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Enlightenment is a journey. It is a journey that is made alone. It is a journey that is made with a teacher.

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
Enlightenment
Journey
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Alone
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Eventually you're supposed to get so confounded by this whole thing that you just give up completely, and that's when it starts to work. Not give up the practice, but give up trying to figure it out.
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When we erase perception, then we erase that which perceives perception. The universe dissolves and we see that it was never real to begin with.
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Learn how to focus - that creates a lot of power. Focus on a candle flame for 15 minutes or a pretty colored rock, or one point, or a chakra.
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From a Buddhist perspective, it is incorrect to always assume that we know what is best.
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They've got lots of theories, books, sciences - I've read a lot of those books. Most of them are pretty unhappy.
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To meditate what you need to do is free yourself from your ideas and your thoughts. All of the higher dimensional planes, the higher realities, the infinite cosmos itself is beyond thought.
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The people who imprinted us are not completely happy and they are not completely powerful. So naturally, we have to fight our whole life against that imprinting.
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You identify with your self. You have a personal history. You have commitments. There are things that you want to experience and other things that you want to avoid.
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As you become more aware of your own imperfections, you simultaneously become more aware of the overall perfection of the universe.
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It's necessary when you follow the path of love to love those around you first. Desire tells us that we should have someone else in our life.
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People want to will their self realization. They want to know what the right thing to do all the time is. There is no right thing. There's no code. There are certain basic recommendations.
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There is no self. There is nobody home. No forwarding address, no zip code. Address unknown.
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I personally don't subscribe to any particular cosmology or beleif system. I'm a seer.
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Use your mind to discriminate. Choose to advance yourself, to bring more purity into your being.
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Meditation is coming back to your original self, if we can use self without a sense of self. It's perfect, clear light, radiant, infinite mind of the universe, as it is, without identifying with qualities
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The reason why we're not happy is because we believe consciously and subconsciously that we're separate from god, eternal awareness.
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Buddhism suggests that you have that choice you are in the driver's seat. Hertz or somebody has put you there. You have an absolute choice about what you experience in your mind.
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There is a sense of competition in Zen. You are competing with your thoughts and trying to overcome them.
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Mindfulness means that as we go through the day we learn to gain control of our mind, our emotions. We learn to conserve energy in a variety of simple and complicated ways that we learned in Buddhist practice.
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When we dream, we create. All of life is a dream or a series of waking dreams. We dream our surroundings. We dream our friends, our relations. We dream our bodies. We dream our dreams.
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