The emphasis is on meditation in Tantric Zen. The experience of meditation in formal practice, zazen, where you're sitting down and meditating… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you chant "Aum" or any mantra, do so softly and gently. Extend the sound. Focus your awareness on the sound of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is easier to develop the mind through meditation than it is just through athletic practice. If you put the two together,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation is a process of liquefying the self temporarily and then allowing the self to rebind. The ice melts and then it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The third eye is located between the eyebrows and a little above. The heart center is located directly in the center of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some people meditate because they are sick and tired of their life, of the world, of the way people abuse each other… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Samadhi is not going to take away your humanity. It will give it to you. You will become more cosmopolitan, more conscious,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the advanced practice, the relationship between the Zen master and the student becomes very terse. The Zen master will expect things… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The life of meditation and religious study is absolutely no guarantee of peak moments. Most people involved in religious study and meditation… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I meditated on my own for some time, read spiritual books, became a vegetarian and had incredible experiences every day, every meditation,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As far as miracles are concerned, I'm not aware that I perform miracles. After many years and lifetimes of meditation, I am… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you allow people, places and things, to pass through your mind during meditation, you will pull in all those other auras… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation is coming back to your original self, if we can use self without a sense of self. It's perfect, clear light,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As you do your daily meditations, your life will change. Most people change between the ages of zero to four. The older… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
With the power of one's will we stop thought and move into alternate forms of perception. We gain that power through practicing… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What makes us happy is to have a spiritual experience ... that experience of ecstasy in the deepest meditation; that's happiness. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is to be outside the circle, the circle of death and rebirth. There is a circle inside you. If you meditate… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tantric Zen is not being kinky; nor is it being conservative and austere. It is eclectic. It is a real mixture of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I would recommend, initially, if you are trying to increase your personal power level, to meditate on the navel center, not the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you're very, very conservative and you like that sort of practice, go find a very conservative Zen master and just do… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can take the kundalini from the crown center and bring it down. You can bring it up or you can stabilize… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is a spirit that guides us, if we will listen. It speaks softly. In order to hear it we must still… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Start a meditation session by repeating a mantra, perhaps, "Aum", which is the most powerful of all mantras. Then, after repeating the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The different techniques will place you in touch with different fields of auric empowerment, creating a balanced development of your practice. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tantra is for the advanced spiritual practitioner who is ready to push aside spiritual practice in the name of spiritual practice. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some people, of course, say they're practicing tantra. There are a lot of books on tantric sexual practice in local bookstores. These… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation erases conditioning. It allows a person to channel the kundalini energy through their subtle physical body and reach enlightened states of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment, meditation is really a shift in perception. It's not a thing that you go and do or become, since you're already… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What you focus on you become. If you spend an hour or two a day meditating and focusing on light, then you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are planes that are not light. There are planes that are shadowy. But that is not our interest in meditation. We… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Zen master can see precisely what it will take to cause your awareness to become free. But the Zen master can't… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tantra works well for people who are engaged in relationships and sexuality. Sex itself is just an action. It's just part of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is not simply a transient happiness that you experience in meditation that creates balance; it is a transformative light. Inner light… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the chakras, it's the heart chakra, anahata, the central chakra, three above and three below, which symbolizes happiness and love, psychic… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Satori is a brief flash. Suddenly the light breaks through. For a short timeless time we experience eternity in its unmanifest form.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tantric Zen is more suited for this age that we live in. It give you rules, but in a gentle way. It's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the old days, Zen was not really practiced so much in a monastery. The Zen Master usually lived up on a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The best meditation I ever had, I haven't had yet. It's in the future, which as anyone knows doesn't exist - anyone… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is Tantric Buddhism, Vajrayana is tantric Buddhism - these are various forms of it. Tantric Buddhism simply means cutting to the… — 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