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Alow immortality to work through you. Be but a mere instrument. And that instrument should be so absorbed in the perfect perfection of existence, that it knows not even that it is absorbed.

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
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Instruments
Perfection
Mere
Existence
Perfect
Absorbed
Even
Taoism
Work
Immortality

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The universe is made up of an endless ocean of life itself. It is an endless ocean of itself. And for a time it binds itself together in particularized forms. Those forms have perception and they perceive themselves as being separate.
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Behind the transient reality, there is something else. It is a deeper, more permanent and unchanging reality that we Buddhists call nirvana.
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How could sexuality be anything but God? It's the creation of life. Life is experiencing itself in endless forms.
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They've got lots of theories, books, sciences - I've read a lot of those books. Most of them are pretty unhappy.
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Buddhists understand that today and all other days have turned out the way they have because of karma. The interconnection of one moment with another moment, of one action with another action, is karma.
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We sit in meditation and cry to God, we cry to the light, as little children, knowing God will do everything for us.
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In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from Shakespeare to science fiction ... sometimes a book a day.
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The mystical kundalini goes the other direction. It starts at the base of the spine, at the root chakra and goes up.
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A person with power controls their life and their destiny. They have a mastery. Their moments are aware moments in this world, never wasted.
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We have to push ourselves to stillness - to the natural state.
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Human beings have become so afraid of the unknown, themselves, and each other that they deprive themselves of that innate ecstasy and love of life which comes with a human body, mind and spirit, by hiding behind the empty shell of their ego.
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Sometimes you won't feel pleasant during a meditation session it seems like an uphill run. But when you get to the top, the view is rather breathtaking.
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What you focus on you become. So always focus on that which is highest, brightest, happiest and most noble of all things, enlightenment.
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Zen has lost its zip, if you will, or its nothingness and has become ritualistic Its established in monastaries with strict codes of koan study.
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Overcoming fear has nothing to do with abandoning common sense. We retain our common sense, but we lose that emotion that is fear.
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When you follow the path of love you should feel that each one is perfect in their own right. While you can love others, never, ever, ever judge them.
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There is deception. People who think they are enlightened and it's just ego.
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Love is the only rule in self-discovery. If you've forgotten that rule, you've forgotten everything. It's not what you can get it's what you can give.
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Christ was crucified because he threatened the tonal of the time. He was killed because he threatened the established order of the political regime.
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I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs.
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