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The world is the way the world is because we think that it is so.

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
Buddhism
Science
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Think
Thinking
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If all the members of a team have synchronized their energy and they have all subordinated their egos to success of the team, then we have a functioning unit. If we have a lot of hotshots who want attention, you won't really play that well.
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Most people are completely oblivious to eternity. They look at the sky at night and they think that's eternity it is just the senses having contact in the sense world. There are other dimensions.
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Clothing has a great deal to do with the attitudes and energy that others direct towards you. I favor the chic, and tend to avoid the trendy. I think that it's good to be chic when possible because it is more inaccessible.
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Thousands and thousands of incarnations and nothing to show for it. You must choose whether to follow the path of love or the path of attachment.
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The Grand Canyon is living evidence of the power of water over a period of time. The power may not manifest immediately. Water can be very powerful, like a tidal wave.
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For most people this is not a conscious process, it's an inner pull that takes place, that simply draws them there.
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The possibilities for immortality are endless. Here you sit reading these words, a butterfly resting on a flower!
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Approach each task in your life, no matter how simple or how complex, with power.
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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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You get a very different type of education if you go out to the desert, to the places of power, places where it is easy to cross over from one dimensional plane to another, where power hovers, so to speak.
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The eternal part of our being is perfect, free, always changing, always new, and completely conscious of all things.
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Lack of judgement doesn't mean that you don't see what is or is not. It simply means that you realize that everyone is constantly changing - everyone is made up of conscioussness.
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Don't try to be someone. Be yourself. This is what mediation should teach you.
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After this happens again and again, we reach a point were there is nothing but satori, which is what nirvikalpa samadhi is like.
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A teacher will have an initial contact at some point with someone. It happens inwardly first. Before you ever meet an advanced teacher, they have somehow traveled inwardly along the astral planes.
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Buddhism is all about secrets.
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Enlightened teachers are not logical. They don't function from levels that are understandable to the human mind. They're not religious. Religions form around them, usually after they've died.
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The immortal silence is there always waiting for you and that spirit is deathless and courageous. Remember, many have trod the path that you are walking on and they succeeded. They were no better than you, no wiser.
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You're a part of me. I'm a part of you and we are all a part of this great nothingness.
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In both Surfing the Himalayas and Snowboarding to Nirvana, I have tried to transmit as best I could the spirit of humor, and the sense of humor of the monks I have encountered.
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