The more moral you pretend to be, the less moral you are; the less moral you try to be, the more moral… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Faithfulness, faith, all of the words that so few people live, you must live. Only then are you worthy of immortality. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you have humility, you are willing to undertake anything to spread the dharma. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As Buddha points out, you should not rely on the opinions of others for validation of your internal progression. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is enough room in eternity for everyone to be enlightened. We gain or lose nothing by the success of others. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If one thinks of an enlightened person in a negative way, as it hits their aura, it returns very strongly. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is the Buddhist belief that at every moment the universe is not only dying but being reborn. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Buddhist Yoga, we refer to our mutlilife karmic traits as samskaras. They are the internal karmic patterns that make each of… — 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
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
Get your emotions under control and your life under control. Work really hard and don't make a big deal out of yourself.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I used to live in Buddhist monasteries and I finally had to leave them because they were just too cluttered for me.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I have a great deal of spiritual dignity. It's on loan from eternity, and you do too, and we have to use… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you are a student of an enlightened master, you can literally tap into his aura, anywhere and at anytime. All you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The essence of all practice is to be cool. Life is not worth getting excited about because whatever you perceive is an… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhists don't feel that enlightenment is particularly unusual. We feel that it's the natural state. Enlightenment simply means perceiving life directly as… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism is the study of the way the mind works. One has to be able to hold a large number of relational… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What makes a difference is when we take our mind and put it into the scriptures, when we read the Buddhist Canon,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Occasionally, in each age and in different lands, a Buddha is born, that is to say, an enlightened person...they re-codify the ways,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Dali Lama and other notable Buddhist teachers have now indicated that since the world has plunged into a dark age, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the process of self-discovery you will learn to be kind when you could be harsh. You will learn to forgive, mostly… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As a student of enlightenment your attitude should not be to become enlightened. It should be to learn. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the world of Buddhist mind, in the advanced states, we go beyond time, space, life, death and Newsweek. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Simplify your life and your mind. Think more of infinity and less of yourself. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You have to come to the world of enlightenment with open hands, not clinched fists, without an agenda. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as spiritual achievement; it is simply an awareness intrinsic to all of life. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Do not envy others. If someone gets a larger piece of cake, be happy for them. They'll get fat and you'll stay… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Buddhist message is a message not of the negation of life, but one of affirmation. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Advanced Buddhist Yoga is the art of altering your karmic patterns. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you want to experience the unalloyed ecstasy of life, you can accomplish this through the twin Buddhist practices of meditation and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the Far Eastern languages we have many different words to describe the varying degrees of reality that a thing, a state… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Do not feel that you are destined to enlightenment in this life. You have no idea. This is an illusion of selfhood.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
An enlightened teacher simply expresses enlightenment in their life by living. It is the student's job to gain the teachings. The teacher's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We seek to unify ourselves with the endless light of truth, of God, of nirvana. We recognize the infinite playing through all… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Etiquette is an intelligent way to live. There are certain ways of living you will learn being around advanced students and mostly… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If someone is in the same state of mind and doesn't seek to block your success, you have a friend. Such friends… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As long as we remain self-reflective and keep looking at who and what we are, as long as we keep our analysis… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's necessary to respect all other ways and other teachings on the subject because even though they may not make a lot… — 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
