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Tag Name "Buddhism" (1673)

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There wasn't a single day in which the world was created. It's created anew at every moment. The structures of eternity are completely fluid but they are bound together by the mind forming a nexus point so reality comes into being.
Frederick Lenz
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Nothing lasts forever - except forever. That's the good news. It's a good thing that nothing lasts forever because things would get terribly boring.
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Slow down. Enjoy life. It's tough to slow down if your mind is going a million miles a second. It's tough to slow down if you think what these people do here matters.
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The Tibetan Buddhist realization is that mind does not have any particular qualities or attributes of its own. It's clear - clear light.
Frederick Lenz
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Even the rich aren't often happy. Their wealth is at best only a temporary distraction. It doesn't make them immune to emotional and mental suffering, or to disease and death. They too must deal with loneliness, the deaths of loved ones and the frustrations and boredom of old age.
Frederick Lenz
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People who have power, who think negatively of others and seek to injure them, are practicing a kind of voodoo, a lower sorcery.
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When you are subjected to this light, depending on how strong the dose is, you will have two or three days in which you can make tremendous changes within your self, in the structure of your being.
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The tantras can be very confusing for a person who is new to Buddhism, and for several thousand years the rule was not to expose a person or a new monk to the tantras until they had practiced for many, many years.
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The final result of all life is your awareness. Your awareness is existence.
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Self-acceptance is involved in this process. You have got to be able to look at both your dark and your light side and not get enamored or depressed by either.
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We hide from ourselves by being with others.
Frederick Lenz
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Start meditating with your eyes open, focusing as a warm-up, then focus on a chakra, then just let go and merge. Don't sit there and think or move into sleepy states of awareness, but move into high-powered states of attention.
Frederick Lenz
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We are shaped by our thoughts we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
Gautama Buddha
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The teacher will have a certain imprint, and each teacher imprints differently. Ultimately the imprint of the teacher is a limitation that you will have to overcome in your final stages of knowledge.
Frederick Lenz
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If you stay in the attention you are in, then you can predict everything that will happen to you for the rest of your life.
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There's no point in getting frustrated at yourself. Just be truthful.
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To become wise, meditate on the third eye, between the eyebrows and a little bit above. Focus on that spot, the Agni chakra.
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The male or female that the child has the most exposure to in the first four to six years of its life is the primary imprinter of the child.
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Use the previous techniques in rotation. It will prevent your meditation experience from becoming stale.
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Perhaps you're not the next Buddha. Perhaps you're not the Maitreya. Perhaps that's not your job in this incarnation. Perhaps you have to enjoy life and learn about life through whatever way that you find yourself going.
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In order to succeed on the athletic field, it is necessary to succeed in daily life. Your spirit and your life must be perfectly trimmed for the chi to flow properly.
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Reciprocity, a symbiotic relationship, is a relationship in which two people have worked out certain terms. I am using you in certain ways you are using me in certain ways. That is a balanced relationship.
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Every time you find yourself becoming angry, jealous or frustrated, stop and think the opposite thought.
Frederick Lenz
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If you are afraid of other people take a martial arts class. The best way to overcome fear is learn to be proficient in martial arts.
Frederick Lenz
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