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 More Quotes by Frederick Lenz More Quotes From Frederick Lenz Determine where you are and where you wish to be. Then use all of your self-effort to make that happen, following the guiding principles of all the Buddhas and bohisattvas and seekers of the dharma, of enlightenment. Frederick Lenz guiding-principles effort self You must be kind to others. You must foster a caretaker personality of gentleness and perseverance, even in the midst of adversity. Frederick Lenz perseverance buddhism adversity A way of spreading the dharma is just telling people, sharing with them your experiences. Never push it, never be a missionary. Be completely selfless; realize you're only an instrument of eternity. Frederick Lenz selfless missionary people Care, but don't be pushy! Don't preach about enlightenment to people who don't really want to hear about it. Frederick Lenz enlightenment care people Share the way by being a good example. Frederick Lenz example share way Be fair. Don't present your version of the truth to others. Lose your ulterior motives! Be accurate and pure in your presentation of the way, and you will become the way. Frederick Lenz accurate motive way The etiquette is higher consciousness, sensitivity, gentleness, gracefulness, intensity, power, and knowledge. Frederick Lenz intensity buddhism consciousness It is good to have respect for all beings because who knows what anyone can do? Frederick Lenz knows can-do We must be able to deal with ridicule and scorn, which it always seems that Buddhists receive. But we feel that it doesn't matter. God's laughing at us; God's laughing at God. We can take a joke too. We're pretty funny. Frederick Lenz buddhist buddhism laughing You don't want to become so sensitive that you can't interact with people in the world. If you get to that point, you are not practicing psychic development. You are running away from the world, and you've made yourself weak. Frederick Lenz psychics success running Self-discover is not as someone would have us think, a heavy, awesome, moral process where everyone sits around and frowns. As you progress towards enlightenment, you become funny. Frederick Lenz progress self thinking Enlightenment is not about being political. It is not a social club. Ashrams often turn into that, I know. Societies of enlightenment often just become cliques. Frederick Lenz enlightenment buddhism political I think cosmopolitan spirituality is the best, where we go beyond "My teacher is better than yours" or "My meditation form is better than yours." It's not Ford versus Chevy. But it's rather the transition of our limited awareness into eternity. Frederick Lenz buddhism teacher thinking Feel the underlying meaning of the teachings that are espoused by me or anyone else. The word's don't mean much. Words are supposed to be catalysts for higher states of attention. That is where the action is. Frederick Lenz teaching attention mean This is Zen, and in Zen, as we all know ... anything goes! Frederick Lenz anything-goes knows introduction There is no letter of the law to follow in Zen. There is a lot of etiquette, but there are no rules. Frederick Lenz etiquette law letters Zen is discipline - the discipline of living life, the discipline of taking a breath, the discipline of not knowing and not trying to know. Frederick Lenz live-life discipline knowing Zen is about breaking out of your ideas and experiencing life and not ideas. Frederick Lenz introduction ideas Nothing is any particular way. It's your state of mind that creates reality. Frederick Lenz mind reality way Zen is a very quick path. Zen is the path of meditation. The word Zen means emptiness or fullness, meditation. Meditation is the quickest path to enlightenment. Frederick Lenz enlightenment meditation mean
