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I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get to watch this amazing thing happen.

Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz
Age: 48 †
Born: 1950
Born: February 9
Died: 1998
Died: April 12
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San Diego
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We play in the jungle gym of sexuality until our spirit takes us out into a clear field where we can see the stars, the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment. One of those radiances is the dance of sexuality.
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One day you will arrive at a station on the train of existence that you've always known has been there. You'll find there will be no train in sight, with no sense of arrival. There is only a perpetual arrival, a timeless condition of infinite awareness.
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A person who doesn't dress well, who doesn't spend time and attention with their physical being, has a very loose being.
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You don't have to do anything to meditate. That's what makes it so difficult. Everybody wants to do something.
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Many practitioners think there is some giant balance scale, where someone is keeping track, like Santa Claus, and that will determine your allotment of presents. That's a very exoteric understanding of reincarnation.
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Once you are enlightened, you can do whatever you want without fear or sorrow. You can go snowboarding, get married, stay single, be rich and famous, or live unknown in a high Himalayan cave. It is up to you.
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Real happiness is something most people never know. What we experience in deep meditation, that ecstasy is beyond what human beings call happiness
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Reincarnation is the dissolution of the self. It's like going swimming in the ocean, no one ever comes out, because one has become the ocean.
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During the age of Atlantis, the low population density and the resulting purity of the earth's aura, made conditions ideal for discovering secret meditation techniques.
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We want to see the universe in its absolute, pure, naked, perfection. We want to know its wonder. We want to know the totality of ourselves. That's done in steps and degrees and not in one day.
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Everybody out there is just doing things for themesleves. So if you don't do that you've got to be crazy ... crazy about selfless giving!
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The Eightfold Path is ordering the island of the tonal completely.
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Humility is the time that you spend in love with existence.
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Zen is the path that focuses the most upon meditation. It is almost exclusively a path of meditation.
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This lifetime right now you have a specific destiny. You are destined to die at a certain time, to make a certain amount of money, to have certain associations and friendships.
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They can't stop you if, in your heart, you seek enlightenment, empowerment, balance and knowledge.
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Dharma is the Truth that all of existence is. It does not disagree with anything. It is the perception of existence in its purest formlessness.
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Tantric Zen is the awareness of the infinitude of all things. To gain that awareness, to be it, is enlightenment.
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You see, that's the fun of Buddhism. We do have a wild card in the deck that can't be explained, that changes value continuously, and that's enlightenment.
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I think one can advance faster outside a monastery if you use the experiences of daily life to advance yourself.
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