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By perfecting the practices of zazen and mindfulness, by learning patience and love and by realizing the essential emptiness of all phenomena, you will discover nirvana.

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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Patience
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Meditation is the way the mind is. That's why in Zen they call it the natural state, which means you don't have to go and do anything to meditate.
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Nature is our friend - trees, squirrels, grass, fields, meadows, oceans - without people. Hike. Walk. Stroll. Bike. Swim. Be in a still place and feel eternity. Have a great time. Just feel it.
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When you can successfully stop thought for longer periods of time, you do move into other worlds. This can also happen in the very beginning, if a person meditates with someone who is very advanced.
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Try to read books about meditation, but not so many different viewpoints that they get confusing. There is no best way. It's just what works for you at the time.
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In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat it all revolves around the ego. This has nothing to do with the Zen of sports and athletics.
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Most people are operating out of repetition. If you come to work or school each day with the same mind-state, you probably can't get more out of it than you did yesterday.
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My teaching - of what is perceived to be a complex and foreign sounding religious philosophy - has become the target for people's prejudice and religious intolerance.
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The challenge of power is how to use it and not abuse it. When you abuse it, it reverses on you and it hurts you.
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The description you have been given of the world is an aberrant one. It does not accept and give proper place to the nagual, to the mysterious unknown that is our heritage.
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When you wish to subjugate a people, you have to convince them of their own inherent weakness.
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The ego seeks fame and fortune. Humility doesn't seek at all - it accepts.
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You become a monk and you practice and the teacher tells you what to do. If you find that you have a resistance to that, and the resistance is strong, it just means you're not interested. Why put yourself through some sort of torture. It means you weren't that interested.
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The high priests and priestesses taught the children the secret meditation techniques, along with methods and ways of living that would increase their pranic levels and help them develop their psychic skills.
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Spiritual balance is how you deal with opposition, outside of yourself and within.
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Yoga means we go a step further back. In yoga we go to the cause. The cause of pain is not the world. The cause of pain is us.
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A reverence for life needs to be developed, in which all things are sacred.
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Have the right attitude in advanced practice. Feel that you are always a beginner in Zen. They refer to it as beginners mind. I feel I am a beginner, always because it's true.
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Meditation is the art of life. Meditation is not simply a practice. It is an experience, awareness, and a way of perceiving life.
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Universities are very clarifying places of power, because everyone is focused on trying to figure out exactly what to do with their lives.
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Through the practice of meditation and Buddhism, as you experience light, it immediately delights you.
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