Zen is discipline - the discipline of living life, the discipline of taking a breath, the discipline of not knowing and not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tantric Buddhism is just a collection of things that work by doing them. And sometimes we add new things. We have electronic… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The inner cry is a very good way to meditate. As you're sitting there in meditation, just cry inwardly to God, to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Throughout the course of my life, I have been very fortunate to have had excellent teachers - not just in meditation, but… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you're very liberal, then you should go and find a very liberal Zen teacher, a liberal interpretation of the doctrines of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I recommend computer science to people who practice meditation. The mental structures that are used in computer science are very similar exercises… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
This is the process of mental analysis, sifting through the selves, sifting through your thoughts, practicing mindfulness, learning to control thought. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Buddhist Yoga, we refer to our mutlilife karmic traits as samskaras. They are the internal karmic patterns that make each of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Even after only several weeks of practicing meditation, you will begin to have more energy and be a little bit happier. Eventually,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is not advisable for persons who are in the early stages of meditation to mediate on the two lower chakras. You… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If a person sets out to practice meditation in this lifetime and they have a little bit of spiritual evolution behind them… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation will do you a disservice. It will confuse you more than clarify you. It will bring tremendous impurity in you -… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
During those years the past life recollections began. Psychic powers developed, my meditation increased and I found myself changing, over and over… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As your meditation practice improves from month to month, more and more light and ecstasy will spill over into the moments of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are two primary ways of studying Zen. Either an individual will enter into a Zen monastery and study with a Zen… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One day I was meditating on a cliff overlooking the ocean in Southern California and I was absorbed in a state of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tantric Zen, at first, does not appear to have a method. In Tantric Zen, you could meditate on a Brillo box or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you can bring earnestness to your meditation, you will find that happiness is something that will run through your life constantly. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The highest type of meditation is done in silence. In silence there are no mantras. Mantras are not essential, but they can… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you meditate your mind will become razor sharp. Your memory and retention will be superb. New talents and abilities will begin… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The practice of mindfulness is monitoring your mind all day and all night. It's enjoyable to just remove things that make you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We see a lot of people who decide to go out and teach meditation. They become so wrapped up in it that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
My feeling is that drugs and alcohol take away from the pure experience of meditation. That does not mean that occasionally, a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In meditation you can erase the conditioning. But still, you have to fight the description of the world that everyone else is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some people go into tantra with the idea, sort of an intellectual approach, that now they can just do everything and stay… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If the world does not shine brightly, even just the physical, sensual perception after meditation, you have not meditated. You have sat… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
How do you know you were in samadhi? You know when your awareness returns to the plane of self and ideation that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The trick to keeping your meditation practice alive, not simply consistent but wonderful, is you need to bring a certain will or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The theory of Zen is non-competition. But that is not really true at all. People who practice Zen are very competitive. They… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In meditation all the fake dull thoughts that you think, all the ridiculous philosophies, the necessities, all the things that won't matter… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone knows why they meditate. As a matter of fact I'm not even sure that we do meditate. All… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
An advanced way to meditate, of course, is to focus on your teacher. If you have a spiritual teacher and you focus… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tantra is non-dogmatic, in the sense that we don't care about the sensual world; we don't care about other religious traditions. To… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation is a process in which we're essentially, at first, breathing out. We're exhaling existence, taking it out of the mind, and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Eventually you will go into samadhi. Samadhi is a very advanced meditation. You dissolve into the clear light of eternity again and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You don't have to meditate. You don't have to practice self-discovery and Buddhism. You should only practice self-discovery if you really have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A time comes when you don't have to use meditation techniques anymore. You just sit down and you are nonexistence itself. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Never expect anything from a particular meditation. Once you have gotten started, different methods get you into the stream, let the meditation… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The period of meditation is a time when we go back to the source. We go back to what we were before… — 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
