I can't give you happiness. I can show you where it is, but I can't give it to you. How can I… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Tibetan Buddhist realization is that mind does not have any particular qualities or attributes of its own. It's clear - clear… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Consider that we live in a world predicated upon fear. The underlying assumption is that human beings are innately evil and must… — 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
Dimensionality only exists because the mind can perceive life that way, but that's only one simple method that the mind has for… — 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
People who use the mind and aggressive energy to blow their opponent away can be figured out. Anybody you can figure out… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People on the pathway to enlightenment become very successful in whatever they approach, because they have learned to discipline the mind. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Dreams are just silly things that pass through your mind at night. "Dreaming" is out-of-the-body experiences where you are traveling through the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness is a state of mind. The key to happiness is being able to disconnect your life from your perceptions. If you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Anything that you might want to be is around somewhere. You can become it. You just have to get into the state… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Good karma leads to rebirth also. The desire for higher states of mind is a desire. When you are fixated on higher… — 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
Advanced meditators are not even desirous of liberation anymore - that is just another attachment. There is no liberation. There is no… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are parts of us that are miserable, that hate, that love, that are cruel, are kind, are reasonable, are unreasonable. You… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I don't think you see your minds. I think you see your thoughts; you see your desires; you see your relatives, friends,… — 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
You have to elevate yourself to that point and bring your mind into the Godhead, into nirvana, into that perfect and pure… — 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
You can get stuck in being wise. You can get stuck in having a developed will. It is very hard to get… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sight is not absolutely essential in this process, but we use sight because it is the dominant sense. It's easiest to interrupt… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Beyond all of this is something else, perfection; not just as an ideation, but as a living reality. Even though it may… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is possible to move to an enlightened state of mind from a lower bardo or level of awareness. It can happen,… — 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
The mind is like a computer. It runs programs. Most of the software has been poorly written. It is written in the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The causal body is the most ancient and timeless part of a person. It has the capacity to know and do things… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Karma means that through your thoughts and feelings and actions, you are generating a state of mind. That state of mind has… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Have the right attitude in advanced practice. Feel that you are always a beginner in Zen. They refer to it as "beginners… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To go to the very center of the mind of God, to be that, to become aware of our infiniteness, is the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Zen there is a sense of blending, of stepping out of your body and mind and gaining access to powers and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The degree of success that you attain in all of your physical, mental and spiritual undertakings is dependent upon the strength and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sit in front of an object of concentration with the eyes open. Focus on a candle flame, or a yantra, a little… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
After the meditation session you have to be a little bit careful. If you start to think a lot of thoughts and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Cry to god. If you do that just for a couple minutes with your whole being, just like a child who so… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your mind is turbulent because you're filled with desires, frustrations. You want too many things. You are afraid of too many things.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everything is dependent upon your state of mind. That is all there is, states of mind, ten thousand of them. Beyond all… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you're in the tantric sex state of mind, what someone else experiences when they have sex is not what you'll experience.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For most people the prohibitions are a good thing. But If you are able to maintain very powerful states of mind, then… — 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
