Focus your awareness on the heart chakra. As you do, you will feel your consciousness shifting. You may feel different perceptions of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The second stage of meditation begins when you can successfully stop thought for long periods of time. At this point you move… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Any area you slough off in your life will reflect in your meditation. Be happy when you could be depressed. Push jealous,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no letter of the law to follow in Zen. There is a lot of etiquette, but there are no rules. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Don't judge your meditations. Don't rate them. The physical mind cannot tell how well you did. As long as you are sitting… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Use the previous techniques in rotation. It will prevent your meditation experience from becoming stale. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To meditate with humility, consider existence. It is infinite. You are finite. You are a finite portion of infinite existence. Let this… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are essentially three stages in learning how to meditate. In the beginning you are simply trying to ignore thought. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For the first few years, it's most beneficial to meditate on the heart chakra. The heart chakra, called the anahata chakra in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A well known Los Angeles newspaper referred to a small group of gentlemen who live up on a mountain and practice Zen… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you become very close to your teacher, if you do well in your meditation, a deep emotional bond will develop between… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You might wish to try Kali's mantra. Kali is another celestial being. She offers very fast spiritual progress through intensity. Her mantra… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If the Zen master sees that it will cause a person to progress, he will ask that person to do a task.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Real winning and losing all takes place at the meditation table. This is where the battles are. Winning is stopping thought. Losing… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you keep focusing, gradually thoughts will become quieter and quieter, gradually the images will disappear from the mind. What is happening… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You start meditation as an average human being who is filled with vagueness and not much purpose or definition, who is controlled… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Visualize the soft white light continuing to expand as it gently swirls around, until it has filled the earth, the sky, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A lot of people have this live or die attitude with mediation. It has to be all or nothing. I don't think… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you meditate make sure you stay awake. If you are falling asleep get up and splash some water on yourself or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A critical part of Tantric Buddhism is a process of turning of the activities and experiences in your daily life into meditation. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the Southwestern United States, the places of power reference the lower three chakras, the chakras of power. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When your mind is tranquil and at peace with the universe, when it has become void of all thought - you become… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to experiement with your life and with your heart, your meditation and your being. Just love. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The study of law, medicine and the arts, in each of these instances, the developed mindset is very helpful to one who… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As you meditate, you will find that consciousness itself will move you beyond time and space and condition into a larger, vaster,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen students see themselves as athletes. Their competitive sport is enlightenment; only with enlightenment do we compete. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation is like taking a shower. You are going to wash all the dirt off that you have picked up since your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Through the study of Zen you can learn to move from lower to higher states of mind at will. Higher states of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Lakshmi is a celestial being who lives in a higher plane of existence. Her mantra is "Sring." When you chant it, it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are billions of people out there walking around and they don't meditate. You can tell. They are not having a good… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you go into samadhi, either salvikalpa or nirvikalpa, what happens is you erase, you loosen, the aggregates. You simplify them. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation is a bright, hopeful practice in which we learn to make our mind quiet so that the infinite, perfect light of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People who meditate seek good moments forever. They know that there are other worlds beyond this world. They feel it. I experience… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is not a good idea to continually repeat a mantra during meditation. Repeating a mantra throughout your mediation causes you to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The place that you gain the most power is within your own mind. Stopping thought generates power. That is why people meditate.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Only when there are no impressions of others clouding our mind, can we sit and practice the glorious practice of meditation. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If we get too caught up in the rhetoric of meditation, we will miss the point. The point was to go beyond… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our thoughts will swim around and talk to us while we're sitting there, make fun of us, ignore us. But if you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You don't have to do anything to meditate. That's what makes it so difficult. Everybody wants to do something. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tantra is for a person who has reached a point in their spiritual evolution where everything looks the same. — 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
