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Nirvana has nothing do with any of this. None of this is there.

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
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Suffering
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Nirvana
Buddhism

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Enjoy being with yourself, hanging out with yourself, doing things by yourself.
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We are cognizant of time, the sense that there is mutability. Time is change. It's the separation of eternity from itself. When eternity is separated from itself, we see it appear in different forms. Time is not a movement in space. Space is a movement in time.
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Eternity gives life to all and sustains all, transforms all on the wheel of dharma - until all attain perfection.
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Nirvikalpa Samadhi means that you've gone off the board you've gone off the map. There is no way to describe it. You have attained liberation and are no longer bound by the cycle of existence. You just are, and yet you're not, at the same time.
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