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“If you are interested in Taoism, I would suggest that you read the Way of Life by Lao Tsu, the founder of Taoism. I personally prefer the Witter Brynner translation.”

Ifs Way Taoism Founders Translations Laos

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Lao Tsu doesn't seem to hold to much stock for words or phrases or teachings.”

Seems Teaching Phrases Taoism Laos

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Lao Tsu says the way of life is ancient, timeless. It is existence which he calls the Tao - a mysterious source, beyond understanding, and all of us are a reflection, if not that source of life ourselves.”

Ifs Way Life Is Understanding Existence Source Reflection Ancient Mysterious Taoism Timeless Tao Source Of Life Laos

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one might think it was in some way antithetical to contempory life.”

Thinking World Way Humans Might Found Easy Human Beings Interesting Taoism Imagery Reconcile Laos

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Many sections are taken up with political discussions and how the way of the ruler, the merchant, the householder, and the army interact with the Tao.”

Way Political Taken Army Discussion Taoism Rulers Sections Tao Merchants

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Taoism has no rules. It's a suggestion for preceiving life in its wholeness, without unnessary categorization, yet enjoying the beauty of categorization.”

Enjoy Taoism Wholeness Suggestions Categorization

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Taoism is not a religion, although perhaps it has been made into one by some people. Lao Tsu's way of life occurs in any spiritual philosophy.”

People Way Has Beens Made Philosophy Spiritual Taoism Laos

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is another kind of wisdom, the wisdom of following - the wisdom of not taking the lead with your ego.”

Kind Ego Following Taoism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the West the wise are usually thought of as leaders. In the East, the wise are very often though of as followers.”

Leader Wise West East Taoism Followers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We know we should be completely humble. We should stop thinking that we're very marvelous because we're not. We are interesting at best because we are a part of life.”

Thinking Knows Should Interesting Humble Taoism Marvelous Parts Of Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal.”

Shows Realizing Deals Eternal Substance Life And Death Taoism Transitory

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We should not weep or cry or be upset when we see the generations pass, because all are forms of the infinite creation. They are not real, they are not eternal.”

Should Real Form Generations Cry Creation Eternal Infinite Upset Taoism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Just as when water is frozen in to a form as ice and then melts - so at the time of death, there is no death. The spirit simply changes form.”

Form Spirit Water Ice Taoism Frozen

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Some people think Taoism means not doing anything, just going on with your life. That has little or nothing to do with Taoism.”

People Thinking Mean Littles Taoism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Taoism means streching your being, becoming both a man and a woman and joining within yourself, to be the heavens themselves, to stretch your awareness beyond the breaking point until all opposites are reconciled within yourself.”

Men Mean Heaven Awareness Becoming Opposites Taoism Joining Point Break

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enlightenment comes through the feminine side of the being.”

Sides Enlightenment Taoism Feminine

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Examine everything that you've been taught, not simply what you've been taught in school, but the images that have been held up to you since the time of your birth.”

Has Beens School Taught Birth Taoism Up To You

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Get some distance on yourself and undertand the multilevel structure that's operating. There's a power structure within you. You're a very political creature.”

Political Creatures Structure Distance Taoism Within You

Author:Frederick Lenz

“For a person who lives in time, differences are the most important thing because they represent your existence.”

Persons Important Differences Existence Important Things Taoism Time Difference

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When there's no difference, there's no time, no world, no separativity - and there's no you ... nor is there an I.”

World Differences Taoism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Initially there's absolutely nothing.”

Taoism Absolutely Nothing

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When we have complements or oppositions, change occurs.”

Opposition Taoism Complement

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Change can only exist in time. Without time there is no change. Change can only exist with a background of that which is changeless, otherwise it has no definition.”

Definitions Backgrounds Taoism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We can say the stars are moving because we have a relative context.”

Moving Stars Taoism Relative

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If there's no background, no foreground, no opposition, no complements, then there's no change becasue there's no subject and object.”

Ifs Subjects Objects Backgrounds Opposition Taoism Complement Foreground

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The Chinese used the symbol of tai chi, the undifferentiated reality - no separation, no left and right.”

