We have this recurring dream that we're human beings, that we have bodies, that we're in time and space, that there is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Human beings affix themselves to things that are of little or no importance. They affix themselves to the transitory, to things that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Even the rich aren't often happy. Their wealth is at best only a temporary distraction. It doesn't make them immune to emotional… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some people get tired of continual perception of the finite universe. They feel the perception of the universe over and over in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Without enlightenment, everything in life is harsh. Sooner or later you see everyone you love die, unless you die first, of course.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Human beings are not so in harmony with the dharma. That is why they suffer so much. But you as an individual… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
At the end of your life you will probably end up in an old-age home, or in a back room in one… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Pain and suffering only occur in temporal time. They don't occur in the world of forever. They only occur in limited transient… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Look at the big picture of the wheel of life. Above it, there is a Buddha. He is pointing, not towards the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Life for most people is a bad dream. They live in pain, grabbing at what they can for pleasure. As they grow… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment. There are joys, of course, and they should be enjoyed.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Dogs have fleas; people have each other. We are born to die. Life is a continuing tragic comedy. Everything and everyone we… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
At the moment you're suffering from what we call Maya. Maya is illusion. Maya is a Sanskrit word that suggests that we… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness is not freedom. You may become happy tomorrow; but I assure you, your happiness will be smashed by the pains of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To become completely aware is the journey of enlightenment. There is pain in it and suffering. But you already have those things… — 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
To suffer because of anything you see, feel or experience here in the world of moment to moment is a mistake. It… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you are the body, you are in terrible trouble! One small microbe will destroy it one day, if not an accident.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Another condition can be attained ... a condition of ecstasy. A condition so far from what the people of planet Earth experience… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You cannot be born and you cannot die. You will exist in a universe that goes on forever. That is the ultimate… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You are going around on the wheel again and again. You go around and around from lifetime to lifetime. You never quite… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
An enlightened being comes into the world because they can help. They are off the wheel. They will experience different states of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The directions for meditation that Sri Krishna gives are very exacting. He tells Arjuna exactly how to get past all the things… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are some beings who reach a point where they no longer want to move through the ten thousand states of mind.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Unlike the experience of nirvana, traveling to other dimensions will not take you beyond suffering, nor will it help you experience the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nirvana is not really a physical place, although sometimes I talk about it as if it were. It is not really an… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The experience of going to the other side to nirvana clarifies and simplifies your view of all things. You see the world… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We see the most beautiful creations whither. The beautiful young maiden becomes the old woman and she hates her body because it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some people say: "There is no God; because, if there was a God, God would stop all the suffering." Nonsense! God is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The most giving souls are those who give when they don't have to give, who could just walk away from this world… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One day liberation will come, and it won't be a day; it won't be a year; it won't be a time, a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When all of the selves have been dissolved, you will enter into the super-conscious awareness. Then, you are free. Then, there is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If your life is based around your being comfortable, you're not very comfortable. You suffer quite a bit - becuase in the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The attainment of enlightenment makes you happy forever. It frees you from the mental and emotional pains that human beings experience every… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What we discover is it was not the waves or the birds or the wind that were standing out and being separate… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Well, yes, I could give up for myself but no, there are others whom I will be able to help and they're… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The inner aspects of reincarnation have to do with where you put your mind. The more expansive state of mind you enter… — 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
