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We can say the stars are moving because we have a relative context.

Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz
Age: 48 †
Born: 1950
Born: February 9
Died: 1998
Died: April 12
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Entrepreneur
San Diego
California
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Stars
Moving
Taoism
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We label things through value systems that we have developed. But nothing is or is not unless we feel it is that way. We give ground to reality by creating it.
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Selfless giving reminds us that there is an eternally present spirit in all of us, that when revealed, liberates us from both the transitory and the eternal - both of which ultimatly can be attachments.
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Wisdom is to see the difference between nirvana and this world, this self-reflection that the mind creates.
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Use your mind to discriminate. Choose to advance yourself, to bring more purity into your being.
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If there's no one in your life to love right now, love yourself. A large part of the path of love is learning to love yourself.
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What the teacher does is sweep all of the logic, order and reason onto one side and make that side very strong.
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Just like there are different roads that lead to different places, so there are different levels of awareness that lead to different places and we shift in and out of them. These are the ten thousand states of mind that we study in Zen.
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I don't think you see your minds. I think you see your thoughts you see your desires you see your relatives, friends, lovers, enemies. I don't think you see your mind. You think of the mind as the clutter.
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Who has that perfect faith and trust? Only such a person with that faith and trust can be enlightened.
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Enlightenment is part of everything and so our minds have to be very big to encompass all things, to understand all things - To see the tao in a grape, the act of sexuality, meditation, work, play, taking a shower, brushing your teeth, being sick and hurting.
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We hide from ourselves by being with others.
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When you manipulate others your attention level drops and you become prey, for you have dropped to the plane of manipulation.
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If you have a boring, insipid, mouse-like life where you're just afraid to be or do anything, then you don't bring much into your next life. You don't bring much power.
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If you accentuate yourself, thinking or acting like you are important, then you must want to look good to someone in this world. In order to impress or sway anybody in this world, you have to be in this world yourself.
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Faithfulness, faith, all of the words that so few people live, you must live. Only then are you worthy of immortality.
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The scriptures recommend love and service to the enlightened to develop purity.
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The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing great joy and happiness.
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I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point.
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It's unfortunate that we see a great many women settling. They think that simply because they have gotten the right to vote, own property and have gained some simple freedoms that the battle for women's suffrage is over.
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Then we see that the same God is within ourselves.
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