A teacher will alter the balance of power by actually lifting a person into other states of mind. In those states of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A great deal of energy is lost in the study by people who interact with non-physical beings. They get into your mind… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
This is the most exciting study there is. It is the only thing I know of in life that makes you feel… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Without balance and wisdom, power becomes very destructive. It creates unhappiness and not happiness. To simply see a teacher to gain power… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Different schools of Zen have evolved, principally the Rinzai and Soto orders. A whole hierarchy has developed for the teaching and practice… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen has lost its zip, if you will, or its nothingness and has become ritualistic Its established in monastaries with strict codes… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Once in while a teacher may make a recommendation, it is usually after going through the basic Socratic method of trying to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are phony teachers who profess all kinds of things, and I think you will figure out real fast who they are.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In order not to lose your resolve and purpose, you need to unite with others of like mind and work with an… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The teacher is not a person; they're a field of energy. They're a series of levels of attention. While they have a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can't teach someone to be enlightened. It's something you have to go and do. You can't teach someone to meditate well.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Universities are very clarifying places of power, because everyone is focused on trying to figure out exactly what to do with their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In poetry, and in my study in graduate school, I was drawn to a particular poet, Theodore Roethke. I did a dissertation… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
This study is not for the amateur. It's not for the dilettante. It's not for the cult follower. It's not for someone… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Those who are already adept at some disciplines of the body will find that the study of Zen and meditation will give… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most of the teaching I do is not verbal. It's in every movement of my body. It's in my dance. It's in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The study of enlightenment is really a reorganization of our perceptual body or our perceptual field. We learn to see life more… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake. You'll gain the power, but with the current mindset that you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The teacher will be moving through thousands of states of mind and sometimes beyond mind. While you are with the teacher, be… — 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
Some people like a harsh teacher. They feel the demands make them learn more quickly. Some like a gentle teacher because they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you find a teacher, you devote your time and energy to what they believe in. You surrender not them but to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The relationship between the student and teacher is ultimately important. In higher spirituality we don't study a subject as much as a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A real liberated teacher never asks for a commitment from a student. That's absurd, a person wants to be there and they… — 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
Enlightened teachers and people who help them, have a lot of trouble. People try to interfere with the work and spread awful… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Expect forces to interfere with you and expect to conquer them all, if you are serious about the study. Just as there… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I recommend, for many people, the study of computer science. Our natural resource in America is the mind. The mindset in computer… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
My teaching - of what is perceived to be a complex and foreign sounding religious philosophy - has become the target for… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The teaching of the ten thousand states of mind, particularly as one advances further, is done through transmission. This is where we… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it - I read… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Can you control your anger, lust, frustrations, and jealousies? Those are the only people worthy of the higher teachings. By worthy, I… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your ability to use mind whatever way you choose is outrageous. Much will depend upon how intensely you approach the study and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
During the time of Atlantis, members of the Mystery Schools discovered and developed specific concentration exercises that they found would radically increase… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What you need to learn are basic types of concentration, bringing more energy into your life, plugging up the holes where you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Old Zen, the Zen Master would do literally anything to break down the concept of what the study was. He would… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The person who helps you is the person who aids you in becoming independent and strong. Good teachers don't answer your questions,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All of the exoteric teachings are only designed to give you the type of life that will allow you to practice the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am a Teacher. I am the keeper of mysteries. You seek knowledge and power, Truth, Light, and happiness. I am happy… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the study of Zen you can learn how to strengthen and clarify your finite mind. Your finite mind is like a… — 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
