Taoism is the way of water. The most frequent element or symbol refered to in Lao Tzu's wrtings is the symbol of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What we are seeking is the nexus of all possible worlds and states of mind, which is within us. The source of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There's a sense of productivity which cripples us terribly. We either have to be doing something worthwile or not. We are back… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We really have no choice in the matter. We are given a description of the world that is much more potent and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Taoism means streching your being, becoming both a man and a woman and joining within yourself, to be the heavens themselves, to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you are interested in Taoism, I would suggest that you read the Way of Life by Lao Tsu, the founder of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Examine everything that you've been taught, not simply what you've been taught in school, but the images that have been held up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The limitations that we can see of the sexual description of reality are very apparent. Very few men attain enlightenment, even fewer… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The dreams of existence of that we call time, space, matter, subject, object, yin, yang - everything flows forth from this tai… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When it reaches a blockage, water find the easiest path around the blockage, or it continues to assemble, and flows over the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Grand Canyon is living evidence of the power of water over a period of time. The power may not manifest immediately.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Lao Tsu uses the anology of the tree. The old hard tree breaks and falls when the wind blows. The young tree… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Get some distance on yourself and undertand the multilevel structure that's operating. There's a power structure within you. You're a very political… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Chaos is not disorder. Chaos is the totality of existence. You could call it God. You could use the term, the Tao.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everything is part of one web, one matrix of existence, beyond discussion. This is our true self in its undifferentiated form. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We can think of descriptions almost as computer languages, an operative description that only deals with very simple operations. Its code is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Just as when water is frozen in to a form as ice and then melts - so at the time of death,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Lao Tsu always points a finger directly to us. He says we must begin with ourselves. It's impossible to bring order into… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Change can only exist in time. Without time there is no change. Change can only exist with a background of that which… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's either good, bad or somewhere in between. It's either ying, yang or it's a combination. You're either male, female or somewhere… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You are not anyone or anything in particular. You are awareness itself. You don't have a particular form. You contain everything or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Learn not to be attached to other people, to certain types of experiences. Allow the flow of life to guide you wherever… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The pageant of life is divided into ying and yang. They're two circles. You can follow either circle and manage to develop… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Taoism is not a religion, although perhaps it has been made into one by some people. Lao Tsu's way of life occurs… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Taoism has no rules. It's a suggestion for preceiving life in its wholeness, without unnessary categorization, yet enjoying the beauty of categorization. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Lao Tsu says the way of life is ancient, timeless. It is existence which he calls the Tao - a mysterious source,… — 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
We should not weep or cry or be upset when we see the generations pass, because all are forms of the infinite… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism teaches us not to want things, not to avoid things, not to be upset by the loss. In the I Ching,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What we're seeking to do is become transparent. A transparent window on reality. But that takes time to do. We're starting with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We know we should be completely humble. We should stop thinking that we're very marvelous because we're not. We are interesting at… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If there's no background, no foreground, no opposition, no complements, then there's no change becasue there's no subject and object. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some people think Taoism means not doing anything, just going on with your life. That has little or nothing to do with… — 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
