Frederick Lenz Quotes

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• 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…
• Taoism has no rules. It's a suggestion for preceiving life in its wholeness, without unnessary categorization, yet enjoying the beauty of categorization.
• 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…
• There is another kind of wisdom, the wisdom of following - the wisdom of not taking the lead with your ego.
• In the West the wise are usually thought of as leaders. In the East, the wise are very often though of as followers.
• 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…
• Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal:
• 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…
• Just as when water is frozen in to a form as ice and then melts - so at the time of death, there is no…
• Some people think Taoism means not doing anything, just going on with your life. That has little or nothing to do with Taoism.
• 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…
• Enlightenment comes through the feminine side of the being.
• 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…
• 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.
• For a person who lives in time, differences are the most important thing because they represent your existence.
• When there's no difference, there's no time, no world, no separativity - and there's no you ... nor is there an I.
• Initially there's absolutely nothing.
• When we have complements or oppositions, change occurs.
• 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…
• We can say the stars are moving because we have a relative context.

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