Reality Used Left Separation Symbols Chinese Taoism Left And Right Tai Chi

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Before perception, before a preceiver, existence was - is. This is the consciousness that we refer to as nirvana, God, eternity.”

Existence Consciousness Perception Eternity Taoism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is no way to measure it ... because there's no one to measure it.”

Way Taoism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everything is part of one web, one matrix of existence, beyond discussion. This is our true self in its undifferentiated form.”

Self Form Existence Discussion Taoism True Self

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We create ying and yang, yes and no, plus and minus.”

Taoism Plus Minus Yang Yes And No Ying And Yang

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most beings enjoy existence so time comes into being.”

Enjoy Existence Taoism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When there is time, there has to be suffering. Because in time there's desire and attachment and transition. This is the world of experience.”

World Desire Suffering Taoism Attachment Transition

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are two choices available in duality - one side or the other side. Everyting is formed from that.”

Two Choices Sides Available Taoism Duality Two Choices

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The mind of the child is not formed. We are shown that this is life, this is the world.”

World Mind Children Taoism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Our seeing is sexual initially.”

Seeing Taoism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Gradually, you were given a description of the world, a way of seeing, which is largely sexual.”

World Way Given Seeing Description Taoism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The strongest factor in conditioning is sex, in the sense that the first thing that a person is really taught is whether they are male or female.”

Firsts Persons Sex Taught Female Males Factors Taoism Strongest Conditioning

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Male and female are the first things we learn because they represent the polarity of existence.”

Firsts Existence Female Males Taoism Polarity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We really have no choice in the matter. We are given a description of the world that is much more potent and much deeper than you might realize.”

World Matter Might Choices Given Realizing Deeper Description Taoism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We can think of descriptions almost as computer languages, an operative description that only deals with very simple operations. Its code is sex - Male, female, dark, light, up down, in out - its the language of duality.”

Thinking Light Language Sex Dark Simple Deals Computer Female Males Code Operations Description Taoism Duality Light Up Computer Language Male Female

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The limitations that we can see of the sexual description of reality are very apparent. Very few men attain enlightenment, even fewer women.”

Men Reality Enlightenment Limitation Description Taoism Fewer

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There's a sense of productivity which cripples us terribly. We either have to be doing something worthwile or not. We are back to our little binary male-female code.”

Littles Female Males Productivity Code Taoism Cripples Binary Male Female

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's either good, bad or somewhere in between. It's either ying, yang or it's a combination. You're either male, female or somewhere in between. You've got to be somewhere on the map.”

Female Males Combination Taoism Maps Yang Male Female

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the West when you talk about yin and yang, people normally think of yin and yang as something that's linear. But in the east we tend to think of yin and yang as circles. They're two circles that actually can lie on top of each other, yet they remain separate.”

People Thinking Two Lying West East Circles Taoism Linear Yang Yin And Yang

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The pageant of life is divided into ying and yang. They're two circles. You can follow either circle and manage to develop enough speed to move beyond this world to other worlds, dimensional realities.”

World Two Enough Reality Moving Life Is This World Speed Circles Manage Taoism Divided Other Worlds Pageant Yang Ying And Yang

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The I Cing is a study in duality and what lies beyond duality.”

Lying Study Taoism Duality

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The dreams of existence of that we call time, space, matter, subject, object, yin, yang - everything flows forth from this tai chi.”

Matter Dream Space Existence Subjects Objects Flow All Time Taoism Yang Tai Chi

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Learn not to be attached to other people, to certain types of experiences. Allow the flow of life to guide you wherever it is supposed to and accept with equanimity, with balance, with poise, whatever happens.”

People Happens Certain Accepting Type Balance Flow Guides Taoism Whatever Happens Equanimity Poise

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Without innocence, nothing can further, as they say in the I Ching.”

Innocence Taoism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Unconscious of the existence of Tao, beings live supposing themselves to be separate from the universal intelligence, supposing themselves to be powerful or to be weak, thinking that they live their lives and die their deaths.”

Thinking Dies Powerful Existence Weak Universal Unconscious Taoism Tao Supposing

Author:Frederick Lenz

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