is rather just a change in perception.
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Our current perception is very cloudy and all screwed up. As our perception increases through meditation, we're seeing life more correctly.
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The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.
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Focus your awareness on the heart chakra. As you do, you will feel your consciousness shifting. You may feel different perceptions of energy in different parts of your body.
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Inner seeing has nothing to do with physical vision; it's the perception of life directly.
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It is the mind that weaves the dream of life, it convinces us that what we see is what is apparent and what is real, and that there's nothing else outside of our perception.
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If the world does not shine brightly, even just the physical, sensual perception after meditation, you have not meditated. You have sat and thought of things that were not real.
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There are ten thousand aspects of your mind. Your awareness has ten thousand forms. There is something else. You have to step outside of perception itself.
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From infinite awareness, something comes forward, a sense of infinite awareness and finite awareness. That perception is the birth of a being.
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The kundalini is the energy that opens up the bands of perception. It is also the power that allows us to travel mentally from one dimension to another, from one experience to another.
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If you can die, you are confused because death is a perception of something ending and something else obviously beginning, which means we're still hung up on qualities.
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The whole objective universe is created, ordered, by our perception and by our sense of self.
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Molecules don't have patterns. You create a pattern by the perception of something. The continuity of awareness is your perceptual field. Existence only occurs through the act of perception.
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Perception is the ability to be conscious of self and that which is other than self. Without thinking about it, a distinction is made between who we are and what we perceive.
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Consciousness is the screen. The images on the screen are your perceptions, the illusion that life is solid, that there is a material universe.
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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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Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend to last.
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Reality is perfect light. It frees you from the limitations of this world, from the ugliness, from the unhappiness of limited perception.
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Our awareness creates life. Life does not exist independently of perception.
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The ten thousand states of mind that we talk about in Zen are all levels of perception. You can think of each of the ten thousand states of mind as a dimensional plane.
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Perception defines everything.
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