Frederick Lenz Quotes

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• If there's no background, no foreground, no opposition, no complements, then there's no change becasue there's no subject and object.
• The Chinese used the symbol of tai chi, the undifferentiated reality - no separation, no left and right.
• Before perception, before a preceiver, existence was - is. This is the consciousness that we refer to as nirvana, God, eternity.
• There is no way to measure it ... because there's no one to measure it.
• Everything is part of one web, one matrix of existence, beyond discussion. This is our true self in its undifferentiated form.
• We create ying and yang, yes and no, plus and minus.
• Most beings enjoy existence so time comes into being.
• 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.
• There are two choices available in duality - one side or the other side. Everyting is formed from that.
• The mind of the child is not formed. We are shown that this is life, this is the world.
• Our seeing is sexual initially.
• Gradually, you were given a description of the world, a way of seeing, which is largely sexual.
• 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…
• Male and female are the first things we learn because they represent the polarity of existence.
• 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…
• We can think of descriptions almost as computer languages, an operative description that only deals with very simple operations. Its code is sex - Male,…
• The limitations that we can see of the sexual description of reality are very apparent. Very few men attain enlightenment, even fewer women.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…

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