The mind is like a lake. It reflects eternity when it's very still. If ripples appear, lots of them, then the reflection… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation is the short path to happiness. Meditation takes you beyond the desire-aversion operating system that offers very limited happiness and a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation is the way the mind is. That's why in Zen they call it the natural state, which means you don't have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In our world, in our pre-World War III condition, meditation is considered a cult activity and people who practice self-discovery are actually… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Samadhi is perfect absorption to the point where there is no sense of being absorbed, not the consciousness of knowing that you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is more important to repeat a mantra several times with total absorption than to parrot it for hours on end. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Spiritual balance is tai chi. It is the center of things. It is the place where yin and yang meet. In the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What is Tantric Zen? Well, I don't think I can give you a straight answer, since I don't happen to be a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As an enlightened teacher of Buddhism, I'd like to welcome you to the pathway to enlightenment. I'd like to encourage you to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
From the point of view of meditation, there is nothing that is not God. When we meditate, we are participating in a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When I go visit my brother monks in Japan and sit down with other Zen Masters, they look at my crazy clothes… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no loneliness when you meditate, you feel eternity. How could you ever be lonely? You just feel God's love for… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The high priests and priestesses taught the children the secret meditation techniques, along with methods and ways of living that would increase… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is only in the last 800 years that the rules have come into being and conservative Zen has surfaced. It is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation essentially means having a great time. Some people have applied a sense or a feeling to the meditative experience, such that,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In advanced meditation there are methods and formations of joining the mind with the various aggregate aspects of the universe, fusing it,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you seek the realms of light, the best thing to do is to meditate with love and the gentle aliveness. Meditation… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Practice meditating on the heart chakra. This is only one of them, but it's quite good for the first few years of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A mantra is a thought. Use a mantra to help you still your mind initially and then move into silent meditation. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you want to follow the path of love, it's a good idea to meditate on the heart chakra everyday. The heart… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Each time you meditate you have the possibility of completely changing your life in one meditation. If you meditate with your whole… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You become someone else when you meditate. It isn't just a little technique. If you really pursue it, you change radically -… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The practice of meditation is an ancient practice. It's been practiced in many lands, for many lifetimes. You may have practiced it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sensations of peace, joy, and love will enter into you. They will be very subtle at first. Then they will grow stronger. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation is something that is indigenous to the heart, which makes it hard to talk about. We don't necessarily need to talk… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Will is developed in meditation. It is refined. It is within you, but you don't know how to get to it. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The surface personality is only the beginning of what we are. So as we meditate, we still that surface personality, we can… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Instead of tryig to stop thought when you meditate, focus your attention on love. Suddenly you'll find your thoughts are slacking. Light… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The navel center will bring the power of all three of the lower chakras into your being, but with safety. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We are going to alter the structure of our beings and also totally change what we are. This is the possibility and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Real happiness is something most people never know. What we experience in deep meditation, that ecstasy is beyond what human beings call… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tantra is the perception of the oneness and the perfection of all things. Not just the perception of light, but the perception… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nirvikalpa samadhi is another matter. In order to enter into nirvikalpa samadhi, you must have a great deal of humility. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness has to do with how quickly you vibrate. Meditation is a process of speeding up the vibration. — 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
Through the practice of meditation and Buddhism, as you experience light, it immediately delights you. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Whatever you focus on, you become. That is the key line, you know. Meditation is the bow and concentration is the arrow. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you meditate, you focus to clear the mind and to bring the willpower together. But then, toward the end of the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is in Zen practice that you gain power, balance and wisdom. The battles that you fight are within your own mind.… — 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
