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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.

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
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Experience

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Start a meditation session by repeating a mantra, perhaps, Aum, which is the most powerful of all mantras. Then, after repeating the mantra perhaps a dozen times, focus on a yantra.
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You can enjoy the ideas of salvation, as long as you realize that there's no one to be saved.
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Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it's connected with self.
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If you are not happier every day, if you don't see a progression of development, then you are certainly not practicing yoga or Buddhism and therefore you cannot be amassing any positive karma.
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Review your description of the world, what it is to be a woman, and see how inadequate it is.
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Time is not a movement in space. Space is a movement in time.
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There is no way to measure it ... because there's no one to measure it.
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If you allow people, places and things, to pass through your mind during meditation, you will pull in all those other auras and you be much more confused and dissociated than you were prior to your meditation experience.
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Most souls are into power on the earth. Most souls here are developing their occult body.
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If we are in a high enough state of consciousness we see that life is only a passing dream.
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Salvakalpa samadhi is absorption in eternity to the point where there is no real concept of self but there's still a karmic chain. Nirvikalpa samadhi is absorption in nirvana concepts of self and no-self go away completely.
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The danger in mysticism is that you push yourself too far into the nagual too soon. This is obsession.
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Enlightenment is not a finite state. It's not something that you just do and it's done. It goes on forever.
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The state of mind that you are in causes you to act in a certain way. Your actions will bear results. The ultimate result of all karmas and actions is state of mind. You are your state of mind.
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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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As long as you continue to run away from the world, I will not be able to show you your luminosity.
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The dream is so thick the Maya is so thick. There's no magic as long as there's all this thought. So the first condition for the practice of higher magic is the stopping of thought.
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Learn not to be attached to other people, to certain types of experiences. Allow the flow of life to guide you wherever it is supposed to and accept with equanimity, with balance, with poise, whatever happens.
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You are not a singular self. You are a corporation. Inside you is eternity. A human being is not so simple.
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The ideas that we have about self are an aggregate within a state of mind, and they chain us to a state of mind.
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