We live in a competitive society. To pretend that it is not there is ridiculous. That is how the whole planet is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism leads you to the awareness that all things are holy. Everything is holy. The dark has its own light, in other… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's considered very, very bad karma, if I can cut to the chase, to take power from a teacher and not use… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you meditate you can stand back from your desire. When you silence the mind and there is stillness, only then can… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To think that fulfilling yourself in this world will create eternal fulfillment is absurd. But we feel this way because we lack… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your mind is your life. It's your essence and your substance. It's the part of you that has always been and will… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The toxic residue of humanity - you have to guard yourself, guard that sensitivity even more heavily because otherwise you can pick… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment doesn't mean you stop being a student. Being a student is a state of mind. Enlightenment simply means that you are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The trap of the self is the trap that causes unhappiness. We define ourselves too much; whereas the infinite, the pure radiant… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To see someone manifest all the astral lights, to be surrounded by light, to have light emanating from their body, pulsing waves… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Dharma doesn't necessarily mean following a mundane and boring life. It means a life of high adventure, not a life of endless,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism teaches us not to want things, not to avoid things, not to be upset by the loss. In the I Ching,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Don't be discouraged. At times the path to truth is circuitous. The point is not to succeed, only to smile eternally. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We are in the twilight of this earth. The societies and civilizations of human beings will not endure much longer because of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Are you still carrying everyone who's insulted you, injured you or interfered with you? That's a lot of weight. I'd let it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Life should be continually brighter. We are continually seeking our own innocence. We want to recapture it for eternity. It's in there,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Often, in the student's confusion, she or he directs anger at the teacher, blaming them for the pain they are experiencing, or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the high mountains and desert beings can affect you. Most aren't malicious, but some will lure you to your death. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
God does everything perfectly. The world doesn't really need saving; it's exactly the way God wants it to be at the moment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Liberation means no rebirth. Now, does that mean you don't reincarnate? Well, you never did reincarnate. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When there is no thought in the mind, no thought of thought, when the mind is quiet but fully alert, we experience… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you feel the purpose of life is struggle, Darwinian fitness, dog eat dog, then you will be eaten by a dog,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What we focus on we become. If you are just focusing on unhappy things, you will become unhappy. If you focus on… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Kundalini is generated through cultivating humility, purity, through meditation, selfless giving, and by studying with an advanced teacher on a personal level. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you attain liberation do not feel that it matters or it is important. You had nothing to do with it. If… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Avoid the company of the wicked, those who would do injury to you or to others. Like a disease their energy is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Work sustains us as bodies and it consumes a great deal of energy. The conservation of energy is the component theme of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can just stay in oblivion, going through your days and your life and your experiences, staying with your friends, family. If… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Maybe if you stopped asking "why" all the time, you might be happy. Leave it alone, you know? Life is happy. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In your thoughts, you need to be selective. Thoughts are powerful vehicles of attention. Only think positive thoughts about yourself and your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you are smart, you never retire. You may retire from that job you have had for many years, but you will… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All the records of your past lives are contained within your own mind, just as the records of your ancestors are contained… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is a time you can't turn it back. When a person is very destructive, when they hate you tremendously, you have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The role of the Buddhist teacher is to explain your options and to show you what creates karma. All our discussions are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You think you are somebody and that is where the problem begins. You're really not somebody, you're everybody. You objectify yourself into… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The crown chakra is located several inches above the head, but it is not connected. The crown chakra, also known as the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The fulfillment of desire does not necessarily make you happy because there is a satiation factor. You can get some apple pie… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All I can say is that these cult stories are totally untrue, are without any foundation, and trade on a deep bias… — 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
