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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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Nirvana has nothing do with any of this. None of this is there.
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We fall into states of illusion - we forget all this. We get caught up in desires, frustrations, political movements, philosophies, religions, the getting of a living, the pain of a body, the pleasure of a body.
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Two people can be work at the same job, side by side. One person is working just for a paycheck. Another is working to perfect their being. Some people think that the material world will make them happy.
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If you seek to develop the mind fully, for the enlightenment process, you will benefit if your career is related to computer science, law, medicine, or the arts.
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The planes of consciousness are correlated to what we call the chakras, which are located along the shushumna.
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The kundalini energy is often compared to a snake that is coiled up. Because it is coiled up it can spring very quickly. It can jump and extend itself very far.
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The only loser who walks away from a wise man is the one who walks away.
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Love is not reasonable. If we could assign it to the reasonable world, it would not be useful.
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To be psychic is to see without the senses and to keep the thoughts and emotions of others out of your awareness.
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We are intelligent atoms. We are intelligent organic structures. We can change who we are. We can heal ourselves. With genetic engineering, we are considering changing the physiological structure of the body.
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Zen has lost its zip, if you will, or its nothingness and has become ritualistic Its established in monastaries with strict codes of koan study.
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There is a beautiful flow to the study of Zen. If it is not making you happier, then you are not practicing correctly.
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In the dead world of the Western mind all that is seen are shades of gray. There's a cloud over every experience. There's no possibility of divine incarnation, divine intervention, let alone that one's self in every moment is divine.
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When you meditate you will be able to get in touch with that part of yourself which knows what it wants, as opposed to the levels and layers of conditioning in your mind.
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The universe is made up of an endless ocean of life itself. It is an endless ocean of itself. And for a time it binds itself together in particularized forms. Those forms have perception and they perceive themselves as being separate.
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If you ever want to study acting you should be around an enlightened person for a while, because all they do is play roles, since they no longer have a self.
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How do you know you're even here right now? Perhaps you're not. Perhaps you're far, far away and this is just a dream.
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Just as the subtle physical body holds together the physical body, the causal body holds together the body of awareness.
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Wisdom is knowing that if you bend, you don't have to break. Sometimes it is necessary to go with the flow of life.
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From age to age an enlightened person comes along, one who has made friends with God. They're usually forgotten or scorned.
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