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This is the process of mental analysis, sifting through the selves, sifting through your thoughts, practicing mindfulness, learning to control thought.

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
Self
Analysis
Buddhism
Mental
Thoughts
Learning
Sifting
Control
Selves
Process
Practicing
Thought
Mindfulness

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Humility is the most important quality in the spiritual life. When it is lacking spiritual growth stops.
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To look for truth in all the wrong and all the right places is the only excuse for living.
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Flaky devotionalism, bowing and scraping and sucking up to the teacher is very phony. It is counterproductive to enlightenment and spiritual development. What is necessary is mutual respect.
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When we dream, we create. All of life is a dream or a series of waking dreams. We dream our surroundings. We dream our friends, our relations. We dream our bodies. We dream our dreams.
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There is no way to measure it ... because there's no one to measure it.
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You reincarnate forever because you exist forever. You can't die. You can't be born, your essence that is. You are on a big wheel.
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I recommend computer science to people who practice meditation. The mental structures that are used in computer science are very similar exercises done in Buddhist monasteries.
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The network of enlightenment is a very wide network. It's not relegated to a simple type of being. It's not the network of the goody-goods.
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