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Focusing on an enlightened teacher is a doorway. It is not a person. We are focusing on the light that passes through them. We are moving through them into the planes of light and eventually to nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz
Age: 48 †
Born: 1950
Born: February 9
Died: 1998
Died: April 12
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Reality is not the world as you perceive it. Reality is the world perceived through enlightenment. It's the same world but it's not the same world.
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Just like there are different roads that lead to different places, so there are different levels of awareness that lead to different places and we shift in and out of them. These are the ten thousand states of mind that we study in Zen.
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Unfortunately the student often feels guilt for not living the type of life that their Teacher suggested, or they feel that they are intrinsically bad and incapable of leading a higher life.
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If you wish to cultivate humility, then you should associate with those who are humble.
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The reason one enters into lower mental states is because you don't have the power or chi flowing through you.
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Do something nice for somebody. Do something nice for God. Do something nice for the earth - and don't expect anything in return or you will suffer.
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The idea of the walls of monastery was to keep everybody else out because you wanted to develop a certain type of life. Most people in the world had different ideas on the subject.
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Enlightenment is x-rated, honey if you haven't checked it out. It's hot, it's vivacious. You're going to take your mind and merge it with the entire cosmos.
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Learn to meditate. It's fun. It will give you a strong, wonderful mind.
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Who is that is dreaming all of this? Ecstasy, pure ecstasy, joy beyond understanding, bliss beyond the dry dullness of the mind's philosophical ranging, light beyond any light in this world - The substance and the essence of all existence is this light, the transcendental light.
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The nagual is the superconscious. It's nirvana. It's the unknown that cannot be explained or reasoned.
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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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Pain and frustration vanish in the sunlight of your smile.
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Don't become a slave to success or failure, family, friends, possessions. If these things come to you in life, enjoy them, but fix your consciousness on that which does not change.
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Perfection is not a final state. It is a state of mind. There are ten thousand states of mind.
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