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This is a world that defines everything backwards, a world in which good is called bad, brightness is called darkness, up is called down, enlightenment is called abnormal behavior and abnormal behavior is applauded as reason.

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
World
Buddhism
Behavior
Darkness
Applauded
Humanity
Abnormal
Called
Brightness
Reason
Defines
Everything
Backwards
Good
Enlightenment

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I love people who make mistakes. That's why I'm in the teaching business. I love people who make mistakes because I enjoy watching them learn and helping them, assisting them. I find it a beautiful process.
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In the beginning what is necessary is to feel that there is something worthwhile to be attained otherwise we won't do it.
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Being a Buddhist monk means never losing one's optimism in spite of all difficulties. It also means being harder on yourself than any of your teachers ever were.
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In meditation, when your mind becomes perfectly still and calm, you will experience the golden light of eternity.
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People in the West sometimes have these marvelous visions of India and Tibet. They assume that there are all these sadhus walking around and everybody is breathing enlightenment. Forget it. Don't look at it through rose-colored glasses.
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In deep meditation, all of the things that we call life, all of the combinations of experiences, fall away.
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Personal power is the ability to go into other planes, to cross that threshold from one dimension to another. Why do that? Because it is there to do knowledge, power, and beauty lie in those other worlds.
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The thing about Buddhism is that it stresses attainment of something ineffable, that is where it differs from other religions in that it's more correct. We live in a world with promises of paradise.
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School was a strange place where they tried to make you into something.
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