Enlightenment has nothing to do with being spiritual. Being spiritual is just an idea - it's another ring of perception. Frederick Lenz More Quotes by Frederick Lenz More Quotes From Frederick Lenz You think you are somebody and that is where the problem begins. You're really not somebody, you're everybody. You objectify yourself into thinking that you are a particular state of being. Frederick Lenz buddhism problem thinking We live inside our mind. That's all there is. Everything that you experience is not external, it's internal. All your experiences are predicated upon your awareness field. Frederick Lenz buddhism fields mind We are cognizant of time, the sense that there is mutability. Time is change. It's the separation of eternity from itself. When eternity is separated from itself, we see it appear in different forms. Time is not a movement in space. Space is a movement in time. Frederick Lenz buddhism movement space You create time by joining events together. But they don't join together; there's no separativity. Frederick Lenz buddhism together science We cut up time and space and mind and place and being and non-being. We create a world of ideas. This is duality, pairs of apparent opposites. Frederick Lenz buddhism cutting opposites We are taught not to perceive but to avoid direct perceptions of reality and to substitute instead this kind of one-dimensional view of life. Frederick Lenz buddhism views reality Reality does appear to exist, there does appear to be birth, youth, people appear to have children. But all of it's a dream. These are isolated moments that are only connected by perception. There is no separation. Frederick Lenz buddhism dream children Once we have conceived of time and space, once we have accepted their existence, then that implies that there is a structural order to bonding realities. Frederick Lenz buddhism order reality 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. Frederick Lenz buddhism self thinking If we view the universe as other than what we are, we are everything we don't perceive. Frederick Lenz buddhism awareness views Perception defines everything. Frederick Lenz buddhism perception science If you stay in the attention you are in, then you can predict everything that will happen to you for the rest of your life. Frederick Lenz karma buddhism attention Your choices are really very limited. They are limited by your level of awareness. If you can change your level of awareness radically, then you can change your destiny. Frederick Lenz karma buddhism destiny Anything that you might want to be is around somewhere. You can become it. You just have to get into the state of mind that allows that to occur. Frederick Lenz buddhism mind want The continuity of perception is an individualized being, when that continuity is lost, the being no longer exists as they have been. Frederick Lenz buddhism awareness perception Those who dissolve their body of perception completely are absorbed into what we would call nirvana. Frederick Lenz buddhism body perception Everything that you see here, in other words, is a reflection of a higher reality. Frederick Lenz buddhism reflection reality This particular world is not really a world, it's a perception that you are having at the moment. Frederick Lenz buddhism perception world The universe is made up of vibrating, pulsing light. When our attention level drops, we don't see that. Instead we see what appears to be a solid material world. Frederick Lenz buddhism light attention We perceive the solidification as the world around us, which appears to be relatively solid. But that solidification is just really a reflection of the solidification of one's sense of self. Frederick Lenz buddhism reflection self
