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Zen is discipline - the discipline of living life, the discipline of taking a breath, the discipline of not knowing and not trying to know.

Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz
Age: 48 †
Born: 1950
Born: February 9
Died: 1998
Died: April 12
Author
Entrepreneur
San Diego
California
Discipline
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Knowing
Living
Trying
Life
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Love is the bridge that joins all the worlds together.
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Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness.
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What is evil? There is no such thing. In Buddhism we don't recognize evil and therefore we don't give it any power over us.
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Meditation simply means entering into states of mind which are happiness, profound happiness, simple happiness, beautiful happiness, complicated, uncomplicated - There are ten thousand states of mind.
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Just remembering what you did in previous lives doesn't mean a thing. It's nice to remember that you had higher states of mind, but that won't necessarily get you there. It might even make things painful.
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Many of the people I work with I've worked with in other lifetimes. I moved to California because I knew that many of my students from past lives were in California.
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