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A life that most people will never even know about can be yours in this study, but only if you approach it with equanimity, poise, grace, balance, and professionalism.
Frederick Lenz
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Frederick Lenz
Age: 48 †
Born: 1950
Born: February 9
Died: 1998
Died: April 12
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In the Far East, studying yoga is comparable to a mixture of attending one of the best Western universities, and of being an intrepid explorer.
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Zazen's music is composed in other dimensions and it is played by some of my students. I go through the music they have played with my aura and wash out anything impure.
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All of the universes are but phantoms, mirages, and while they have their own essence, their own pantomime - they pass forgotten.
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I am an expert in the world of the supremely happy because I am happy. I've never met anybody as happy as I am - that, in itself, should make you unhappy.
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People who practice Zen correctly are not spaced-out or unrealistic. They are balanced and grounded.
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A master of will can teach you how to use will. You watch them and observe them use that will, guided by wisdom, with a happy balance.
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I consider those persons to be my students who come and meditate with me on a regular basis, who, in spite of the hardships and difficulties on the path of knowledge, still continue to try, and who respect me as I respect them.
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The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing great joy and happiness.
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Everything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. It's an illusion. It's a hallucination.
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Jnana yoga is practical.
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When you meditate you are accessing eternity. You are plugging yourself into that source which is all light and all beauty and all perfection.
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It is possible to exert a power over all things, all beings. But we must begin with intent always.
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In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat it all revolves around the ego. This has nothing to do with the Zen of sports and athletics.
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Don't be afraid. You are as alive as anything else is alive. Your right to be alive is as great as the right of anything else.
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A child is imprinted not by simply teaching. But their attention is like soft clay. The attention field of adults is stratified. They are like hard clay and we push them on each side of the child's attention field.
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This kind of love doesn't work very well, it destorys the nature of love.
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What you will be in your next life is the sum total of the realizations that you have had in this lifetime.
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A species divided against itself will eventually fall.
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The road for Arjuna is unexpected. Sri Krishna says you have to face that which you fear the most that which you're most attached to and eliminate it. In this case he has to fight a battle, and the battle is his attachments.
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