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Most enlightened people can do miracles. Some have powers, some don't. Some people who have developed powers aren't enlightened.

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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The thing about Buddhism is that it stresses attainment of something ineffable, that is where it differs from other religions in that it's more correct. We live in a world with promises of paradise.
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Sri Krishna is said to be an avatar, which is a human way of trying to define very big. That is to say that Sri Krishna is not from the local area network, but he has come from a world that is different because his mind is different.
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Neither is detrimental, but the mystical kundalini is a bit more raucous.
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They might see that you are going to meet a beautiful woman or a beautiful man. They will come to you in dreams and tell you this is going to happen because of them.
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If you are psychic you can perceive that someone may love you and they can't show it. Someone may seek to harm you and they mask it.
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Personal power is a feeling that everybody is looking for called satisfaction. It is different from enlightenment, but you need personal power to become enlightened. Personal power is not the end of the process.
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Sex can never bring about enlightenment. Only enlightenment brings about enlightenment.
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Death is simply a change in perception. It is not an end to perception as a finite being.
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Lao Tsu uses the anology of the tree. The old hard tree breaks and falls when the wind blows. The young tree bends and does not break. He advises us to bend and not to break.
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You think you are somebody and that is where the problem begins. You're really not somebody, you're everybody. You objectify yourself into thinking that you are a particular state of being.
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Don't try and understand this with your mind. There will be no absolute knowing, no certainty in these thoughts and philosophies and ideas.
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To love is to be balanced, to extend one's self beyond the sense of self.
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Zen was a reaction. Just as Buddha came into the world and spoke against the fall of Vedanta, so Buddhism lost its essence and became ritual. Zen was a reaction to that.
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Everything that you see here, in other words, is a reflection of a higher reality.
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The heart chakra is located in the center of your chest. Hold your right or left hand out. Now say Me and, as you do so, touch your chest. You will automatically touch your heart chakra.
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This is Zen, and in Zen, as we all know ... anything goes!
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Don't become a spiritual bigot. Don't feel that just because you meditate and you are striving for enlightenment that you are in any way superior to any other person. Be even. Be easy. You will last longer on the pathway to self-discovery.
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Life isn't complicated. The reason it appears complicated to you is because you are in a very distorted state of mind. That's the basic premise of Buddhism - that you're in a very distorted state of mind.
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