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Self is the perception of perception. Beyond self there's no perception of perception.

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
Self
Buddhism
Perception
Awareness
Beyond

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Become conscious of what you think during the day. A negative thought will enter you. At first it will be vague, innocuous, but then it will root in your consciousness and soon it will be impossible to eradicate.
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As you meditate, you'll develop a sense of humor so that you can laugh at yourself, which you need to do in this world.
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The women that I met were exceptional, extraordinary - tremendous purity, tremendous gentleness, self-giving and power.
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We wait for the fulfillment of our desires. We wait with hope, apathy, resignation, belief. We become despondent, elated. We wait
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Selfless giving means forgeting about yourself. It means letting go and doing something crazy.
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When you eneter into samadhi and seek to make that magical walk between salvikalpa and nirvikalpa samadhi, it's necessary to focus your awareness not on being or nonbeing.
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Everything that I teach as an enlightened Buddhist teacher is towards directing an individual to happiness, a balanced wisdom and knowledge that is sometimes just bubbly and euphoric or just very still and profound.
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Most people don't care much about enlightenment and the truth. They'd rather watch the Home Shopping Network, and maybe that's another kind of truth.
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In my adolescence, love, as I think for most of us, was a tremendous focus. I wanted to find the perfect partner. I did and married her.
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Personal power is a feeling, like life.
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You don't have to take drugs to be happy. You don't have to drink to be happy. You don't have to have people around you who love you to be happy. You don't need anything except the clarity of your own mind.
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You can tell a person's level of spiritual devlopment simply by watching how much they give.
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Now imagine that you are going beneath the surface of the ocean. Below the surface all is calm, silent, and serene. As you visualize yourself going deeper and deeper into the depths of the ocean, feel that a profound peace is entering you.
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The teacher is not a person they're a field of energy. They're a series of levels of attention. While they have a body and appear to be there, they're not.
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Change is continuous and the aggregate of the self is constantly shifting.
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Those who practice deserve your respect. If you respect them, you respect yourself. It's easy to be critical, but it does no good. What's important is to be supportive of all who practice.
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Meditation is the quickest path to enlightenment.
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So what you are accomplishing is entrenching yourself more and more in this world.
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Look at how beautiful life is, and just keep looking until you see it. You don't see what is in front of you because you're so distracted by your thoughts.
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Energy is food. Most people on earth feed on each other's energy, all of the time, seven days a week. The more energy you have, the more interested parties there will be in having lunch.
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