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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
Buddhism
Perception
Awareness
Beyond
Self

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Enlightenment doesn't mean you stop being a student. Being a student is a state of mind. Enlightenment simply means that you are everything and everywhere. It doesn't preclude being a student.
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Meditation is the way the mind is. That's why in Zen they call it the natural state, which means you don't have to go and do anything to meditate.
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Women are the sexual slaves of men. They have been convinced that they are the weaker sex through a variety of manipulative devices in the Judeo-Christian tradition.
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Enlightenment is a journey. It is a journey that is made alone. It is a journey that is made with a teacher.
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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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The nagual is the superconscious. It's nirvana. It's the unknown that cannot be explained or reasoned.
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Everybody deals with stress differently. Some people drink, some people use drugs, some people watch TV. I have always found that extreme athletics chills me out and leaves me in a very centered place.
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When you focus on the third chakra it has to pull the kundalini from the root center, through the second, up to the third chakra.
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There's no point in getting frustrated at yourself. Just be truthful.
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I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point.
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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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When you admire others, you become one with them and the world loves you.
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What they have done over the centuries is evolve the fine use of sexual power.
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When you see deterioration in the skin or the hair, you are having problems with the subtle body. You're taking in too much bad energy, usually from people, or you're thinking too many negative thoughts. You are pulling an energy that is not suitable for the human form.
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Bodies come and go, ages come and go, yugas come and go, eternities come and go. Selves come and go.
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A strong onslaught of the nagual would upset your balance completely.
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I liked my teacher very much and after some years of mediation, I began to teach meditation, referring all things that I didn't know to my own teacher.
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If you go to a higher place of power, you can gain power there and you might even encounter some beings of knowledge and light that might aid you in some way.
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Any area you slough off in your life will reflect in your meditation. Be happy when you could be depressed. Push jealous, fear, and anger out of your mind. Don't feel sorry for yourself.
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