All of the previously described techniques can be practiced with your eyes open and closed. Most people find that it is easier… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The tremendous population increase has made meditation and psychic perception, things that come naturally to spiritually evolved people, difficult to practice and… — 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
A Buddhist is working not just to get paid, but working to advance spiritually. You shouldn't create a syntactical break in your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mindfulness means that as we go through the day we learn to gain control of our mind, our emotions. We learn to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The only problem that occurs in the practice of tantra is when you don't practice tantra and fool yourself. You get caught… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It takes quite a bit of time to become enlightened. But it really is not so different from learning any other art;… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Buddhist practice a great deal of time is spent practicing mandala meditation. You learn to visualize and hold simultaneous concepts in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our life interferes, our mind, our thoughts. Meditating is not just a practice of asserting will and learning to control the mind,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness will come through the practice of yoga and Buddhism, that happiness is not something you will lose at the end of… — 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
Buddhism isn't about temples, and incense, and shaved heads, and robes. It's not about church. There are aspects of Buddhism that involve… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Life is eternal and it's worth living. What we do in this life is not futile. Death is not the end. Our… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The three principal samskaras have to do with sex, money and power. In all those countless incarnations that one goes through in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sit down, keep your back straight, relax and have an object on which to concentrate; you might use a candle flame, a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Zen you practice zazen, mindfulness and other forms of introspection to find out who you are and what you want, to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Combine meditation with career as a yoga. You will find that your practice will not be any less powerful than a person… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The outer form of Buddhism, of practice, is etiquette - a series of ways to live intelligently that keep you alive, awake… — 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
Self-control is completely necessary for increasing and raising your attention level. One of the places you practice that is at work. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What's important is to be supportive of all who practice. Anyone on any level, even if they don't call it self-discovery, who… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All of us have an aura, a body of energy linked to different planes of awareness. Some have the ability to access… — 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
A true master has developed, in their inner practices and studies, certain powers. These powers are sometimes of the miraculous nature, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Practice smiling for five minutes. Stop trying to meditate. Just smile. Let your smile get bigger and bigger. Oh, you're unhappy, you're… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the advanced practice, the relationship between the Zen master and the student becomes very terse. The Zen master will expect things… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As an individual learns and practices higher meditation techniques, a tremendous volume of energy and creativity flows through them. If they direct… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
They wanted to preserve and protect the mystical knowledge gained from their meditation practices and pass it on to future civilizations they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The dream is so thick; the Maya is so thick. There's no magic as long as there's all this thought. So the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Try to feel that you are beyond time and space when you practice meditation. Go beyond this world, beyond time, beyond life,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Those who practice lower sorcery hurt themselves the most because they interact with negative thoughts and apply power to them; they devastate… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Through the practice of meditation and the auric empowerments and guidance of an enlightened master, you can totally change your karmic destiny. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Different schools of Zen have evolved, principally the Rinzai and Soto orders. A whole hierarchy has developed for the teaching and practice… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
By perfecting the practices of zazen and mindfulness, by learning patience and love and by realizing the essential emptiness of all phenomena,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You need energy and life force to see and feel what you need to do. Otherwise you are in a dark room… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Eventually light prevails, you just have to be patient. So practice Buddhism, learn to be enlightened, put a smile on your face,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Channeling is a practice that is very popular right now. It is very dangerous. It is a process in which you are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The emphasis is on meditation in Tantric Zen. The experience of meditation in formal practice, zazen, where you're sitting down and meditating… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is easier to develop the mind through meditation than it is just through athletic practice. If you put the two together,… — 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
