Explore the most impactful and insightful quotes and sayings by Frederick Lenz, and enrich your perspective with the wisdom. Share these inspiring Frederick Lenz quotes pictures with your friends on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, completely free. Here are the top 4311 Frederick Lenz quotes for you to read and share.
People who are humble don't talk too much; they listen. -- Frederick Lenz
Enlightenment means that you're never the same. You move and shift as the quiescent state, in a body or out of it. And since the quiescent state is perpetual and endless ecstasy, therefore you are endless. -- Frederick Lenz
Many enlightened persons are never very well known. Many are reclusive. They live in little villages in India or up in the high Himalayas in Tibet. Some have no students at all. Some have a few. -- Frederick Lenz
Find a teacher of Tantric Zen and study with them because it is transference of awareness, a sharing of the perception of the beauty of life. -- Frederick Lenz
Tantra is the perception of the oneness and the perfection of all things. Not just the perception of light, but the perception of darkness, seeing God in both beauty and horror. -- Frederick Lenz
We're at the end of the cycle. You've all known it since childhood. In the Hindu division of the ages, this is the Kali Yuga, the dark age. At the end of a cycle, Vishnu takes incarnation as a person. Vishnu is that aspect of God that preserves and protects life. When Vishnu leaves, Shiva comes. -- Frederick Lenz
If you wake up for a moment and look around at life, you will observe that nothing here lasts, nothing works out. There are no happy endings. All accomplishments are washed away by death or by the next moment. -- Frederick Lenz
We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving you have no time for this. You just push these emotions out. -- Frederick Lenz
When you meditate you are accessing eternity. You are plugging yourself into that source which is all light and all beauty and all perfection. -- Frederick Lenz
All he said was that we're all free if we pursue spirit. That's all he said. He didn't say let's set up a Vatican Concil. He didn't say, Martin Luther, you need to put our demands on the door. -- Frederick Lenz
Take a deep breath and exhale slowly. Mentally picture all tiredness, tension, and fatigue leaving you. Visualize that a wave of golden light is entering you at the top of your head and passing throughout your entire body. -- Frederick Lenz
If you act impetuously, it will be uncertain, and you'll know it. It just won't feel right. It is better to wait. -- Frederick Lenz
It is not special to be enlightened, just different. An enlightened person is someone who has dedicated not just this lifetime but thousands of lifetimes to becoming awareness. -- Frederick Lenz
Through high school, college, graduate school and beyond, I had a number of relationships that were wonderful. -- Frederick Lenz
True teachers of enlightenment are hard to find. The popular ones, of course, usually aren't enlightened because how could they be? They just tell people what they want to hear. -- Frederick Lenz
When you allow desire, anger and frustration to dominate you, you are losing power. -- Frederick Lenz
Sometimes in an incarnation you get a feeling of frustration. It is not working out the way you want. If you pull your power together and meditate, no matter what happens to you physically, you will have gained from this life. -- Frederick Lenz
There's no right or wrong in the study of enlightenment. There's only experience. -- Frederick Lenz
The way of Zen is to become independent and strong. Don't rely on others for perceptions of life and truth. Do it individually. Go to a teacher of Zen to learn how to do that, not to get answers for individual life situations. -- Frederick Lenz
Having the competitive edge to be able to succeed is having control of your time, life and mind. -- Frederick Lenz
Wisdom is to see the difference between nirvana and this world, this self-reflection that the mind creates. -- Frederick Lenz
Human beings have become so afraid of the unknown, themselves, and each other that they deprive themselves of that innate ecstasy and love of life which comes with a human body, mind and spirit, by hiding behind the empty shell of their ego. -- Frederick Lenz
I do enjoy wearing Japanese and Italian clothing. I also enjoy my blue jeans or tennis shorts and running shoes. I like driving a Porsche because it is an elegant machine and it is a very beautiful experience to drive it. It's magnificently made. -- Frederick Lenz
On the path of love we feel that if we love today, it's only because God is loving through us, because there is a special grace present with which we can love. -- Frederick Lenz
The problem is in the type of energy that is directed, either in the act of sex or simply walking down the street or talking to someone. -- Frederick Lenz
Until your physical togetherness increases, your development in the inner worlds will not increase. -- Frederick Lenz
Reincarnation doesn't simply mean that at the end of this life you will move on to another life in another body, it means that the spirit of life is continually renewing itself and moving to a higher level. -- Frederick Lenz
Our seeing is sexual initially. -- Frederick Lenz
Focus on one point and hold your attention there. The mind will waiver, you'll think a million thoughts, but each time you do, bring your mind back to the point of concentration, seeing it visually. -- Frederick Lenz
Computer science is the most misunderstood field there is. You are being paid to solve puzzles. For a person who has practiced meditation in past lives, that is the way your mind works. -- Frederick Lenz
Some come to a teacher for power. They still have all the desires, angers and jealousies of an unevolved person. Consequently, they become destructive both to themselves and to others. -- Frederick Lenz
Anything you can say, think, feel, trust or feel is untrue - is an illusion. The fact that there are these things is an illusion. -- Frederick Lenz
One should feel that one's friends, the people who meditate around you, who seek, are likewise pligrims on a journey. They're traveling to eternity also. You should love them. Whenever you see a good quality in them, you should repect them. -- Frederick Lenz
You can be in a state of mind for a few seconds and forget that you were ever in any other state of mind. That's what we mean by illusion. -- Frederick Lenz
A long time ago individuals looked at life and saw that most people aren't happy. They saw this was obviously an inefficient system. So they combed the universe and found immeasurable happiness inside of us, our spirits. -- Frederick Lenz
We have two choices in life: One is to fulfill ourselves. The other is to take the time and energy that we would utilize in fulfilling ourselves and use it to make others happy. -- Frederick Lenz
Maybe if you stopped asking "why" all the time, you might be happy. Leave it alone, you know? Life is happy. -- Frederick Lenz
Sri Krishna refers, of course, to this world as a joyless, transient world. Obviously, he's never been to Disneyland. -- Frederick Lenz
Unhappiness is really an incorrect way of seeing. When we are unhappy we don't see life as it really is. We are in a condition of veiled light, of shadows. -- Frederick Lenz
Be kind; you're only here for a while. No sense of superiority, just do things for others. It's really fun. -- Frederick Lenz
Stop worrying about tomorrow. Stop thinking about yesterday. Mindfulness is to be here now, in the moment. Focus on this moment. -- Frederick Lenz
The days of infinity are endless. Its hours cannot be counted or found on a clock. There is no north, south, east, or west. These are just concepts. Infinity is forever, everywhere all at once. And that's all there is. -- Frederick Lenz
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 body. -- Frederick Lenz
In order to pass into other dimensions you need to really understand what is out there. A teacher of mysticism is able to explain how to deal with these other worlds and universes. -- Frederick Lenz
Each time you meditate you have the possibility of completely changing your life in one meditation. If you meditate with your whole heart and your whole soul, you will become light itself. -- Frederick Lenz
Make lists. Write down the things that give you power. Write down the things that take your power away also. Make lists of people close to you. Are you associations raising you to a higher level of attention? -- Frederick Lenz
Everything that I teach as an enlightened Buddhist teacher is towards directing an individual to happiness, a balanced wisdom and knowledge that is sometimes just bubbly and euphoric or just very still and profound. -- Frederick Lenz
Have a healthy respect and love for yourself, but don't be taken out by your ego. -- Frederick Lenz
A teacher is really invaluable. A teacher will instruct you in how to stabilize your energy field, increase it, and decrease the loss of energy in your life and how to be balanced, wise, and funny. -- Frederick Lenz
Studying with a teacher doesn't simply mean going to an occasional seminar or Zen retreat. It means fully applying yourself to what the teacher says, most of which is not verbal. -- Frederick Lenz
When you read Boethius and some of the Renaissance philosophers, they talk a lot about the other spheres. There's a music of the spheres. There's a music that's actually in the universe, they believed, that's out there in different dimensions. -- Frederick Lenz
You have to learn to be very, very gentle to start with - with yourself eventually. Meditation is not something that you force. It is something that happens to you because life gives you a gift. -- Frederick Lenz
A good warrior, a seventh or eighth degree black-belt, will tell you there is no victory. It doesn't make you more powerful to win. It's just what you do. It's an expression of your personal power level. -- Frederick Lenz
Psychic impressions can also remain in a physical location for some time. You can move into a home just vacated, pick-up the thought forms from the previous tenants, and assume they were your own thoughts and feelings. -- Frederick Lenz
Its funny how human beings tend to think that they're the masters of the earth never realizing that the earth, for a time, simply tolerates its tenants and then, when the mood strikes, it shifts its continents around. -- Frederick Lenz
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. -- Frederick Lenz
In Buddhism you study how to release the kundalini to the levels that would certainly afford career success. If we move it further, into the planes of knowledge and wisdom, it enables the practitioner to do just about anything. -- Frederick Lenz
Every day work on your humility through your meditation, giving more of yourself, giving those things you don't want to give. -- Frederick Lenz
If someone else is supposed to be in your life, they will be in your life - you can't stop them from coming if its the will of eternity. -- Frederick Lenz
There are many different places of power around the world. They're invisible openings to other worlds. We find a preponderance of these places in the Himalayas, in the western part of the United States; of course, in every country of the world there are some. -- Frederick Lenz
To run away from life and desire is impossible because you are life and you have desire. Accept that this is part of your physical condition and see that these aspects are not really indigenous to what you are. -- Frederick Lenz
Be neither attracted nor repulsed is the message of Tantric Buddhism. Don't be drawn to something, don't run away from it. Just naturally accept whatever comes into life. -- Frederick Lenz
Sri Krishna says whatever role we have in life, we have to play it to the hilt. We have to take it all the way. We have to assume responsibility for our role. To run away from it causes misery. -- Frederick Lenz
Sri Krishna's message is the message of anyone who comes from far away. His message is the same as Buddha, Lao Tsu, Bodhidharma, Milarepa, Padmasambhava. -- Frederick Lenz
