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We have to leave everything we have been, a perceiver, I as an individual. That is enlightenment.

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
Enlightenment
Leave
Individual
Everything
Perceiver

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To meditate with full effort, produces infinity, freedom.
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Your ability to still your mind through the process of meditation and inner reflection and outer change brings a stillness to the mind all the time, even in the midst of the busiest activities.
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The kundalini energy enables us to do things that would not happen otherwise, to apply an occult pressure, to use energy to create effects perhaps thousands of miles away.
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As the kundalini energy increases, as the energy of the psyche becomes more pronounced, which it does as thought becomes eclipsed by silence, all the variant mind states burn away.
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Emotional control is essential for attaining higher levels of mind. The thing that the teacher looks for in a student is the degree of self-control, not coldness that someone has.
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The study of Buddhism is essentially the study of modification, how we modify the state of mind we're in, how we modify the realm we're in.
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There is no such thing as completion. These are only stages in an endless progression. There are no final outcomes or decisions, since nothing ever stays the same.
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Beyond the ten thousand states of mind is the still point. It exists within them all, yet beyond them. It is not affected by them. It gives birth to them. This is the riddle.
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There is a beautiful flow to the study of Zen. If it is not making you happier, then you are not practicing correctly.
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When you meditate make sure you stay awake. If you are falling asleep get up and splash some water on yourself or sleep until you are refreshed.
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She'll find rapid deterioration, which is particularly noticeable in the skin.This is the sign that the subtle physcial is aging.
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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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Perception is made up of bands.
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When most people see a tree, they don't see a tree at all. They see an idea that they have developed of what a tree is.
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Several hours later, I heard my mother calling me to come into the house, and it never occurred to me that this was an experience that other children didn't have on a regular basis.
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Happiness has to do with how quickly you vibrate, how intelligent you are, how subtle your awareness field is, how deep you are, how aware of your eternal part you are.
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If someone confronts you about draining them it could be a double reverse. They are draining you and accuse you instead of draining them, just to throw you off.
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You can lie to yourself and fool yourself and rationalize that the choice you're making is what is right and what is true and what leads to liberation, when it's actually only the fulfillment of desire.
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Eternity does nothing but give.
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