Frederick Lenz Quotes About Taoism

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

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  Reality, Chinese, Taoism

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

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  Dog, Sacrifice, Men

• 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.

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  Ego, Taoism, Kind

• Most beings enjoy existence so time comes into being.

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  Taoism, Existence, Enjoy

• The mind of the child is not formed. We are shown that this is life, this is the world.

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  Children, Mind, Taoism

• 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 we tend to think of yin and yang as circles. They're two circles that actually can lie on top of each other, yet they remain separate.

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  Lying, Thinking, Circles

• The I Ching tells us that for every ending there is a new beginning. In other words, what appears like a transition isn't really a transition; it's a continuum of existence. If you close your eyes for a moment the room will appear to go away. But does it really? Open your eyes again and the room will still be there. That's all death is.

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  New Beginnings, Eye, Taoism

• The pageant of life is divided into ying and yang. They're two circles. You can follow either circle and manage to develop enough speed to move beyond this world to other worlds, dimensional realities.

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  Moving, Reality, Other Worlds

• Taoism is not a religion, although perhaps it has been made into one by some people. Lao Tsu's way of life occurs in any spiritual philosophy.

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  Spiritual, Philosophy, People

• Water uses itself to go beyond whatever it needs to go beyond.

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  Water, Taoism, Needs

• 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 got to be somewhere on the map.

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  Taoism, Males, Female

• In the West the wise are usually thought of as leaders. In the East, the wise are very often though of as followers.

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  Wise, Leader, Taoism

• There are two choices available in duality - one side or the other side. Everyting is formed from that.

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  Two, Choices, Taoism

• 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 you might realize.

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  Choices, Taoism, World

• What we're seeking to do is become transparent. A transparent window on reality. But that takes time to do. We're starting with a very solid, objectified view of ourselves and existence

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  Reality, Views, Taoism

• The Grand Canyon is living evidence of the power of water over a period of time. The power may not manifest immediately. Water can be very powerful, like a tidal wave.

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  Powerful, Water, Taoism

• We can think of descriptions almost as computer languages, an operative description that only deals with very simple operations. Its code is sex - Male, female, dark, light, up down, in out - its the language of duality.

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  Sex, Dark, Simple

• 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

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