If you are going to set out to develop mystical powers to impress your friends and do other things to your enemies,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We see an enlightened teacher to gain a sense of humor, to learn balance and proportion and of course to learn wisdom. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As you gain control of the mind, you gain control of life and you gain control of your time. It all works… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The island of the tonal, the way we see life, is there so we can get through our life. It was never… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The gopis seek Krishna, another part of themselves that create ecstasy. The man seeks the woman, the woman seeks the man. The… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nothing lasts forever - except forever. That's the good news. It's a good thing that nothing lasts forever because things would get… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Beyond this world there are myriad worlds, thousands of inter-dimensional planes with different types of beings going through other cycles of existence.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Zen the emphasis is on meditation and developing your body, mind and spirit to find inner peace, strength, clarity and enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I may discuss contemporary cinema, how to shop at a mall without losing energy, how to use the power of mind to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most people are fragile. They're fragile in the sense that they're afraid of the unknown, so they cling to each other. They… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I don't think there is anyone in public life today who can escape the inevitable onslaught of the media. It seeks to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The abuse of power that seems to create the most unhappiness is when a person uses personal power to get ahead without… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's an adversarial world outside of the safety of nirvana and enlightenment. In life, all beings need to feed on other beings… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Every day I get letters from people thanking me for helping them to become successful, whether because of their personal growth or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What's important is to be supportive of all who practice. Anyone on any level, even if they don't call it self-discovery, who… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness comes from self-knowledge. Self-knowledge means that you have understood your mind. Your mind is the whole universe. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Celibacy doesn't make you enlightened, otherwise every nun or priest in Buddhism or Christianity would be enlightened. People who don't date and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I can understand pathways to enlightenment where people shun certain aspects of the sensual world because they feel that these aspects are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People who work to bring about perfection see work as an extension of themselves. The point is to do a good job.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Beginning meditation is a process of unhooking ourselves from thought, being motivated to meditate. It is very exciting in the beginning because… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You want to be happy; of course, that isn't how you get to be happy; because if you want to be happy,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Practice being happy. Work at it. It's a new role, I realize, but you'll get it. The auditions will be coming up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tantric Buddhism is just a collection of things that work by doing them. And sometimes we add new things. We have electronic… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We cut up time and space and mind and place and being and non-being. We create a world of ideas. This is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Human beings, when they encounter that which can't be understood, either run away from it, run towards it blindly, or just rationalize… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you do something half-heartedly, you don't get much of a result. When you do it fully, you get a great result. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can take power from others; you can steal it. It is not a very high-grade power. It will give you a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you are in a painful situation, look at it. If you look deeply enough and you don't get freaked out, you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Will is guided by wisdom. Wisdom comes from introspection, looking inside yourself, probing, studying the wisdom of the teachers, the masters and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nobody can make you happy but yourself. Things occupy us, people occupy us, but they don't make us happy. If we are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Unlock the power of the will. Learn balance and gain the knowledge and wisdom necessary to guide those powers, to succeed in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the study of consciousness you cannot explain anything verbally. You can only allude to, point in a general direction of. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The light is already there. In Zen Buddhism there's a little speck of dust on the mirror, and that's us. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I recommend computer science to people who practice meditation. The mental structures that are used in computer science are very similar exercises… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Those who scorn and hate the world and hate themselves miss the point. The point was that there wasn't one. There was… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your whole life is inside your mind. Your mind is the prism that refracts the entire universe. Everything around you and within… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Personal power is the reflection of a person of knowledge. A person of knowledge, an enlightened person, a person even close to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your mantrum is the awareness of the dream - to enjoy and appreciate and have gratitude for all; neither to condemn nor… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
This is the process of mental analysis, sifting through the selves, sifting through your thoughts, practicing mindfulness, learning to control thought. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are places that are very draining. There are places where there is another dimensional crossover but to a dimension that is not powerful… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
You can draw power from everything in your life. In order to do that, everything has to be set up in a proper way. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Everyone will admire you when you do well. What a horrible thing to do to someone. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get to watch… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
A human being can only absorb a small amount of the mystical kundalini, you can be exposed again and again to it, but it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Enlightened people live in very charged states of attention, with a tremendous power circuiting through them. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Karma means changing planes of reality or changing fields of attention. There will be perhaps a resulting physical action stemming from the change of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
You and I are both life. There's just the experience of every moment. We like to call them moments. There isn't really such a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Why waste your time being around people who drag you down? You don't live forever, at least in this life. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Everybody here is so caught up in the game of life they don't see death. They don't see beyond their deaths. They are on… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
