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Sex can never bring about enlightenment. Only enlightenment brings about enlightenment.

Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz
Age: 48 †
Born: 1950
Born: February 9
Died: 1998
Died: April 12
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Entrepreneur
San Diego
California
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Move beyond the limited parameters that most human beings have and realize that there are thousands and millions of worlds beyond this world.
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A child is imprinted not by simply teaching. But their attention is like soft clay. The attention field of adults is stratified. They are like hard clay and we push them on each side of the child's attention field.
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Most teachers of self-discovery have two types of students. They have students they deal with in a more exoteric way than the esoteric students. Esoteric truths are presented to usually a smaller group of students.
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The emptiness of play is when there is no self present. There is no one playing - there is only play itself taking place, perfect fluid motion.
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Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack of self-consciousness, that is innocence.
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I've never seen a society that thinks about sex so much and gets so little!
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There is no continuity at all. The universe isn't any particular way. It strictly depends upon perception.
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I have several Scottish Terriers. I find them to be the most wonderful dogs.
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Buddhism isn't about temples, and incense, and shaved heads, and robes. It's not about church. There are aspects of Buddhism that involve that. People enjoy that, it helps them, it strengthens their practice.
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Kundalini is seen as a serpent that can shoot up the shushumna, past the chakras, opening them all and bringing you into different states of awareness.
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How do you end a meditation session? It's nice to chant a mantra again. Maybe repeat it a few times. It seals the meditation. Do your best and then just give it to eternity.
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There is no way to measure it ... because there's no one to measure it.
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Humility means that you have the courage to accept that you are eternity itself.
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How do we find a way out? By realizing that there's no place to go, that there's no way out, that there's no way in. All that exists is the Self.
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Life is an endless experience of God's. God doesn't even exist in nirvana, yet God exists in all other realms.
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Don Juan, in the teacings of Carlos Castaneda, makes the same point. You have to fool people into seeking knowlege. People will not do it of their own volition.
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Love was where I learned to go beyond myself, through the arts, through relationships, through sexuality.
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As we go within the self, we discover that all the voices of our past lives are still there. As we peel ourselves, which is a process very much like peeling an onion, we discover that there are many selves within the self.
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When I sit with my students and meditate with them, I channel the kundalini directly into them. I bring them to plane after plane of consciousness. What they would do in 100 years of meditation, I can do in an hour with them.
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Phony gurus make themselves objects of adoration and worship. Real spiritual teachers aren't interested in adoration and worship. They like respect only because they realize respect will help the student.
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