We throw you as many as you want, in this profession, and the more you want the more we'll give you, until you're so confused that you'll just beg for us to stop. Stop what? You're the one who started it - you're doing it anyway. -- Frederick Lenz
The dreams of the self are manifold and endless and they exist in all the myriad worlds and conditions that appear to have solidity. When you're dreaming at night, something seems very real, but when you wake up the dream is gone and so is all that apparent solidity. -- Frederick Lenz
Dreams are just silly things that pass through your mind at night. "Dreaming" is out-of-the-body experiences where you are traveling through the different dimensions - most of which you don't remember. -- Frederick Lenz
We all have auras. But it's much easier to see the aura of someone who is in a state of samadhi or other profound state of awareness. -- Frederick Lenz
You don't have to do anything to meditate. That's what makes it so difficult. Everybody wants to do something. -- Frederick Lenz
I think perhaps the greatest book ever written was Ulysses by James Joyce. -- Frederick Lenz
Every person who sees you physically evaluates you and projects energy towards you based upon the way you've dressed. -- Frederick Lenz
Eternity, I don't know what's right or wrong, good or bad. I may be doing what's right or I may be deceiving myself. So instead, what I'm going to do is give my life to you. -- Frederick Lenz
As long as you visualize this sphere of red energy surrounding you, negative thoughts, hostilities, anger, and aggressive feelings of other persons and situations cannot enter you. -- Frederick Lenz
Self-discovery is realistic. It's not built on ideas and philosophies. It's what works. Philosophies are nice if you like philosophies. But self-discovery is predicated on something that really brings you into enlightened states of mind. -- Frederick Lenz
You don't have to take drugs to be happy. You don't have to drink to be happy. You don't have to have people around you who love you to be happy. You don't need anything except the clarity of your own mind. -- Frederick Lenz
When you become angry at someone, your anger will actually have a power. You can hit somebody in a non-physical way and it can injure that being. -- Frederick Lenz
In tantra one does not seek experiences that most people would consider unspiritual and try to see truth in them. In tantra we don't try to guide our life in a specific way. We let the winds of existence blow us where they will. -- Frederick Lenz
It is possible to exert a power over all things, all beings. But we must begin with intent always. -- Frederick Lenz
Tantra is the left-handing path, meaning it is the road less taken. -- Frederick Lenz
The pathway to enlightenment leads to states of ecstasy, knowledge, and a pretty ironic sense of humor. -- Frederick Lenz
Don't become a spiritual bigot. Don't feel that just because you meditate and you are striving for enlightenment that you are in any way superior to any other person. Be even. Be easy. You will last longer on the pathway to self-discovery. -- Frederick Lenz
I teach meditation and the pathway to enlightenment because I know that there are other people who, like i did a long time ago and continue to, want to climb that mountain to the highest light. -- Frederick Lenz
Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment. Move the ego aside and be still, open, clear, bright and fully conscious. -- Frederick Lenz
What matters is that you meditate, you're seeking enlightenment, you're on the pathway to enlightenment, and you're having fun. Don't look for reassurance in the eyes of others. Look for reassurance in your own eyes. Only you know if Buddhist practice is improving the quality of your life. -- Frederick Lenz
On the pathway that leads to enlightenment, only your heart can tell you what is right. -- Frederick Lenz
You remember, you are drawn back to the pathway to enlightenment, to meditation, and when you begin to meditate your past life knowledge returns to you. -- Frederick Lenz
The pathway to enlightenment is joyful. It may sound harsh. I suggest just the opposite. It is rather easy compared to the possibilities of staying in pain and illusion. -- Frederick Lenz
People on the pathway to enlightenment become very successful in whatever they approach, because they have learned to discipline the mind. -- Frederick Lenz
When you change your state of mind, your whole life changes, nothing remains the same. Nothing looks the same, because you have changed. -- Frederick Lenz
In a few short years you might have to become a scuba diver and go hundreds of feet underwater - It will be the last refuge of pure aura and power on our planet, the oceans' depths. -- Frederick Lenz
How do we find a way out? By realizing that there's no place to go, that there's no way out, that there's no way in. All that exists is the Self. -- Frederick Lenz
Those who dissolve their body of perception completely are absorbed into what we would call nirvana. -- Frederick Lenz
The integrity of the subtle body is totally important. As the subtle body wears, we get sick. That is why, eventually, the body dies - it's because something happens to the subtle body. -- Frederick Lenz
Humility doesn't mean hiding in the corner and pretending you are not strong. Humility means to be what you are. -- Frederick Lenz
Ultimately, thinking is a very inefficient method of processing data. -- Frederick Lenz
It is my experience that people who don't participate in society, who don't have jobs, who don't have friends, are just very stuck in irresponsibility and cultism and all kinds of nonsense. -- Frederick Lenz
You have to look at your own thought forms. Are you sitting around and thinking a lot of negative thoughts? These injure the subtle body. When you hate, when you are angry, you bring that energy through you. -- Frederick Lenz
Meditation will bring back the powers and awareness from the past; more importantly, it will expand your consciousness today. -- Frederick Lenz
It is your causal body that is the real you. At the end of each incarnation, it carries the knowledge and karmic patterns of that lifetime, in addition to all of your other previous lifetimes, into your next lifetime. -- Frederick Lenz
The psychic plane is clouded over by emotions and thoughts and the general dullness and malaise that develops in our contemporary world through the social conditioning that most individuals experience in the modern era. -- Frederick Lenz
Practicing zazen and mindfulness constantly and correctly, over a period of time, can bring strength and clarity to your finite mind and eventually give you access to your infinite mind. -- Frederick Lenz
Be fair. Don't present your version of the truth to others. Lose your ulterior motives! Be accurate and pure in your presentation of the way, and you will become the way. -- Frederick Lenz
Tantra is for the person who has self control but doesn't care anymore. It is for the person who is able to abandon self-control and its fixation. -- Frederick Lenz
The software is the strength of the electronic tribe because it's networking. It's creating oneness. It's creating tributaries that link together into a singular river. -- Frederick Lenz
All things are spiritual. It doesn't matter what you do or who you are or what kind of blue jeans you wear, or whether you wear an ochre robe or whether you're sober or asleep or dreaming. It's all the same. -- Frederick Lenz
A dreaming vortex is a place where it's easy to change. You come to a dreaming vortex like Hawaii to step from one dream into another, from one world into another, to change, in other words. -- Frederick Lenz
Sit in front of an object of concentration with the eyes open. Focus on a candle flame, or a yantra, a little dot, something small. Just look at it. Focus on it until there is nothing else in your mind. This develops willpower. -- Frederick Lenz
Human beings actually have quite a bit of willpower. They don't know too much about it, but they have quite a bit. -- Frederick Lenz
When willpower is not guided, it's terrible. Hitler had a lot of will. But he used it for destructive purposes because he lacked wisdom. -- Frederick Lenz
It is possible with pure willpower to force the kundalini up the shushumna, through the chakras. You will develop visions of other worlds that will not necessarily stop when you want them to. This is a condition we call insanity. -- Frederick Lenz
If you meditate, you can experience the other worlds, the far-flung eternities and dimensions - and you are not stuck in any one of them. -- Frederick Lenz
Relationships are a proving ground for love. -- Frederick Lenz
Dreams are real. This is unreal. This world is unreal. Everybody has it backwards. This is the dream. This is an insubstantial pageant. Nothing here lasts - that is how you know it's the dream. -- Frederick Lenz
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. -- Frederick Lenz
"The dream is real but it does not last" - This is an illusion. -- Frederick Lenz
As a sensitive person around other people, you feel their desires, you feel their angers, and you feel their frustrations. You begin to believe that these desires, angers, and frustrations are yours. -- Frederick Lenz
When you realize that the ego is making you miserable you don't identify with it. You identify with your soul's humility and the ego dissolves. -- Frederick Lenz
We live in a sensual world, and at the same time we live beyond it - billions of dimensions that are nonphysical, we experience them when we stop thought. -- Frederick Lenz
We live in a world of wars and wars alarms, of famines, of oppression. While there are many wonderful people in this world, you'll notice one curious fact about them, they all suffer, they all die, and sometimes those who are the nicest seem to suffer the most. -- Frederick Lenz
The vast majority of beings who incarnate on this planet are at the stage of their evolution where power is the dominant theme. They are learning about power. That is why we live in a world where there are so many wars and so much destruction. -- Frederick Lenz
The samskaras that were developed in previous incarnations are usually hidden by the temporary amnesia of infancy and by the transient personality. -- Frederick Lenz
The process of eliminating the samskaras and reaching complete enlightenment is very technical, wonderful, and mystical process. -- Frederick Lenz
As we grow older and mature in each incarnation, we are drawn back to samskaras, to previous interests and pursuits. -- Frederick Lenz
Sexuality, I think, is a little bit different, for me, than it is for most people, in that there's almost no body awareness whatsoever. It's just light, but that's how everything is for me. -- Frederick Lenz
We sit in meditation and cry to God, we cry to the light, as little children, knowing God will do everything for us. -- Frederick Lenz
I enjoy the writings of all of these authors and they have been very inspirational for me. But I think that it is important as writers of metaphysical, New Age, occult fiction and nonfiction to not take ourselves too seriously. -- Frederick Lenz
Astrologically, at that age, you experience a Saturn return. It is considered an auspicious time to "reboot" your life. It's a chance to have a clean start and move forward into something very exciting. -- Frederick Lenz
If you go too far, it'll blow your mind. I mean it's strong out there. If you go out too far beyond the bounds of attention, there are things in the universe, in the universes of mind, in the inner worlds, it's best sometimes not to deal with unless you're very, very far along. -- Frederick Lenz
Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live. -- Frederick Lenz
We try to fulfill ourselves, even though our inner voice tells us to become all that we are - still, we run from it. -- Frederick Lenz
With the use of psychedelics, it was all based around the Tibetan Book of the Dead, using them to experience enlightenment. -- Frederick Lenz
In mysticism we deal with dreaming and the fields of perception. -- Frederick Lenz
Personality is a manifestation of ego. Ego is the central sense of separateness that a person has from the rest of the universe. Personality is the form that that separateness take. -- Frederick Lenz
