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There are ten thousand states of mind. The culmination of the states of mind you have gone through will create your next 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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Your mind is turbulent because you're filled with desires, frustrations. You want too many things. You are afraid of too many things. It is necessary to overcome both attraction and repulsion to still the mind.
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Reincarnation is a dance. It is a movement of life to the rhythm of the universe. Spirit and matter join together as one dancing partner. They dance and it goes on forever.
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Lao Tsu says the way of life is ancient, timeless. It is existence which he calls the Tao - a mysterious source, beyond understanding, and all of us are a reflection, if not that source of life ourselves.
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Some tried to kill him there were assassination attempts. Some hated him ... this is par for the course.
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Determine where you are and where you wish to be. Then use all of your self-effort to make that happen, following the guiding principles of all the Buddhas and bohisattvas and seekers of the dharma, of enlightenment.
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Watch out for negative power places on the earth, if you can see they are reddish and they twist your feelings. They don't vibrate at a rate conducive to humanity.
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You know, these non-physical beings, it's very hard to tell what they're up to. You can't see them. How can you rely on them? It's chancy.
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It doesn't pay to listen much to what human beings have to say in their evaluation of you, since they don't evaluate themselves very properly.
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Gain control of the emotions. Be the helmsperson and not blown around by the winds of emotion. While there will be winds, you can navigate them or even use them to expedite your journey.
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Perception is made up of bands.
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If you use your will all the time, then it runs out. You deplete yourself and then, when you really need it, it's not there.
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Have the right attitude in advanced practice. Feel that you are always a beginner in Zen. They refer to it as beginners mind. I feel I am a beginner, always because it's true.
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I don't believe in anything, yet I believe emphatically in almost everything. It all depends on what seems appropriate at the time.
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Love teaches you to love your own mortality, just as we love the flowers that bloom for a short time and pass on.
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Those who love and who have a sense of purity live in a very luminous band of awareness.
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Buddha indicated that the self, that part of you that incarnates from lifetime to lifetime was causal.
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Stress is a state of mind and if you realize that you will find that it's something you can deal with. It is my belief that stress occurs not because of the conditions of the world.
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Dreams are real. This is unreal. This world is unreal. Everybody has it backwards. This is the dream. This is an insubstantial pageant. Nothing here lasts - that is how you know it's the dream.
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To think that God is compassionate is a terrible mistake. To think that God is wrathful is equally stupid. God isn't emotional. You are. To superimpose your emotions on infinity is typically human.
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If this is the only life, then everything assumes too great an importance. We have to get everything out of life and we overdo it.
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