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The more moral you pretend to be, the less moral you are the less moral you try to be, the more moral you are.

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
Buddhist
Buddhism
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Trying
Etiquette
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The life of meditation and religious study is absolutely no guarantee of peak moments. Most people involved in religious study and meditation are downright bored, and they're as stuck in what they do as everyone else is.
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I observe many people who say they are meditating, but I sure don't see them meditating. They sit and touch a lot of people, places and things psychically, but they sure don't meditate.
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How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places.
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Nirvana is the other side, the source of all things, where all the aggregates come from, where the templates of infinity are.
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Ultimately, thinking is a very inefficient method of processing data.
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Woman knowing this was not right but not knowing what else to do, developed the only means to fight for their survival that they had, since their survival was dependent upon men, and that was to use sexuality to survive.
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In the world of power, people will come looking for you. If you're a movie star, you know what I am saying. People will come around you, little groupie types. They think that being around you they can get something.
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I studied with a number of different teachers. But really, I've never studied with teachers. To be honest, the only thing that's ever interested me in life is eternity. Nothing else makes any sense to me.
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To be enlightened means that you really don't change, and yet you're nothing but change.
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