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Frederick Lenz was an American author known for his profound understanding and unique insights into Zen Buddhism. His works blended Zen philosophy with modern life, resonating with readers worldwide.

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“I began to go into samadhi, not just occasionally, but every day many times a day until I reached a point where I could no longer distinguish between ordinary and non-ordinary reality. For me it is all the same. I am in a state of continuous absorption in the Self.”

Self States Reality Ordinary Rama Samadhi Absorption

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“If I can have an effect on influential women and men, if they seek me out because they are interested in self-knowledge and the fun of meditating, then I'm glad to help. That's why I'm here.”

Ifs Men I Can Self Helping Fun Effects Men And Women Glad Self Knowledge Influential Rama Meditating

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“I am Western and I see no need or reason to change that. The Western lifestyle has many things to offer, as do the Eastern methods of self discovery. I think blending the two is very desirable.”

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“It is my experience that if a person practices self discovery with intent, they will be successful. Success is an outer sign that they are channeling energy correctly.”

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“I am very interested in the enlightenment of women. Very few teachers of advanced self discovery work with women, and if they do it's usually in a very second handed way. They treat women as second class citizens.”

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“I like Miracles. They inspire me. Miracles are the fun of enlightenment. When a teacher does a miracle, and everyone sees it, they have faith in what the teacher has to say about self-discovery.”

Doe Self Fun Teacher Inspire Buddhism Enlightenment Discovery Miracle Self Discovery Have Faith Rama

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“The vast majority of the students I have taught have become self-sufficient and confident individuals who enjoy their lives.”

Self Individual Enjoy Students Taught Buddhism Majority Sufficient Rama Self Sufficient

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“I don't dictate particular styles of dress. I do teach classes in self discovery.”

Self Class Teach Style Particular Buddhism Discovery Dresses Self Discovery Rama

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“I try to teach people to continually search and question the meaning of everything they are taught and everything they believe in. My job is not so much to impart a philosophy but to train people in the methods of self-discovery.”

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“Unfortunately, in self-discovery, you get the culty types who want the father figure or mother figure to tell them everything to do. They don't want to do any work. They want to hang on your energy and try to drain it.”

Want Trying Self Mother Father Energy Figures Buddhism Type Discovery Self Discovery Rama Drains Father Figure

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“How do you know you were in samadhi? You know when your awareness returns to the plane of self and ideation that you have been beyond it.”

Knows Has Beens Self Awareness Return Planes Do You Know Samadhi Ideation

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“When matter stops, self-consciousness stops.”

Self Matter Consciousness Self Consciousness Samadhi

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“When self-consciousness stops, there is nothing -nothing left to stop, start, begin or end.”

Ends Self Left Consciousness Self Consciousness Samadhi

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“It is implicit in the self that the self will automatically evolve if you can dissolve it. It re-patterns itself after archetypal formations that exist deep within the mind.”

Ifs Mind Self Patterns Evolve Formation Deep Within Implicit Samadhi Self Will

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“Salvakalpa samadhi is absorption in eternity to the point where there is no real concept of self but there's still a karmic chain. Nirvikalpa samadhi is absorption in nirvana; concepts of self and no-self go away completely.”

Stills Real Self Concepts Eternity Chains Going Away Samadhi Absorption

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“For years and years you enter into samadhi every day in order to attain liberation. Eternity fashions a new self which you find yourself with when you come out of samadhi. Each time you come out a little less, you might say, or your real self comes out a little more”

Years Littles Real Self Might Order Fashion Eternity Liberation Finding Yourself Samadhi Real Self New Self

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“Nirvikalpa samadhi is a state of no mind, beyond the ten thousand states of mind, where there is nothing but perfection, where the self no longer exists...the ego dissolves into immortality.”

Mind Self States Thousand Ten Ego Perfection Immortality State Of Mind Samadhi

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“Sexuality, for the person who practices tantra, is a marvelous way to experience illusion. Illusion is just another way of seeing things. There are no illusions because there is no self.”

Way Persons Self Philosophy Practice Seeing Illusion Sexuality Marvelous Another Way Tantra

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“Avoidance of experiences is a fixation and it binds you to the world, it binds you to the personal self.”

World Self Philosophy Avoidance Fixation

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“Tantra means the avoidance of a set or defined form of spirituality. Tantra is intuitive self-discovery.”

Mean Self Philosophy Form Spirituality Discovery Self Discovery Defined Intuitive Avoidance Tantra

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“Tantra is for the person who has self control but doesn't care anymore. It is for the person who is able to abandon self-control and its fixation.”

Persons Self Philosophy Care Able Abandon Self Control Tantra Fixation

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“Tantra is only recommended for someone who has a very developed will power, a terrific sense of humor, and a sense that nothing else matters but God and self-realization.”

