You don't have to do anything to meditate. That's what makes it so difficult. Everybody wants to do something. — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
Never get so stuck in being responsible and mindful that you can't let it all go and run off chasing your private… — Frederick Lenz Beauty Copy Share Image
In most cases, energy is lost in little games of manipulation, in little struggles of will, in the attempts to possess others,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What is enlightenment, anyway? I don't know if I can really put it into words, perhaps you can. I can't. — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
Reincarnation is not necessarily linear. Sometimes people actually become more immersed in darkness or illusion than they were in previous lifetimes. — Frederick Lenz Darkness Copy Share Image
We have ideas of God and nirvana or truth or enlightenment. These ideas will go away in nirvana because the suffusion is… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
Nirvikalpa samadhi is another matter. I don't feel that's really up to us. That happens at a certain time when our being… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Within an atom there can be a billion kingdoms, endless. But all of them are bound by the cycle of birth and… — Frederick Lenz Atoms Copy Share Image
Consider that we live in a world predicated upon fear. The underlying assumption is that human beings are innately evil and must… — Frederick Lenz Assumption Copy Share Image
Greed, fear, lust, hate, jealousy, these are part of reality too ... bundles of consciousness wrapped tightly, barbs on which you can… — Frederick Lenz Barbs Copy Share Image
If the Zen master sees that it will cause a person to progress, he will ask that person to do a task.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Real winning and losing all takes place at the meditation table. This is where the battles are. Winning is stopping thought. Losing… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You might wish to try Kali's mantra. Kali is another celestial being. She offers very fast spiritual progress through intensity. Her mantra… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
It is called enlightenment, nirvana, God, truth, call it what you will. There is no activity other than the eternal activities of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The three principal samskaras have to do with sex, money and power. In all those countless incarnations that one goes through in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The immortal silence is there always waiting for you and that spirit is deathless and courageous. Remember, many have trod the path… — Frederick Lenz Always waiting Copy Share Image
Our thoughts will swim around and talk to us while we're sitting there, make fun of us, ignore us. But if you… — Frederick Lenz Attention Copy Share Image
Meidtation and selfless giving must always go together. They work together to create immortality. — Frederick Lenz Death Copy Share Image
My particular focus at the moment is on the development of genetic algorithms and neural networks that work together to create computer… — Frederick Lenz Algorithms Copy Share Image
Whenever I work with anyone, it is an opportunity for them to become more professional and do something for someone else. — Frederick Lenz Career Copy Share Image
Almost anyone can see the golden light in an enlightened master's aura when the master meditates, unless, of course, the person is… — Frederick Lenz Auras Copy Share Image
Naturally there is reincarnation ... otherwise life would be pretty dull. All the patterns in this lifetime are results from patterns in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If we get too caught up in the rhetoric of meditation, we will miss the point. The point was to go beyond… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
The yoga of discrimination can never be put into words, since the entire yoga exists beyond words. — Frederick Lenz Discrimination Copy Share Image
The causal body is the most ancient and timeless part of a person. It has the capacity to know and do things… — Frederick Lenz Ancient Copy Share Image
Your life will be joyful and complete when you have a pure heart and your motives are unsullied. — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
Have the right attitude in advanced practice. Feel that you are always a beginner in Zen. They refer to it as "beginners… — Frederick Lenz Attitude Copy Share Image
How can you give something to someone who has everything? If you think men are tough to shop for at Christmas, try… — Frederick Lenz Christmas Copy Share Image
After several minutes, picture that your entire body is merging with the blue sky. Feel that you have become the infinite blue… — Frederick Lenz Blue Copy Share Image
Who do you suppose invented computers? Speaking in terms relevant to you, in terms of earth history, let alone other worldly history,… — Frederick Lenz Ancient 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 Age Copy Share Image
Things are not necessarily logical. Logic is a secondary source reference. Everything is what it is. We have decided to apply rationale… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
Have your life properly aligned with dharma. The technicalities of the movement of the kundalini are easy to master. Dharma is much… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
When you can become completely impassive in play, then you become fluid and completely unpredictable. No one knows, including yourself, what you… — Frederick Lenz Athletics Copy Share Image
Within the universe there is a pure light. It is a light that is beyond all darkness. It does not give way… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
Purity is something that comes from another world. It's a radiance that enters into this world of transformation and change. — Frederick Lenz Another world Copy Share Image
They don't understand the multi-life sequences. Anything they can't see in a laboratory, they think is nonsense. — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
The reason why we're not happy is because we believe consciously and subconsciously that we're separate from god, eternal awareness. — Frederick Lenz Awareness Copy Share Image
When you go into samadhi, either salvikalpa or nirvikalpa, what happens is you erase, you loosen, the aggregates. You simplify them. — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
Meditation is a bright, hopeful practice in which we learn to make our mind quiet so that the infinite, perfect light of… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
