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If this is the only life, then everything assumes too great an importance. We have to get everything out of life and we overdo it.

Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz
Age: 48 †
Born: 1950
Born: February 9
Died: 1998
Died: April 12
Author
Entrepreneur
San Diego
California
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Buddhism
Importance
Inspirational
Everything
Great
Life
Overdo
Assumes

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Anyone has the ability, if they choose, to move to the higher end of the state of mind they are in. From that higher end, they can generate another state of mind.
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The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and suffering.
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You are on a vast wheel of birth and death. You have been through thousands of lifetimes, thousands yet to come.
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If you're powerful enough you can even determine whom you will meet and whom you will avoid long before you meet them.
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There is a beautiful flow to the study of Zen. If it is not making you happier, then you are not practicing correctly.
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A teacher is not someone you need perpetually. You need them to show you how to get through the doorway but once you get through the doorway, you are on your own.
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Everybody out there is just doing things for themesleves. So if you don't do that you've got to be crazy ... crazy about selfless giving!
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When you visit Nirvana, there is neither existence nor nonexistence. Your baggage never arrives because there is no one there to claim it.
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Meditation is the journey to happiness.
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Only the fool wants to go into battle to beat someone for the satisfaction of beating someone.
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The transcendental light permeates your being and washes away impurity. All those different selves which are limited and binding and hurting are washed away.
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We see a lot of people who decide to go out and teach meditation. They become so wrapped up in it that they stop progressing themselves and they really don't have that much more to teach.
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Keep the deepest feelings of your heart to yourself. They tend to stay more pure if you do. There is a wisdom to that.
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I don't put much stock in powers that people have to hurt others, in sorcery and all this nonsense. There are murders and there are dictators. That is just a part of life. The intelligent use of power in yoga can assist you avoiding that side of humanity.
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Don Juan, in the teacings of Carlos Castaneda, makes the same point. You have to fool people into seeking knowlege. People will not do it of their own volition.
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There's no right or wrong in the study of enlightenment. There's only experience.
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Zen has lost its zip, if you will, or its nothingness and has become ritualistic Its established in monastaries with strict codes of koan study.
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Learn how to focus - that creates a lot of power. Focus on a candle flame for 15 minutes or a pretty colored rock, or one point, or a chakra.
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I don't work with men who are antagonistic to the liberation of women. I do work with quite a number of men who are supportive of the enlightenment of women. Such men are rare.
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The shortest distance between two points is your mind. It's not a straight line.
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