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Life reorders you when you go into the clear light. Even the causal structure is liquefied. The clear light of reality, the dharmakaya, changes us into beings of light.

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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Beings
Clear
Reality
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Causal

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The Buddhist mind is more complicated than the Christian mind. It comes up with endless heavens, endless hells, endless earths, and then we have something lower than hell. We have endless sub-realms that make hell look like Club Med and we have endless nirvana.
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What is enlightenment, anyway? I don't know if I can really put it into words, perhaps you can. I can't.
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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.
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The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.
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It's very funny. People do not want to achieve liberation or be happy. This is the basic guideline they teach you in Spiritual Training School.
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The practice of meditation is an ancient practice. It's been practiced in many lands, for many lifetimes. You may have practiced it before.
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When we practice mindfulness, our nonphysical side merges with the nonphysical side of that which we are experiencing.
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If you focus on another person you take their energy in your body completely.
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Happiness does not come from external objects. It comes from peace of mind. You can be famous you can be a king, a queen, anything. It does not necessarily bring happiness or peace of mind. It comes about through following dharma.
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As an incarnation of love you put up with flack until it becomes detrimental to a person.
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Mindfulness means that as we go through the day we learn to gain control of our mind, our emotions. We learn to conserve energy in a variety of simple and complicated ways that we learned in Buddhist practice.
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You will gain energy by meditating deeply, by speaking the truth, by learning to be still and by avoiding the crowd, most of the time, not all of the time.
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If someone confronts you about draining them it could be a double reverse. They are draining you and accuse you instead of draining them, just to throw you off.
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Knowing about reincarnation helps us relax. It assists us with an understanding of death and dying. Death is not an end, quite the contrary.
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They say Casanova made love to over 10,000 women. Do you think it changed him? It probably aged him a little bit. But I doubt that it changed him. If it had changed him, he would have stopped somewhere along the line and done something a little different.
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The astral dimensions afford you opportunities to have experiences and gain insights into the structural nature of how dimensions are made up and phased together.
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Only the enlightened are consistently happy. Their happiness is not predicated upon the events and experiences that take place in this world. Instead it is based on the boundless inner energy they gain from their connection with the world of enlightenment.
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