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The person next to me meditates better than I do. They're purer. - This is the ego feeling sorry for itself.

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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If, at the office or in different exchanges in daily living, you have to spend time with people who are at lower power levels, then you have to be aware of that and keep your awareness very much within.
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People who are advanced meditators don't worry about liberation and self-realization they instead are interested in the welfare of others and aiding others in their liberation.
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When you meditate, you take charge of your life. You bring your conscious awareness to a new high point, where the vista is beyond any horizon.
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You may feel a sensation of floating. You may see colors, maybe no phenomena, it doesn't matter. You are absorbing power.
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Selfless giving reminds us that there is an eternally present spirit in all of us, that when revealed, liberates us from both the transitory and the eternal - both of which ultimatly can be attachments.
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Have a healthy respect and love for yourself, but don't be taken out by your ego.
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Its funny how human beings tend to think that they're the masters of the earth never realizing that the earth, for a time, simply tolerates its tenants and then, when the mood strikes, it shifts its continents around.
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Our actions and experiences will direct us. In other words, we will be guided by the inherent emptiness of the things we choose to interact with.
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The imbalance I speak of in the world, which we see manifested in wars, violence, poverty and other depressed social conditions stems from a lack of knowledge.
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As a student of enlightenment your attitude should not be to become enlightened. It should be to learn.
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In dream yoga we use the etheric double and go beyond the confines of the physical, it's very ecstatic.
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Begin to see that life is very, very complex. It is made up of thousands of dimensions of wonder.
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The later stages of the enlightenment process are trickier, and it is really essential to have a teacher then. You need correction, direction, and most of all you need a master's auric empowerment.
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Salvakalpa samadhi is a tremendous acceptance and liberation, but it is not complete absorption in nirvana, in that consciousness.
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The path of Zen is not easy. It's wonderful. It's beautiful beyond compare. You will experience more ecstasy and beauty than most people will in a thousand lifetimes.
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In my very early childhood, when I was only 3 or 4 or 5, I would enter for many hours into meditative states in which the world would become light and energy and I would transcend the boundaries of the senses.
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Not everyone is your friend. When you are psychic you tend to forget that others don't view life the way you do.
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There is an art, a science to gaining power. There is a natural force or inclination in all of our beings to accumulate power. The problem that we come into is conditioning.
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Life for most people is a bad dream. They live in pain, grabbing at what they can for pleasure. As they grow old, they despair. Things don't work out the way you planned.
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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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