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There is a lot of opposition. You will experience it. But the joys that come from the study, more than compensate for the opposition, in my opinion. It's a personal choice.

Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz
Age: 48 †
Born: 1950
Born: February 9
Died: 1998
Died: April 12
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San Diego
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Don't create a plastic image of what it is to be spiritual and try to become it. You won't be capable of it and that will frustrate you. Even if you could do it, if it's not really what you're like, you'll be miserable.
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If you allow people, places and things, to pass through your mind during meditation, you will pull in all those other auras and you be much more confused and dissociated than you were prior to your meditation experience.
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Without wisdom, power tends to destroy the one who wields it.
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A Buddhist is working not just to get paid, but working to advance spiritually. You shouldn't create a syntactical break in your mind between your career and your religious practice.
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Humanity actually has the gall to feel they are more advanced than they were technology somehow defines intelligence. If technology enables you to kill more people, that doesn't define intelligence. An intelligent species survives.
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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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We create ying and yang, yes and no, plus and minus.
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One should never become devoted to a teacher, any more than one should become devoted to a statue of a god. There is only one thing to be devoted to, and that is your mind.
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An enlightened teacher simply expresses enlightenment in their life by living. It is the student's job to gain the teachings. The teacher's job is just to be perfectly enlightened.
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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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We see the one light, the one unified reality that we see in others, is the same reality that is within ourselves. We are one with all of existence.
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If we really reflect and discriminate, we'll find that all things are created by our perception, that all states exist within the mind.
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There is only eternity. That's our real body. The stars are our blanket. Time doesn't even exist, except in our own minds.
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If you know that you have had countless lives, then what happens in this life is not quite as traumatic.
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