Re: American Buddhism - Critique of Science - Quotations by Dr. Frederick Lenz


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> Dr. Frederick Lenz:
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> "Life is not dependent upon our classifications and our categories, our
> science. But we are. We find it interesting and helpful.
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> One function of the intellect is to catalog. But cataloging doesn't
> change anything. If we call it a rose, or by any other name, it still
> smells as sweet. The name doesn't really matter. It is convenient for
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> A categorization implies a hierarchical way of seeing things. Life is
> really relational, not hierarchical. Hierarchical is a human way of
> looking at things. Relational is much more the way things are.
> Everything is connected.
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> In reality, as any physicist will tell you, the physical world is made
> up of moving energy. All matter is energy.
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> Everything around us is shifting all the time. Energy is moving in all
> things. What gives energy a continuity, what creates a pattern, is you.
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> The world glows all the time. All of the things that you have come to
> understand aren't. The greatest thinkers in the world see very little
> compared to the enlightened.
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> There's no way we can possibly understand anything. But we can see
> things. We can perceive things. And we can wonder. We can just be in a
> world of awe and wonder. That's the best we can do.
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> What are the beliefs today? To think that this is the only universe
> that the physical creation is all there is - these are the dogmas of
> our times.
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> Things are not necessarily logical. Logic is a secondary source
> reference. Everything is what it is. We have decided to apply rationale
> to things. It makes us feel better.
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> The body is a very low level machine language. The language of the
> soul, of the mind, is much more evolved.
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> Mind is not simply the collection of aggregate cells inside your brain.
> If you are only the grey matter, then when that dies, you won't exist
> any more. It's not that easy. You exist forever.
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> To think the universe is only composed of the physical universe is to
> be rather shortsighted.
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> Everybody goes into different dimensional planes. You do it every night
> when you dream. You are journeying into other dimensional planes.
> Dreams are not just functions of the cerebral cortex.
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> All of the physical universes put together, stretching out endlessly,
> are only a fraction of the totality of reality. In other words, all of
> the physical universes are only part of the physical dimensional plane,
> and there are thousands of dimensional planes.
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> The stars in the sky last for billions of years. That's nothing to the
> mind, nothing. It's an instant, a millisecond. The mind doesn't even
> know time because it is deathless and birthless. It shines radiantly
> forever. We don't see the shine because of the clutter.
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> The shortest distance between two points is your mind. It's not a
> straight line.
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> Within an atom there can be a billion kingdoms, endless. But all of
> them are bound by the cycle of birth and death. They all come into
> being for a while and then vanish.
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> There is no continuity at all. The universe isn't any particular way.
> It strictly depends upon perception.
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> Molecules don't have patterns. You create a pattern by the perception
> of something. The continuity of awareness is your perceptual field.
> Existence only occurs through the act of perception.
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> There is no time. There is no space. There is no condition. There is
> only awareness, awareness of these ideas.
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> Time is a convenient filing system human beings have devised to
> segregate their experiences.
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> A surfer is poised on a wave on his board, cutting quickly to the left.
> He'll always be there, in that moment. He's never left it. He had no
> birth, he didn't go to school, he didn't purchase the board; none of
> those things ever were.
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> You create time by joining events together. But they don't join
> together; there's no separativity.
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> Time is change. It's the separation of eternity from itself. When
> eternity is separated from itself, we see it appear in different forms.
> Time is not a movement in space. Space is a movement in time.
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> Time does not really exist as we know it; rather it's a transfiguration
> of a concept in which mortality, mutability, is conditioned.
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> I would suggest to you that at this moment you are the only self that
> you have ever had; you've never had a childhood; there wasn't a
> five-minute-ago time.
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> There is no future. There is only now, a continuous now. We have become
> so wrapped up in the past and the future that we don't see the
> continuous now. There is no future. It is an idea that you have.
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> This moment there is all that will ever be or has ever been. All the
> events of all of our lives are going-on simultaneously. There is no
> beginning and there is no ending. There's only this moment.
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> There is no deterioration and there is no creation. There are
> projections, moments of existence. Each moment is perfect.
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> Perception defines everything.
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> Nothing is distinct and separate
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> Everything happens all at once forever. All incarnations are lived at
> once, and yet there does seem to be a linear sense of time when you're
> in the vortex of time and space when your consciousness is fixated in a
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> How do you know you're even here right now? Perhaps you're not. Perhaps
> you're far, far away and this is just a dream. Life is a series of
> dreams, a series of interlocking awarenesses.
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> Our awareness creates life. Life does not exist independently of
> perception.
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> Chaos theory simply suggests that what appears to most people as chaos
> is not really chaotic, but a series of different types of orders with
> which the human mind has not yet become familiar.
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> Words are inaccurate pointers to reality and should by no means be
> trusted.
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> Thoughts can increase our understanding of a subject, or they can just
> as easily constrict or block our understanding of a subject. It very
> much depends upon the language we are thinking in.
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> Language is the medium of our thoughts.
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> Grammar has qualities, shapes and forms.
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> As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the
> qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns,
> predicates, past pluperfect indicative - ridiculous. It has qualities,
> shadings, differentiations, rhythmic structures of symbolic meaning.
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> We are all carrying the imprints of our most ancient ancestors. Not
> simply in the genetic code, but in the imprints of attention that are
> passed on.
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> Intelligence is something that is not just thinking, it's feeling.
> Ultimately, the highest reflection of intelligent life is cooperative
> life in which all benefit.
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> The mind is like a computer. It runs programs. Most of the software has
> been poorly written. It is written in the language of fear.
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> We are intelligent atoms. We are intelligent organic structures. We can
> change who we are. We can heal ourselves. With genetic engineering, we
> are considering changing the physiological structure of the body.
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> The universe is holding congress with itself.
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> Our past affects us, our present affects us, and even our future can
> affect us. We live in the relative world of time and space.
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> Many aspects of life cannot be explained through logic or reason. The
> reasoning part of the mind simply doesn't have the capacity to
> understand the many whys and how's of being and non-being.
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> Psychic perception is a much more efficient and accurate method of
> seeing and knowing reality.
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> Metaphysics is the study of how to shift the self. How to get outside
> the self-reflection and to just gaze with awe and wonder at the
> countless universes, the countless celestial radiances of mind, of
> life, of enlightenment, nirvana, or God, whatever you want to call it.
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> C. S. Lewis, Plato, Aristotle and many more names that I could add,
> including Einstein's, were individuals who were able to see the innate
> order in life, which others perceive as chaos.
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> Take chaotic mathematics, for instance. The universe is chaos. But
> chaos is whimping out. There is no chaos. There are just different
> levels of order in the universe.
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> Chaotic mathematics is essentially the study of chaos. It can't be
> chaos, if you can study it and it has an order.
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> Chaos is not disorder. Chaos is the totality of existence. You could
> call it God. You could use the term, the Tao. Chaos is all things --
> wild and wonderful, connected perfectly by the life force.
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> Do not be a sniveler. Do not say you can't be happy, you can't be
> enlightened. How do you know? It is all chaos.
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> Is there Chance? No. There is karma. Karma causes all things to happen.
> There is only one thing karma cannot decide, and that is how far you
> will evolve in this lifetime."
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> - Dr. Frederick Lenz
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*GAWD*!- this authoritarian *** is boring. Got a definitve
experiment to show that it works?

-Mark Martin

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