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Tag Name "Buddhism" (1673)

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When you go into samadhi, either salvikalpa or nirvikalpa, what happens is you erase, you loosen, the aggregates. You simplify them.
Frederick Lenz
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Perception is, in essence, who we are. We are what we perceive. What we perceive defines who we are.
Frederick Lenz
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According to Buddhism, individuals are masters of their own destiny. And all living beings are believed to possess the nature of the Primordial Buddha Samantabhadra, the potential or seed of enlightenment, within them. So our future is in our own hands. What greater free will do we need?
Dalai Lama
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I think one can advance faster outside a monastery if you use the experiences of daily life to advance yourself.
Frederick Lenz
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At these crossover points, there are a lot of beings, nonphysical beings that cross over back and forth constantly.
Frederick Lenz
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Dharma is another name for existence. It is existence in its purest form.
Frederick Lenz
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Neither is detrimental, but the mystical kundalini is a bit more raucous.
Frederick Lenz
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Sometimes there are people who only meditate with a teacher. They ride the teacher's energy. They don't really learn how to meditate. They learn how to ride the energy.
Frederick Lenz
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Next to meditation itself, I really can't think of anything more important than the development of your career.
Frederick Lenz
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Change is one of the only constants in Buddhism as meditation became the way I breathed in the days, this became apparent.
Nick Flynn
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Sex is life: The act of creation in pleasure, the loss of oneself in another, the coming together of opposites in a temporary union of yin and yang, that creates something other than either. What is life if not this?
Frederick Lenz
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Power will take us beyond the gravity field of the imprint.
Frederick Lenz
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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.
Frederick Lenz
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Chaotic mathematics is essentially the study of chaos. It can't be chaos, if you can study it and it has an order.
Frederick Lenz
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I urge you to sin. But not against these itty-bitty religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism-or their secular derivatives, Marxism, Maoism, Freudianism and Jungianism-whic h are all derivatives of the big religion of patriarchy. Sin against the infrastructure itself!
Mary Daly
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Sring is the mantra of beauty. Traditionally it is connected with Lakshmi, the Indian goddess of beauty. Chant Sring slowly, elongating each sound. As you do, you will see the consciousness of beauty of everywhere.
Frederick Lenz
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If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions become meditation.
Frederick Lenz
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The fact of the matter is that Buddhism has changed a lot. When St. Francis of Xavier arrived in Japan, he wrote back to the Vatican and made a joke. It is unfortunate, he said, that the Lutherans were here before me. By this he meant that Pure Land Buddhism was so much like Lutheranism.
Ninian Smart
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The causal body is the determining factor in the changes that occur within your structure or growth rate.
Frederick Lenz
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When the answer doesn't come, it's not supposed to come yet. Don't make eternity try and conform to what you want. That's desire. desire leads to frustration.
Frederick Lenz
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Happiness is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is an immediate experience, very transient in nature, that's enjoyable, and if we experience a great deal of it - there's a sense of satiation.
Frederick Lenz
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Every day work on your humility through your meditation, giving more of yourself, giving those things you don't want to give.
Frederick Lenz
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There are certain protective forces in the universe that do watch over us, but the innocent die too.
Frederick Lenz
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When I enter into nirvikalpa samadhi, most can see this light, or feel it. This light creates very powerful, steady spiritual transformation. The reason you are here is to sit in this light.
Frederick Lenz
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