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How can you be happy in a world like this? You have got to be crazy to even attempt something like that.

Frederick Lenz

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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
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Be enlightened for you, just for you. No one else knows or cares. They crucified Christ, you know. They don't take real well, on this planet, to the people who see things differently.
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The last game on earth is in progress. And when you lose, you win. And when you win, you can't lose.
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Never be bored. Energy lives off of attention. When you are bored you get drained.
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When you meditate make sure you stay awake. If you are falling asleep get up and splash some water on yourself or sleep until you are refreshed.
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We have to push ourselves to stillness - to the natural state.
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Love can be the only answer. But snowboarding also works for me. Because I love snowboarding!
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We sit in meditation and cry to God, we cry to the light, as little children, knowing God will do everything for us.
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The problem with love is attachment love makes you dependent. Unattached love - you love for the hell of it.
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Love is the only rule in self-discovery. If you've forgotten that rule, you've forgotten everything. It's not what you can get it's what you can give.
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In both Surfing the Himalayas and Snowboarding to Nirvana, I have tried to transmit as best I could the spirit of humor, and the sense of humor of the monks I have encountered.
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Where you live is important. It is where you dream. You lose or gain a tremendous amount of energy there.
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The teaching that we receive is not necessarily very accurate. The value systems that our cultures have developed are not every open. They are very restrictive. We live in an age that is not enlightened.
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In meditation the mind stops, thought ceases. When thought stops, the world stops. When the world stops, perception stops. When perception stops, the sense of I as a perceiver falls away.
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It's not my light to begin with, in a sense it's the light of God, the light of eternity. So take all you want!
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To look for truth in all the wrong and all the right places is the only excuse for living.
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Then you will pick yourself up, no matter how tired you are, and go forward again and again and again, until you've reached liberation.
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