I was very immersed in the world. I'm very worldly. I love world. I was immersed in my career, in school, in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I don't think there is a right approach to teaching self discovery. Every situation is unique. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
So I went off on my own and started the process of spiritual teaching. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Believe in yourself, step one. Believe in the order, step two. Believe in the teachings, step three. — 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
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
Lao Tsu doesn't seem to hold to much stock for words or phrases or teachings. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The deeper inner teachings are presented to very few because few would understand them. The exoteric teachings are presented to many. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
While I enjoy teaching people on the basic and intermediate levels to work them up to advanced levels, my real talent is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Gaining energy is accomplished by meditating, by right actions, right thoughts, right deeds, by studying with a real teacher or by just… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The majority of the ten thousand states of mind cannot be discussed. It is rather a question of teaching a person to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
An enlightened teacher simply expresses enlightenment in their life by living. It is the student's job to gain the teachings. The teacher's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's necessary to respect all other ways and other teachings on the subject because even though they may not make a lot… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is inevitable that, in the process of teaching an Asian religion in a Western country, many of the teachings will seem… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some teachers are extremely inaccessible. They feel their teachings are for very few so they make it intentionally hard to get to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I love people who make mistakes. That's why I'm in the teaching business. I love people who make mistakes because I enjoy… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
His second cycle of teachings discusses the cosmology of the universes. But in his later years, he wrote the tantric texts. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When we talk, answer questions, I'm addressing your tonal. I'm teaching you a way or a series of ways of dealing with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All of the exoteric teachings are only designed to give you the type of life that will allow you to practice the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In enlightenment you have to convince a teacher not only that you are worthy of teaching, but then that they should show… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The essence of the teachings is to lose self importance and to care more for the welfare of others and the magical… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The teaching that we receive is not necessarily very accurate. The value systems that our cultures have developed are not every open.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is best to study from a teacher of ANY subject, as long as you focus on the teachings and NOT on… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The secret teaching was the bodhisattva ideal, to live for others, for the welfare of all beings. That's enlightenment, not some flashy… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Different schools of Zen have evolved, principally the Rinzai and Soto orders. A whole hierarchy has developed for the teaching and practice… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most of the teaching I do is not verbal. It's in every movement of my body. It's in my dance. It's in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You get to the point where you have to wash the dishes. That's the fun in life. Being behind the scenes and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A teacher will alter the balance of power by actually lifting a person into other states of mind. In those states of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Buddha taught three cycles of teachings. His first cycle of teachings cover the basics, the prerequisites. This would include the Dharmapada. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You have to begin to develop a repertory of jokes, multi-plane spiritual jokes, the sort of things the Zen masters tell each… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The teaching process is lengthy because there are many, many states of mind to go through. And in each state of mind… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The highest teaching is never written down. It's only communicated from teacher to student because it's a "transmission of the lamp." It's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is the direct application of Buddhist teachings to a physical event, a way of doing or accomplishing something, or a way… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I personally have fun with enlightenment, the study and the teaching of it. I get a kick out of doing it different… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The teaching process becomes most interesting for spiritual seekers once they've managed to hit the lower samadhis. However at that point many… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the esoteric teachings, a transference process takes place between teacher and student where knowledge is actually transmitted from one to the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Feel the underlying meaning of the teachings that are espoused by me or anyone else. The word's don't mean much. Words are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
My teaching - of what is perceived to be a complex and foreign sounding religious philosophy - has become the target for… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A child is imprinted not by simply teaching. But their attention is like soft clay. The attention field of adults is stratified.… — 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
