Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 129

• When one side or the other predominates, there's an imbalance and there's unhappiness.

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  Buddhism, Imbalance, Sides

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• In the world order, if the nagual dominates and not the tonal, then we'll live in times of fear and superstition.

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  Buddhism, Order, World

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• If the tonal collapses completely, then you're crazy functionally, you're psychotic.

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  Crazy, Buddhism, Psychotic

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• Reason is necessary. It is necessary to deal with the world.

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  Buddhism, World, Reason

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• A person who is insane has no sense of their place; they've lost that ability, which our friend don Juan describes as the tonal.

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  Buddhism, Insane, Juan

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• You need your reason to pass through the world and also to experience the nagual, because if you become all nagual, we'll lock you away in an institution.

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  Buddhism, Needs, Locks

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• The reason why there's such a rigid repression of the mentally ill is the psyche of humanity senses something. It senses that it doesn't want to deal with the unknown.

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  Buddhism, Humanity, Want

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• Occasionally in my travels I meet people who have pushed too far into the nagual. These individuals are not too balanced but they have made great journeys in the unknown.

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  Buddhism, Journey, People

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• There are people who just can't handle life because they've thrown away too much of their reason.

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  Buddhism, People, Too Much

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• Everyone is on the verge of insanity ... insanity meaning on the verge of the unknown.

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  Buddhism, Insanity, Verge

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• Your reason is your friend. It defends the island of your awareness. But you don't want your reason to rule everything.

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  Buddhism, Islands, Want

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• If the tonal predominates, which we see now more in the world, there's no mystery - understanding of consciousness or awareness.

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  Buddhism, Understanding, World

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• The island of the tonal, the way we see life, is there so we can get through our life. It was never intended to become a dictator that would usurp all other views of the world and banish them.

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  Buddhism, Islands, Views

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• The description you have been given of the world is an aberrant one. It does not accept and give proper place to the nagual, to the mysterious unknown that is our heritage.

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  Buddhism, Giving, Doe

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• The tonal is so strong, that it even arranges a syntactical place for God and thus kills the mystery, the reality, and paralyzes the being.

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  Strong, Buddhism, Reality

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• The Romans were the tonal incarnate, complete order.

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  Buddhism, Order

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• The problem is that the dictator of the tonal wants to eliminate the mystery of life.

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  Buddhism, Want, Mystery

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• Thought is the ultimate tonal. Each thought is like a dike that blocks out the nagual.

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  Block, Buddhism, Ultimate

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• Your tonal must accept that the nagual exists and that it's beneficial and healthy.

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  Buddhism, Healthy, Accepting

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• The tonal leads the way. You have to have a methodology.

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  Buddhism, Way, Methodology

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• "Don't talk about enlightenment," Buddha would say. He was saying don't talk about the nagual. He'd talk about how to get to it.

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  Buddhism, Enlightenment

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• When we talk, answer questions, I'm addressing your tonal. I'm teaching you a way or a series of ways of dealing with the world.

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  Teaching, Buddhism, Answers

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• In the training process, the teacher addresses two sides of your being. One is the tonal and one is the nagual.

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  Teacher, Buddhism, Two Sides

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• The Buddha would never speak about enlightenment. The way he taught people about enlightenment was they meditated with him. He exposed them to countless views of the nagual.

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  Buddhism, Views, People

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• The Eightfold Path is ordering the island of the tonal completely.

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  Buddhism, Islands, Path

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