It is possible to move to an enlightened state of mind from a lower bardo or level of awareness. It can happen, but it is extremely unlikely. 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 buddhismproblemthinking 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 buddhismfieldsmind 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 buddhismmovementspace You create time by joining events together. But they don't join together; there's no separativity. Frederick Lenz buddhismtogetherscience 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 buddhismcuttingopposites 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 buddhismviewsreality 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 buddhismdreamchildren 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 buddhismorderreality 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 buddhismselfthinking If we view the universe as other than what we are, we are everything we don't perceive. Frederick Lenz buddhismawarenessviews Perception defines everything. Frederick Lenz buddhismperceptionscience 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 karmabuddhismattention 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 karmabuddhismdestiny 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 buddhismmindwant The continuity of perception is an individualized being, when that continuity is lost, the being no longer exists as they have been. Frederick Lenz buddhismawarenessperception Those who dissolve their body of perception completely are absorbed into what we would call nirvana. Frederick Lenz buddhismbodyperception Everything that you see here, in other words, is a reflection of a higher reality. Frederick Lenz buddhismreflectionreality This particular world is not really a world, it's a perception that you are having at the moment. Frederick Lenz buddhismperceptionworld 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 buddhismlightattention 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 buddhismreflectionself
