All the manifest forms of existence are but illusions. They are momentary displays of consciousness, flashes of lightening in the sky. They… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If the tonal predominates, which we see now more in the world, there's no mystery - understanding of consciousness or awareness. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Initially the student, in some traditions, is given a mantra, a particular word of power to focus on. While thoughts are cascading… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What more could there be, but the absolute beauty of our lives? Look around you, for heaven's sake and stop thinking. It… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Self discovery doesn't not seek to bring you answers about your personal life or philosophically comfort you about life and death. What… — 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
Greed, fear, lust, hate, jealousy, these are part of reality too ... bundles of consciousness wrapped tightly, barbs on which you can… — 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
Find a teacher of Tantric Zen and study with them because it is transference of awareness, a sharing of the perception of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As a human being you are capable of a higher level of perception than you may now be cognizant of. You are… — 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
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
The universe is made up of an endless ocean of life itself. It is an endless ocean of itself. And for a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you listen to what entities say, the gradually work their way into your thoughts. After a while you will start thinking… — 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
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
Everything is dependent on your ability to stop thoughts. The longer you can stop your thoughts in meditation, the faster you will… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Every living being is psychic. Whether or not we are consciously aware of it, we feel vibrations and energies coming to us… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Power is the thing that holds a band of perception together, and a band of perception is life for those who perceive… — 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
If you hold a negative thought, then it will become more powerful and not only will it send bad energy to the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All the universes are bound together by a web, a matrix, which is our perception. And our perception actually has colors; it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Thinking that the next person, the next relationship, the next experience will free you - these are foolish thoughts of people who… — 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
We live inside too much. We live inside and we have square thoughts and square ideas because we live in square houses.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If we try and direct our lives with only our limited rationalistic thoughts and our sense perceptions, then our actions and our… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To meditate what you need to do is free yourself from your ideas and your thoughts. All of the higher dimensional planes,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
With Zen we do it more through slight of hand, a very subtle and delicate shift in consciousness, which shifts the world.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In this world people love to talk and be active. Everyone wants to express their opinion. Listen in meditation, not to your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you go to a power place, if you are receptive, if you are able to quiet your thoughts and concentrate, a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As long as you wish to separate yourself from the immortal consciousness, you will suffer. You will experience the pain of the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you are with an enlightened teacher, you will feel both pleasant and unpleasant things magnified. That happens when you meditate… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
From infinite awareness, something comes forward, a sense of infinite awareness and finite awareness. That perception is the birth of a being. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Self is infinite. The Self is eternal. You are that Self. Beyond words, thoughts, ideas, forms and belief systems. There is… — 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
The mind is infinite. It is not relegated to the brain or to thought or to emotion. It is made up of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no fanaticism in any of this. There is intensity. You have to make it happen. You have to put your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are billions of people on earth. They are all transmitting thoughts and impressions, most of which are not directed towards enlightenment.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you are just thinking a lot of silly thoughts and having a lot of worries, you waste a tremendous energy and… — 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