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Don't run away from the world. The world is God. Don't run towards the world. God is the void. Don't be afraid of the complexities of this life, nor the stark simplicity of death.

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
Away
Complexity
Life
Simplicity
World
Buddhism
Towards
Afraid
Complexities
Inspirational
Starks
Death
Stark
Running
Void

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The last game on earth is in progress. And when you lose, you win. And when you win, you can't lose.
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On the pathway of knowledge we view life as in a dream. We feel that all of this world is a dream.
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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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Deluded beings think that if they get in a battle with a Zen Master or with a Don Juan, that it's going enhance their life if they win. You can never take power from someone else any more than you can take sunlight.
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Chaotic mathematics is essentially the study of chaos. It can't be chaos, if you can study it and it has an order.
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Their experiments caused them to destabilize the structure of the continent and thus Atlantis sank beneath the waves.
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Only until you rise above the use of the second attention for manipulation that you can enter into a consciousness in which there is enlightenment.
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The important thing to remember is to follow the path of light. As the fictional character Yoda, from Star Wars, correctly pointed out, once you start down the dark path to power, it's very difficult to leave that path.
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We see an enlightened teacher to gain a sense of humor, to learn balance and proportion and of course to learn wisdom.
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They just teach by their presence. They don't really have a message for humanity. It's irrelevant at that point. They're just a fluid, perfect embodiment of what we call the dharmakaya or the enlightenment of nirvana .
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