With this imaginary mandate from God, men have not allowed women to be given the educational, religous and social freedoms that are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment simply means that you've gotten above the body-mind complex. You've refined the self, dissolved it in the white light of eternity… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Simply by performing good actions and thinking good thoughts you will not attain enlightenment. It takes something more. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If one becomes enlightened, as I did in past incarnations, we leave the structural universes behind. We don't even have past incarnations… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Focusing on an enlightened teacher is a doorway. It is not a person. We are focusing on the light that passes through… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
While I may not be able to describe to you exactly what enlightenment is like, I can tell you that it is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When the spirit is understood, then life becomes not at all common, but a constant magical circus in which you see yourself… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The role of the teacher is to make sure that the practice is pure. By guiding the student, you make sure that… — 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 is a practice in which we learn to avoid injuring others, and ourselves. It's a practice in which we learn to… — 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
We're connected to the Buddhist order, to the mind of enlightenment. All day long we draw the power and force from that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment just means that you don't have a structural self. It means you've flipped through the gradated realities. Nothing binds, nothing clings… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All souls do not reach enlightenment. Some souls reach a certain point and stay there. Some souls actually decline and go into… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In America people have this funny idea about enlightenment and money. Money expresses a level of commitment. Studying enlightenment is like going… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a guru but as a teacher. If one means 'guru' in the original sense a 'dispeller… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is necessary to disassociate oneself from those who would interfere with your success in enlightenment, in your career, in your life.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment has nothing to do with being spiritual. Being spiritual is just an idea - it's another ring of perception. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is competition in Zen. Let's not be ridiculous. There is competition in everything in life; being a winner in Zen means,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I meet people who neglect career. Their lives aren't centered at all. They don't have much money. They have this spaced-out look… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is not about being political. It is not a social club. Ashrams often turn into that, I know. Societies of enlightenment… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The process of eliminating the samskaras and reaching complete enlightenment is very technical, wonderful, and mystical process. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A real enlightened teacher is intense and they could care less what you think about anything at any time since you are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Many Eastern spiritual groups feel that women are not capable of enlightenment. They advise women to have sons and pray to be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Personal power is a feeling that everybody is looking for called satisfaction. It is different from enlightenment, but you need personal power… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Selectively pick a teacher, one that you respect, not just someone who can talk with wonderful poetic figures about enlightenment, but someone… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You are going around on the wheel again and again. You go around and around from lifetime to lifetime. You never quite… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For men, it's necessary to push aside that marvelous ego that tells you that you are all knowing and capable, and see… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your intent is important. You will pull a very deep power when you are working not just for yourself, but you are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Love is something that we don't control. We have to be ourselves. You can be sexual, nonsexual, asexual, bisexual, or trisexual and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
After enlightenment your body changes tremendously; its very molecular structure changes just because the kundalini is always streaming through you. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment means that you've become a sophisticated perceiver, without letting anyone know that you're sophisticated. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What women have done is developed a survival mechanism, and it's a fascinating one and it's been effective and justified, in my… — 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
