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Tag Name "Buddhism" (1673)

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Unlock the power of the will. Learn balance and gain the knowledge and wisdom necessary to guide those powers, to succeed in sports and athletics.
Frederick Lenz
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Inside you is eternity. A human being is not so simple. We're told that we're Ted or Sally or Willie or whatever and that we grow up and have experiences. That has nothing to do with what life is. You are eternity.
Frederick Lenz
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If you are just spaced out and you have no purpose in life, you pick everything up. Everybody else's thoughts will come into your mind, everyone else's desires.
Frederick Lenz
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If you think you are a vile slime, that means that you aspire to something higher...It's because you have a sense of perfection, and you obviously want that, that you find something wrong.
Frederick Lenz
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People on this planet are currently preparing to blow themselves up in ultimate thermonuclear wars. We are living among beings whose state of mind is destruction.
Frederick Lenz
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Tantric Zen is all about the practice of zazen meditation. If you meditate well, you'll be in very powerful states of mind and then it really doesn't matter what you do.
Frederick Lenz
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The immortal silence is there always waiting for you and that spirit is deathless and courageous. Remember, many have trod the path that you are walking on and they succeeded. They were no better than you, no wiser.
Frederick Lenz
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There is no such thing as spiritual achievement it is simply an awareness intrinsic to all of life.
Frederick Lenz
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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.
Frederick Lenz
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In order to effectively interlock with higher spheres of mind and attention, you must have tremendous balance and control. You learn that it is more fun to have control than not to.
Frederick Lenz
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They say Casanova made love to over 10,000 women. Do you think it changed him? It probably aged him a little bit. But I doubt that it changed him. If it had changed him, he would have stopped somewhere along the line and done something a little different.
Frederick Lenz
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The reason one enters into lower mental states is because you don't have the power or chi flowing through you.
Frederick Lenz
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Thoughts can increase our understanding of a subject, or they can just as easily constrict or block our understanding of a subject. It very much depends upon the language we are thinking in.
Frederick Lenz
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You're not capable of stepping into nirvana at this time. If you did it would be disastrous. You're tonal would be swamped.
Frederick Lenz
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Unfortunately we've seen meditation insulted in a sense with the image of ritual. You have to dress a certain way, follow a certain type of lifestyle, all that sort of thing, very culty - and that, of course, has nothing to do with the practice whatsoever.
Frederick Lenz
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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Gautama Buddha
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Reason is a terrible trap because you will be satisfied with answers. And if you are satisfied with answers, you'll never come to know what life really is.
Frederick Lenz
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama
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Learn the motions of infinity within your mind. Your mind becomes a perfect mirror to the motions of infinity.
Frederick Lenz
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Sometimes we have to be hard on ourselves. We've got to get on our case, if we are being sloppy, lazy, and indulgent.
Frederick Lenz
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Humility means coming to the root of the matter, honestly looking at yourself and saying: This is me for better or for worse.
Frederick Lenz
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In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness , as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is our capacity to relax with not knowing, not figuring everything out, with not being at all sure who we are, or who anyone else is, either.
Pema Chodron
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People don't really want to be happy. They go out of their way to be miserable.
Frederick Lenz
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Today in the west the word 'guru' has come to mean someone who leads a cult, someone who deprives others of their intellectual or spiritual freedom and rips them off financially.
Frederick Lenz
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