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There is a whole crazy world around you. You can't control it, so don't even try. Because the more you try to control your environment, the more it controls you.

Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz
Age: 48 †
Born: 1950
Born: February 9
Died: 1998
Died: April 12
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San Diego
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Self-honesty is absolutely necessary in the practice of Buddhism.
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Try to find a teacher of meditation and meditate at least once a week in a group with people who meditate a little better than you do. It will inspire you to keep meditating.
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If you know that you have had countless lives, then what happens in this life is not quite as traumatic.
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Learn to let go. You do it a little at a time.
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When I dive, I dive into a different dimensional plane. I am not in this world anymore. Someone might see the body, but the spirit has left. It has gone everywhere or nowhere.
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