In the beginning, when you are meditating, just ignore thought. Shine it on. Then after you are comfortable sitting there, try selectively eliminating negative thoughts, thoughts that agitate the mind. -- Frederick Lenz
If we try and direct our lives with only our limited rationalistic thoughts and our sense perceptions, then our actions and our activities will not be prefect. -- Frederick Lenz
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. -- Frederick Lenz
The most important thing is sensitivity. Many people have sex and don't feel anything, and that seems kind of sad to me. The answer is not necessarily the avoidance of sex, but learning to be sensitive and to love and to care. -- Frederick Lenz
Advance yourself by advancing others. Do not judge others. Be of service to them, but realize that you are not necessarily the instrument of perfecting and immortalizing others. -- Frederick Lenz
Don't judge others. Always be open to them. Avoid the cult mentality, you know, the super-slick, "I'm superior because I meditate, because I'm on the pathway to enlightenment," the subtle ego nonsense, terrible trap. -- Frederick Lenz
See how it's a philosophy that's been handed to you by a bunch of men who were afraid. So instead, they overcompensate with hatred and violence and repression. -- Frederick Lenz
When we are very young children we know how to feel. It's innate. But as we lead a lifetime, we pick up so many thoughts, impressions, feelings, and ideas, that our sensitivity goes away. -- Frederick Lenz
The main reason people fail is they become attached to others who hold them back. Letting go of others and going forward may seem like a lonely and impossible task, but I assure you it is not. -- Frederick Lenz
I am an expert in the world of the supremely happy because I am happy. I've never met anybody as happy as I am - that, in itself, should make you unhappy. -- Frederick Lenz
There is a sense of competition in Zen. You are competing with your thoughts and trying to overcome them. -- Frederick Lenz
I don't dictate particular styles of dress. I do teach classes in self discovery. -- Frederick Lenz
Sometimes you won't feel pleasant during a meditation session; it seems like an uphill run. But when you get to the top, the view is rather breathtaking. -- Frederick Lenz
Self-discovery is a very advanced art. What we're doing basically is screwing around with what you're made up of. We're taking awarenesses, feelings, ideas and impressions and changing them. -- Frederick Lenz
I offer you the possibilities of immortality, a pathway that leads beyond the known and the unknown, few follow it. -- Frederick Lenz
When we love others we see our oneness with others. -- Frederick Lenz
The members of the Atlantean Mystery School were the earliest human explorers of the frontiers of inner space. Through their meditative journeys and explorations, they discovered many secret astral passageways that led to an infinite variety of other worlds and dimensions. -- Frederick Lenz
Enlightened teachers and people who help them, have a lot of trouble. People try to interfere with the work and spread awful rumors about you. -- Frederick Lenz
From my point of view, which is the point of view of no illusions, there is only winning and losing. You might as well be a winner. -- Frederick Lenz
The path of love. Good luck. May your love guide you through the bardo to eternity. -- Frederick Lenz
The dreams of eternity are the states of mind. When we wake up from the dreams there's only enlightenment. There could never be anything else. -- Frederick Lenz
All questions about the Self, fall away in the white light of eternity, in nirvana, because then we have awakened from the dream. -- Frederick Lenz
Chaos is everywhere and chaos is wonderful. That's all there really is. There is no today. There is no tomorrow. There is only eternity, perfection, consciousness, power, and light. -- Frederick Lenz
You must have total and impeccable trust in eternity. Whether you like it or not, eternity's in charge, so you might as well trust. You will feel better. -- Frederick Lenz
Learn to accept the transitory nature of existence of the body and the mind; see eternity in everything, this world, the other worlds, and nirvana. -- Frederick Lenz
The person who did all of these things has gone away, vanished without a trace in the ecstasy of existence. -- Frederick Lenz
There comes a time when a race of beings makes a decision. When they chose to reject enlightenment, it's the end of their world because the karma is inevitable. They have to destroy themselves. -- Frederick Lenz
People love misery, they love to feel sorry for themselves, and they definitely don't want to be enlightened. That's the first thing they tell you at boot camp in the higher worlds. -- Frederick Lenz
You're looking through the kaleidoscope of God and seeing God's face in so many ways, as friends, as strangers, passersby, country roads, jammed freeways, the cancer ward, the maternity ward - all the faces of God surround you at all times. -- Frederick Lenz
There is no material universe. There is no reality. All that exists are images. -- Frederick Lenz
Your mind is your life. It's your essence and your substance. It's the part of you that has always been and will always be. Its formations change constantly, which is what makes you always new. -- Frederick Lenz
Existence is perpetual motion. Galileo wondered about it, Da Vinci. -- Frederick Lenz
As long as you wish to separate yourself from the immortal consciousness, you will suffer. You will experience the pain of the separation, the abridgment of infinite mind in finite form. -- Frederick Lenz
The astral is the supporting ground for the physical dimension. -- Frederick Lenz
The world you experience, every day and night of your life, is transient. They only last for the blink of an eye, and then they dissolve back into that unknowable and formless eternity. -- Frederick Lenz
In the second stage we stop thought for limited periods of time. -- Frederick Lenz
You may feel a sensation of floating. You may see colors, maybe no phenomena, it doesn't matter. You are absorbing power. -- Frederick Lenz
The strategy of winning is gaining personal power. There are no techniques to learn that will cause you to win. You need power, balance and wisdom to win and to learn from your loses. -- Frederick Lenz
It is necessary to go through all the daily tasks and bring perfection to them, to learn to be perfect in your meditation, and to win in all your endeavors so that one day you will complete again. -- Frederick Lenz
Trust yourself. Figure out everything you want, but then don't worry about it. It's all out of our hands. Just let life work through you . -- Frederick Lenz
With the power of one's will we stop thought and move into alternate forms of perception. We gain that power through practicing very, very, very hard each day when we meditate to stop our thoughts. -- Frederick Lenz
I was very dawn to people I loved, to my family, to my father, to my sister, to my brothers. -- Frederick Lenz
In the West people spend most of their time and energy working. The problem is you are so tired from work that you don't have much energy to meditate - unless you use work in a tantric way. -- Frederick Lenz
Your spiritual journey and your spiritual welfare are really dependent on two primary factors: One, your ability to meditate and two, your ability to give of yourself. -- Frederick Lenz
Nothing is distinct and separate. The waves of the ocean arise and have a separate birth, crashing on the shore, but then back into the ocean they go. They never left it. There is no movement in Nirvana. -- Frederick Lenz
Most power is lost in one's own mind by thinking negative thoughts, by worrying about the future, by focusing on the past, as opposed to thinking positive, strong, and happy thoughts. -- Frederick Lenz
Don't judge your meditations. Don't rate them. The physical mind cannot tell how well you did. As long as you are sitting there trying, something will happen. -- Frederick Lenz
Several very good friends of mine have died of AIDS. I spent a great deal of time with them when they went through that process. -- Frederick Lenz
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. -- Frederick Lenz
There is a way beyond this life and beyond death, the path of liberation. In order to be liberated, you have to enter into the world of advanced meditation. -- Frederick Lenz
As spirits we have always existed in a generalized form, since we are all part of the universe. As individual spirits, we have existed for a timeless time. -- Frederick Lenz
Consciousness, like a complex system of software, has thousands of levels of nested, self-accessing subroutines -- Frederick Lenz
Take a couple of days by yourself and rent a nice cabin in some nice, happy place. Stay a day or two and meditate and take walks in areas that feel good to you. Find out who you are again. Remember. -- Frederick Lenz
The top of the band would be happiness, contentment and peace of mind. -- Frederick Lenz
Love has its own independent form and formlessness. When someone loves you be gratiful for it. If they stop loving be grateful for that. If they love another, let them love! -- Frederick Lenz
Self-realization is a strange term. You don't actually realize your 'self'. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of meditation: A butterfly emerges - metamorphosis. -- Frederick Lenz
As Buddhist monks, our task is to bring ourselves resolutely more and more into light, to forgive and forget, to forget those who create problems for us because to remember them is only to keep problems is mind. -- Frederick Lenz
When this life ends, I will be absorbed back into you. I have come forth from you . You are all good and you know all that there is. So please act in me and through me at every moment and every second. Let me be but an extension of your being. Teach me how to live and love selflessly, at all times. -- Frederick Lenz
When we go to the desert, it's pure nagual. There you witness stupendous and incredible acts of power that your reason cannot possibly deal with. -- Frederick Lenz
There is no evil, there's no bad; there's no good. These are human ideas. There's no creator, there's no creation; there's no God, there's no nirvana, there's no perfection. These are ideas. -- Frederick Lenz
Two people can be work at the same job, side by side. One person is working just for a paycheck. Another is working to perfect their being. Some people think that the material world will make them happy. -- Frederick Lenz
The mind is like a lake. It reflects eternity when it's very still. If ripples appear, lots of them, then the reflection is not clear. We lose the clarity of the perfect reflection. -- Frederick Lenz
Life wears us down. We all die here. Depending upon the way you expose yourself to energies and powers and forces will determine whether you have a lot of energy or you lose energy. -- Frederick Lenz
God is limitless awareness. There, now I have told you everything I know about God ... a lot of good it did you. -- Frederick Lenz
Faithfulness, faith, all of the words that so few people live, you must live. Only then are you worthy of immortality. -- Frederick Lenz
Practice love and self-acceptance and you'll have an absolutely beautiful life. -- Frederick Lenz
Dharma doesn't necessarily mean following a mundane and boring life. It means a life of high adventure, not a life of endless, boring repetition. -- Frederick Lenz
If you have a boring, insipid, mouse-like life where you're just afraid to be or do anything, then you don't bring much into your next life. You don't bring much power. -- Frederick Lenz
You human beings think that yoga is in some way going to make everything you want to happen, work out. You are going to be able to avoid what you don't want. That is not yoga. That is desire and aversion. -- Frederick Lenz
Krishna suprises Arjuna. He says go fight, go kill. Do this because it's only play money. You can't kill your friends any more than they can kill you. -- Frederick Lenz
