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My god, life is beautiful! Look at the colors! if you are blind, look at the colors of your mind.

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Frederick Lenz
Age: 48 †
Born: 1950
Born: February 9
Died: 1998
Died: April 12
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San Diego
California
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People who practice Zen correctly are not spaced-out or unrealistic. They are balanced and grounded.
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Just like there are different roads that lead to different places, so there are different levels of awareness that lead to different places and we shift in and out of them. These are the ten thousand states of mind that we study in Zen.
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Once we've achieved perfect meditation, we're terribly trapped because that's an illusion...any enlightenment that seems ultimate is an illusion.
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The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient beings experience this, the endless dance of life, the lila.
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Nothing is any particular way. It's your state of mind that creates reality.
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To get involved with some ridiculous battle of power with someone else will use up your energy.
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The only way you will advance spiritually is through humility.
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Power has destroyed many people - not really. Power doesn't destroy anyone. People apply it poorly and it can ruin their lives. Power is like fire. Fire is neither good nor bad. It's how you use it.
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The different techniques will place you in touch with different fields of auric empowerment, creating a balanced development of your practice.
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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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We live in a world where no one believes. Enlightenment and knowledge are laughed at. Those who seek and teach the mysteries are scorned and often persecuted. Welcome to the planet earth: environment hostile.
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Zen is about breaking out of your ideas and experiencing life and not ideas.
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It is always possible to get into a higher state of mind. The way you get into a higher state of mind is by generating good karma.
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Allow the emptiness inherent within actions and experiences to guide and shape your choices. Let your actions direct you, the actor, not the other way around.
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A teacher is there to laugh at you because you have such a high opinion of yourself that you need to be laughed at. You need to sense how small we all are.
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Most people make their choices predicated upon a feeling because analysis really isn't that good a tool.
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You can tell a person's level of spiritual devlopment simply by watching how much they give.
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