It takes quite a bit of time to become enlightened. But it really is not so different from learning any other art; all you need is time, a good teacher, and practice. Frederick Lenz More Quotes by Frederick Lenz More Quotes From Frederick Lenz If you do well within this life, that awareness will be held within the causal structure, the part of us that lives from one lifetime to another. It will be available to you in your next life and in future lives. Frederick Lenz buddhism next awareness As we go within the self, we discover that all the voices of our past lives are still there. As we peel ourselves, which is a process very much like peeling an onion, we discover that there are many selves within the self. Frederick Lenz buddhism voice past If you dig deeply, you will find that you are not a singular self but that there are many selves, many voices within you. The more conscious you are of those selves and the more you let them find expression through you, the more complete you will be. Frederick Lenz buddhism expression self As incarnations go by, the atom gets more complex. That is, your being, the part of you that reincarnates from lifetime to lifetime, the aggregate, grows thicker and denser. Frederick Lenz atoms buddhism lifetime Whatever you have learned in your previous incarnations is retained within your causal body, your multi-lifetime body of energy that lives from one incarnation to another. Frederick Lenz buddhism body energy While this is good and it stores up knowledge and power, at the same time there's a problem with it because it means that a person becomes more fixed. Frederick Lenz knowledge-and-power buddhism mean The more lives you have, the harder it is to change, yet the stronger you are. It's a kind of funny dichotomy. Frederick Lenz buddhism stronger kind When you go into samadhi, either salvikalpa or nirvikalpa, what happens is you erase, you loosen, the aggregates. You simplify them. Frederick Lenz samadhi simplify buddhism The Akashic Records are the impressions from all of our past lives that are available within our causal body. Frederick Lenz buddhism records past Some people speak of the Akashic Records as if they were on an IBM mainframe that's out there somewhere near the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Frederick Lenz buddhism records people All the records of your past lives are contained within your own mind, just as the records of your ancestors are contained within your DNA. Frederick Lenz buddhism dna past The energy strands and bands of our being are linked in a certain way and makes us what we are. It causes us to perceive a certain level of the dream of life. But you can reorder those. That's magic, you see. Frederick Lenz buddhism magic dream In meditation, as you go into the causal dimensions, the planes of light, you will be purified, energized and you will become wise. Frederick Lenz buddhism light wise The trick to being happy is getting beyond the body and the astral realms. Frederick Lenz tricks buddhism body You're composed of an aggregate of different forms and energies, the samskaras. These are lines within your own being. When you go into samadhi, these lines dissolve gradually so you become less formed. Frederick Lenz buddhism different energy When I talk about subtle bodies, causal bodies and things like that, it is a good idea not to take it all completely literally. It cannot be put into words. Frederick Lenz buddhism body ideas In the Far East, a peasant has no problem that someone can be born from another universe into a human body, walk up to their hut one day and ask for something to eat and transport them into infinite galaxies of awareness. Frederick Lenz east one-day body A very advanced master can glow so strongly that you see divine in them. You look into them and you see infinity constantly changing, evolving and radiating in new forms. Frederick Lenz hinduism infinity looks The self plays among the waves of existence. It surfaces, it comes up for a while, and then it disappears again. Frederick Lenz wave self play In sanskrit they say: "Tat twam asi" - thou art that. You are God. The bubble of your awareness bursts and you're flooded with immortality. Frederick Lenz hinduism awareness art
