Karma indicates action, but not necessarily physical action; nor is karma a result in the sense of a reward. Frederick Lenz More Quotes by Frederick Lenz More Quotes From Frederick Lenz The world has an ending and a beginning. It begins with you and it ends with you. The end of the world occurs when you make a major transition in attention. Frederick Lenz buddhism attention world Life is composed of lines of light, fibers of energy, pulsing, still, pure being. Frederick Lenz buddhism lines light There are many great bands of perception in the universe. There are both organic and inorganic bands of perception. Frederick Lenz buddhism band perception It is possible to modify your awareness to perceive what plants perceive, birds, beings in the astral, the causal. Frederick Lenz buddhism awareness bird Dimensionality only exists because the mind can perceive life that way, but that's only one simple method that the mind has for perceiving itself, for perceiving life. Frederick Lenz buddhism simple mind Within silence all things are contained. What appears to our eyes to be life is but a thin curtain, a gauze penumbra, which stultifies our vision, which prevents us from seeing the truth. Frederick Lenz buddhism silence eye When most people see a tree, they don't see a tree at all. They see an idea that they have developed of what a tree is. Frederick Lenz buddhism people ideas There is the experience of enlightenment, to be very aware of what lies beyond the boundaries of cognitive perception, reflection and self-awareness as seen by the personality. Frederick Lenz buddhism reflection lying Life is invisible. The illusion is that what we perceive is in some way not a reflection of self. Life reflects the field of attention that we're in. Frederick Lenz buddhism reflection self Within the human frequency of perception, what you see is what you get. I would classify the bottom of the band as severe unhappiness, depression and alimentation. Frederick Lenz buddhism band perception The top of the band would be happiness, contentment and peace of mind. Frederick Lenz buddhism contentment mind The bands of perception vary greatly. There is the human band of perception. There are lots of different bands of perception. Simply because we are in one band of perception, doesn't mean others are not there. Frederick Lenz buddhism perception mean Within you there are thousands of rings of luminosity, bands, and each one is a universe of perception. In the average person's lifetime, they might just open up two or three, maybe four of those bands. Frederick Lenz buddhism average two We don't always walk from one state of mind into another. We might just oscillate back and forth for a whole lifetime within the polarities of a certain state of mind. Frederick Lenz buddhism mind might The mind is infinite. It is not relegated to the brain or to thought or to emotion. It is made up of an endless series of realities that stretch on into infinity. Frederick Lenz buddhism brain reality Your mind is your life. It's your essence and your substance. It's the part of you that has always been and will always be. Its formations change constantly, which is what makes you always new. Frederick Lenz buddhism essence mind The entire structure of the human mind blocks out most of infinity. To a certain extent it's necessary because otherwise one would be insane, unless you have a very developed mind to deal with the endless permutations of infinity simultaneously. Frederick Lenz buddhism block mind It's like looking at the sun, that's how infinity is. You can't look at it for too long or you dissolve. The bands of your attention break. But if you look at it in specific ways, you can become something or someone much more conscious. Frederick Lenz buddhism long looks Mysticism is concerned primarily with moving our awareness field from the beginning of the band of perception, the human band, up to the enlightened bands of perception. Frederick Lenz buddhism perception moving There have been people who have categorized the bands of perception in different yogic systems. It gives them pleasure to create names and orders and to make catalogs. Human beings like that. Frederick Lenz buddhism names order