Self Matter Philosophy Self Realization Realization Sense Of Humor Terrific Will Power Tantra

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“The advanced education in Tantra obviously has to do with the entrance into samadhi, the negation of the self. That is what the path of negation means, not the negation of life, but the negation of anything that is not enlightenment.”

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“There are two sides to self-discovery, as in most things, an outer more popular side and an inner side. The popular side presents more of a simplified form.”

Two Self Form Sides Discovery Self Discovery Concentration Two Sides

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“A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They've been essentially mastered by Zen.”

Self Life Is Masters Enlightenment Discovery Self Discovery Zen Master

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“In Zen, and in other forms of self discovery, we do have a transference that occurs where psychically, information, blocks of attention, are transferred to the student.”

Self Form Attention Information Students Masters Discovery Self Discovery Block Zen Master Transference

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“People who are advanced meditators don't worry about liberation and self-realization; they instead are interested in the welfare of others and aiding others in their liberation.”

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“What is important in self-discovery is the person who keeps going, who has a smile, who is kind to others, who works hard at everything, and who keeps their mind on their own business and not everybody else's.”

Mind Kind Persons Important Self Hard Hard Work Buddhism Discovery Self Discovery Buddhist Keep Going Etiquette Own Business

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“What's important is to be supportive of all who practice. Anyone on any level, even if they don't call it self-discovery, who is seeking to awaken to their own potentials and possibilities, to the inner freedom, deserves your respect and support.”

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“It takes tremendous self-restraint on the part of the student not to want to monopolize the teacher's attention, to live a very controlled life and a happy life, and of course, be dedicated to the cause.”

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“Emotional control is essential for attaining higher levels of mind. The thing that the teacher looks for in a student is the degree of self-control, not coldness that someone has.”

Mind Looks Self Levels Teacher Students Emotional Buddhism Higher Essentials Degrees Buddhist Self Control Etiquette Higher Level Coldness Emotional Control

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“Self-honesty is absolutely necessary in the practice of Buddhism.”

Self Practice Honesty Buddhism Buddhist Etiquette

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“In the process of self-discovery you will learn to be kind when you could be harsh. You will learn to forgive, mostly yourself. You will learn to be patient because you may have to wait quite a while to become that which you will eventually be.”

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“You need to search your awareness and consider the limitless possibilities of existence in all things and not be so narrow-minded in your self-discovery.”

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“People want to will their self realization. They want to know what the right thing to do all the time is. There is no right thing. There's no code. There are certain basic recommendations.”

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“Self-hate doesn't create enlightenment. It just causes you to not enjoy the current moment.”

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“That's what self-discovery seems to mean to most people. You're going to beat yourself up. You're going to reduce what you're supposed to be and do to a set of rules so you can defy them, or so you can perform them and feel smug.”

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“I don't think there is a right approach to teaching self discovery. Every situation is unique.”

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“What we are seeking to do is not melt the map of America. We are seeking to melt the self, the solid form that we consider ourselves to be.”

Self America Form Buddhism Seeking Maps

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“Self-control is completely necessary for increasing and raising your attention level. One of the places you practice that is at work.”

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“I would suggest to you that at this moment you are the only self that you have ever had; you've never had a childhood; there wasn't a five-minute-ago time.”

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“Metaphysics is the study of how to shift the self. How to get outside the self-reflection and to just gaze with awe and wonder at the countless universes, the countless celestial radiances of mind, of life, of enlightenment, nirvana, or God, whatever you want to call it.”

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“One of the greatest mistakes that people make who pursue self-discovery is they neglect to develop their careers. There is a popular notion that those who seek enlightenment should abandon the things of this world.”

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“You need a string of successes behind you to buoy that self-image; otherwise, you have a terribly negative attitude about yourself and it is very unlikely you are going to succeed at anything.”

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“Consciousness, like a complex system of software, has thousands of levels of nested, self-accessing subroutines”

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“Mysticism is an eclectic mixture of various forms of self-discovery that's primarily experimental.”

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“The meaning of life changes as you change dimensional planes. The way human beings perceive the world is only one simple method of seeing. There are many ways to see life. Life has many meanings, and self realization is the understanding of all this.”

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“To have the detached eye of the occultist, to look outward, to not be so self-reflective and to learn to step through the various viewpoints of consciousness - that we call occultism - leads to freedom.”

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“Self-discovery is a very advanced art. What we're doing basically is screwing around with what you're made up of. We're taking awarenesses, feelings, ideas and impressions and changing them.”

Art Made Ideas Self Feelings Awareness Discovery Impression Self Discovery Mysticism

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“Self-discovery is a process of dissolution and creation. Dissolution means envelopment in eternity. Creation is bringing into focus new awareness”

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About the Author

Born: February 9, 1950
Died: April 12, 1998
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Quotes: 4397

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