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You have to learn to be very, very gentle to start with - with yourself eventually. Meditation is not something that you force. It is something that happens to you because life gives you a gift.

Frederick Lenz

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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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Buddhism
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Chi is developed through meditation, through studying with one who has a great deal of it.
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In the high mountains and desert beings can affect you. Most aren't malicious, but some will lure you to your death.
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In the training process, the teacher addresses two sides of your being. One is the tonal and one is the nagual.
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Enlightenment requires discipline, balance, knowledge, power, happiness and a sense of responsibility and sacrifice, being able to do things with your life that you would not have done otherwise.
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The best form of meditation is the sitting meditation. But work is next. Work is a great way to meditate.
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Mysticism is an eclectic mixture of various forms of self-discovery that's primarily experimental.
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It is possible with pure willpower to force the kundalini up the shushumna, through the chakras. You will develop visions of other worlds that will not necessarily stop when you want them to. This is a condition we call insanity.
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In meditation we get a sense of the countless selves within ourselves, the different forms they take. Those that don't seem positive or helpful we push aside. Those that seem progressive we enjoy.
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If you really love, then you're willing to step outside of your own love to do that which is right.
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If you are going to focus on a teacher, you have to be focused on the teacher and not peripheral vibrations that might be around them or it will totally screw up your meditation.
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We're at the end of the cycle. You've all known it since childhood. In the Hindu division of the ages, this is the Kali Yuga, the dark age. At the end of a cycle, Vishnu takes incarnation as a person. Vishnu is that aspect of God that preserves and protects life. When Vishnu leaves, Shiva comes.
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I'm not speaking metaphorically, plants that you have in your house, or if you've ever made friends with a tree somewhere, there is a moment that these beings can aid you.
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The ultimate intelligence of all things is your essence. Your mind is the universe. Your body is all things.
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Paradise is not the place you go when you die. Paradise is when your mind is in a perfect state.
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I used to live in Buddhist monasteries and I finally had to leave them because they were just too cluttered for me. They were cluttered up with many thoughts about Buddhism.
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