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

• Taoism is the gentle way. The path of least resistence.

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  Taoism, Way, Path

• There is no way to measure it ... because there's no one to measure it.

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  Taoism, Way

• If there's no background, no foreground, no opposition, no complements, then there's no change becasue there's no subject and object.

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  Taoism, Backgrounds, Complement

• Wisdom is knowing that if you bend, you don't have to break. Sometimes it is necessary to go with the flow of life.

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  Knowing, Taoism, Flow

• For a person who lives in time, differences are the most important thing because they represent your existence.

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  Differences, Taoism, Important

• Everything is part of one web, one matrix of existence, beyond discussion. This is our true self in its undifferentiated form.

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  Self, Taoism, Form

• Before perception, before a preceiver, existence was - is. This is the consciousness that we refer to as nirvana, God, eternity.

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  Perception, Taoism, Consciousness

• 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 not real, they are not eternal.

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  Real, Upset, Taoism

• Buddhism teaches us not to want things, not to avoid things, not to be upset by the loss. In the I Ching, there's a hexagram that says, "Be like the sun at midday". View all things as being equal.

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  Buddhism, Loss, Views

• Taoism has no rules. It's a suggestion for preceiving life in its wholeness, without unnessary categorization, yet enjoying the beauty of categorization.

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  Taoism, Suggestions, Categorization

• We create ying and yang, yes and no, plus and minus.

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  Taoism, Yang, Yes And No

• Gradually, you were given a description of the world, a way of seeing, which is largely sexual.

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  Taoism, World, Way

• Lao Tsu always points a finger directly to us. He says we must begin with ourselves. It's impossible to bring order into the world unless we bring order into ourselves.

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  Order, Taoism, Laos

• We can say the stars are moving because we have a relative context.

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  Stars, Moving, Taoism

• 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.

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  Attachment, Suffering, Taoism

• The limitations that we can see of the sexual description of reality are very apparent. Very few men attain enlightenment, even fewer women.

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  Reality, Men, Taoism

• Learn not to be attached to other people, to certain types of experiences. Allow the flow of life to guide you wherever it is supposed to and accept with equanimity, with balance, with poise, whatever happens.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Taoism, Balance

• Lao Tsu says the way of life is ancient, timeless. It is existence which he calls the Tao - a mysterious source, beyond understanding, and all of us are a reflection, if not that source of life ourselves.

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  Reflection, Understanding, Taoism

• Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal.

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  Life And Death, Taoism, Substance

• Our seeing is sexual initially.

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  Taoism, Seeing

• 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 or female.

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  Sex, Taoism, Males

• There is another kind of wisdom, the wisdom of following - the wisdom of not taking the lead with your ego.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ego, Taoism, Kind

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