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Following dharma puts you in a proper field of attention. In a proper field of attention, regardless of what your outer circumstances are, happiness will flow.
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
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If you are going to focus on a teacher, you have to be focused on the teacher and not peripheral vibrations that might be around them or it will totally screw up your meditation.
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Buddhism is simply a methodology, a way of becoming one with the part of ourselves that is happy.
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You will gain energy by meditating deeply, by speaking the truth, by learning to be still and by avoiding the crowd, most of the time, not all of the time.
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Old Zen was very funny there was a great deal of humor and happiness. Zen today seems much drier. While there's a certain amount of humor, it seems to lack that total intensity because humor is one of the primary tools for liberation.
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When you're humble it's like wearing a beautiful flower. It inspires others. It generates energy and power.
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There is a popular conception about karma, and that is that as you sow, so shall you reap. That's only true if you're a farmer.
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The ecstasy and completion of absorption in God is so fantastic that you can't possibly have lost anything because all the things you've always loved and always experienced came forth from there and exist there and are always there.
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Bow and offer your meditation to Eternity, as you would offer a Flower to your lover.
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I don't believe in anything, yet I believe emphatically in almost everything. It all depends on what seems appropriate at the time.
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Perception not only defines existence but it creates existence. It gives it form. Without perception there is no existence.
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Stop trying to be different. Just do what you are good at, and work really hard. You have to work hard to be chaos.
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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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You can be alone too in the city streets, among the crowds. We are all alone.
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Some types of nothing are more fun than other types of nothing.
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It's necessary to respect all other ways and other teachings on the subject because even though they may not make a lot of sense to us, they might to someone else. Who are we to say?
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We live inside too much. We live inside and we have square thoughts and square ideas because we live in square houses. Our lives are colored by our environments. Our attention fields are colored by it.
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People can insert thoughts into your mind. This is more dangerous for psychic people. Use concentration exercises and read to combat this boredom is an easy way to be drained.
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Who needs to go the horror movies? Just go outside or turn on the TV. Buddha called it the nightmare of the day. Welcome to incarnate experience.
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Everything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. It's an illusion. It's a hallucination.
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It is very important to always hold the thought of an enlightened teacher in your mind in a very positive way. When you direct negative energy towards someone who is powerful, it has a terrible bounce-back effect.
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