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
Some tried to kill him; there were assassination attempts. Some hated him ... this is par for the course. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Humor enables us to deal with and overcome many of the most painful and difficult situations in our lives. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What is evil? There is no such thing. In Buddhism we don't recognize evil and therefore we don't give it any power… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhists believe that you are who you are today is because of who you have been in all your past lives. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I personally don't subscribe to any particular cosmology or beleif system. I'm a seer. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Even though it's not perceivable to the mind or senses, it's there and enlightenment is absolute freedom. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism is the study of changing who we are, modifying or perhaps totally restructuring ourselves as perceivers. — 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
A time comes when it isn't enough to read about Buddha, we wish to have that happen to ourselves. That's when we… — 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
The realms of light exist everywhere forever. But it is up to an individual to raise their mind to a level of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism has existed forever, just like we have, and occasionally it's codified; it's put together into a system by someone who likes… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Prana is an element of energy. Energy is a manifestation of a certain principle which in Indian cosmology they call shakti, or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism isn't about temples, and incense, and shaved heads, and robes. It's not about church. There are aspects of Buddhism that involve… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The essential premise of Buddhism is that there is enlightenment, there is nirvana. Beyond this world, beyond all worlds, there's something radiant,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism is simply a methodology, a way of becoming one with the part of ourselves that is happy. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through. — 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
The Buddha gave his first talks, and three or four ascetics became his first disciples. They recognized his enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
His second cycle of teachings discusses the cosmology of the universes. But in his later years, he wrote the tantric texts. — 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
Self discovery doesn't not seek to bring you answers about your personal life or philosophically comfort you about life and death. What… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Human beings have become so afraid of the unknown, themselves, and each other that they deprive themselves of that innate ecstasy and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
From my own personal encounters and studies with both Tantric and Zen Buddhist monks, I have found them to be humorous, warm,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The dialectical change of mind that occurs in Buddhism is not simply the assimilation of a new philosophical basis or religious basis… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Buddhist mindset seeks to eliminate the self. That is to say, what we want to experience is life, not self. When… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The purpose of all our explanations is not to have you understand anything, but for you to snap from the understanding of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism is perception, gaining control of the mind and directing one's attention, to raise the kundalini energy so that it flows with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The days of infinity are endless. Its hours cannot be counted or found on a clock. There is no north, south, east,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The pathway to enlightenment is beautiful. There are a lot of wonderful things that happen along the way. Win or lose, you… — 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
Buddhism is the study of power initially. It takes a certain amount of power to even know your potential - to have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Behind the transient reality, there is something else. It is a deeper, more permanent and unchanging reality that we Buddhists call nirvana. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The thing about Buddhism is that it stresses attainment of something ineffable, that is where it differs from other religions in that… — 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
Buddhism suggests there are no elect. Everything rests upon your own self-effort, which is the good news because that means you don't… — 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
