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A teacher can show you the ways. But no one can do it for you. You have to take what you learn from them and go out and live it. You have to change your life.

Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz
Age: 48 †
Born: 1950
Born: February 9
Died: 1998
Died: April 12
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The perfect view of existence comes from an unclouded, uncluttered life and mind whereby the radiance of perfect attention of the mind of the universe floods us at every moment. This is Buddhism. This is being on the path.
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Sexuality, I think, is a little bit different, for me, than it is for most people, in that there's almost no body awareness whatsoever. It's just light, but that's how everything is for me.
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There are dark forces in the world that would have you believe that you can't succeed and that you're a failure and that you're evil and all this nonsense.
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Human beings actually have quite a bit of willpower. They don't know too much about it, but they have quite a bit.
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You're not capable of stepping into nirvana at this time. If you did it would be disastrous. You're tonal would be swamped.
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Avoiding things that drain you is more important than gaining energy.
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Mystical power, as you know, has a whole different flavor to it. It's much more raucous at times it's much more poignant at times. It involves more of the emotional body.
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In Old Zen, the Zen Master would do literally anything to break down the concept of what the study was. He would present conflicting codes all the time, just to shake this fixation people had on how to attain liberation.
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A surfer is poised on a wave on his board, cutting quickly to the left. He'll always be there, in that moment. He's never left it. He had no birth, he didn't go to school, he didn't purchase the board none of those things ever were.
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They reach the point where they feel, I can go into samadhi now. I can do everything on my own, and that's exactly where they stay, in the lower samadhis. There are many, many people on this earth who can go into salvakalpa samadhi.
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If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions become meditation.
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If one thinks of an enlightened person in a negative way, as it hits their aura, it returns very strongly.
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Both Zen and mysticsm have this beautiful quality of happiness and laughter, which I think is so necessary in our modern age.
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I'm not blaming men, I'm not blaming women. What's gone by has already gone by. It's history. It's done. There is no right or wrong in higher spirituality.
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Zen is the way of splitting the self again and again, untilt there is nothing left.
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In our culture we are taught to be accessible and open it signifies a good person. In mysticism it is the opposite, people can scan you and drain you.
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The yoga of love is the yoga of acceptance. Love teaches us that which is most important is self-acceptance.
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In the world order, if the nagual dominates and not the tonal, then we'll live in times of fear and superstition.
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By the time the Egyptian civilization had begun to flourish, the earth's aura had already become so dense it was impossible to discover the secret meditation techniques.
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Learn how to focus - that creates a lot of power. Focus on a candle flame for 15 minutes or a pretty colored rock, or one point, or a chakra.
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