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Freedom is within oneself. But to get beyond the thoughts and desires requires power.

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
Oneself
Thoughts
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Within
Freedom
Desire
Mysticism
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When we are very young children we know how to feel. It's innate. But as we lead a lifetime, we pick up so many thoughts, impressions, feelings, and ideas, that our sensitivity goes away.
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To have to liberate everybody doesn't sound very free to me. You're gong to go liberate people who maybe don't want to be liberated.
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A great deal of humility is necessary in the process of self-discovery. Humility is the ability to accept what and who you are at this moment.
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Happiness does not come from external objects. It comes from peace of mind. You can be famous you can be a king, a queen, anything. It does not necessarily bring happiness or peace of mind. It comes about through following dharma.
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When you meditate you feel joy, harmony, peace, stillness, ecstasy, laughter, certainty, courage, strength, awareness and immortality. In the beginning you will feel these things vaguely, a distant knocking at your castle door.
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I liked my teacher very much and after some years of mediation, I began to teach meditation, referring all things that I didn't know to my own teacher.
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People who are humble don't talk too much they listen.
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Ultimately, thinking is a very inefficient method of processing data.
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Enlightened teachers get all sorts of assignments. Sometimes we end up in the higher astral sometimes we end up in the realm of pure spirit sometimes we end up in the desire realms. Sometimes we go down to the lower astral to teach, you don't really teach there, you just sort of are, because everybody is confused.
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You can just stay in oblivion, going through your days and your life and your experiences, staying with your friends, family. If that suits you, it's good. But for some people, it's not enough.
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All action is generated by desire. It is the desire to live that causes us to reincarnate.
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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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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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We must control the tendencies within our being that are destructive, when we want to slam somebody else, hurt them, injure them, or push them out of the way. A reverence for life needs to be developed, in which all things are sacred.
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As an enlightened teacher of Buddhism, I'd like to welcome you to the pathway to enlightenment. I'd like to encourage you to be more positive, to engage in the practice meditation, to learn how to do this wonderful thing - make your mind still in a crazy world.
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The key to gazing is stopping thought. Gazing is a soft focus you are touching something with your luminosity. If you could but look into the mountains you would see a diffuse glow.
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You can talk to one person for five minutes and be sick afterwards. You can be totally physically drained because their aura is so low. You can talk to someone else for an hour and just feel fine.
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Get your emotions under control and your life under control. Work really hard and don't make a big deal out of yourself. Have humility. Believe in yourself. Don't get a fanatical fixation on a teacher.
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Two people can be work at the same job, side by side. One person is working just for a paycheck. Another is working to perfect their being. Some people think that the material world will make them happy.
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Love is, in its essence, a free, formless strand of luminosity.
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