Krishna says, fight. He says, go out on the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill; and whether they were your friends or not, you have to look at the big picture. In the big picture, you can't go kill anybody, you can't be killed. -- Frederick Lenz
The best battle is the battle that is never fought. The best war is the war that is won without a battle. -- Frederick Lenz
Don't just sit there. Go do something and don't expect that it's going to be fun unless you make it fun. You have got to work on things. That is when you are happy. -- Frederick Lenz
With a teacher it is necessary to be sensitive to their directions; most of the time they won't say much. You have to be still and silent to understand. -- Frederick Lenz
The white light is the joker in the deck. It creates transmutations that are completely unpredictable, which is what makes it fun, which is why it scares the hell out of most people. -- Frederick Lenz
It takes tremendous self-restraint on the part of the student not to want to monopolize the teacher's attention, to live a very controlled life and a happy life, and of course, be dedicated to the cause. -- Frederick Lenz
When your mind is tranquil and at peace with the universe, when it has become void of all thought - you become meditation. -- Frederick Lenz
As a monk you have a responsibility to meditate many hours a day. Not just to sit there but to think of the ten thousand radiances. -- Frederick Lenz
Put the mind in alignment with the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment and experience them in various gradations forever. That's the total purpose of a monk. -- Frederick Lenz
We play in the jungle gym of sexuality until our spirit takes us out into a clear field where we can see the stars, the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment. One of those radiances is the dance of sexuality. -- Frederick Lenz
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. -- Frederick Lenz
They have done this through sexual repression, economic repression, political repression, social repression, ideological repression and spiritual repression. -- Frederick Lenz
Only the ego can fear, experience hate, lust and jealousy. Humility experiences none of these things - it merges into the transcendental awareness of perfection. -- Frederick Lenz
If you have humility, you are willing to undertake anything to spread the dharma. -- Frederick Lenz
Get your emotions under control and your life under control. Work really hard and don't make a big deal out of yourself. Have humility. Believe in yourself. Don't get a fanatical fixation on a teacher. -- Frederick Lenz
A mantra is a very powerful word. It vibrates like music does, only not on this plane but on other planes of reality. It creates a powerful force. It starts the kundalini moving. -- Frederick Lenz
In tantra, samsara is viewed as the same thing as nirvana. Eating a hamburger is meditation. -- Frederick Lenz
Something in you wants to go beyond, wants to be free from this endless round of perception. Enlightenment is that. -- Frederick Lenz
What you need to learn are basic types of concentration, bringing more energy into your life, plugging up the holes where you lose energy, the basics of self-discovery. -- Frederick Lenz
I have chosen to parody the writing styles of Carlos Castaneda, James Redfield, Richard Bach, Lynn Andrews, and several other best-selling new age authors. -- Frederick Lenz
In the chakras, it's the heart chakra, anahata, the central chakra, three above and three below, which symbolizes happiness and love, psychic oneness, spiritual understanding. -- Frederick Lenz
If one has an enlighened teacher and you come to this person with love, they will show you the ways of love. -- Frederick Lenz
Willpower determines success in business, interpersonal relationships, health, whatever it is. All the activities in your life, success and failure in them, are dependent upon your ability to manifest will. -- Frederick Lenz
You get a very different type of education if you go out to the desert, to the places of power, places where it is easy to cross over from one dimensional plane to another, where power hovers, so to speak. -- Frederick Lenz
You can tell a person's level of spiritual devlopment simply by watching how much they give. -- Frederick Lenz
Our larger body is eternity. Eventually, we return to the source in its undifferentiated form, in its absolute form, which is both form and formlessness, but we exist in that sea all the time. -- Frederick Lenz
As you sit in this light from week to week, you will transform and grow and develop. It washes away the samskaras, the past-life tendencies. It washes away the karmic tendencies from this life. -- Frederick Lenz
As you learn to love the company of the holy, your heart will become pure. -- Frederick Lenz
This is the most exciting study there is. It is the only thing I know of in life that makes you feel consistently better, whether it's success or failure, whether they love you or hate you. -- Frederick Lenz
If, at the office or in different exchanges in daily living, you have to spend time with people who are at lower power levels, then you have to be aware of that and keep your awareness very much within. -- Frederick Lenz
Follow your dreams wherever they lead you and pay for those dreams with good jobs in software programming and computer design! -- Frederick Lenz
What they should really do, if they want supreme power, is develop the tonal to perfection. -- Frederick Lenz
Tonight I have inundated you with the mystical kundalini. Now, of course, I'm moving into the supra-conscious; it's kind of a doubleheader this evening. -- Frederick Lenz
Nobody can make you happy but yourself. Things occupy us, people occupy us, but they don't make us happy. If we are honest, what makes us happy is to experience spirit. -- Frederick Lenz
Being on the path means we again meditate with joy. We deal with the suffering of life and the pain of existence without perfect enlightenment with a smile. -- Frederick Lenz
There are ten thousand planes of awareness within the infinite mind of the diamond mind, your deeper mind. -- Frederick Lenz
We learn that those around us are an extension of ourselves, both animate and inanimate. All things have a life and form. We learn to love them all. -- Frederick Lenz
Power is the big obstacle, or one of them, that you have to overcome and learn to deal with effectively before you can reach enlightenment. -- Frederick Lenz
If you go to a place of power, the beings are higher, magnificent beings of light. They are not from our world. They pass through it, the place where dimensions touch, where there are many worlds present. -- Frederick Lenz
I first went into samadhi when I was 19. I was meditating in the mountains and had been meditating on a daily basis for several years. Suddenly there was no time or space or life or death or myself or the Universe. I was absorbed in light. -- Frederick Lenz
The good news is that we don't last. Thank heavens! Because to continue the drama of who you are, is boring, ultimately. The universe is our friend because it kills us - and that's what friends are for. -- Frederick Lenz
Continually reorder the mind and the mental structures, the ability to think in prescribed ways, to analyze in prescribed ways, and to stop thought for periods of time. -- Frederick Lenz
The unlimited mind, the diamond mind of the Buddha, is your mind, if you can get in touch with it. Stop thinking so much and tap into that psychic part of your being. -- Frederick Lenz
Learn to control your emotions. Be able to glide through them. By practicing concentration exercises and meditation, you will find that when strong emotions strike, you will gain the ability to not be swayed by them. -- Frederick Lenz
Many women devlop the second attention, attract a great deal of sexual attention, and for many years, appear to be very vibrant and strong. -- Frederick Lenz
Be kind, be loving, be generous. Give of yourself, give of your time and you'll be free. It's the oldest secret, the one thats most often forgotten - and that is to have fun through giving. -- Frederick Lenz
Awakening the mystical kundalini prematurely is dangerous, because unless you have refined your being, you'll get all screwed up, entities, weird powers ... strange things. That is why I don't teach anyone how to open up the chakras. -- Frederick Lenz
If you live for a very long while, you will have to watch your friends and loved ones die, your body age and lose its beauty and vigor, and your mental capacities fade. -- Frederick Lenz
If one becomes enlightened, as I did in past incarnations, we leave the structural universes behind. We don't even have past incarnations because the form that had those incarnations has dissolved into the clear light of reality. -- Frederick Lenz
I recommend for everyone the study of some type of sports or athletics, particularly martial arts. Always check with your doctor first, naturally. -- Frederick Lenz
If you stay in the attention you are in, then you can predict everything that will happen to you for the rest of your life. -- Frederick Lenz
Practitioners of tantra don't decide to break the rules. They are not particularly hung up on having sex or eating meat or drinking alcohol. They don't strive to do these things, nor do they strive to avoid them. -- Frederick Lenz
I'm not suggesting that everyone should meditate, far from it. Meditation is for very few individuals. I'm speaking of something that is a powerful experience. -- Frederick Lenz
Avoiding things that drain you is more important than gaining energy. -- Frederick Lenz
Approach each task in your life, no matter how simple or how complex, with power. Pick and choose things initially which are not impossible to succeed at. You need to develop the profile of a winner. -- Frederick Lenz
In lower levels things are dark, gray, experiences are shallow. You become alienated from those around you. -- Frederick Lenz
There are two sides to increasing energy. One is avoiding loss. The other is learning how to gain energy. -- Frederick Lenz
There have been times when I've made special arrangements to meet people in music, film, business or politics, and I'll continue to do so if the people are sincere. -- Frederick Lenz
If you respect your teacher, you do better. Respect is only good because it will help you. Real liberated people, what can you do for them? They've got everything. They are everything. They don't need to be worshipped or adored. -- Frederick Lenz
There is nothing and no one else but your dear friend, eternity, who has always loved you, who will always love you. -- Frederick Lenz
To meditate what you need to do is free yourself from your ideas and your thoughts. All of the higher dimensional planes, the higher realities, the infinite cosmos itself is beyond thought. -- Frederick Lenz
Human beings going to their jobs and living their lives are unconscious. They don't know what's going on. They don't know why you are born or why you die. -- Frederick Lenz
Unlike the transient days of our lives that constantly come and go, nirvana has always been, is now, and always will be. -- Frederick Lenz
Life has no meaning. It doesn't need a meaning. A meaning is an arbitrary thought formulation that we affix to it because we are in the mood. Life is its own raison d'etre. -- Frederick Lenz
If what you seek is freedom, the only person who can teach you anything, the only person who can help you is someone who's already done it, who knows the way. No one else can do a damn thing for you but slow you down. -- Frederick Lenz
At times your entire body tingles with ecstasy as you feel the waves of psychic energy that emanate from the master's aura touching your own body. -- Frederick Lenz
You have to be very, very careful not to pick up too much of the lower energies, the toxic energies, because they'll make you very ill. They can kill you. They can cause cancer, debilitative diseases of all types. -- Frederick Lenz
There is competition in Zen. Let's not be ridiculous. There is competition in everything in life; being a winner in Zen means, competing and winning in the world of enlightenment. -- Frederick Lenz
It's not going to be easy. It's the earth. What creates power in your life is when you perfect your mind, your career, and your associations with others. -- Frederick Lenz
