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I'm only here for a while, so I'd like to do what I can.

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Frederick Lenz
Age: 48 †
Born: 1950
Born: February 9
Died: 1998
Died: April 12
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San Diego
California
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Reciprocity, a symbiotic relationship, is a relationship in which two people have worked out certain terms. I am using you in certain ways you are using me in certain ways. That is a balanced relationship.
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All beings exist ultimately in a condition of inner enlightenment. Enlightenment is in all things.
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Meditation is not for everybody. When you meditate you become conscious. Most people don't want to be too conscious because they are afraid of awareness, of death, and of being happy.
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Most people lead lives of frustration and disapointment. They enjoy temporary pleasures and long-lasting suffering.
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See how it's a philosophy that's been handed to you by a bunch of men who were afraid. So instead, they overcompensate with hatred and violence and repression.
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Don't just sit there. Go do something and don't expect that it's going to be fun unless you make it fun. You have got to work on things. That is when you are happy.
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In my adolescence, love, as I think for most of us, was a tremendous focus. I wanted to find the perfect partner. I did and married her.
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With Zen we do it more through slight of hand, a very subtle and delicate shift in consciousness, which shifts the world. It's kind of done from the inside out.
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In Tantric Zen you can be humorous and make fun of anything or you can be very serious.
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In the West people are basically oblivious to power, solstices, enlightenment and everything that matters.
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Your life is pure joy, pure ecstasy, when you live in humility.
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The gopis seek Krishna, another part of themselves that create ecstasy. The man seeks the woman, the woman seeks the man. The Tantric Buddhist seeks annihilation of the ego.
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In the study of consciousness you cannot explain anything verbally. You can only allude to, point in a general direction of.
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Christ didn't have to. Buddha didn't have to. They came back to teach. They came back to die, to suffer, when it was no longer necessary for them to do so.
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At the end of the dream, on the other side of the rainbow, there's only light.
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In the case of the brujos, the sorcerers in Mexico, the Spanish Conquest forced them to develop their second attention.
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The essential premise of Buddhism is that there is enlightenment, there is nirvana. Beyond this world, beyond all worlds, there's something radiant, perfect and eternal.
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Be enlightened for you, just for you. No one else knows or cares. They crucified Christ, you know. They don't take real well, on this planet, to the people who see things differently.
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The best thing that you can do to deal with these high speed times is to slow down, inwardly, to take a little more time for meditation, a little more time to enjoy your morning cup of coffee or tea, and to look around at the people in your life with a little more love.
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Whenever we just try to please ourselves, all we do is cover up another window in the little house we're stuck in.
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