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I encourage you to make money and to become enlightened. The two are not necessarily different. Have fun with whatever you do because we are only here for a while.

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
Make
Careers
Fun
Whatever
Success
Money
Encourage
Two
Enlightened
Become
Buddhism
Different
Necessarily

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Nirvana is a step beyond. You dissolve into the universe. The universe dissolves into you until there is no longer a difference. There is no sense of individual self as perceiver.
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Advanced Teachers always forgive. It is inevitable that anyone who seek knowledge and power will make many mistakes.
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The relationship between the student and teacher is ultimately important. In higher spirituality we don't study a subject as much as a person.
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What is there? No one can say -because there is no one there to say.
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Start to give more thought to the world around you. Stop exposing yourself to situations that drain your energy. You will discover through a trial and error process that you will have more energy.
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The person who did all of these things has gone away, vanished without a trace in the ecstasy of existence.
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Personal power is a feeling that everybody is looking for called satisfaction. It is different from enlightenment, but you need personal power to become enlightened. Personal power is not the end of the process.
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If you follow anything far enough in the universe, it will eventually lead to light.
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Focus on this moment. Hold your hand and see what it feels like. Go look at some grass. Talk to a palm tree. Outrun a Ferrari. Experience life.
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There's no risk in doing a lousy meditation or not meditating at all. There's no risk in being convenient and comfortable. There's a lot of risk in the world of enlightenment.
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The greatest miracle is the miracle of wakefulness, to awaken from the dream of life and to see infinity everywhere, even in the finite, in the simple doings of life.
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When you meditate properly you are able to take your mind and merge it with the cosmos. Essentially, this causes your IQ to increase.
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This kind of love doesn't work very well, it destorys the nature of love.
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Become conscious of what you think during the day. A negative thought will enter you. At first it will be vague, innocuous, but then it will root in your consciousness and soon it will be impossible to eradicate.
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Humility is the conscious awareness and acceptance of eternity as your body.
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Without enlightenment, everything in life is harsh. Sooner or later you see everyone you love die, unless you die first, of course. This causes you to suffer.
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Nirvana's not like anything you've ever known or experienced because it can't be known or experienced.
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