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If your nature is infinite awareness trapped in a body, suddenly there's a lack of happiness, a lack of freedom. No matter what you get you'll never be happy, because these are all trinkets.

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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The tantras are ancient sacred books of India and Tibet. The tantras detail specific means for attaining liberation.
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As a dialectical teacher, I have had many lives where I have taught Zen and Tibetan Buddhism and mysticism. I teach in many different modalites. But the theme that unites them - is love.
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Advanced yoga is not withdrawal from the world. That's a preliminary state.
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Sex can never bring about enlightenment. Only enlightenment brings about enlightenment.
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The art of spirituality is learning to be happy in any condition and in any circumstance. This is the art of love.
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When you could get angry with someone and separate yourself from them, don't do that. If you have people who are difficult to deal with, be neither attracted nor repulsed. Go a step higher.
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We are made up of nothing. There is no self. We are whatever we decide we are.
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The description of the world that most people have is very limited. They are in the fog. Once in a while a genuine insight comes through.
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