Frederick Lenz Quotes About Taoism

• The Chinese used the symbol of tai chi, the undifferentiated reality - no separation, no left and right.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, Chinese, Taoism

• Taoism is the way of water. The most frequent element or symbol refered to in Lao Tzu's wrtings is the symbol of water.

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  Water, Taoism, Laos

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

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  Dog, Sacrifice, Men

• The essence of Taoism is really expressed by these few words. Taoism is the way of the child, the way of the fool, the way of someone who doesn't need to be noticed.

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  Children, Essence, 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 beyond the breaking point until all opposites are reconciled within yourself.

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  Mean, Men, Opposites

• Lao Tsu says the way of life is water, to be fluid.

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  Water, Taoism, Laos

• Without innocence, nothing can further, as they say in the I Ching.

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  Taoism, Innocence

• Just as when water is frozen in to a form as ice and then melts - so at the time of death, there is no death. The spirit simply changes form.

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  Ice, Water, Taoism

• Male and female are the first things we learn because they represent the polarity of existence.

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  Taoism, Males, Female

• 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 binary male-female code.

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  Taoism, Males, Female

• What we are seeking is the nexus of all possible worlds and states of mind, which is within us. The source of yin and yang is within you.

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  Mind, Taoism, Yang

• 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 Tao.

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  Taken, Army, Political

• Enlightenment is part of everything and so our minds have to be very big to encompass all things, to understand all things - To see the tao in a grape, the act of sexuality, meditation, work, play, taking a shower, brushing your teeth, being sick and hurting.

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  Hurt, Play, Sick

• If you are interested in Taoism, I would suggest that you read the Way of Life by Lao Tsu, the founder of Taoism. I personally prefer the Witter Brynner translation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Taoism, Laos, Way

• Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one might think it was in some way antithetical to contempory life.

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  Thinking, Interesting, Taoism

• Lao Tsu doesn't seem to hold to much stock for words or phrases or teachings.

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  Teaching, Taoism, Laos

• You are not anyone or anything in particular. You are awareness itself. You don't have a particular form. You contain everything or you are contained by all things.

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  Taoism, Awareness, Form

• Enlightenment comes through the feminine side of the being.

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  Taoism, Enlightenment, Sides

• Water always seeks the easiest path, the common level of life.

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  Water, Taoism, Levels

• The I Cing is a study in duality and what lies beyond duality.

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  Lying, Taoism, Study

• Alow immortality to work through you. Be but a mere instrument. And that instrument should be so absorbed in the perfect perfection of existence, that it knows not even that it is absorbed.

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  Perfect, Taoism, Immortality

• Unconscious of the existence of Tao, beings live supposing themselves to be separate from the universal intelligence, supposing themselves to be powerful or to be weak, thinking that they live their lives and die their deaths.

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  Powerful, Thinking, Taoism

• Some people think Taoism means not doing anything, just going on with your life. That has little or nothing to do with Taoism.

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  Mean, Thinking, People

• Initially there's absolutely nothing.

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  Taoism, Absolutely Nothing

• When there's no difference, there's no time, no world, no separativity - and there's no you ... nor is there an I.

  Frederick Lenz

  Differences, Taoism, World

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