An enlightened teacher is able to put a tremendous amount of power through a person who seeks knowledge and escalates the evolution… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The study of meditation is the entrance into the world of Wonderland. It has nothing to do with how you'd like it.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Unfortunately the student often feels guilt for not living the type of life that their Teacher suggested, or they feel that they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Once in a while an enlightened teacher goes out into the world and spreads the dharma. They attract some attention, and it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Experience is a great teacher. You will have to go through the trials and tribulations and the ecstasies and abandoned moments of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
With a teacher it is necessary to be sensitive to their directions; most of the time they won't say much. You have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In future years a number of you will become spiritual teachers. After many years of study and doing a good job, go… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A teacher is not someone you need perpetually. You need them to show you how to get through the doorway; but once… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We hear wonderful stories about some masters who can walk on water and do all kinds of great things. But the real… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
At a university they had the freshman class make the same predictions that some of the well-known psychics do every year, and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A teacher can show you the ways. But no one can do it for you. You have to take what you learn… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Examine everything that you've been taught, not simply what you've been taught in school, but the images that have been held up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you think it makes a difference if I have ten thousand sports cars, ten million girlfriends and lead a very flashy… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You may not need a teacher or you may be drawn to one - everything is individual. But the main thing you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In enlightenment you have to convince a teacher not only that you are worthy of teaching, but then that they should show… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The essence of the teachings is to lose self importance and to care more for the welfare of others and the magical… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is inevitable that, in the process of teaching an Asian religion in a Western country, many of the teachings will seem… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A lot of people have this live or die attitude with mediation. It has to be all or nothing. I don't think… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It takes tremendous self-restraint on the part of the student not to want to monopolize the teacher's attention, to live a very… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most teachers of self-discovery have two types of students. They have students they deal with in a more exoteric way than the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The study of law, medicine and the arts, in each of these instances, the developed mindset is very helpful to one who… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Through the study of Zen you can learn to move from lower to higher states of mind at will. Higher states of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some teachers are extremely inaccessible. They feel their teachings are for very few so they make it intentionally hard to get to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
With the empowerment of an advanced Teacher, and your own best efforts, you will be able to explore the mysteries of knowledge… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The study of Zen is the study of energy, power, knowledge and balance. It is the science of energy conservation and control.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is a study. It's a discipline. It involves the active use of will to make things happen or not happen. These… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Studying with a teacher doesn't simply mean going to an occasional seminar or Zen retreat. It means fully applying yourself to what… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you can develop a connection, what we call an inner connection with the teacher, then it is not even necessary to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The teaching process becomes most interesting for spiritual seekers once they've managed to hit the lower samadhis. However at that point many… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The life of meditation and religious study is absolutely no guarantee of peak moments. Most people involved in religious study and meditation… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I personally have fun with enlightenment, the study and the teaching of it. I get a kick out of doing it different… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The teaching process is lengthy because there are many, many states of mind to go through. And in each state of mind… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A person who undertakes the study of Zen and learns concentration and meditation is like a gymnast. You become a gymnast of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The highest teaching is never written down. It's only communicated from teacher to student because it's a "transmission of the lamp." It's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It has been my experience as a teacher over the years and incarnations that what really counts are not techniques. What really… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A teacher had two types of students. One type of student is a close student. The other is also a close student,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is the direct application of Buddhist teachings to a physical event, a way of doing or accomplishing something, or a way… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You get to the point where you have to wash the dishes. That's the fun in life. Being behind the scenes and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Buddha taught three cycles of teachings. His first cycle of teachings cover the basics, the prerequisites. This would include the Dharmapada. — 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
