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We break off obsession by laughing at ourselves, by learning to be funny, by just seeing the joy in life and by having a terrific love for this world.

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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Many sections are taken up with political discussions and how the way of the ruler, the merchant, the householder, and the army interact with the Tao.
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We pass through hundreds, thousands, perhaps millions of existences. In each lifetime, we're exploring another part of our own self, which is eternity.
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If you become obsessive in spiritual practice, if you just try and try, you are not going to be happy. You are going to be obsessive.
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Very often, in order to bring about stillness we have to be tirelessly active in the outer world. You might suppose this would agitate the mind. It will not, if it is the dharma.
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The logical and extralogical exercises you do in meditation are very similar to advanced systems analysis and programming.
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As long as it's a world, it has laws. Why, I don't know, it's just the way it is. In Nirvana, there are no laws.
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I have graduate students who have developed this ability to love and want to perfect it. Those are the students I spend a lot of time with because at this time they need that.
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If your're not having a very good time with your life, its because you haven't done much for others. You may have done many things but you havent done much for those around you.
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In poetry, and in my study in graduate school, I was drawn to a particular poet, Theodore Roethke. I did a dissertation on The Evolution of Matter and Spirit in the Poetry of Theodore Roethke for my Ph.D.
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If you are afraid of other people take a martial arts class. The best way to overcome fear is learn to be proficient in martial arts.
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The finite forms have fallen away and we have become God.
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From the point of view of enlightenment, none of this has ever even been. All time and space, all the conditions that are apparent in the absence of enlightenment are unreal.
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Your spiritual journey and your spiritual welfare are really dependent on two primary factors: One, your ability to meditate and two, your ability to give of yourself.
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When most people see a tree, they don't see a tree at all. They see an idea that they have developed of what a tree is.
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There are ten thousand aspects of your mind. Your awareness has ten thousand forms. There is something else. You have to step outside of perception itself.
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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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