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Meditate well so you can be a good instrument of eternity. You could have a mediocre meditation today, but you're not going to. Today you might run into someone who you might talk to about the dharma.

Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz
Age: 48 †
Born: 1950
Born: February 9
Died: 1998
Died: April 12
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A strong onslaught of the nagual would upset your balance completely.
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The first sexual experience is a significant imprinting of attention.
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You need your reason to pass through the world and also to experience the nagual, because if you become all nagual, we'll lock you away in an institution.
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Those who practice deserve your respect. If you respect them, you respect yourself. It's easy to be critical, but it does no good. What's important is to be supportive of all who practice.
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There is a definite way to do this. There is a training program that you will go through and it's delightful. It's absolutely beautiful.
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I recommend computer science to people who practice meditation. The mental structures that are used in computer science are very similar exercises done in Buddhist monasteries.
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You could go outside today and have a glum face, or you could put a smile on your face and go out into the world, even though you don't feel like it - that's selfless giving!
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What is perfection anyway in the physical? It is an idea we have. When it doesn't happen we get all bent out of shape and frustrated and angry and then unhappy, we take it out on everybody.
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After enlightenment your body changes tremendously its very molecular structure changes just because the kundalini is always streaming through you.
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Tragedy brings us closer to ourselves - it's the only thing that does.
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When you combine a media - bent on exploiting tabloid-type stories to boost ratings and circulation by innuendo and titillation - with unhappy or opportunistic individuals who have nothing going for them in their own lives, you get a bitter brew.
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Women are the sexual slaves of men. They have been convinced that they are the weaker sex through a variety of manipulative devices in the Judeo-Christian tradition.
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Zen was a reaction. Just as Buddha came into the world and spoke against the fall of Vedanta, so Buddhism lost its essence and became ritual. Zen was a reaction to that.
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Tantric Zen leads to illumination and fun right here and now, which is why I like it.
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Tantric Zen is not being kinky nor is it being conservative and austere. It is eclectic. It is a real mixture of all things.
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Zen has lost its zip, if you will, or its nothingness and has become ritualistic Its established in monastaries with strict codes of koan study.
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Women do not help each other attain enlightenment because in the description of the world they've been given, unlike that of men, it's every woman for herself in order to survive.
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The problem is that the dictator of the tonal wants to eliminate the mystery of life.
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