The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient beings experience this, the endless dance of life, the lila. -- Frederick Lenz
We define a world. We build a house, then after building the house we enter into it and we never leave it. -- Frederick Lenz
Everyone meditates in their own way. Some people sit and practice formal mediation techniques for many hours a day while others spontaneously meditate while watching a sunset, listening to music, or participating in athletics. -- Frederick Lenz
Eventually light prevails, you just have to be patient. So practice Buddhism, learn to be enlightened, put a smile on your face, go find a great teacher, meditate, and stay funny. -- Frederick Lenz
In dream yoga we use the etheric double and go beyond the confines of the physical, it's very ecstatic. -- Frederick Lenz
The dreams of existence of that we call time, space, matter, subject, object, yin, yang - everything flows forth from this tai chi. -- Frederick Lenz
The way our world is set up, a higher economic priority is given to things that bespeak a greater refinement. It is just a determination that was made, to make money. -- Frederick Lenz
Buddhism is not just going to temple, being at a ceremony and dressing up. That is the church of Buddhism. Esoteric Buddhism is to move beyond this world. -- Frederick Lenz
There are future lives. It is not necessary to cram everything into this lifetime. You can enjoy this lifetime, go with the flow, and know it will lead you to a better life in your next incarnation. -- Frederick Lenz
Some persons choose, rather than stay in immortal bliss all the time, to come back for others. -- Frederick Lenz
If we don't get violent with ourselves, castigate ourselves, ostracize ourselves and excommunicate ourselves because we didn't live up to the standards we set down for ourselves, then maybe we don't have to do that with other people. -- Frederick Lenz
You want to be happy; of course, that isn't how you get to be happy; because if you want to be happy, you are going to be sitting around being unhappy because you're not happy. -- Frederick Lenz
I used to live in Seattle, as did Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Lee. I lived near the arboretum. Very often I would take walks late at night by Lake Washington, because I found it very easy to meditate there. -- Frederick Lenz
Sit down and get out a piece of paper and start making lists. Ask yourself, are you in harmony with the things in your life? Are you adopting superficial values? Are you giving your being enough room? Are you doing new and creative things? -- Frederick Lenz
The meaning of life changes as you change dimensional planes. The way human beings perceive the world is only one simple method of seeing. There are many ways to see life. Life has many meanings, and self realization is the understanding of all this. -- Frederick Lenz
One who practices the yoga of love is like child. When the child has a problem, it cries. When it cries, someone comes and helps the child. -- Frederick Lenz
A soul mate is not necessarily someone with whom you set up housekeeping. Your soul and their soul have a multi-incarnation attraction. -- Frederick Lenz
In Buddhism what we seek to do is change ourselves into someone who's beautiful to be. -- Frederick Lenz
The very advanced practitioners of martial arts never had to raise a hand. They could knock an opponent down without physically touching them, just with chi, pure power. We don't see too many of them anymore. -- Frederick Lenz
The last game on earth is in progress. And when you lose, you win. And when you win, you can't lose. -- Frederick Lenz
What we seek to do in Tantric Buddhism is to liquefy ourselves. Life will automatically bring us to the next stage. You don't really have to know where you're going - It's like breathing. -- Frederick Lenz
What does God really look like stripped naked? That's the province of enlightenment ... the formless, perfect face of existence. -- Frederick Lenz
On waking from the dream, we see that birth and death, the sense of self, other - all of these things fade away. -- Frederick Lenz
Most of the software I sell runs on mainframes and supercomputers, and is used by multinational corporations and governments. You may not get to see that, but if I have done it properly, hopefully it will make the events in your life transpire more smoothly. -- Frederick Lenz
The computers in Atlantis were infinitely evolved as opposed to what we see today. The science, the technology, everything was really done with light. All processing was done with light, with crystal formations and structures. Electricity is much too slow. -- Frederick Lenz
We seek absolute neutrality in Buddhism. We don't want to be drawn into anything in particular. We don't want to be pushed away from anything in particular. -- Frederick Lenz
In deep meditation we see nothing but purity. -- Frederick Lenz
You can lie to yourself and fool yourself and rationalize that the choice you're making is what is right and what is true and what leads to liberation, when it's actually only the fulfillment of desire. -- Frederick Lenz
There are people in the Himalayas who are thousands of years old. But that's just a power, you see. It would seem to me that would suggest a tremendous aversion to the experience of death. -- Frederick Lenz
Simply because you can perform feats of power does not mean you are, in the classical sense, fully enlightened. It means that you have mastered a few aspects of the mystical kundalini. That's all it means. -- Frederick Lenz
All answers are only found in the super-conscious. It takes us to a point where we don't ask questions anymore because that part of us which would ask goes away. -- Frederick Lenz
Satori is a brief flash. Suddenly the light breaks through. For a short timeless time we experience eternity in its unmanifest form. It's comparable to salvikalpa samadhi. -- Frederick Lenz
In Buddhism we don't really believe in sin and salvation as Westerners would define them. We believe in the limitless possibilities of the present and of future moments. -- Frederick Lenz
Life reorders you when you go into the clear light. Even the causal structure is liquefied. The clear light of reality, the dharmakaya, changes us into beings of light. -- Frederick Lenz
You stop growing when you stop listening. -- Frederick Lenz
Mind only comes into apparent existence through the action of perception. Mind appears to exist because it perceives. -- Frederick Lenz
If you seek the realms of light, the best thing to do is to meditate with love and the gentle aliveness. Meditation should not be forced. -- Frederick Lenz
They say Casanova made love to over 10,000 women. Do you think it changed him? It probably aged him a little bit. But I doubt that it changed him. If it had changed him, he would have stopped somewhere along the line and done something a little different. -- Frederick Lenz
Real samadhi is off the game board, friends. It is not something you are even aware of. -- Frederick Lenz
Trivial Pursuit means that you've got nothing going on in your life. Trivial Pursuit is more than a board game. It is the way most people live. Their lives are trivial pursuits. -- Frederick Lenz
The December - January period is the strongest time of the year. It is an easy time to shift states of mind. -- Frederick Lenz
No one can bring you into higher states of attention permanently. I can take an individual and i can change their awareness. That's easy. But how long will it last? -- Frederick Lenz
Work in a place that feels good to you. Select the best of that which is available. The Zen of working is just to do it, not to worry about it. Feel you would be doing it without the money. -- Frederick Lenz
To increase the flow of kundalini that will alter our perception, it is necessary to clarify the purpose of one's being. This is to come to understand dharma. -- Frederick Lenz
You work many hours. It is the major activity of your life. You can lose a lot of energy or gain a lot of energy from it. Put your full attention into it and do a good job, because it is part of your impeccability. -- Frederick Lenz
We've decided what we are. That's the dream. When the dream fades, it's not that we don't exist. How could we not exist since we never existed? -- Frederick Lenz
I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get to watch this amazing thing happen. -- Frederick Lenz
Happiness comes from living in the moment, this moment, now, right here. If you are in obscure states of mind, you won't see what this moment is. You won't realize its beauty. -- Frederick Lenz
When something goes wrong with the body of energy that surrounds and protects your physical body, it will later show up in your physical body. The problem always starts in the subtle physical, and then manifests in the physical. -- Frederick Lenz
The outer form of Buddhism, of practice, is etiquette - a series of ways to live intelligently that keep you alive, awake and happy, wakeful. -- Frederick Lenz
In my adolescence, love, as I think for most of us, was a tremendous focus. I wanted to find the perfect partner. I did and married her. -- Frederick Lenz
There's a different film being made in every mind. And of course, the star of the film is the mind, the personality, the self. -- Frederick Lenz
If you're powerful enough you can even determine whom you will meet and whom you will avoid long before you meet them. -- Frederick Lenz
Pain and suffering only occur in temporal time. They don't occur in the world of forever. They only occur in limited transient time, which is a state of mind. -- Frederick Lenz
People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being will follow their desires without mitigation. -- Frederick Lenz
We begin by loving and accepting ourselves. -- Frederick Lenz
To try and fit reincarnation into a neat mental package is very unwise. You will be very surprised when you discover that it doesn't work out that way. Your illusions will be painful for you. -- Frederick Lenz
I find it ironic to read stories about myself which have never occurred and are simply so absurd that they are comical. At other times, it is very painful to be so misinterpreted and vilified. -- Frederick Lenz
Examine what you do and examine what other women do. Examine the dreams that men hold of you and how they force you in a corner, literally and figuratively. -- Frederick Lenz
If your motives are high and noble and your work is hard and you do a good job, then whatever the task is in your life, it will benefit you. -- Frederick Lenz
We must constantly remind ourselves that we are eternity, infinite, beyond birth and death. -- Frederick Lenz
Souls have different journeys. The best thing to know is, not what everybody else does, but what you do. Self-discovery essentially is finding your own dharma, your own rhythm. -- Frederick Lenz
A person with power controls their life and their destiny. They have a mastery. Their moments are aware moments in this world, never wasted. -- Frederick Lenz
Don't worry about your future lives, past lives. Button up your shirt! Stand up straight! Go out and do something. Go out and have some fun. Be alive, change, dissolve, explode! -- Frederick Lenz
You must control your anger and jealousy and possessive nature or, as you become more powerful and your will increases in strength, you will injure others. -- Frederick Lenz
Jealousy, anger, fear - these are ridiculous emotions that drain your power. You need to control them by being content, trusting that life knows what is best, accepting with an even mind whatever is presented to you. -- Frederick Lenz
Can you control your anger, lust, frustrations, and jealousies? Those are the only people worthy of the higher teachings. By worthy, I mean that they are the only ones capable of it. -- Frederick Lenz
Don't try to hold people to you, don't try to push them away. Let life do everything for you. This is the proper attitude on the path of love. -- Frederick Lenz
Forget that you are anybody and just perform the activities around you. Look at them. Watch what you are doing, my God! Life is right in front of you, and it's great. -- Frederick Lenz
