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When you do something half-heartedly, you don't get much of a result. When you do it fully, you get a great result.

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
Buddhism
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Nirvana is a step beyond. You dissolve into the universe. The universe dissolves into you until there is no longer a difference. There is no sense of individual self as perceiver.
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In India and other places, there are people who fool themsleves. They walk around all day saying, Who am I? Who am I?
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Most people make their choices predicated upon a feeling because analysis really isn't that good a tool.
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The art of spirituality is learning to be happy in any condition and in any circumstance. This is the art of love.
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When I'm in the second attention, when I stop looking through eyes that have been formed for me by others, I see something else. I see power.
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Aum is the most powerful of all mantras. It is good to chant Aum seven or more times before and after each meditation. Chanting Aum puts you in harmony with the vibration of Eternity. Aum opens the gateway to the infinite highway of light.
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We prefer humility in others - and if we prefer it in others - we can soon prefer it in ourselves.
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There is no final stage in nirvana. Nirvana is beyond definition. It is not quantifiable.
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Put a smile on your face. Don't sit in the waiting room of life. Go do something, happily.
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Any individual is capable of realizing the truth at any time. No tradition is necessary, no chain, no lineage. Once you have realized the truth, once you have become consciousness itself, then you go beyond all such distinctions.
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The emphasis is on meditation in Tantric Zen. The experience of meditation in formal practice, zazen, where you're sitting down and meditating and concentrating.
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To deal with someone from other infinites is problematic at times, to deal with a true master of all the realms of the yogas. We call them someone with the seven seals of enlightenment, meaning that their gradated perception has past through all the realms.
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When you do something for someone else, it's for you. When you do something for yourself, it's for someone else.
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Feel that the energy of your willpower can easily deflect tension-causing feelings and frustrations that are directed towards you from the outside world.
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