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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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The people who imprinted us are not completely happy and they are not completely powerful. So naturally, we have to fight our whole life against that imprinting.
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There is a whole crazy world around you. You can't control it, so don't even try. Because the more you try to control your environment, the more it controls you.
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The causal structure determines the rate and method of evolution, your awareness of the universe.
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I have had several offers to make the book into a film. I don't know if the message could be accurately transmitted, and so I have been somewhat hesitant in granting film rights.
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Kirshna's message is eternal - fight!
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When you meditate deeply, you will see beyond life and death. You will see that you can't die and you can't be reborn. You are existence itself.
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When the world stops, time stops.
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You have to come to the world of enlightenment with open hands, not clinched fists, without an agenda.
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The idea of the walls of monastery was to keep everybody else out because you wanted to develop a certain type of life. Most people in the world had different ideas on the subject.
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To love is to be balanced, to extend one's self beyond the sense of self.
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The soldier is willing to give their life, perhaps for someone they never even met in their country. That's a very high love.
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We've developed a very complex filing system for existence. We see things in terms of good or bad. We feel happiness, joy, pain, loss, guilt and remorse.
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You are a fluid metaphor for existence. You are your own death and your own rebirth. Here is forever. It never changes. We bring perpetual oblivion until we change the world.
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The eye of God is inside us. It's looking through us and it sees whatever we look at. Sometimes I think we could give God better things to look at, don't you?
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If you can develop a connection, what we call an inner connection with the teacher, then it is not even necessary to be in the physical presence of the teacher, although it will always be stronger.
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It is called enlightenment, nirvana, God, truth, call it what you will. There is no activity other than the eternal activities of the universe, perfect being, the awareness of all suchness, knowledge.
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Some people harbor the idea or belief that all teachers should teach for free. Obviously these people have never been teachers, particularly in the twentieth century. Teaching meditation is a very expensive hobby.
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Power is what is required to change the universe - to change yourself into what you might like to be.
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In the white light of eternity, there is only eternity.
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Don Juan, in the teacings of Carlos Castaneda, makes the same point. You have to fool people into seeking knowlege. People will not do it of their own volition.
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