When willpower is not guided, it's terrible. Hitler had a lot of will. But he used it for destructive purposes because he… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
As long as you fight the system, all of the things that are part of the tonal of the times, then you… — Frederick Lenz Attention Copy Share Image
Some people meditate because they need more energy and when you meditate you get a tremendous amount of energy. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I had a mother who was very developed psychically and spiritually. She was, in a way, an opposite of my father, a… — Frederick Lenz Fashion Copy Share Image
Universes collide and conjoin inside us and beyond all is nirvana, the final, absolute resting place of the soul. — Frederick Lenz Absolutes Copy Share Image
Focus your attention on the center of your stomach, in the area of your naval. Feel that this is an area of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most power is lost in one's own mind by thinking negative thoughts, by worrying about the future, by focusing on the past,… — Frederick Lenz Happy thoughts Copy Share Image
You need something. Not just to get through the day, but to get through the incarnation. You need to find that power,… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
Honesty, I went through terrible, terrible times where I just took myself over the coals. I thought I must be the most… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You may not need a teacher or you may be drawn to one - everything is individual. But the main thing you… — Frederick Lenz Awareness 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
We are all incarnate Buddhas. We just have not realized it deeply. We have not moved the mind - what our friend… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The wonder of immaculate, perfect, pure mind is that when it is in its perfect, extant state without confusion, it can be… — Frederick Lenz Confusion Copy Share Image
Selfless actions create a higher karma, which brings you into higher states of mind. When you are in higher states of mind… — Frederick Lenz Action Copy Share Image
Very often, in order to bring about stillness we have to be tirelessly active in the outer world. You might suppose this… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Just as the subtle physical body holds together the physical body, the causal body holds together the body of awareness. — Frederick Lenz Awareness Copy Share Image
The power that enables us to transform our awareness is the release of kundalini. All yoga, either directly or indirectly, all Buddhism,… — Frederick Lenz Awareness Copy Share Image
When your home is perfect, every plant in place, every piece of furniture suits the space completely - you've completed a task. — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance… — Frederick Lenz Absurd Copy Share Image
The challenge of power is how to use it and not abuse it. When you abuse it, it reverses on you and… — Frederick Lenz Abuse Copy Share Image
Human beings have illusions. The enlightened don't have illusions. They see things as they are, and in that seeing, they see ecstasy… — Frederick Lenz Ecstasy Copy Share Image
The second attention is the occult side of the being. It is the ability to manipulate others, be it for good or… — Frederick Lenz Ability Copy Share Image
The only people who can really drain your power effectively are people you are very close to, you are open to, you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
Both Zen and mysticsm have this beautiful quality of happiness and laughter, which I think is so necessary in our modern age. — Frederick Lenz Age Copy Share Image
How can you be happy in a world like this? You have got to be crazy to even attempt something like that. — Frederick Lenz Being crazy Copy Share Image
The light is not quantifiable. You experience it in meditation when thought stops. When you go beyond the limitations of the ego,… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
A saint is someone who has been very selfless and, over a period of lifetimes, generated a tremendous amount of good karma,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The first stage of meditation is simply to ignore thought; to become conscious that there is something beyond thought. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All the sutras in the world are useless. All the lectures of all the teachers don't really mean anything. They are only… — Frederick Lenz Concentration Copy Share Image
The experiences you'll have, the people you'll love, the jobs, the joys, the sorrows, the way you'll die. It is all predestined,… — Frederick Lenz Change 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 Blockage Copy Share Image
Who are these human beings anyway? They walk around, strut, fret, as if they owned the planet, or the goddamned universe. I… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you understand dharma, when you see its perfect perfection, shining both in and beyond all things, you will be freed from… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You're bound by the frame. You've become so engrossed in the movie of your life that you have forgotten that you're sitting… — Frederick Lenz Bounds Copy Share Image
