Once we've achieved perfect meditation, we're terribly trapped because that's an illusion...any enlightenment that seems ultimate is an illusion. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment doesn't occur by accident. It is a deliberate decision that someone makes again and again. It is something you grow into… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's a good idea to be in the physical presence of the enlightened teacher because it's not physical. You can hear the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You have developed the second attention much more than you realize and you use it more than you realize as a woman.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
My favorite cause is the enlightenment of others. I think that is the best place to put money. You get the highest… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What does God really look like stripped naked? That's the province of enlightenment...the formless, perfect face of existence. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Being a Buddhist monk means never losing one's optimism in spite of all difficulties. It also means being harder on yourself than… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
How do you become enlightened? Have fun, meditate, don't take yourself too seriously, brush between incarnations and have a good teacher. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The anti-pleasure movement in self-discovery is very strong. I have big news for them, if they ever get to enlightenment, which is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
No self-effort in the direction of enlightenment is ever wasted. Even if you don't become fully enlightened in a given lifetime, you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Don't judge others. Always be open to them. Avoid the cult mentality, you know, the super-slick, "I'm superior because I meditate, because… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To be fixated on Sahaja Samadhi is to be fixated. To be fixated on the idea of being not fixated is fixation… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Historically men have suppressed women quite effectively. They have suppressed women since the beginning of our history. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Simply because you can perform feats of power does not mean you are, in the classical sense, fully enlightened. It means that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Nirvana, it is you, my friend, who goes away. You take an eraser and erase yourself. It's like the Road Runner… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Women have been taught that they are not powerful; they've been given an opposite description, that they are weak. The word "effeminate"… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is x-rated, honey; if you haven't checked it out. It's hot, it's vivacious. You're going to take your mind and merge… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Yes I say that I am enlightened. What does that mean? It means I live in a condition of light...There really is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you understand dharma, when you see its perfect perfection, shining both in and beyond all things, you will be freed from… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All the sutras in the world are useless. All the lectures of all the teachers don't really mean anything. They are only… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A Buddhist is working not just to get paid, but working to advance spiritually. You shouldn't create a syntactical break in your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is the ability to freely transact within the ten thousand states of mind without a continuous self or awareness — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is important to monitor your mind constantly. This is particularly important if you are studying with an enlightened teacher, because you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We are all incarnate Buddhas. We just have not realized it deeply. We have not moved the mind - what our friend… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The wonder of immaculate, perfect, pure mind is that when it is in its perfect, extant state without confusion, it can be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tantra is not sexual yoga. When the word tantra is used in the West, very often people immediately associate it with some… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The second attention is the occult side of the being. It is the ability to manipulate others, be it for good or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The purpose of enlightenment is certainly not the teacher, nor is it you. It doesn't have a purpose. Enlightenment simply exists. — 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
A way of spreading the dharma is just telling people, sharing with them your experiences. Never push it, never be a missionary.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you sit with an enlightened teacher physically, the teacher moves in and out of different states of mind. That is how… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are many paths that lead to enlightenment. There are lesser enlightenments along the way to a larger enlightenment, referred to sometimes… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The key to all enlightenment is to have personal experiences in the world of light. All you need to do that is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Who wants to be stuck in being religious and being spiritual either? That's not freedom. You've just exchanged handcuffs for leg irons… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The essence of Buddhism is simply that the mind is forever. We are always experiencing different states of mind in one form… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When I meditate, people see manifestations of light when I go into samadhi and through the samadhis. Sometimes the energy of enlightenment… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The pathway to enlightenment is joyful. It may sound harsh. I suggest just the opposite. It is rather easy compared to the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Don't become a spiritual bigot. Don't feel that just because you meditate and you are striving for enlightenment that you are in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I don't work with men who are antagonistic to the liberation of women. I do work with quite a number of men… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
These are the mysterious ways of knowledge, power and enlightenment. I can only allude to them in words. I cannot possibly explain… — 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
