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The issue is not what you're doing with your body it's what you're doing with your mind.

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
Buddhism
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Issues
Body
Mind

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To talk about realizing the Self is discontinuous because there is nothing to realize but the Self. There is nothing but realization.
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Everything we see is an illusion. Even our perceptions of truth are illusory, illusory in the sense they're not complete.
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Eventually you're supposed to get so confounded by this whole thing that you just give up completely, and that's when it starts to work. Not give up the practice, but give up trying to figure it out.
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