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Etiquette Quotes by Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz describes humility as doing great work without making a big deal of it. He says anyone can discover truth at any moment, without needing tradition or lineage. He also stresses that self‑discovery needs persistence, kindness, focus, and a positive mind.

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Without humility, all spiritual progress stops.

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Don't preach about meditation.

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If you respect it in others, you respect it in yourself.

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Just because it doesn't work out for you, doesn't mean that it's not wonderful for someone else.

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Don't care what anybody says about enlightenment, except the enlightened and those who seek it.

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Humility simply means that you do a great job at everything and it isn't really a big deal.

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There is no letter of the law to follow in Zen. There is a lot of etiquette, but there are no rules.

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Our sense of being worthwhile, our sense of being good, our sense of being anything must go - Final clearance sale.

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One person's cult is another person's spiritual organization.

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

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If you can't think of an enlightened person positively, don't think of them at all.

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Do not feel that you are destined not to make that final liberation in this life. This is egotism in a reverse…

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As a monk you have a responsibility to meditate many hours a day. Not just to sit there but to think of…

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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…

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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…

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How do you become enlightened? Have fun, meditate, don't take yourself too seriously, brush between incarnations and have a good teacher.

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Don't judge others. Always be open to them. Avoid the cult mentality, you know, the super-slick, "I'm superior because I meditate, because…

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Being a Buddhist monk means never losing one's optimism in spite of all difficulties. It also means being harder on yourself than…

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In the beginning we define what is spiritual. But as you go on, you see that everybody and everything is an instrument…

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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…

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Spiritual Balance is the obvious answer to the obsession that sometimes accompanies religious practice, occult practice, philosophical understandings - the assertion that…

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To know that these are people who for a moment, in glory, in light, were true warriors, and you had the chance…

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What matters is that you meditate, you're seeking enlightenment, you're on the pathway to enlightenment, and you're having fun. Don't look for…

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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…

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This study is not for the amateur. It's not for the dilettante. It's not for the cult follower. It's not for someone…

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From a Buddhist perspective, it is incorrect to always assume that we know what is best.

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

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Do not envy others. If someone gets a larger piece of cake, be happy for them. They'll get fat and you'll stay…

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There is no such thing as spiritual achievement; it is simply an awareness intrinsic to all of life.

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The etiquette is higher consciousness, sensitivity, gentleness, gracefulness, intensity, power, and knowledge.

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As a student of enlightenment your attitude should not be to become enlightened. It should be to learn.

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Simplify your life and your mind. Think more of infinity and less of yourself.

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You have to come to the world of enlightenment with open hands, not clinched fists, without an agenda.

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Faithfulness, faith, all of the words that so few people live, you must live. Only then are you worthy of immortality.

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The more moral you pretend to be, the less moral you are; the less moral you try to be, the more moral…

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As Buddha points out, you should not rely on the opinions of others for validation of your internal progression.

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There is enough room in eternity for everyone to be enlightened. We gain or lose nothing by the success of others.

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If you have humility, you are willing to undertake anything to spread the dharma.

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If one thinks of an enlightened person in a negative way, as it hits their aura, it returns very strongly.

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The purpose of enlightenment is certainly not the teacher, nor is it you. It doesn't have a purpose. Enlightenment simply exists.

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Everyone will admire you when you do well. What a horrible thing to do to someone.

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I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get to watch…

If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns.

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Enlightened people live in very charged states of attention, with a tremendous power circuiting through them.

Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it…

Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance.

The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations.

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You and I are both life. There's just the experience of every moment. We like to call them moments. There isn't really such a…

Why waste your time being around people who drag you down? You don't live forever, at least in this life.

Everybody here is so caught up in the game of life they don't see death. They don't see beyond their deaths. They are on…

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