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The third stage is no thought.

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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To run away from life and desire is impossible because you are life and you have desire. Accept that this is part of your physical condition and see that these aspects are not really indigenous to what you are.
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Enlightenment means that you're in love with all of life, with not only immortality but mortality.
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The path of Zen is not easy. It's wonderful. It's beautiful beyond compare. You will experience more ecstasy and beauty than most people will in a thousand lifetimes.
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Being a Buddhist monk means never losing one's optimism in spite of all difficulties. It also means being harder on yourself than any of your teachers ever were.
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The ten thousand states of mind that we talk about in Zen are all levels of perception. You can think of each of the ten thousand states of mind as a dimensional plane.
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Ego synthesized is selfhood, the sense of self-importance, that you really matter ... nothing could be further from the truth.
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A good warrior, a seventh or eighth degree black-belt, will tell you there is no victory. It doesn't make you more powerful to win. It's just what you do. It's an expression of your personal power level.
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Tantra is non-dogmatic, in the sense that we don't care about the sensual world we don't care about other religious traditions. To not care doesn't mean that we don't learn.
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How do we find a way out? By realizing that there's no place to go, that there's no way out, that there's no way in. All that exists is the Self.
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The next step in meditation is not just to focus, but to stop thought completely without having to focus you gain a tremendous amount of personal power.
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If you follow anything far enough in the universe, it will eventually lead to light.
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While people who are enlightened are worthy of respect, to put them on a pedestal is a mistake. To undervalue them is also a mistake.
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