Observe your actions but be so busy that you never contemplate their possible effects. It is only this consciousness that leads to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I took the liberty in Snowboarding to Nirvana to do a type of parody of what I suppose you would call "New… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Humility means freedom. It provides growth and takes you out of the cycle of change that you are currently in, which is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is a way beyond this life and beyond death, the path of liberation. In order to be liberated, you have to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To become pure is not difficult. Make the choices that will lead you to freedom and liberation - not enslavement to the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Liberation means no rebirth. Now, does that mean you don't reincarnate? Well, you never did reincarnate. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you attain liberation do not feel that it matters or it is important. You had nothing to do with it. If… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can lie to yourself and fool yourself and rationalize that the choice you're making is what is right and what is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Philosophers are all caught up in their philosophies. That's their house of cards. Religious leaders are caught up in their religious movements… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Old Zen was very funny; there was a great deal of humor and happiness. Zen today seems much drier. While there's a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your existence is passing before you. Grains of sand in the hourglass. The Wicked Witch of the West has you in her… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nirvikalpa Samadhi means that you've gone off the board; you've gone off the map. There is no way to describe it. You… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate that we see a great many women settling. They think that simply because they have gotten the right to vote,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness is not freedom. You may become happy tomorrow; but I assure you, your happiness will be smashed by the pains of… — 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
When you live a life devoid of ritual and convention, with honesty and self-effacement, then you are on the road to freedom. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are no rules. Nothing you can do will take you to liberation; therefore, nothing you avoid will help you along the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One day liberation will come, and it won't be a day; it won't be a year; it won't be a time, a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We need a new imprinting. We need the imprinting of enlightenment, of freedom. That comes through our association with a higher being.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The sign of an advanced spiritual person is that they don't think they're an advanced spiritual person until after liberation. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is not a religion. There is no room for a cult. There is no dependence on a teacher. There is only… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People who are advanced meditators don't worry about liberation and self-realization; they instead are interested in the welfare of others and aiding… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The awareness of place, space, or condition is not liberation. You can't say what it is, but you can sure say what… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you want to be liberated, if you choose to be what I am, then you've chosen freedom. You can do this. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is through many lifetimes of shifting the aggregate of the self that one finally reaches a point of maximum velocity whereby… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is equally easy, initially, for either a man or a woman to attain enlightenment, what we would call liberation or self-realization. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Pick a profession that will give you enough money to give you economic freedom. It is nice to pick a career that… — 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
