I was very dawn to people I loved, to my family, to my father, to my sister, to my brothers. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I read a great deal, avoided the comapny of the children in school who seemed superfical, and fell in love with nature. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I live in the constant newness of aspiration. Whatever I think, I ignore. Whatever I feel, I don't trust. Yet I listen… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The greatest formula that can liberate, cleanse and elevate the mind is Rama-Name, the Name of Rama. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
My feeling is that drugs and alcohol take away from the pure experience of meditation. That does not mean that occasionally, a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I know some teachers say that you shouldn't display the psychic powers and other powers referred to as the siddhas, but as… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In writing Snowboarding to Nirvana I have intentionally written an inspirational spiritual adventure story, which will hopefully provide people with metaphysical techniques,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I show people the techniques for gaining knowledge, and this inspires them in their search for truth, freedom and happiness. I also… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
My teenage freinds when I was growing up, they have no idea that I attained liberation but I help them. They don't… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is one thing to teach a dynamic Oriental philosophy and religious code; it is quite another to put such a discipline… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically 'in'. But if we were to apply for a financial aid grant as a cult, I'm… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I started to meditate formally at about 18. I would sit on a mountaintop in Southern California around twilight and focus on… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I just felt that it was my responsibility, since so many people had taken the time to help me along, to do… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We have a spiritual community but everyone lives where they want to. I recommend certain areas to live because of their power. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Since there were others, a long time ago, who were kind enough to give me a hard time and allow me to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
At the same time, I went through college, received a Ph.D. and started to teach. I wrote books. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
My favorite cause is the enlightenment of others. I think that is the best place to put money. You get the highest… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tonight I have inundated you with the mystical kundalini. Now, of course, I'm moving into the supra-conscious; it's kind of a doubleheader… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The next best thing is to work with those who are not quite there yet to bring them up to that level. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Rama was not only on the lips of Hanuman. He was enthroned in his heart. He gave Hanuman exhaustless strength. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Naturally, the Zen Master Rama philosophy is to have a high state of awareness and material success. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
With the use of psychedelics, it was all based around the Tibetan Book of the Dead, using them to experience enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Ramanama can be used only for a good, never for an evil end, or else thieves and robbers would be the greatest… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is important to have intensive blocks of time together. During our nights together there is a tremendous interchange of knowledge, power… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Over the years of much self-hate, I came to realize that whether sexuality was in my life or not, it didn't seem… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The way advanced meditation is taught, the way I teach it, the way all enlightened people teach it, is through transference. We… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am a liberated teacher. A person who meditates with me, even though they may be thousands of miles away, will draw… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no best teacher. Life itself is the teacher. There is no best method. All that matters is that it works. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One of my greatest personal heroes is Jerry Lopez. When you can snowboard like he surfs, you'll be there! — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's very funny. People do not want to achieve liberation or be happy. This is the basic guideline they teach you in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am an expert in the world of the supremely happy because I am happy. I've never met anybody as happy as… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I feel a number of people who will never be students whom I'm corresponding with inwardly. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's not my light to begin with, in a sense; it's the light of God, the light of eternity. So take all… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
