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I think it is very important to view life in terms of winning and losing until complete enlightenment has occurred.

Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz
Age: 48 †
Born: 1950
Born: February 9
Died: 1998
Died: April 12
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If you think of thoughts of success and back them up with hard work, then you will be a winner. If you cherish doubts, negative thoughts, then you won't be a winner at all.
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If the kundalini is flowing through you at a very rapid rate, if you are not in harmony with the dharma, then you will have great problems with the study.
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The only way you can really evaluate spiritual advancement is to see how someone treats those who are close to them.
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The gopis seek Krishna, another part of themselves that create ecstasy. The man seeks the woman, the woman seeks the man. The Tantric Buddhist seeks annihilation of the ego.
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We erase ourselves we go away. But we don't really go away, and we don't really erase ourselves, since we were never there to begin with. We weren't there to begin with in that what we are, or conceive of ourselves as, is a perception.
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It is impossible to move on to new states of mind unless you seek the forgiveness of those you've offended.
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In Tantric Zen, career, relationships, the type of insurance you have - all things are part of your evolution, your awareness, your experience of the suchness of existence.
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Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons.
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In self-giving you must be so careful of egotism. You must be so careful when you are aiding others in their liberation not to have a sense of self.
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Until you've reached that point where you've perfected your lower nature and cleansed your emotional being, jnana yoga will have to wait.
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Examine your experience of the incarnation so far and realistically add up the moments of happiness and unhappiness and you tell me, oh somewhat vaguely nobly born, you tell me, what has it been like for you?
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Nothing is as it seems - This is an illusion.
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If you are doing that which is within you, what that part of you that is beyond body would like you to do, then you would not experience stress because you would be very fulfilled.
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Discrimination means keeping the negative and unhappy thoughts away and allowing the pretty thoughts to come inside you.
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There's no right or wrong in the study of enlightenment. There's only experience.
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It is implicit in the self that the self will automatically evolve if you can dissolve it. It re-patterns itself after archetypal formations that exist deep within the mind.
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The way advanced meditation is taught, the way I teach it, the way all enlightened people teach it, is through transference. We transfer light and power to someone else.
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I think enlightenment is something that you decide to do after you have met someone who is enlightened. Something touches your heart, your being at a very deep level.
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A good warrior, a seventh or eighth degree black-belt, will tell you there is no victory. It doesn't make you more powerful to win. It's just what you do. It's an expression of your personal power level.
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Celibacy doesn't make you enlightened, otherwise every nun or priest in Buddhism or Christianity would be enlightened. People who don't date and can't get any action would be enlightened.
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