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Most people lead their lives like they drive their cars.

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Frederick Lenz
Age: 48 †
Born: 1950
Born: February 9
Died: 1998
Died: April 12
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San Diego
California
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Happiness is something that you can definitely achieve. At first, it will just come for a moment or two. Then it will come for longer periods of time. Eventually you will be happy all of the time.
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Life hurts at times. It hurts to have a body at times, hurts to be born, hurts to live, hurts to die, but it can be ecstasy beyond comprehension. You can know that ecstasy. It is inside of you.
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Liberation means no rebirth. Now, does that mean you don't reincarnate? Well, you never did reincarnate.
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The perfect view of existence comes from an unclouded, uncluttered life and mind whereby the radiance of perfect attention of the mind of the universe floods us at every moment. This is Buddhism. This is being on the path.
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There is only one prayer and that is prayer for light, for purity, for perfection.
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Learn the motions of infinity within your mind. Your mind becomes a perfect mirror to the motions of infinity.
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More men will continue to attain enlightenment than women, unless women change their use of the second attention.
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Everyone will admire you when you do well. What a horrible thing to do to someone.
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In meditation, we are going back into the light. All our pain will be taken away, our frustration.
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Purity is something that can be consciously developed. Expect to have impure moments, thoughts, and ideas. One day they will go away, and then there will be happiness.
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In their confusion and delusion, men hate the womb that gives them birth. Not all men, certainly , but enough men to run the world.
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We could be unhappy and discouraged for ourselves, but we're trying to be in a high vibratory state so we can be of service to others.
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Of the four major pathways to self-realization, jnana yoga, from the point of view of the beginner, is the most difficult.
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True wisdom is to see and understand your relationship with the universe. When you gain that relational knowledge, then you are wise.
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Work sustains us as bodies and it consumes a great deal of energy. The conservation of energy is the component theme of Buddhist practice and yoga. That is why people live in monasteries.
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God is limitless awareness. There, now I have told you everything I know about God ... a lot of good it did you.
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The person next to me meditates better than I do. They're purer. - This is the ego feeling sorry for itself.
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Enjoy being with yourself, hanging out with yourself, doing things by yourself.
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Enlightenment is to be outside the circle, the circle of death and rebirth. There is a circle inside you. If you meditate and focus on your third eye, you will see a circle of light.
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