Very often, in order to bring about stillness we have to be tirelessly active in the outer world. You might suppose this… — 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
You're going to merge your mind with the mind of eternity that goes on forever; that is not easy. It's very intense.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A saint is someone who has been very selfless and, over a period of lifetimes, generated a tremendous amount of good karma,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you are around a lot of human beings who are filled with jealousy and anger and rage and desire, it filters… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can only conceive of what lies beyond the state of mind you are in from the point of view of the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most power is lost in one's own mind by thinking negative thoughts, by worrying about the future, by focusing on the past,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you sit with an enlightened teacher physically, the teacher moves in and out of different states of mind. That is how… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A continuous perception is taking place deep within the mind. It is hard to hear that signal because it is blurred over… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
So, those who hate, those who are violent in nature, live in a world of hate and fear and violence inside themselves,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Part of what we seek in Buddhism is the sense of quiet observation. We don't get so involved in a state of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is implicit in the self that the self will automatically evolve if you can dissolve it. It re-patterns itself after archetypal… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you change your state of mind, your whole life changes, nothing remains the same. Nothing looks the same, because you have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you have more personal power and you are in higher states of mind, then naturally you can see things and adhere… — 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
There is no ultimate objective reality within the ten thousand states of mind. Most people don't like to hear this. But there… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Many aspects of life cannot be explained through logic or reason. The reasoning part of the mind simply doesn't have the capacity… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The essence of Buddhism is simply that the mind is forever. We are always experiencing different states of mind in one form… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness is found principally in meditation. Let your mind flow out into eternity. You have to exert some effort. Then you will… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We have developed psychic powers in other lives. Now we have many problems because of it, many voices in the mind due… — 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
When you unite the nothingness of your mind with the nothingness of the Frisbee, then the Frisbee is not a Frisbee, and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness comes from living in the moment, this moment, now, right here. If you are in obscure states of mind, you won't… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you meditate with a teacher who is enlightened, you can ride with them into stages of mind that are perhaps not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We live inside our mind. That's all there is. Everything that you experience is not external, it's internal. All your experiences are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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
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
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
