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Your self is the universe, and you perceive the universe through a state of mind.

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
Universe
States
Self
Mind
Perceive
Buddhism
Awareness
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Meditation is essential because meditation opens the mind to itself.
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The best mantrum is selfless giving beause as you repeat it again and again, you change.
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What will happen in those encounters? Who knows? It wouldn't be much fun if you knew all of that you'd be watching an old video called your life.
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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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The ultimate intelligence of all things is your essence. Your mind is the universe. Your body is all things.
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People can insert thoughts into your mind. This is more dangerous for psychic people. Use concentration exercises and read to combat this boredom is an easy way to be drained.
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In every situation, feel before acting, just for a second. Look for a feeling.
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With the practice of meditation you can move into other states of mind, sort of ungluing the glue that binds you to a particular perceptual mode, a way of seeing life which is an illusory one.
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Old Zen was very funny there was a great deal of humor and happiness. Zen today seems much drier. While there's a certain amount of humor, it seems to lack that total intensity because humor is one of the primary tools for liberation.
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All physical and nonphysical things have another side, a side that is not visible to the senses or accessible to the reasoning mind, a side that can only be known and experienced intuitively by emptying one's own mind of thoughts.
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Don't focus so much on your relationships. Have fun with them. Or if you don't have them, you don't want them, have fun with that.
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Focus on the center of the chest, relax. Imagine a rose there. Feel it unfolding. Let yourself go and ignore your thoughts.
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I studied with a number of different teachers. But really, I've never studied with teachers. To be honest, the only thing that's ever interested me in life is eternity. Nothing else makes any sense to me.
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Most persons spend their lives stuck in relatively low states of mind. In these states of mind their views of themselves and the world around them are often severely limited.
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The magic of life, of course, is not something that can be explained. Structures can only take us to the point where they begin or end. Beyond structures is the white light.
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The mind is infinite. It is not relegated to the brain or to thought or to emotion. It is made up of an endless series of realities that stretch on into infinity.
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