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This is simple meditation, nothingness and everythingness, the color and the form, death and the void, the end and the beginning, a beginningless end with an endless beginning, Pretty clever if you ask me.

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
Beginning
Color
Pretty
Nothingness
Asks
Void
Simple
Clever
Death
Buddhism
Ends
Endless
Form
Meditation

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