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
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
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
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
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
What you focus on you become. So always focus on that which is highest, brightest, happiest and most noble of all things,… — 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
There comes a time when a race of beings makes a decision. When they chose to reject enlightenment, it's the end of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There's a source, there's a perennial source from which all things come forth. We call it the Godhead, Nirvana, the Tao, enlightenment.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you visit the Zen Monasteries, one of the first things required is that you bring a donation. They have to pay… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Kundalini can be transmitted. A person who is very adept at the enlightenment process can transmit it. Whether you feel it or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Forever is not an idea or a concept, it is reality. All of the things here come from forever. We call forever… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The perfect view of existence comes from an unclouded, uncluttered life and mind whereby the radiance of perfect attention of the mind… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the enlightenment cycle, attention is paid to bringing back the awareness field from other lives. This does not simply mean memory,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You must learn to meditate and stop your thoughts. You must overcome all egotism and selfishness by serving others. You must cleanse… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is already there inside us and all things. All we have to do is get something out of the way that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your very success is what's going to destroy you. The survival mechanism that you've developed is the very thing which will cause… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I observe that more evolved souls are now reincarnating as women. Women find it easier to meditate and easier to develop their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The hallmark of a person who is following the pathway to enlightenment is that they bring excellence into everything, no matter how… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you seek to change your life and attain enlightenment, you must deal with these questions. If there is no truth in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The few women who have been admitted to the study are usually given a second-class status in which they are taught only… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
From the point of view of enlightenment, none of this has ever even been. All time and space, all the conditions that… — 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
The secret teaching was the bodhisattva ideal, to live for others, for the welfare of all beings. That's enlightenment, not some flashy… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Select companions who are striving for enlightenment. They all have their imperfections, certainly, but at least their attention is moving in the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Women do not help each other attain enlightenment because in the description of the world they've been given, unlike that of men,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment, and I would encourage you to follow that pathway as far as you can, into ecstasy. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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
If you are with a fully enlightened being, a jivan mukta, liberated soul, the quality of light is so clear, that you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm not blaming men, I'm not blaming women. What's gone by has already gone by. It's history. It's done. There is no… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You have to become that infinite formless creation, which is life, to know it. It cannot be known in an intellectual sense.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
With the use of psychedelics, it was all based around the Tibetan Book of the Dead, using them to experience enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everything knows what is best for itself. That is what the Sanskrit word dharma means. Dharma means the best of all possible… — 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
