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I think enlightenment is something that you decide to do after you have met someone who is enlightened. Something touches your heart, your being at a very deep level.

Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz
Age: 48 †
Born: 1950
Born: February 9
Died: 1998
Died: April 12
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It is very hard to perceive the future on a regular basis simply because the future changes.
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Put a smile on your face. Don't sit in the waiting room of life. Go do something, happily.
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I respect self-giving and I've tried to lead my life with that as the ideal. But real self-giving is when we take our being, that which is most precious to us, and we throw it into eternity with a total sense of offering.
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By perfecting the practices of zazen and mindfulness, by learning patience and love and by realizing the essential emptiness of all phenomena, you will discover nirvana.
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At the end of meditation period we always bow and we touch our head to the floor and say Buddha's name be praised.
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The key to all enlightenment is to have personal experiences in the world of light. All you need to do that is to meditate.
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In deep meditation, all of the things that we call life, all of the combinations of experiences, fall away.
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Buddhism is the process of getting to that part of us that is always eternally happy.
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To meditate with full effort, produces infinity, freedom.
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Woman knowing this was not right but not knowing what else to do, developed the only means to fight for their survival that they had, since their survival was dependent upon men, and that was to use sexuality to survive.
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The key to meditation is focusing on specific symbols. The symbols are the chakras.
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We have to constantly ask ourselves: Who am I?
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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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I go to the movies. I absolutely love film.
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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.
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