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 Everything that you see before you with your physical eyes is an illusion. In other words, you are not seeing correctly. Life is made up of light. But if you are only looking through the senses, it seems solid and physical. Frederick Lenz light eye life-is The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient beings experience this, the endless dance of life, the lila. Frederick Lenz pain suffering forever All of the universes are but phantoms, mirages, and while they have their own essence, their own pantomime - they pass forgotten. Frederick Lenz mirages phantoms essence Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization. Frederick Lenz realization self dream The perceiver of the dream, the one whom the dream is unfolding before, is what we call the Self. Frederick Lenz hinduism self dream Once you have personally experienced enlightenment, you will see beyond the ocean of death to the everlasting shores of immortality. Frederick Lenz hinduism enlightenment ocean The universe is always ecstasy and it's always perfect, but we don't perceive it that well. If we keep doing our yoga in every lifetime, we perceive it more correctly. Frederick Lenz yoga lifetime perfect The planes of light exist. Yoga is a method of unifying the energies of the body, the mind, and the spirit and directing them towards infinity, the planes of light. Frederick Lenz yoga light mind Now, stopping thought is only the beginning. As Brahmananda, who was a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, once remarked: The inner life begins with samadhi. This is an awesome thought, I realize, for the average person who meditates, that it could begin with samadhi. Frederick Lenz stopping realizing average Krishna once said to Arjuna: Consider the past and future with an equal mind, and pass the peanut M&M's. Frederick Lenz arjuna mind past Sri Krishna is said to be an avatar, which is a human way of trying to define very big. That is to say that Sri Krishna is not from the local area network, but he has come from a world that is different because his mind is different. Frederick Lenz different mind trying The void is ready to snatch you up like a Pac Man machine and Laskshmi is on vacation. You chant Sring - and you get her answering machine. Frederick Lenz vacation machines men Gods and goddesses are not what people think they are. Their names are terms with which we try to convey a certain experience, a state of consciousness. Frederick Lenz names people thinking Isis, the Egyptian goddess of renewal is symbolized for the Hindus by Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. Brahma is the creator, Vishnu the sustainer, and Shiva the transformer or destroyer - the Cycle of creation. Frederick Lenz shiva goddess isis 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. Frederick Lenz nice decision thinking Yoga means we accept responsibility for the tasks in our life, and we know that being a king, being an enlightened teacher, being someone who sweeps the streets, we know that nothing is a greater yoga than anything else. Frederick Lenz yoga kings teacher We live in a world of careers. Work, as Sri Krishna points out in the Bhagavad Gita, is a necessary path for everyone attaining enlightenment. It is something that we all do. Some people work very hard at not working. Frederick Lenz enlightenment careers people The road for Arjuna is unexpected. Sri Krishna says you have to face that which you fear the most that which you're most attached to and eliminate it. In this case he has to fight a battle, and the battle is his attachments. Frederick Lenz battle attachment fighting Krishna says, fight. He says, go out on the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill; and whether they were your friends or not, you have to look at the big picture. In the big picture, you can't go kill anybody, you can't be killed. Frederick Lenz fighting jobs people A war is an incarnation. A battle is a day of your life. So we do one day at a time in self-discovery. Frederick Lenz self discovery war
