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Your soul wants experience. It wants the world. You're a human - and your eternal. The two are the same.

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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Soul
Human
Humans
World
Eternal
Wants
Philosophy
Experience

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I think to be in a monastery or an ashram is not always the answer because we don't fight, we kick back. We don't listen to Sri Krishna.
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It is my experience that people who don't participate in society, who don't have jobs, who don't have friends, are just very stuck in irresponsibility and cultism and all kinds of nonsense.
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You can't die. Bodies come and go but your spirit is eternal. You're the stuff that life is.
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Get in touch with nature. The stillness of nature is profound and yet subtle.
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Krishna says meditate and you'll see the various ephemeral worlds, the various ephemeral beings, all of them going through the same thing some are rich, some are poor, some are more knowledgeable, some are less knowledgeable - in countless myriad universes, forever.
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The ashram is where everyone lives in the same building or on the same grounds. You feel that it's selfish for you to devote your life to one person. You don't just love the one, you love the many also.
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I love people who make mistakes. That's why I'm in the teaching business. I love people who make mistakes because I enjoy watching them learn and helping them, assisting them. I find it a beautiful process.
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The essence of Buddhism is simply that the mind is forever. We are always experiencing different states of mind in one form or another, in one body or another, in one life or another, forever.
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In meditation, when your mind becomes perfectly still and calm, you will experience the golden light of eternity.
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The Zen master can see precisely what it will take to cause your awareness to become free. But the Zen master can't do it for you.
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It is not bad living in a monastery. I've done it many times in many lives. But I think you can do a better job outside the monastery, if you have the necessary component parts.
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