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Practicing zazen and mindfulness constantly and correctly, over a period of time, can bring strength and clarity to your finite mind and eventually give you access to your infinite mind.
- Frederick Lenz
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It is as important to monitor your mind constantly as it is to sit down and practice meditation.
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Our life interferes, our mind, our thoughts. Meditating is not just a practice of asserting will and learning to control the mind, it is also developing control of one's life and gaining wisdom.
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To be in thousands of states of mind simultaneously as you perform simple physical tasks gives you a reverence for life. Each of these outer manifestations of life is God.
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Gain control of the mind and make it still, initially just during periods of meditation, but then throughout the day and throughout the night.
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If you can't hold a person in your mind with a good thought, it is better not to think about them at all.
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Power either goes up or down. Your thoughts are the harness of power. It is necessary to think positive thoughts, not just wait for them to occur, but to introduce them.
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In every situation, feel before acting, just for a second. Look for a feeling.
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This is the process of mental analysis, sifting through the selves, sifting through your thoughts, practicing mindfulness, learning to control thought.
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Spend time all day and all night monitoring your thoughts, constantly keeping them in a high plateau. Avoid places and people that pull your energy down.
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Your ability to still your mind through the process of meditation and inner reflection and outer change brings a stillness to the mind all the time, even in the midst of the busiest activities.
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If we try and direct our lives with only our limited rationalistic thoughts and our sense perceptions, then our actions and our activities will not be prefect.
- Frederick Lenz
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In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it mindfulness.
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It is necessary to go through all the daily tasks and bring perfection to them.
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The abuse of power takes happiness away.
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I used to live in Seattle, as did Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Lee. I lived near the arboretum. Very often I would take walks late at night by Lake Washington, because I found it very easy to meditate there.
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If we view the universe as other than what we are, we are everything we don't perceive.
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We don't always walk from one state of mind into another. We might just oscillate back and forth for a whole lifetime within the polarities of a certain state of mind.
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Never think too much of yourself. Realize you are only an instrument of eternity. Do not get stuck in that terrible trap. You can lose everything.
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Souls have different journeys. The best thing to know is, not what everybody else does, but what you do. Self-discovery essentially is finding your own dharma, your own rhythm.
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They too wonder about the nature of existence, where they've come from and where they're going to and how much time they have.
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There is something beyond power. The totality of one's being. Some call it nirvana. We have a higher destiny. Before you can scratch the surface, you have to bring your life into order.
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Meditation is a process in which we're essentially, at first, breathing out. We're exhaling existence, taking it out of the mind, and the mind out of the mind.
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This moment there is all that will ever be or has ever been. All the events of all of our lives are going-on simultaneously. There is no beginning and there is no ending. There's only this moment.
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As the kundalini rises, the knowledge and powers of those dimensions will begin to come to you.
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Most people abuse power. They use power to dominate others. They use power to destroy others. Ultimately when you do this, you lose it.
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Angry people, unhappy people, people that seek to injure others, these people all have something in common. They waste energy. They don't conserve it and they don't know how to increase it.
- Frederick Lenz
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The etiquette is higher consciousness, sensitivity, gentleness, gracefulness, intensity, power, and knowledge.
- Frederick Lenz
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Perception is a wave. You change as your perception of something changes because you define yourself as a reflection of whatever you happen to perceive.
- Frederick Lenz
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I would define the proper use of power as something that creates happiness for yourself and others.
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It is not necessary to wrap people up. The reason you're doing it is because you don't have enough power. If you had enough power, you could unlock your own personal power - you wouldn't need to control others.
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It takes a lot of energy to manipulate someone and keep them on a string.
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We see a lot of people who decide to go out and teach meditation. They become so wrapped up in it that they stop progressing themselves and they really don't have that much more to teach.
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When we use power to cause someone else not to succeed so that we can succeed, it slows our vibratory frequency. It slows us down. When we slow down we experience unhappiness.
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When you go to a power place, if you are receptive, if you are able to quiet your thoughts and concentrate, a lot of that power can enter into you.
- Frederick Lenz
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If you go to a higher place of power, you can gain power there and you might even encounter some beings of knowledge and light that might aid you in some way.
- Frederick Lenz
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Pilgrimages are journeys to places of power. People sometimes make pilgrimages to the caves where Milarepa or other great yogis meditated.
- Frederick Lenz
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Universities are very clarifying places of power, because everyone is focused on trying to figure out exactly what to do with their lives.
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You get a very different type of education if you go out to the desert, to the places of power, places where it is easy to cross over from one dimensional plane to another, where power hovers, so to speak.
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At these crossover points, there are a lot of beings, nonphysical beings that cross over back and forth constantly.
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If you go to a place of power, the beings are higher, magnificent beings of light. They are not from our world. They pass through it, the place where dimensions touch, where there are many worlds present.
- Frederick Lenz
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There are thousands of worlds, thousands of dimensional planes, billions. Life is endless. It goes on forever.
- Frederick Lenz
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If you spend too much time in a place like that your power level will be lowered and these beings will annoy you.
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Watch out for negative power places on the earth, if you can "see" they are reddish and they twist your feelings. They don't vibrate at a rate conducive to humanity.
- Frederick Lenz
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Everything is amplified in the world of attention at night. People are more open to forces. That is why human beings cluster around each other in housing developments - a group force pervades and keeps the beings out.
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In the high mountains and desert beings can affect you. Most aren't malicious, but some will lure you to your death.
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Without purity it's impossible to realize God.
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Purity is essential for just your own peace of mind; otherwise, you'll go through this world like a mad person, howling and screaming and cursing, never satisfied, never happy.
- Frederick Lenz
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Ego is impurity. Be selfless. Consecrate and dedicate your life to perfection.
- Frederick Lenz
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