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

• 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.

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  Differences, Taoism, World

• Water is the symbol of pure consciousness.

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  Water, Taoism, Consciousness

• 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 the time of your birth.

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  School, Taoism, Up To You

• 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 are a part of life.

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  Humble, Thinking, Interesting

• The dreams of existence of that we call time, space, matter, subject, object, yin, yang - everything flows forth from this tai chi.

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  Dream, Space, Taoism

• The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level of existence.

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  Humility, Water, Taoism

• Chaos is not disorder. Chaos is the totality of existence. You could call it God. You could use the term, the Tao. I like chaos. It means more to us in English. Chaos is all things, wild and wonderful, connected perfectly by the life force.

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  Mean, Science, Taoism

• 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 it has no definition.

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  Taoism, Definitions, Backgrounds

• When we have complements or oppositions, change occurs.

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  Taoism, Complement, Opposition

• When it reaches a blockage, water find the easiest path around the blockage, or it continues to assemble, and flows over the blockage.

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  Water, Taoism, Flow

• 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.

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  Distance, Political, Taoism

• Be in harmony with the Tao, with the basic principles of creation. To not be in harmony with that flow, no matter how hard you meditate, you will not be happy and you won't be liberated.

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  Taoism, Principles, Matter

• Lao Tsu uses the anology of the tree. The old hard tree breaks and falls when the wind blows. The young tree bends and does not break. He advises us to bend and not to break.

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  Fall, Blow, Wind

• If we're distracted from the continual flow of perfect mind that we're in, suddenly everything configures, everything solidifies. Suddenly a shape appears out of flux, a world appears, karmas appear, pasts, futures, presents, time structures, ying and yang appear.

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  Karma, Past, Perfect

• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Taoism, Form

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