You have got to get your power up and do something and not just sit around. Always be optimistic. Always be positive! And ignore those who aren't, because they're obviously confused, and out of touch with light. -- Frederick Lenz
You can live in the world and have friends, family and possessions. But don't take them all too seriously. Death removes everything. Feel death is every moment, as life is every moment. -- Frederick Lenz
Happiness is a state of mind. The key to happiness is being able to disconnect your life from your perceptions. If you saw things as they really were, you would be happy automatically. -- Frederick Lenz
Material success is not something that will bind you, unless you become attached to it, any more than poverty will liberate you. -- Frederick Lenz
Many people spend their life always worrying about whether they have enough to cover expenses. They experience unhappiness. -- Frederick Lenz
A lot of people profess to have power and it is very minor astral power. They do get power over you, not because they have any intrinsic power, but because your fear immobilizes you and makes you do a bad job. -- Frederick Lenz
It is not bad living in a monastery. I've done it many times in many lives. But I think you can do a better job outside the monastery, if you have the necessary component parts. -- Frederick Lenz
It has been my experience as a teacher over the years and incarnations that what really counts are not techniques. What really counts is spirit, love. What really counts is a sense of propriety and dedication. -- Frederick Lenz
As you study computer science you develop this wonderful mental acumen, particularly with relational databases, systems analysis, and artificial intelligence. -- Frederick Lenz
The awareness of liberation is not liberation. The awareness of time is not liberation. -- Frederick Lenz
In the advanced practice, the relationship between the Zen master and the student becomes very terse. The Zen master will expect things of the student because the student is in graduate school. -- Frederick Lenz
Humility accepts that God places us in the right place at every single moment, not a moment to soon and not a moment too late. -- Frederick Lenz
Winning has to do with gaining personal power through the practice of meditation and mindfulness; not draining your energy on ridiculous things and people. -- Frederick Lenz
Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it is shared, you are down in duality. -- Frederick Lenz
Someone who really wants to discover themselves has to be particularly careful about the use and abuse of power. But even your average human being just passing through another life has to be careful. -- Frederick Lenz
In the process of self-discovery you will learn to be kind when you could be harsh. You will learn to forgive, mostly yourself. You will learn to be patient because you may have to wait quite a while to become that which you will eventually be. -- Frederick Lenz
Selectively pick a teacher, one that you respect, not just someone who can talk with wonderful poetic figures about enlightenment, but someone who has the personal power to bring you into altered states of awareness. -- Frederick Lenz
Dharma simply means the right thing in the right place, in the right space. -- Frederick Lenz
People use ideas of non-duality as an escape from reality. It is very easy to say there is no winning and losing and justify the fact that you didn't do a very good job. -- Frederick Lenz
When someone compliments you, listen, but don't believe it. Praise or blame are immaterial. You know what you are. -- Frederick Lenz
Reincarnation is a process of moving from one state of mind to another. Whether you are in a body or out of a body is immaterial. -- Frederick Lenz
I am here at Lake Tahoe and there is magic at 6,000 feet. -- Frederick Lenz
The quality of time actually changes throughout the day and night. Some dimensions are more time-specific, in that they only interact with the physical dimension they touch during specific times of the night or day. -- Frederick Lenz
Tantric Zen is for someone who is really broad-minded. It is Bodhidharma's Zen, your Zen, my Zen. Which doesn't mean I have a problem with Japanese Zen. Most Japanese Zen is minding your p's and q's. -- Frederick Lenz
Life is invisible. The illusion is that what we perceive is in some way not a reflection of self. Life reflects the field of attention that we're in. -- Frederick Lenz
The dreams of human beings are dark, heavy and morbid and simplistic and boring. The dreams of immortality are endless and shining, they shimmer, they glow. -- Frederick Lenz
Forever is not an idea or a concept, it is reality. All of the things here come from forever. We call forever nirvana in Zen. -- Frederick Lenz
When your life becomes clear and pure, when your mind is clear and your view of life is unobstructed, then you'll be at peace with yourself. Then you will be happy. -- Frederick Lenz
In deep meditation, all of the things that we call life, all of the combinations of experiences, fall away. -- Frederick Lenz
For the first time, we live in a society that shows any sign of the possibility of women changing this condition. -- Frederick Lenz
I have a great deal of spiritual dignity. It's on loan from eternity, and you do too, and we have to use it in our relationship with each other. -- Frederick Lenz
Whatever you need will be provided. Eternity takes care of everything perfectly. So never want for that which you do not have; you have exactly what you need. -- Frederick Lenz
In the world of Buddhist mind, in the advanced states, we go beyond time, space, life, death and Newsweek. -- Frederick Lenz
If the world does not shine brightly, even just the physical, sensual perception after meditation, you have not meditated. You have sat and thought of things that were not real. -- Frederick Lenz
Power is the thing that holds a band of perception together, and a band of perception is life for those who perceive in that band. If the band of perception were to go away, they would not exist. -- Frederick Lenz
Ego is impurity. Be selfless. Consecrate and dedicate your life to perfection. -- Frederick Lenz
There comes a time in life when you just buckle down and have a good time with what you're doing. It doesn't matter much what you're doing. What matters is how you do it. -- Frederick Lenz
Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical. -- Frederick Lenz
It is only hard work that brings about results, doing things for others. Forget about your problems. Take responsibility for your life and make it into something beautiful in the midst of changing circumstances. -- Frederick Lenz
Most people are operating out of repetition. If you come to work or school each day with the same mind-state, you probably can't get more out of it than you did yesterday. -- Frederick Lenz
The purpose of life is happiness. What else could it possibly be? -- Frederick Lenz
At the moment you're suffering from what we call Maya. Maya is illusion. Maya is a Sanskrit word that suggests that we have forgotten. We've forgotten the purpose of life. -- Frederick Lenz
Life is the power to perceive. Without perception there is no life, and what is most endemic to perception is power. -- Frederick Lenz
It is quite possible to speed up the healing process to the part of the body that is injured. This all has to do with the release of chi. -- Frederick Lenz
Enlightenment is the ability to freely transact within the ten thousand states of mind without a continuous self or awareness -- Frederick Lenz
Reality does appear to exist, there does appear to be birth, youth, people appear to have children. But all of it's a dream. These are isolated moments that are only connected by perception. There is no separation. -- Frederick Lenz
You're in a world of diversity. You see things through a glass darkly. There is a separation everywhere. -- Frederick Lenz
Physical perfection, working out, adds to your spiritual perfection if that is your intent. -- Frederick Lenz
The time we waste never comes again. The opportunities we miss never come again. The loves we lose never come again. Indeed, in this world of constant change we are fortunate that these things never come again. -- Frederick Lenz
Meditation is the short path to happiness. Meditation takes you beyond the desire-aversion operating system that offers very limited happiness and a great deal of frustration. -- Frederick Lenz
These truths may seem simple and self-apparent and the words easy to say, but the states of mind that you live in as you progress are beautiful beyond description. -- Frederick Lenz
To the great pharaohs it mattered a great deal to bury their treasures in the pyramids, which they thought they would bring to the other worlds. But obviously it doesn't matter to them now. They went, the goods stayed. -- Frederick Lenz
The attainment of enlightenment makes you happy forever. It frees you from the mental and emotional pains that human beings experience every day. You live in a condition of ecstasy, brightness and joy all of the time. -- Frederick Lenz
Your whole life is inside your mind. Your mind is the prism that refracts the entire universe. Everything around you and within you comes from your mind. -- Frederick Lenz
I used to live in Buddhist monasteries and I finally had to leave them because they were just too cluttered for me. They were cluttered up with many thoughts about Buddhism. -- Frederick Lenz
There are so many traps. There are so many opportunities. Life is a river and we take our boat and we go down it. -- Frederick Lenz
The thousand petal lotus of light, the crown center, really does not become operative until one is on the verge of enlightenment itself. Then you really don't have to meditate on it. The thousand petals gradually light up. -- Frederick Lenz
Master Fwap, who told me that snowboarding, or any activity could be improved by the practice of meditation. Since I had had previously some training in Korean martial arts, I was somewhat open to the idea. -- Frederick Lenz
If you are afraid of someone, you immediately give them an advantage and give them entry to your awareness field. -- Frederick Lenz
Self-control is completely necessary for increasing and raising your attention level. One of the places you practice that is at work. -- Frederick Lenz
While I enjoy teaching people on the basic and intermediate levels to work them up to advanced levels, my real talent is for the advanced students. You could say that I'm like a ninth-degree black belt in martial arts. -- Frederick Lenz
You can lead an uncommonly fine life. But it takes determination. You have to march to the beat of different drummer. You have to decide. -- Frederick Lenz
Winning and losing are feelings; something in us knows if we have won or lost. -- Frederick Lenz
I am a producer of both rock and New Age music, I generally like all categories of music. In particular, I enjoy Ozzy's stage presence. -- Frederick Lenz
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. -- Frederick Lenz
Enlightenment is a lot like dying. You might wonder why there aren't more enlightened people. It is because they are afraid to die. -- Frederick Lenz
The mystery school continued throughout the greater Egyptian civilization, which was the second age of humankind and later on into the third age of humankind when the Indian, Chinese, Japanese and Tibetan high cultures flourished -- Frederick Lenz
Never think too much of yourself. Realize you are only an instrument of eternity. Do not get stuck in that terrible trap. You can lose everything. -- Frederick Lenz
The most powerful force to maintaining a good immune system is the power of positive thinking and not allowing yourself to be unnecessarily drained emotionally by worries and fears. -- Frederick Lenz
Power either goes up or down. Your thoughts are the harness of power. It is necessary to think positive thoughts, not just wait for them to occur, but to introduce them. -- Frederick Lenz
Many people excuse themselves by claiming that they don't have to do work anymore because they are beyond it. They are simply afraid of getting their hands dirty. Getting your hands dirty washes your being. -- Frederick Lenz
