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Before perception, before a preceiver, existence was - is. This is the consciousness that we refer to as nirvana, God, eternity.

Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz
Age: 48 †
Born: 1950
Born: February 9
Died: 1998
Died: April 12
Author
Entrepreneur
San Diego
California
Taoism
Perception
Eternity
Consciousness
Existence
Nirvana
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If a person sets out to practice meditation in this lifetime and they have a little bit of spiritual evolution behind them and they're quite dedicated, it really is not at all an impossible task to enter into salvakalpa samadhi in this particular lifetime.
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Self-knowledge, I guess, is hard. But I think pain is harder, personally. I think to be hopeless is very hard. I think to die without hope or to live without hope is very hard.
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Only when there are no impressions of others clouding our mind, can we sit and practice the glorious practice of meditation.
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Follow your dreams wherever they lead you and pay for those dreams with good jobs in software programming and computer design!
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One of the traditional Tantric methods of mediation is to imagine that you are taking on the suffering of all beings.
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In the creative arts you draw a special power. The discipline required is awesome to be an actor or an actress, to be really good, not just another one waiting tables.
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Stress is a state of mind and if you realize that you will find that it's something you can deal with. It is my belief that stress occurs not because of the conditions of the world.
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The work that most people do in the world tends to deaden them, deadens their mind, uses up their energy and they get a paycheck and old age and not much energy. You get the check and they get your energy. That energy is translated into corporate dollars.
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The tonal is the sense of place. It is order and reason in a world of chaos.
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Very often, in order to bring about stillness we have to be tirelessly active in the outer world. You might suppose this would agitate the mind. It will not, if it is the dharma.
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Meditation is the freeing of ourselves from all mental states and concepts of self.
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Enlightenment means that you're in love with all of life, with not only immortality but mortality.
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By perfecting the practices of zazen and mindfulness, by learning patience and love and by realizing the essential emptiness of all phenomena, you will discover nirvana.
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Existence is perpetual motion. Galileo wondered about it, Da Vinci.
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If you seek to develop the mind fully, for the enlightenment process, you will benefit if your career is related to computer science, law, medicine, or the arts.
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Life wears us down. We all die here. Depending upon the way you expose yourself to energies and powers and forces will determine whether you have a lot of energy or you lose energy.
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Many of the people I work with I've worked with in other lifetimes. I moved to California because I knew that many of my students from past lives were in California.
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In martial arts one of the first things that you learn is to be balanced. Balance is the central principle in architecture and design. Balance is a way of trying to talk about being at the center of things.
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In this world we see the pairs of opposites. Ultimately there are no oppositions. In the superconscious awareness there is no division.
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Wisdom is the ability to do two things at once, to be in the world and enjoy it and at the same time, to be in the realms of light, to be in samadhi.
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