You'll find that you will be able to reorder the island of your tonal so that it's in good shape - logical, orderly, neat, and well-defined.

Frederick Lenz

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There is no self, yet we all exist. All phenomena are "empty," ye... by Frederick Lenz

There is no self, yet we all exist. All phenomena are "empty," yet they have Buddha nature.

buddha-nature empty self

You're a part of me. I'm a part of you and we are all a part of t... by Frederick Lenz

You're a part of me. I'm a part of you and we are all a part of this great nothingness.

nothingness

The way you become happy is by realizing that there is no self. No self at all, not a silly millimeter of self. You don't exist. When you know this, you will be happy.

self silly way

Some types of nothing are more fun than other types of nothing. by Frederick Lenz

Some types of nothing are more fun than other types of nothing.

nothingness type fun

Nothing is or is not unless you happen to think it so. That's wha... by Frederick Lenz

Nothing is or is not unless you happen to think it so. That's what Shakespeare said, and he knew.

happens said thinking

You are fighting against nothingness all the time by creating a series of shields that you call personality, life history, feelings, ideas, and ways of seeing.

creating fighting ideas

When you visit Nirvana, there is neither existence nor nonexistence. Your baggage never arrives because there is no one there to claim it.

baggage existence claims

Qualityless simply means there is no way to discuss it. There is no way to pin it down. It could be anything at any given moment since infinity is not bound even by itself, nor the words that human beings choose to try and talk around it.

infinity trying mean

There is no evil, there's no bad; there's no good. These are human ideas. There's no creator, there's no creation; there's no God, there's no nirvana, there's no perfection. These are ideas.

perfection evil ideas

The world is always ending and always beginning at every moment. by Frederick Lenz

The world is always ending and always beginning at every moment.

nothingness moments world

How do you know you're even here right now? Perhaps you're not. Perhaps you're far, far away and this is just a dream.

far-away right-now dream

Life is a series of dreams, a series of interlocking awarenesses. I don't necessarily believe in linear time. Everything happens all at once forever.

dream forever believe

There is no deterioration and there is no creation. There are projections, moments of existence. Each moment is perfect.

deterioration perfect science

The world is empty - all of the people and places, the earth, the seas, mountains, deserts, forests and cities, and the beings that inhabit them, are unchangeable.

cities sea people

We can only conceive of changing the self-reflection in response to our concept of self-reflection, which is predicated on our concept of self, which is a self-reflection.

response reflection self

We aren't anything in particular. There is no self. There are onl... by Frederick Lenz

We aren't anything in particular. There is no self. There are only ideas and states of mind.

self mind ideas

We are made up of nothing. There is no self. We are whatever we d... by Frederick Lenz

We are made up of nothing. There is no self. We are whatever we decide we are.

nothingness self made

When you stop all thought, the battle is won. Everything is still and peaceful. You will come to see the eternal voidness of all things. You will see that nothing is, really.

samadhi peaceful battle

The world wasn't created. It is created anew at every moment by m... by Frederick Lenz

The world wasn't created. It is created anew at every moment by mind.

moments mind world

Mind only comes into apparent existence through the action of perception. Mind appears to exist because it perceives.

perception mind action