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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
California
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It seems to me that there's a terrible misunderstanding between us. It seems to me that I love you a great deal, my friends.
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Some people see teachers and they associate the feelings of the other students who are present with the teacher. They psychically connect with all those hundreds of minds and they don't key to the teacher at all.
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Begin with your daily life. Take your life as a challenge and try to bring yourself into harmony with each thing in your life.
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One or two of my friends set longevity records for people who had AIDS. What they did, incredibly hard though it was, was to practice meditation, positive thinking and they worked out physically quite a bit.
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Do not be a sniveler. Do not say you can't be happy, you can't be enlightened. How do you know? It is all chaos.
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It is very important to always hold the thought of an enlightened teacher in your mind in a very positive way. When you direct negative energy towards someone who is powerful, it has a terrible bounce-back effect.
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To meditate with humility, consider existence. It is infinite. You are finite. You are a finite portion of infinite existence. Let this be your meditation.
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That is why we live in a world where there are so many wars and so much destruction. This is an arena of power.
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We are trying to do our best to bring perfection into whatever we turn our attention to.
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In my travels, I have found two peoples, the Tibetans and the Fijians, who don't seem to have this problem. Their closeness with their environment, their religions, and their relationships with each other and nature make them feel part of everything.
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There's a place where everything comes together and where it's all the same. That state of mind, in which all things are the same, is the state of mind of Tantric Zen.
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At the beginning and the middle and the end of all things, there is only the perfection of enlightenment that is nirvana.
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Tantra is for a person who has reached a point in their spiritual evolution where everything looks the same.
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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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You will have to put aside some things in your life, habits, ideas, ways of seeing life. You will have to learn new things, and then new things and then new things - forever.
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Only when you are by yourself can you realize how wonderful you are.
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As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect indicative - ridiculous. It has qualities, shadings, differentiations, rhythmic structures of symbolic meaning.
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It is only in Samadhi that you'll begin to get an inkling of who you are and finally, it is only in nirvana that this perfect truth will become clear.
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Each of the ten thousand states of mind presents you with a different view of essence and experience.
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Mindfulness is paying attention to what is going on. Just look at beauty. Not just the beauty of things you see with your eyes, but beautiful feelings, beautiful awareness. There is no such thing as reality. Reality is what you make it.
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