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What is enlightenment, anyway? I don't know if I can really put it into words, perhaps you can. I can't.

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
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The tonal is also endless and limitless. We like to think of it as being finite so we feel better.
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The universe is complicated and we're not going to get it all in one night or one incarnation or one infinity.
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I am a certified PADI Divemaster and a technical scuba diver. That is to say, I am involved with decompression diving where we dive to depths of 300 plus feet. But I was also recently certified for the Atlantis rebreather, where we dive to shallower depths ranging from about 60-130 feet.
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If you live for a very long while, you will have to watch your friends and loved ones die, your body age and lose its beauty and vigor, and your mental capacities fade.
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Focus on the center of the chest, relax. Imagine a rose there. Feel it unfolding. Let yourself go and ignore your thoughts.
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Power doesn't make you happy. Actually, power without knowledge and balance is problematic. Power is something that will automatically follow when you have knowledge. The two are really the same, in a certain sense.
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It is one thing to teach a dynamic Oriental philosophy and religious code it is quite another to put such a discipline to the test by successfully living it in the face of ridicule.
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Without wisdom, power tends to destroy the one who wields it.
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In mysticism we deal with dreaming and the fields of perception.
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Dharma is another name for existence. It is existence in its purest form.
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Many people, including Buddhist monks, spend thousands of hours sitting in what they call meditation. In reality, what they're doing is thinking and ruminating upon their problems.
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If we really reflect and discriminate, we'll find that all things are created by our perception, that all states exist within the mind.
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People think that if you are enlightened you are not in touch with the pulse of the physical. Au contraire! The higher you go, the deeper you become, and the more conscious you are of the physical and the sensorial.
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When you wish to subjugate a people, you have to convince them of their own inherent weakness.
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Fear can be used to get into your attention. Any way a person can get you to think of them, allows them to drain you.
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