Quotes by Suffering That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia. James Joyce readersufferinginsomnia There is a way to reach enlightenment and get beyond suffering. Frederick Lenz enlightenmentbuddhismsuffering Another condition can be attained ... a condition of ecstasy. A condition so far from what the people of planet Earth experience it's not even discussable. Frederick Lenz buddhismsufferingpeople Look at the big picture of the wheel of life. Above it, there is a Buddha. He is pointing, not towards the wheel, but away from it. He is indicating that there is something else - nirvana. Frederick Lenz buddhismsufferinglooks Nirvana is the other side, the source of all things, where all the aggregates come from, where the templates of infinity are. Frederick Lenz buddhismsufferingsides Nirvana bears no resemblance to anything in your current perceptual field. Frederick Lenz buddhismfieldssuffering We could take all the pleasures that have ever been and will ever be in all the universes and add them up into one experience. If you were absorbed in nirvana, it wouldn't be noticed. Frederick Lenz buddhismsufferingadd You are going around on the wheel again and again. You go around and around from lifetime to lifetime. You never quite wake up. Enlightenment is waking up. Frederick Lenz enlightenmentbuddhismsuffering Liberation means no rebirth. Now, does that mean you don't reincarnate? Well, you never did reincarnate. Frederick Lenz buddhismsufferingmean Nirvana is the pure and perfect schness of thatness of being. Frederick Lenz buddhismsufferingperfect Nirvana has nothing do with any of this. None of this is there. Frederick Lenz buddhismsuffering Nirvana is a state of perpetual bliss and ecstasy, unaffected by the transient ups and downs of its own creations. Frederick Lenz blissbuddhismsuffering At the beginning and the middle and the end of all things, there is only the perfection of enlightenment that is nirvana. Frederick Lenz buddhismsufferingperfection Nothing is distinct and separate. The waves of the ocean arise and have a separate birth, crashing on the shore, but then back into the ocean they go. They never left it. There is no movement in Nirvana. Frederick Lenz buddhismoceansuffering There is a still center of the universe. Within that still center are all things, all achievements, all loses, everything and nothing exist there. Frederick Lenz buddhismachievementsuffering Unlike the transient days of our lives that constantly come and go, nirvana has always been, is now, and always will be. Frederick Lenz comes-and-goesbuddhismsuffering Only the enlightened are consistently happy. Their happiness is not predicated upon the events and experiences that take place in this world. Instead it is based on the boundless inner energy they gain from their connection with the world of enlightenment. Frederick Lenz enlightenmentbuddhismsuffering When you draw from the endless awareness of nirvana, you are no longer a slave to fortune. When pleasant experiences come your way, you can enjoy them. But if pain and misfortune befall you, you can rise above them and remain unaffected. Frederick Lenz buddhismpainsuffering Nirvana and enlightenment exist just on the other side of your sensory perceptions and your thoughts. Frederick Lenz buddhismperceptionsuffering Nirvana is not really a physical place, although sometimes I talk about it as if it were. It is not really an experience, although sometimes I mention it as if it was. Frederick Lenz buddhismsufferingsometimes«919293949596979899100101»
