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Dharma simply means the right thing in the right place, in the right space.

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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Thing
Dharma
Buddhism
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To meditate with full effort, produces infinity, freedom.
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I must play my role, great or small - that is humility, without self-importance, without self-indulgence.
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Human beings go to church. The guy in the front dressed in black is the guy you defer to. He is in charge of the mysteries of universe, which ordinary human beings don't seem to have the inclination to understand.
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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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