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I don't know how much you know about Zen, but you'll know less when I'm done with you.

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
Buddhism
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There are many universes, countless universes, and many of them are invisible. We call these the astral planes, but they are as real as this world is and they're filled with beings that have life spans.
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We want to see the universe in its absolute, pure, naked, perfection. We want to know its wonder. We want to know the totality of ourselves. That's done in steps and degrees and not in one day.
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You don't have to meditate. You don't have to practice self-discovery and Buddhism. You should only practice self-discovery if you really have had it with the human world.
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All the manifest forms of existence are but illusions. They are momentary displays of consciousness, flashes of lightening in the sky. They are there for a moment and then they are gone.
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Happiness is a state of mind. The key to happiness is being able to disconnect your life from your perceptions. If you saw things as they really were, you would be happy automatically.
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When you do something half-heartedly, you don't get much of a result. When you do it fully, you get a great result.
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Our actions and experiences will direct us. In other words, we will be guided by the inherent emptiness of the things we choose to interact with.
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Learn to be happy in any and all circumstances, whether you're experiencing pleasure or pain, whether there's loss or gain, whether the world loves you or hates you. Learn to be happy.
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In advanced practice there is a sense of commitment to the study. It is happy it's never forced. It is a natural evolutionary process of an evolved being.
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Maui is a beautiful island. It's really the site of an ancient civilization that we've forgotten about, a civilization that existed millions of years ago. When their time came, they left this world and another race was born, the race of human beings.
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How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places.
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There is no self, yet we all exist. All phenomena are empty, yet they have Buddha nature.
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We live in a world that is dominated by war, hate, violence and suspicion. Those are the things that come naturally in this world. So you have to will something else.
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Many women devlop the second attention, attract a great deal of sexual attention, and for many years, appear to be very vibrant and strong.
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There are those who will seek to block you. There are also non-physical forces. To win in the world of enlightenment, it is necessary to be able to will away these forces, to see they're insubstantial.
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The American Indians, the ancient Indians would say, the metaphysical ones would say: Power binds us together. Power, for a while, makes us what we are, perceivers, luminous perceivers of reality.
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I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get to watch this amazing thing happen.
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When you are enlightened and have united your mind with the deepest and most ancient part of the mind of the universe, you are not affected by suffering the way other people are.
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All I have to teach you are feelings, the words don't matter much. But as you listen, feel the stillness of my mind, not my mind but of mind...infinite mind.
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Then we see that the same God is within ourselves.
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