This culture seems to be so obsessed with sexuality, the good and the bad of it. Every advertisement, every preacher, everybody's concerned, one way or the other about sexuality. -- Frederick Lenz
The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations. -- Frederick Lenz
The ultimate horror movie for a really un-illuminated being is an enlightened person. They are scared of others seeing what they are all about and what they really do. They are scared of truth. -- Frederick Lenz
The essence of all reincarnation is to have the best lifetime now that you've ever had, no matter what's going on. -- Frederick Lenz
The mystical kundalini is something that I normally use when we're on field trips, when we go to a place of power. -- Frederick Lenz
If you become obsessive in spiritual practice, if you just try and try, you are not going to be happy. You are going to be obsessive. -- Frederick Lenz
I meet people who neglect career. Their lives aren't centered at all. They don't have much money. They have this spaced-out look in their eyes. Their chances for enlightenment are very small, unless they change the way they live. -- Frederick Lenz
If a spiritual teacher says something that doesn't make sense to you, you should always listen to yourself and not the teacher. A little common sense would end all cults. -- Frederick Lenz
Opportunities, creative ideas or the lack of them, happiness, frustration, brilliance, talent, success and failure - all are determined by the state of mind that you're in. -- Frederick Lenz
Within you there are thousands of rings of luminosity, bands, and each one is a universe of perception. In the average person's lifetime, they might just open up two or three, maybe four of those bands. -- Frederick Lenz
The universe is a giant mind. Some people have the ability to tap into that mind, we call them psychic. Others don't, we call them dull ... but they have potential. -- Frederick Lenz
People try to get into your life. They try and keep you off-balance, keep you from making good decisions that will empower you - because if your attention field is sharp - you will see if anyone is in your life for ill reasons. -- Frederick Lenz
There is nothing but God. -- Frederick Lenz
People who work to bring about perfection see work as an extension of themselves. The point is to do a good job. That will empower you. To do a poor job will make you weaker. -- Frederick Lenz
You are new at every moment. You are an extension of the previous moment of your awareness. You can radically change, if you unhook yourself from what you have been. -- Frederick Lenz
When you start to meditate, if you stick with it, you will see tremendous changes in your life and state of mind. -- Frederick Lenz
It is very important to always hold the thought of an enlightened teacher in your mind in a very positive way. When you direct negative energy towards someone who is powerful, it has a terrible bounce-back effect. -- Frederick Lenz
The American Indians, the ancient Indians would say, the metaphysical ones would say: "Power binds us together." Power, for a while, makes us what we are, perceivers, luminous perceivers of reality. -- Frederick Lenz
What they have done over the centuries is evolve the fine use of sexual power. -- Frederick Lenz
If you seek eternity and light and luminosity, seek humility first ... first things first. -- Frederick Lenz
A whole society imprints us. Language, television and culture imprints us Just living in a country is a vibratory imprint. All the collective attentions, of all the people who live there - imprint us. -- Frederick Lenz
I saw more truth and sensitivity in art than I did in many of the people in this world. -- Frederick Lenz
Feel eternity around you. Not as an idea, not as a nice intellectualization, but to really feel it; not to be some religious fanatic who's strung out on some weird idea of salvation to the exclusion of common sense. -- Frederick Lenz
We can only conceive of changing the self-reflection in response to our concept of self-reflection, which is predicated on our concept of self, which is a self-reflection. -- Frederick Lenz
Selfless giving changes our concept of our identity. When we give to others our unselfishness removes the spot of "self" that stained our awareness. -- Frederick Lenz
Salvakalpa samadhi is absorption in eternity to the point where there is no real concept of self but there's still a karmic chain. Nirvikalpa samadhi is absorption in nirvana; concepts of self and no-self go away completely. -- Frederick Lenz
I don't think you have to wait for knowledge and balance to come before you seek power because you need a certain amount of power to gain knowledge and balance. -- Frederick Lenz
Death is only a summer vacation for us. We don't really change or lose what we have learned or who we have been when we die, because we are our karma. -- Frederick Lenz
If you are not happier every day, if you don't see a progression of development, then you are certainly not practicing yoga or Buddhism and therefore you cannot be amassing any positive karma. -- Frederick Lenz
The difficult opponent is the best. -- Frederick Lenz
I have graduate students who have developed this ability to love and want to perfect it. Those are the students I spend a lot of time with because at this time they need that. -- Frederick Lenz
Gain control of the emotions. Be the helmsperson and not blown around by the winds of emotion. While there will be winds, you can navigate them or even use them to expedite your journey. -- Frederick Lenz
Only when there are no impressions of others clouding our mind, can we sit and practice the glorious practice of meditation. -- Frederick Lenz
Happiness is only gained when your mind is in extended states of attention, when your mind is merging with the infinite. -- Frederick Lenz
The only bad meditation is when you don't meditate. -- Frederick Lenz
All things are void. So how possibly could there be any obscurations since everything is void, when you're void itself? There's only the void. In the void, there's only shining, perfect clear light of reality. -- Frederick Lenz
Philosophers are all caught up in their philosophies. That's their house of cards. Religious leaders are caught up in their religious movements to the point where they forget about freedom. Everybody's got their drama going. -- Frederick Lenz
When you follow the path of love you should feel that each one is perfect in their own right. While you can love others, never, ever, ever judge them. -- Frederick Lenz
Some people like destroying for the hell of it; they love destroying beauty; they try to feel those people and then crack the egg. -- Frederick Lenz
Personal power is a feeling that everybody is looking for called satisfaction. It is different from enlightenment, but you need personal power to become enlightened. Personal power is not the end of the process. -- Frederick Lenz
Karma is not a cop-out. The esoteric meaning of karma is that you are who you are, because of what you have done and who you have been. -- Frederick Lenz
The Buddhist mind is more complicated than the Christian mind. It comes up with endless heavens, endless hells, endless earths, and then we have something lower than hell. We have endless sub-realms that make hell look like Club Med and we have endless nirvana. -- Frederick Lenz
Consider your second attention as a spiritual perceiver. Consider how you use it. You may plead innocence. You're not doing anything wrong. Don't feel that you've sinned. You have done what you had to do to survive, as did your mother, as did your grandmother. -- Frederick Lenz
You're much too hung up on all of your ideas and your desires. You still have not penetrated the essence of yoga. -- Frederick Lenz
The best thing that you can do to deal with these high speed times is to slow down, inwardly, to take a little more time for meditation, a little more time to enjoy your morning cup of coffee or tea, and to look around at the people in your life with a little more love. -- Frederick Lenz
A number of Guru's feel that there is something wrong or sick about being gay. I think it really doesn't matter what your sexual preference is; what matters is the quality of your love. -- Frederick Lenz
What more could there be, but the absolute beauty of our lives? Look around you, for heaven's sake and stop thinking. It is only in your thoughts and in analytical processes that you lose yourself. -- Frederick Lenz
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. -- Frederick Lenz
In my travels, I have found two peoples, the Tibetans and the Fijians, who don't seem to have this problem. Their closeness with their environment, their religions, and their relationships with each other and nature make them feel part of everything. -- Frederick Lenz
The state between birth and death is not sympathetic. It is a flow system. Whatever your conscious level is, that is how you will reincarnate. -- Frederick Lenz
When you are enlightened, your physical body will still feel pain if you get hurt, but you will not be overwhelmed even by extreme physical pain, because your mind is filled with light, love and understanding. -- Frederick Lenz
The pathway to enlightenment is beautiful. There are a lot of wonderful things that happen along the way. Win or lose, you just keep going, and it happens eventually. -- Frederick Lenz
When you are meditating, thinking about things in this world is not going to help you. Instead, forget about everything for a while and look at something that is perfect, this will help you deal with the world better. -- Frederick Lenz
They wanted to preserve and protect the mystical knowledge gained from their meditation practices and pass it on to future civilizations they clairvoyantly saw were going to be born after the destruction of Atlantis -- Frederick Lenz
Most people lead lives of frustration and disapointment. They enjoy temporary pleasures and long-lasting suffering. -- Frederick Lenz
Meditate and bath in the light of eternity. Nothing else is worthwhile. -- Frederick Lenz
Much of the time your attention is directed towards the world of sexuality, it's done through the second attention of a woman - not simply in your physical presence but from thousands of miles away. -- Frederick Lenz
While I am here I would like to experience as many of the beauties of the world as possible and help others to do the same. -- Frederick Lenz
Expect forces to interfere with you and expect to conquer them all, if you are serious about the study. Just as there are powers that interfere with those who seek enlightenment, there are forces that will help. -- Frederick Lenz
In the old days, Zen was not really practiced so much in a monastery. The Zen Master usually lived up on a top of the mountain or the hill or in the forest or sometimes in the village. -- Frederick Lenz
Cry to god. If you do that just for a couple minutes with your whole being, just like a child who so badly wants a cookie. You will break through the barrier of the mind. -- Frederick Lenz
The first task is to discover the dharma by introspection, by constantly questioning yourself and asking yourself, "What is right?" -- Frederick Lenz
Life hurts at times. It hurts to have a body at times, hurts to be born, hurts to live, hurts to die, but it can be ecstasy beyond comprehension. You can know that ecstasy. It is inside of you. -- Frederick Lenz
To deal with someone from other infinites is problematic at times, to deal with a true master of all the realms of the yogas. We call them someone with the seven seals of enlightenment, meaning that their gradated perception has past through all the realms. -- Frederick Lenz
Throughout the course of my life, I have been very fortunate to have had excellent teachers - not just in meditation, but in martial arts, music, scuba diving, and in my academic education. -- Frederick Lenz
The life of meditation and religious study is absolutely no guarantee of peak moments. Most people involved in religious study and meditation are downright bored, and they're as stuck in what they do as everyone else is. -- Frederick Lenz
When you meditate deeply, you will see beyond life and death. You will see that you can't die and you can't be reborn. You are existence itself. -- Frederick Lenz
