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The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.

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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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Perception is made up of bands.
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There is mental conditioning in your mind put in there during this life by your parents, teachers, the society. You've been told what is and what is not, what is right and what is wrong. This has to be pushed aside.
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You see two people together. They're in a relationship. It's really power that holds those people together. And when the designs of power change, those people will separate and there's nothing they can do in the meantime about it.
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Meditation simply means entering into states of mind which are happiness, profound happiness, simple happiness, beautiful happiness, complicated, uncomplicated - There are ten thousand states of mind.
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Your immediate experience is Tantric Zen. How aware are you of your immediate experience? - Probably not that aware.
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When you are not following dharma, then you will not be at peace. You will not be happy. The simplest things will seem to be endless obstacles.
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Many of the people I work with I've worked with in other lifetimes. I moved to California because I knew that many of my students from past lives were in California.
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If you are in a state of mind in which all things are one, then you can spend your time in lingerie shops.
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The description you have been given of the world is an aberrant one. It does not accept and give proper place to the nagual, to the mysterious unknown that is our heritage.
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There are those who feel that meditation is unrealistic or takes them out of the world, and if that was your experience with mediation, you weren't meditating.
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Towards the end of your meditation session, or when you feel your meditation is deep, chant Kring seven times. Repeat it with sharp intensity, without elongating the syllables.
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There are different pathways - be it Zen, tantra, karma yoga, or jnana yoga. Different ways have been devised to do the same thing for different types of people according to their temperament.
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Your karma is the sum total of your awareness field. Your awareness field is comprised of all the experiences that you've had in this life and all other lives.
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Throughout the day remind yourself that you are moving through eternity. Be focused. Be centered. Be in the now. Know what is going on in the world. Read a newspaper once in a while.
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If you are unhappy - be that way in your bedroom - but whenever you come out into the world, in real selfless giving we push all of that aside and we smile, love and give to others.
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The aura of billions of people coats all experiences like a thick cloud of smog. Just to live on the earth is to live in that smog.
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Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the illusion of time and life.
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Real happiness is something most people never know. What we experience in deep meditation, that ecstasy is beyond what human beings call happiness
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If you are truly wise, then you reflect the universe and you are relational in your approach to things. You are a mirror of infinity. That is wisdom.
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It's either good, bad or somewhere in between. It's either ying, yang or it's a combination. You're either male, female or somewhere in between. You've got to be somewhere on the map.
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