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When most people see a tree, they don't see a tree at all. They see an idea that they have developed of what a tree is.

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Frederick Lenz
Age: 48 †
Born: 1950
Born: February 9
Died: 1998
Died: April 12
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Entrepreneur
San Diego
California
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Buddhism
Awareness
Tree
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Seek to advance your fortunes in this world. Set up a strong base so that you can practice your spirituality and be of service to others. This is purity to.
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As a teacher you just look at someone and you transmit to them what they need to know. Not simply a thought form, but you transmit an awareness level.
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As you learn to accept that the body is transitory, as you watch it with love, but without attachment, the body will develop purity.
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A person with power has control of their emotions. A person with power can stop fear, stop depression, or they can augment a positive emotion.
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The life of meditation and religious study is absolutely no guarantee of peak moments. Most people involved in religious study and meditation are downright bored, and they're as stuck in what they do as everyone else is.
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If even one woman in the West were to become enlightened, it would change karmas on this planet.
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The mantra is a very preliminary exercise for the student to begin to grasp a sense of focus. When they are used by persons who have reached very high levels of attention, they can open up doorways to other worlds.
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What is there when the ego is gone? Eternity, love.
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I don't engage in brainwashing, I don't dictate forms of lifestyle, I don't perform mass marriages or even singular marriages. I don't tell people what to believe.
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What I term Zen, old Zen, the original face of Zen, new Zen, pure Zen, or Tantric Zen is - Zen in its essence.
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Don't try to hold people to you, don't try to push them away. Let life do everything for you. This is the proper attitude on the path of love.
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Life is perception. We perceive through different parts of the body of the universe.
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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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Countless forms make up this network. In this world, there are few of us.
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In the second stage we stop thought for limited periods of time.
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Who wants to be stuck in being religious and being spiritual either? That's not freedom. You've just exchanged handcuffs for leg irons - which doesn't mean that you should avoid enlightenment.
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In Zen there is a sense of blending, of stepping out of your body and mind and gaining access to powers and abilities that are far beyond the minds of mortal men.
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The stars in the sky last for billions of years. That's nothing to the mind, nothing. It's an instant, a millisecond. The mind shines radiantly forever. But we don't see the shine because of the clutter.
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