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What you will be in your next life is the sum total of the realizations that you have had in this lifetime.
Frederick Lenz
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Frederick Lenz
Age: 48 †
Born: 1950
Born: February 9
Died: 1998
Died: April 12
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San Diego
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I've been very fortunate because many of the teachers I had were exceptional. But I didn't realize that at the time that all teachers were not alike.
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Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings.
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I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs.
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Samadhi is not going to take away your humanity. It will give it to you. You will become more cosmopolitan, more conscious, and more infinite.
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