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An enlightened teacher teaches you how to gain power. They give you power. They teach you how to shape it so that it becomes an instrument of beauty and not an instrument of unhappiness.

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
California
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When your life becomes clear and pure, when your mind is clear and your view of life is unobstructed, then you'll be at peace with yourself. Then you will be happy.
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Many of the people I work with I've worked with in other lifetimes. I moved to California because I knew that many of my students from past lives were in California.
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People who are advanced meditators don't worry about liberation and self-realization they instead are interested in the welfare of others and aiding others in their liberation.
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If you have power, you might be able to heal a person. You could actually get inside their cell structures and create a change.
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Bodies come and go, ages come and go, yugas come and go, eternities come and go. Selves come and go.
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A person who undertakes the study of Zen and learns concentration and meditation is like a gymnast. You become a gymnast of the mind.
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You are complete. Completion has taken place in you eons ago. Accept yourself. Enjoy yourself. This time will never be again, so fulfill the moment with your own self-joy.
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Have the courage to be selfless in a world were such qualities are not admired. Dare to be differnt. Be crazy!
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Psychic perception is a much more efficient and accurate method of seeing and knowing reality.
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Once you have personally experienced enlightenment, you will see beyond the ocean of death to the everlasting shores of immortality.
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There wasn't a single day in which the world was created. It's created anew at every moment. The structures of eternity are completely fluid but they are bound together by the mind forming a nexus point so reality comes into being.
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Why don't more women attain enlightenment?
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Samadhi is not going to take away your humanity. It will give it to you. You will become more cosmopolitan, more conscious, and more infinite.
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At the end of meditation period we always bow and we touch our head to the floor and say Buddha's name be praised.
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Perpetual wakefulness doesn't mean you have all physical knowledge, that you can speak all languages, that you can fix cars...that is a storybook, Hollywood version of the enlightenment experience.
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