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When you do something for someone else, it's for you. When you do something for yourself, it's for someone else.

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
California
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I am the happiest person I've ever met. This is what Buddhist Yoga and a healthy dose of reading the Declaration of the Independence, The Constitution and the Federalist Papers and anything else I could get my hands on has given me.
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Sometimes, as we practice jnana yoga, we feel that life has no meaning, no purpose. We feel that there is no reason to try, that life is empty. This is another illusion.
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You might as well be perfect. There is really not all that much else to do here that is exciting.
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We throw you as many as you want, in this profession, and the more you want the more we'll give you, until you're so confused that you'll just beg for us to stop. Stop what? You're the one who started it - you're doing it anyway.
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Stop worrying about tomorrow. Stop thinking about yesterday. Mindfulness is to be here now, in the moment. Focus on this moment.
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Most people don't care much about enlightenment and the truth. They'd rather watch the Home Shopping Network, and maybe that's another kind of truth.
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Without enlightenment, everything in life is harsh. Sooner or later you see everyone you love die, unless you die first, of course. This causes you to suffer.
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Happiness does not come from external objects. It comes from peace of mind. You can be famous you can be a king, a queen, anything. It does not necessarily bring happiness or peace of mind. It comes about through following dharma.
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Take a deep breath and exhale slowly. Mentally picture all tiredness, tension, and fatigue leaving you. Visualize that a wave of golden light is entering you at the top of your head and passing throughout your entire body.
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When you're around the aura of humanity in those cities, you can't feel anything.
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There is a way beyond this life and beyond death, the path of liberation. In order to be liberated, you have to enter into the world of advanced meditation.
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Pain and frustration vanish in the sunlight of your smile.
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Each of the ten thousand states of mind presents you with a different view of essence and experience.
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We feel crowded by other people we feel crowded by social rules we feel crowded by ourselves, mainly.
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Even the lucky ones, who do manage to become happy by attaining their goals, live each day in fear of losing whatever it is they may have gained.
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If you're powerful enough you can even determine whom you will meet and whom you will avoid long before you meet them.
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The study of Buddhism is essentially the study of modification, how we modify the state of mind we're in, how we modify the realm we're in.
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Tantric Buddhism is just a collection of things that work by doing them. And sometimes we add new things. We have electronic music we did not have it in Tibet.
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