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How do you know you were in samadhi? You know when your awareness returns to the plane of self and ideation that you have been beyond it.

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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Self
Ideation
Samadhi
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Women must work doubly hard to overcome their conditioning in order to become enlightened. They must erase both conscious and unconscious ideas of sexual inferority that have been programmed into their awareness.
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Each day try and go through the day with an attitude of being a servant to the world. You'll benefit the most - and the way will be joyous.
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It is possible to contact higher beings who are not in the body. But the being you really want to contact is you.
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If you know that you have had countless lives, then what happens in this life is not quite as traumatic.
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We sit in meditation and cry to God, we cry to the light, as little children, knowing God will do everything for us.
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I don't know how much you know about Zen, but you'll know less when I'm done with you.
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Old Zen was very funny there was a great deal of humor and happiness. Zen today seems much drier. While there's a certain amount of humor, it seems to lack that total intensity because humor is one of the primary tools for liberation.
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Deluded beings think that if they get in a battle with a Zen Master or with a Don Juan, that it's going enhance their life if they win. You can never take power from someone else any more than you can take sunlight.
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