Frederick Lenz Quotes About Rebirth
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To be afraid of our next life because we don't feel we've done a good job with this life is not wise. It creates unhappiness now.
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You will be reborn. You will come from the inner to the outer again. This process goes on indefinitely.
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Enlightenment is to be outside the circle, the circle of death and rebirth. There is a circle inside you. If you meditate and focus on your third eye, you will see a circle of light.
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The state between birth and death is not sympathetic. It is a flow system. Whatever your conscious level is, that is how you will reincarnate.
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Our adult personality is a mirror image of who we were in the last stage of our life in our previous incarnation.
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When you die in this life, you might be experiencing pain, but the structure of your perceptual field will determine your next lifetime. That structure has been determined by the way you have led this life.
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A better lifetime comes from not some karmic scale but from inner knowledge. Inner knowledge makes you happy. In other words, it is not as if someone is checking!
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Liberation means no rebirth. Now, does that mean you don't reincarnate? Well, you never did reincarnate.
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There are ten thousand states of mind. The culmination of the states of mind you have gone through will create your next lifetime.
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I'm not big on the after-death experience. If you've done a very good job in your current lifetime, then your next lifetime will be set up for you.
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What you will be in your next life is the sum total of the realizations that you have had in this lifetime.
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At the end of this lifetime, you will leave this world. Your awareness field will stay together in a certain sense and then it will seek to return to things that are familiar. You will reincarnate.
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All action is generated by desire. It is the desire to live that causes us to reincarnate.
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Go directly to Nirvana. Don't pass go - or you'll have kids, you'll grow old together, you'll be born into another realm where you'll forget that there was even nirvana.
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No self-effort in the direction of enlightenment is ever wasted. Even if you don't become fully enlightened in a given lifetime, you will be much happier and more aware.
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Reincarnation is not something that occurs at death; it is something that takes place at every moment. Death and rebirth are occurring every second.
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Most people don't why they are born or why they die. They have no understanding of the forces in life that pull them and push them to their death and another rebirth in this or another world.
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So when we wake from the ignorance of this world, the dream of existence, all of the experiences that we have ever had fall away. The ideas of life and death, of rebirth, of reincarnation, karma, God, truth, knowledge - all these things fall away.
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There is no such thing as completion. These are only stages in an endless progression. There are no final outcomes or decisions, since nothing ever stays the same.
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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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Samsara is the world appearance, the cycle of rebirth, the physically manifest universes and states of mind that you perceive through the medium of ego.
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The universe is pretty cool. You always exist in one form or another. You are a wave and you are changing and moving from one level to another.
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The essence of your awareness field definitely goes on after death. It goes through death, it goes into non-physical states for a time, and then eventually is pulled back and it reincarnates.
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The essence of your being reincarnates.
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The experience of the next life is too far away to really be concerned with. It will be an outgrowth of this incarnation and what happens between birth and death.
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In the Upanishads they talk about the path of the sun and the path of the moon. The path of the moon is rebirth. The path of the sun leads to self-knowledge, from which there is no return.
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Nothing you can do can prevent your death. Nothing you can do can prevent your rebirth. To step beyond life and death is self-discovery.
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The spirit seeks the spirit just as matter seeks matter.
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The future is certain for those who follow dharma. Those who don't follow dharma are pushed back again and again into the net of rebirth. They are drawn back to the same planes of attention, or lower. It could happen to you!
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If you'd like to have a better incarnation, then have one now. If that's your attitude, just let go and meditate and try to be as wise and compassionate, as understanding as you can.
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