Meditation is existence. When we meditate, all we are simply doing is letting go and allowing ourselves to dissolve back into that which we really are. We are merging with life and light. -- Frederick Lenz
Zen is meditation, the actual experience of life directly, immediately with no buffers. -- Frederick Lenz
As you meditate, you will be able to look at the beauties and horrors of life and accept them with an equal mind. You will love more and be kinder to those around you. -- Frederick Lenz
Some people meditate because they want to get the larger picture on life. It could get kind of discouraging if this was all there was. -- Frederick Lenz
You need energy and life force to see and feel what you need to do. Otherwise you are in a dark room and you can't tell what's going on. You need to practice meditation. -- Frederick Lenz
From the point of view of meditation, there is nothing that is not God. When we meditate, we are participating in a spiritual experience. We are seeing life is not perhaps as we thought, but a little bit different, vastly different. -- Frederick Lenz
It is necessary to learn how to do a systems analysis of your life, to learn about the effects of places, people, jobs. There are millions of things that go into the study of meditation. -- Frederick Lenz
Your existence is passing before you. Grains of sand in the hourglass. The Wicked Witch of the West has you in her castle and she's turned the hourglass over and the sand is running through. Will you be liberated or will you die? The only way you can beat death is liberation. -- Frederick Lenz
A teacher can show you the ways. But no one can do it for you. You have to take what you learn from them and go out and live it. You have to change your life. -- Frederick Lenz
It's fun to go to a supermarket or a park or a shopping mall where human beings convene. They're so caught up in their own personal reality as to not see life, except in terms that add to or detract from their movie. -- Frederick Lenz
The advanced education in Tantra obviously has to do with the entrance into samadhi, the negation of the self. That is what the path of negation means, not the negation of life, but the negation of anything that is not enlightenment. -- Frederick Lenz
Zen is a very quick path to enlightenment and development of the mind and all its facilities. -- Frederick Lenz
Zen is a very fast path to enlightenment, fast in comparison to some other paths, not fast for the person who practices it. There is no sense of speed. -- Frederick Lenz
There's a path in enlightenment called the path of negation where we intentionally throw ourselves into experiences that are extremely transient. In other words, we do all the stuff you're supposed to normally avoid to become enlightened, intentionally. -- Frederick Lenz
Zen is a very quick path. Zen is the path of meditation. The word Zen means emptiness or fullness, meditation. Meditation is the quickest path to enlightenment. -- Frederick Lenz
Why don't you like being you for a change? Just be different and don't hate yourself and feel very good about all your different desires and all the things you didn't want and want. Go get them all, and see what it's like. -- Frederick Lenz
Sensations of peace, joy, and love will enter into you. They will be very subtle at first. Then they will grow stronger. -- Frederick Lenz
Occasionally, in each age and in different lands, a Buddha is born, that is to say, an enlightened person ... they re-codify the ways, the practices, they make changes that are just intelligent changes that adapt to a new century, a new culture. -- Frederick Lenz
If you wait till you're very sure, then you'll find yourself doing it, and when you do there'll be an ease. -- Frederick Lenz
This is still a very primitive age, and I'm afraid they may not get much further here. -- Frederick Lenz
When you visit Nirvana, there is neither existence nor nonexistence. Your baggage never arrives because there is no one there to claim it. -- Frederick Lenz
A time comes when you don't have to use meditation techniques anymore. You just sit down and you are nonexistence itself. -- Frederick Lenz
I think that the world ended a long time ago and no one realizes it. We're in a dream somewhere in a vortex of energy that just hasn't realized its nonexistence yet. -- Frederick Lenz
It is my belief that one of the most exciting things about the World Wide Web is that they allow minds, as Spock might say, to meld. The transfer of consciousness through a variety of mediums is nothing new. -- Frederick Lenz
You have elected to follow this path you do not know. You have elected to follow the path because eternity has elected you. You will follow it is as long as eternity holds you to it. -- Frederick Lenz
Zen is a study. It's a discipline. It involves the active use of will to make things happen or not happen. These are the secrets of power. -- Frederick Lenz
Beyond the world of thought and sensorial impressions, there are planes and dimensions of perfect light, knowledge, and radiant perfection. -- Frederick Lenz
Power comes from doing meditation, leading a controlled life, being conservative, not wasting all your energy on drugs, alcohol and sex and other pastimes. The guideline for all experience is how you feel afterwards. -- Frederick Lenz
It is good to take a weekend and just you, or you and your dog, head out into the wilderness. Walk by yourself. Be by yourself. It will help you in your search for stillness and perfection. -- Frederick Lenz
If this is the only life, then everything assumes too great an importance. We have to get everything out of life and we overdo it. -- Frederick Lenz
Reciprocity, a symbiotic relationship, is a relationship in which two people have worked out certain terms. I am using you in certain ways; you are using me in certain ways. That is a balanced relationship. -- Frederick Lenz
Your journey is to see how deeply you can interface your mind with infinity. That's the journey of a monk - to see. -- Frederick Lenz
A person trying to meditate is doing something that's impossible since meditation is not an action. -- Frederick Lenz
A number of people who are interested in computers in this lifetime programmed computers in Atlantis. -- Frederick Lenz
Meditation, in the beginning, is just replacement thinking. Instead of having the usual negative things that wander around in your mind, you are replacing those with very bright images. -- Frederick Lenz
Perhaps you're not the next Buddha. Perhaps you're not the Maitreya. Perhaps that's not your job in this incarnation. Perhaps you have to enjoy life and learn about life through whatever way that you find yourself going. -- Frederick Lenz
To know that these are people who for a moment, in glory, in light, were true warriors, and you had the chance to associate with them, to live with them, to share with them, words and moments of power - this is the nature of spiritual study. -- Frederick Lenz
There are special places on our planet, places of power, healing and renewal, places where the mind-body connection is enhanced and that enable us to get back in touch with our deepest innermost feelings. -- Frederick Lenz
The true teacher of love is the heart. The heart is very, very wise. It makes mistakes from time to time, but it has a wisdom all of its own. -- Frederick Lenz
The yoga of love is for those who want an all-consuming relationship with their teacher. They see the teacher as an extension of God, of eternity - which all of us are. -- Frederick Lenz
In the yoga of love, one has a teacher. It is the teacher whom one loves. -- Frederick Lenz
As a dialectical teacher, I have had many lives where I have taught Zen and Tibetan Buddhism and mysticism. I teach in many different modalites. But the theme that unites them - is love. -- Frederick Lenz
What is will? It is a decision. It is a decision to be something. We really aren't anything in particular. We can be anything. That's the good news. -- Frederick Lenz
Karma is the sum total of who you are, everything you've been. The mind state you are in is karmic. Meaning, it's related by a causal chain of existences, of moments, of particles of timelessness. -- Frederick Lenz
The universe is holding congress with itself. -- Frederick Lenz
You think you are somebody and that is where the problem begins. You're really not somebody, you're everybody. You objectify yourself into thinking that you are a particular state of being. -- Frederick Lenz
It is the quick path. We turn everything inside out and upside down - which is when it gets straightened out very neatly and in an orderly fashion. -- Frederick Lenz
Love is, in its essence, a free, formless strand of luminosity. -- Frederick Lenz
The bands of perception vary greatly. There is the human band of perception. There are lots of different bands of perception. Simply because we are in one band of perception, doesn't mean others are not there. -- Frederick Lenz
Love is something that we don't control. We have to be ourselves. You can be sexual, nonsexual, asexual, bisexual, or trisexual and it really doesn't have a lot to do with enlightenment. -- Frederick Lenz
As a woman you must unite with other women for a while and perhaps even reject the world of men, just to balance yourself. -- Frederick Lenz
The sights of infinity can be too strong. They can scorch the soul. It's best to take infinity on a little at a time. -- Frederick Lenz
The parent gives the child a new car, money. They know the child wants these things and has to do what they want; otherwise, they withdraw the favors - manipulation, domination, no happiness, psychic sickness. -- Frederick Lenz
Psychic development is a necessary skill in leading a successful and happy life. Your intellectual processes and your senses don't give you enough information to distinguish the real from the unreal. -- Frederick Lenz
We know that many of the apostles of Christ were killed. Eleven out of 12 met violent deaths when they were just talking about God and light. -- Frederick Lenz
I like Miracles. They inspire me. Miracles are the fun of enlightenment. When a teacher does a miracle, and everyone sees it, they have faith in what the teacher has to say about self-discovery. -- Frederick Lenz
The planes of light give you the power to rise above circumstance, the power to rise above your desires and your aversions. -- Frederick Lenz
Mysticism is the acceptance that everything cannot be logically explained. -- Frederick Lenz
No one on this earth attains enlightenment anymore without an enlightened master as a guide, unless that person was enlightened in many previous incarnations. -- Frederick Lenz
I personally, only work with people in my business who show excellence. I have a business, the business of enlightenment. -- Frederick Lenz
Enlightenment requires discipline, balance, knowledge, power, happiness and a sense of responsibility and sacrifice, being able to do things with your life that you would not have done otherwise. -- Frederick Lenz
Computer science is fascinating. As you study computer science, you will find that you develop your mind. It is literally like doing Buddhist exercises all day long. -- Frederick Lenz
You can get so caught up in learning all about reincarnation, you can get so caught up in learning about structures, fascinating though they may be, that you're not free; you're just studying a different textbook. -- Frederick Lenz
Women have been taught that they are not powerful; they've been given an opposite description, that they are weak. The word "effeminate" implies weakness. -- Frederick Lenz
In one particular chapter in Ulysses, James Joyce imitates every major writing style that's been used by English and American writers over the last 700 years - starting with Beowulf and Chaucer and working his way up through the Renaissance, the Victorian era and on into the 20th century. -- Frederick Lenz
Enlightenment is already there inside us and all things. All we have to do is get something out of the way that is causing us not to see that. -- Frederick Lenz
In Buddhism we have a great deal of etiquette. Etiquette is simply ways of living to conserve energy. Etiquette allows people to live in harmony with their environment. -- Frederick Lenz