Intentional suffering and the postponement of happiness is not yoga or Buddhism. It will not lead to a better incarnation. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Beyond the world of thought and sensorial impressions, there are planes and dimensions of perfect light, knowledge, and radiant perfection. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One of the traditional Tantric methods of mediation is to imagine that you are taking on the suffering of all beings. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When there is time, there has to be suffering. Because in time there's desire and attachment and transition. This is the world… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Liberation means no rebirth. Now, does that mean you don't reincarnate? Well, you never did reincarnate. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is a still center of the universe. Within that still center are all things, all achievements, all loses, everything and nothing… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nirvana and enlightenment exist just on the other side of your sensory perceptions and your thoughts. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with the world of physicality. There is nothing wrong with existence. It's perfect ... but it's terribly transient. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you live for a very long while, you will have to watch your friends and loved ones die, your body age… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You don't know why, but you know you have to go home. It's an eternal longing. It's Marvell's drop of dew wanting… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most people have no idea how unhappy they are because they don't know what happiness is. When they get a little break… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We dream forever unless we awaken. We move from one dream to another, some beautiful, some we're the hero or the heroine,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You've got to make a person aware of how miserable they really are and show them how happy they can be. Otherwise,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I see people driving cars, winding down the streets. I don't know where these people think they're going. They're going to the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Outside of nirvana, the planes begin, the subtlest planes of light that vibrate fastest, all the way on down through the astral… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We wait for the fulfillment of our desires. We wait with hope, apathy, resignation, belief. We become despondent, elated. We wait — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nirvana bears no resemblance to anything in your current perceptual field. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nirvana is the center of things; then there are the outer bandings of attention. The universe is a mind. At the center… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The dreams of human beings are dark, heavy and morbid and simplistic and boring. The dreams of immortality are endless and shining,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are billions of people out there walking around and they don't meditate. You can tell. They are not having a good… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You have but a short time to live in this world. As you age, you will experience the pains of aging. If… — 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's an adversarial world outside of the safety of nirvana and enlightenment. In life, all beings need to feed on other beings… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A human being is bound by emotion, enslaved by their desires. A person is never really at peace with themselves because they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you wake up for a moment and look around at life, you will observe that nothing here lasts, nothing works out.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Christ didn't have to. Buddha didn't have to. They came back to teach. They came back to die, to suffer, when it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Compassion allows us to accept everything. That's why there's always a tear in the eye of the Buddha that no one sees,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The comedies, the tragedies we see played out on this earth before us, don't last. But we are eternal spirits. These events… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Life exists in countless forms in countless dimensions, in places that we simply cannot see. The essence of life - while it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The world is futile when viewed through the persona of the body. The body is not simply the physical body but it's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The time we waste never comes again. The opportunities we miss never come again. The loves we lose never come again. Indeed,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you draw from the endless awareness of nirvana, you are no longer a slave to fortune. When pleasant experiences come your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We live in a world of wars and wars alarms, of famines, of oppression. While there are many wonderful people in this… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Nirvana, it is you, my friend, who goes away. You take an eraser and erase yourself. It's like the Road Runner… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We are all incarnate Buddhas. We just have not realized it deeply. We have not moved the mind - what our friend… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Only the enlightened are consistently happy. Their happiness is not predicated upon the events and experiences that take place in this world.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
How could being the entire cosmos and all of its wonder and all of its stages and cycles, and yet being that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tantra is for the desperate. Unless you've really experienced pain and suffering, tantra won't work. Unless you've really experienced exultation and ecstasy,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People are so tired. The world is set up to exhaust you and drain you. That's how humankind has devised their world.… — 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
