You'll find that you will be able to reorder the island of your tonal so that it's in good shape - logical, orderly, neat, and well-defined. Frederick Lenz More Quotes by Frederick Lenz More Quotes From Frederick Lenz The Buddhist mindset seeks to eliminate the self. That is to say, what we want to experience is life, not self. When there's less self and more life, we're very content, and when there's more self and less life we're quite unhappy. Frederick Lenz buddhist unhappy self The dialectical change of mind that occurs in Buddhism is not simply the assimilation of a new philosophical basis or religious basis for viewing and interpreting experience. Rather it is the complete structural revision of that which is. Frederick Lenz philosophical buddhist religious As long as we remain self-reflective and keep looking at who and what we are, as long as we keep our analysis that way, then there's no freedom. We're just trying clothes on in front of a mirror and admiring them. Frederick Lenz buddhist mirrors self The purpose of all our explanations is not to have you understand anything, but for you to snap from the understanding of the intellect to the understanding of pure spirit. All our explanations work backwards. Frederick Lenz buddhist understanding purpose Buddhism is the study of the way the mind works. One has to be able to hold a large number of relational concepts simultaneously in the mind. It is necessary to grid, to literally unlock realities and dimensions with the power of your mind. Frederick Lenz buddhist buddhism reality Knowledge of the Enlightenment Cycle, of the ways that inner dimensions and nirvana work, lifts you far above the transient sorrows, pains, pleasures and joys that the unenlightened masses experience. Frederick Lenz buddhist pain joy The pathway to enlightenment is beautiful. There are a lot of wonderful things that happen along the way. Win or lose, you just keep going, and it happens eventually. Frederick Lenz buddhist winning beautiful Beyond learning and unlearning is awareness, and beyond awareness is consciousness, and beyond consciousness is immortality, and beyond immortality is dharma and beyond dharma is nirvana. Frederick Lenz buddhist consciousness awareness Tonight is not the end of the world. This is our hot tip of the evening. Frederick Lenz buddhism tonight hot I don't know how much you know about Zen, but you'll know less when I'm done with you. Frederick Lenz done-with-you buddhism know-how You may have had countless lives, and many more stretching before you, and what else have you got to do with your time? Frederick Lenz stretching buddhism may Nothing lasts forever - except forever. That's the good news. It's a good thing that nothing lasts forever because things would get terribly boring. Frederick Lenz buddhism news forever Forever is not an idea or a concept, it is reality. All of the things here come from forever. We call forever nirvana in Zen. Frederick Lenz buddhism reality ideas The mind of the Buddha is perfect because it is empty and yet it contains all things. Frederick Lenz buddhism perfect mind You and I are both life. There's just the experience of every moment. We like to call them moments. There isn't really such a thing. There's just is-ness; there's just eternity. Frederick Lenz buddhism moments eternity There are no words, there's only the possibility of a moment even more incredible a little bit further down the road. Frederick Lenz buddhism moments littles You come back to the beginning. That's why in the "Searching for the Ox" sequence, at the very end of that sequence of the Zen paintings, we're back in the world again. Frederick Lenz painting buddhism world The world is filled with people who understand. I personally value people who don't understand. People who understand have nothing more to learn. People who don't understand have hope. Do you understand? Frederick Lenz buddhism people world I don't think anyone knows why they meditate. As a matter of fact I'm not even sure that we do meditate. All we know is that we don't know. Frederick Lenz buddhism facts thinking A person trying to meditate is doing something that's impossible since meditation is not an action. Frederick Lenz buddhism meditation trying
