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Whatever you want you can get, when you understand the secret of will. But wisdom is needed so that you do not use your will abusively because you'll get hurt.

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
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Whatever
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Buddhism
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The trick to keeping your meditation practice alive, not simply consistent but wonderful, is you need to bring a certain will or force into every meditation.
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It seems to me that there's a terrible misunderstanding between us. It seems to me that I love you a great deal, my friends.
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What's important is to be supportive of all who practice. Anyone on any level, even if they don't call it self-discovery, who is seeking to awaken to their own potentials and possibilities, to the inner freedom, deserves your respect and support.
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It is equally easy, initially, for either a man or a woman to attain enlightenment, what we would call liberation or self-realization.
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Nirvana has nothing do with any of this. None of this is there.
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Don't try to hold people to you, don't try to push them away. Let life do everything for you. This is the proper attitude on the path of love.
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Each of the small enlightenments that a Zen practitioner has, which are known in Zen as Satori experiences, provides deeper insights into the nature of existence and helps a person prepare for complete enlightenment.
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The key to all enlightenment is to have personal experiences in the world of light. All you need to do that is to meditate.
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The role of the teacher is to make sure that the practice is pure. By guiding the student, you make sure that they are really going into the planes of light and not fooling themselves.
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Meditation is the journey to happiness.
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Nothing is or is not unless you happen to think it so. That's what Shakespeare said, and he knew.
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Each time you meditate, you create a stronger connection with the world of inner light and happiness that exists within you.
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If you are unhappy - be that way in your bedroom - but whenever you come out into the world, in real selfless giving we push all of that aside and we smile, love and give to others.
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Everything that you see here, in other words, is a reflection of a higher reality.
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Emotions are there to enjoy life but they are not used in self-reflection because they inhibit a proper reflection. They gunk us up.
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If you can be agreeable to each and every person or situation with which you come into contact - no matter how difficult it is or how much you think you are in the right - then you are demonstrating control.
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We're at the end of the cycle. You've all known it since childhood. In the Hindu division of the ages, this is the Kali Yuga, the dark age. At the end of a cycle, Vishnu takes incarnation as a person. Vishnu is that aspect of God that preserves and protects life. When Vishnu leaves, Shiva comes.
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I don't put much stock in powers that people have to hurt others, in sorcery and all this nonsense. There are murders and there are dictators. That is just a part of life. The intelligent use of power in yoga can assist you avoiding that side of humanity.
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Linus Pauling would have us believe and perhaps correctly, that enough vitamin C will have us live another 20 or 30 years, I think the strongest power in the world is not vitamin C but the power of our own thoughts.
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The software is the strength of the electronic tribe because it's networking. It's creating oneness. It's creating tributaries that link together into a singular river.
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