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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.

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
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Buddhism
Awareness
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You have to be very, very careful not to pick up too much of the lower energies, the toxic energies, because they'll make you very ill. They can kill you. They can cause cancer, debilitative diseases of all types.
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The effort to lift one's self into perfect enlightenment is a profound thing. It has nothing to do with individual will. It's a refraction of the cosmos. The cosmos delights in itself.
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Behind the transient reality, there is something else. It is a deeper, more permanent and unchanging reality that we Buddhists call nirvana.
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We see the one light, the one unified reality that we see in others, is the same reality that is within ourselves. We are one with all of existence.
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Your ability to use mind whatever way you choose is outrageous. Much will depend upon how intensely you approach the study and the state of mind in which you begin.
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Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization.
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The wisdom of samadhi is quite different. Higher level wisdom cannot be written down. It cannot be spoken. True wisdom is the knowledge of the universe that is beyond physical expression.
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Don't condemn yourself - that only increases the hold of impurity. Accept your limitations but know that you're working towards changing them.
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Real spirituality and love is always manifest. It always goes to those who are with us and around us.
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Hell is everything. Heaven is nothing.
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Enlightenment simply means that you've gotten above the body-mind complex. You've refined the self, dissolved it in the white light of eternity and gone through all the gradient shifts.
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The Buddhist message is a message not of the negation of life, but one of affirmation.
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You could sit around and feel sorry for yourself or you can go out and do things for others.
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If you just keep giving constantly, if you don't really take thought of your own welfare and your own awareness, but just give, beyond exhaustion - then your life will always be a constant progression.
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Nothing is any particular way. It's your state of mind that creates reality.
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Until women assume their rightful place on earth there will never be an end to wars, cruelty and oppression.
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You're looking for purity, something that just isn't all garbled, someplace where you can feel the earth again, where you can feel what the wind feels like, where you can see the stars at night, and actually, not just look at little dots in the sky, but feel an energy from them.
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Those who love and who have a sense of purity live in a very luminous band of awareness.
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