There is a whole crazy world around you. You can't control it, so don't even try. Because the more you try to… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
It is much nicer to live in perfect mind, free from pain and agony. How painful it is to be unenlightened. Buddha… — Frederick Lenz Agony Copy Share Image
If you're very, very conservative and you like that sort of practice, go find a very conservative Zen master and just do… — Frederick Lenz Conservative Copy Share Image
The action of giving is in a certain vibratory level, meaning giving exists in a certain plane of consciousness. — Frederick Lenz Action Copy Share Image
Pass the popcorn, please. Life is a film, theatre, a theatre of the soul. We play different roles on different stages. At… — Frederick Lenz Birth Copy Share Image
If you're powerful enough you can even determine whom you will meet and whom you will avoid long before you meet them. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism is the study of power initially. It takes a certain amount of power to even know your potential - to have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Someone else would come, another self that was a little more refined, that had a little more purity, a little more humility,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Focus on one point and hold your attention there. The mind will waiver, you'll think a million thoughts, but each time you… — Frederick Lenz Attention 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
As you go into light for longer and longer periods, as you progress in your meditation practice, you transform, you become illumined,… — Frederick Lenz Bounds Copy Share Image
If you pursue meditation with a non-competitive attitude, with a hopeful and helpful attitude, without violence, then you will find that you… — Frederick Lenz Attitude Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous assumption to say that people who drain energy "don't know what they are doing." People are sophisticated aware… — Frederick Lenz Assumption Copy Share Image
The only reason you feel pain is because you're so busy looking at yourself instead of looking at the wonderful patterns of… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
Are you still carrying everyone who's insulted you, injured you or interfered with you? That's a lot of weight. I'd let it… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
Buddhism is a practice in which we learn to avoid injuring others, and ourselves. It's a practice in which we learn to… — Frederick Lenz Beauty Copy Share Image
There are worlds beyond anything you can imagine; there are joys beyond anything you have experienced. There are ecstasies that are undreamed… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
It's not what you do that matters. It's not what you say. There's nothing that is not holy or spiritual. Be beyond… — 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 Heaven and earth Copy Share Image
Consistency is nice, I think, personally. I like to be consistently happy. I like to be consistently more aware and more conscious… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
Humility means realizing that it's fun to give everything away, particularly the things that you are most attached to. — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
Death is a doorway. It is a very small, thin doorway and only a portion of our being can walk through. — Frederick Lenz Death Copy Share Image
There are planes that are not light. There are planes that are shadowy. But that is not our interest in meditation. We… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment, meditation is really a shift in perception. It's not a thing that you go and do or become, since you're already… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
There is no life and there is no death. Life and death are moving shadows cast upon the ground by clouds that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you want to be liberated, if you choose to be what I am, then you've chosen freedom. You can do this. — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
What you focus on you become. If you spend an hour or two a day meditating and focusing on light, then you… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
The magic of life, of course, is not something that can be explained. Structures can only take us to the point where… — Frederick Lenz Architecture 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 Apathy Copy Share Image
It's only illusions that destroy us. It's illusions that convince us that we can't. It's the illusions of the transient that tell… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Real spirituality and love is always manifest. It always goes to those who are with us and around us. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The awareness of place, space, or condition is not liberation. You can't say what it is, but you can sure say what… — Frederick Lenz Awareness Copy Share Image
Meditation erases conditioning. It allows a person to channel the kundalini energy through their subtle physical body and reach enlightened states of… — Frederick Lenz Awareness Copy Share Image
Tantra is for the advanced spiritual practitioner who is ready to push aside spiritual practice in the name of spiritual practice. — Frederick Lenz Meditation Copy Share Image
The different techniques will place you in touch with different fields of auric empowerment, creating a balanced development of your practice. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is harder to develop your occult or psychic body when you are dead because all planes meet in the physical. — Frederick Lenz Body Copy Share Image
It is a tremendous waste of energy to try to block anyone else. That same energy could be applied to furthering your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Flaky devotionalism, bowing and scraping and sucking up to the teacher is very phony. It is counterproductive to enlightenment and spiritual development.… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
If you are fortunate enough to meet such a being then you will really learn selfless giving. You'll see that every second,… — Frederick Lenz Awareness Copy Share Image
Be concerned with the welfare of others without any sense of self-importance that one is better because one meditates or leads a… — Frederick Lenz Action Copy Share Image
