One doesn't actually meditate on the navel. The chakra is located about two or three inches below the navel, at that point… — Frederick Lenz Access Copy Share Image
Self-acceptance is involved in this process. You have got to be able to look at both your dark and your light side… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sometimes we can't do anything about our social condition, but we can do something about our condition of light. — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
I wouldn't really worry to much about practicing the yoga of discrimination at this point in your evolution. — Frederick Lenz Discrimination Copy Share Image
Unfortunately the student often feels guilt for not living the type of life that their Teacher suggested, or they feel that they… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
It is important to monitor your mind constantly. This is particularly important if you are studying with an enlightened teacher, because you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Self-realization is a strange term. You don't actually realize your 'self'. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of… — Frederick Lenz Butterfly Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is the ability to freely transact within the ten thousand states of mind without a continuous self or awareness — Frederick Lenz Ability 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
If you become very close to your teacher, if you do well in your meditation, a deep emotional bond will develop between… — Frederick Lenz Deep emotional Copy Share Image
The work that most people do in the world tends to deaden them, deadens their mind, uses up their energy and they… — Frederick Lenz Age Copy Share Image
Happiness only comes when you let go of who you think you are. If you think you're wealthy and powerful and noble… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
If you wake up for a moment and look around at life, you will observe that nothing here lasts, nothing works out.… — Frederick Lenz Accomplishment Copy Share Image
A lot of people trash their subtle physical body with psychedelic drugs. While they do certainly give you experiences in altered levels… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What more could there be, but the absolute beauty of our lives? Look around you, for heaven's sake and stop thinking. It… — Frederick Lenz Absolutes Copy Share Image
A well known Los Angeles newspaper referred to a small group of gentlemen who live up on a mountain and practice Zen… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
The study of meditation is the entrance into the world of Wonderland. It has nothing to do with how you'd like it.… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
Death doesn't change anything. It just gives you a new location. The physical mind dissolves. But the overriding state of mind that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Lack of judgement doesn't mean that you don't see what is or is not. It simply means that you realize that everyone… — Frederick Lenz Bhakti yoga Copy Share Image
It is as important to monitor your mind constantly as it is to sit down and practice meditation. — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
Advanced Teachers always forgive. It is inevitable that anyone who seek knowledge and power will make many mistakes. — Frederick Lenz Education Copy Share Image
Have the courage to be selfless in a world were such qualities are not admired. Dare to be differnt. Be crazy! — Frederick Lenz Being crazy Copy Share Image
Humility does not live in the prison of illusion that says that this world is a dark and terrible place. Those perceptions… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
A Buddhist is working not just to get paid, but working to advance spiritually. You shouldn't create a syntactical break in your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
None of this matters a bit. Yet, of course, it matters at that moment. So we try to be mindful of the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Karma exists within causality. It is three-dimensional. Free will exists outside of causality; it is not bound by karma. — Frederick Lenz Bounds Copy Share Image
As a monk you have a responsibility to meditate many hours a day. Not just to sit there but to think of… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
When you sit, you've put a place on the island of the tonal for the possibility of your thoughts stopping for a… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
Do not feel that you are destined not to make that final liberation in this life. This is egotism in a reverse… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
When we talk about self-realization, we're talking from the point of view of limitation of the mind. Real knowledge is to see… — Frederick Lenz Eternity Copy Share Image
Yes I say that I am enlightened. What does that mean? It means I live in a condition of light...There really is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is only if you have the courage to follow your heart that you will succeed on the path of love. — Frederick Lenz Bhakti yoga Copy Share Image
When your thoughts come and you're trying to stop them, simply say "No". Learn the mantra "No". Every time a thought comes… — Frederick Lenz Inspirational Copy Share Image
If you are just spaced out and you have no purpose in life, you pick everything up. Everybody else's thoughts will come… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
If you drain others energy a lot, you don't want to see this because you do it yourself; but remember, it's real… — Frederick Lenz Do it yourself Copy Share Image
An enlightened teacher is able to put a tremendous amount of power through a person who seeks knowledge and escalates the evolution… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Life is an endless matrix of existence. And as you experience it in that pure form, that's what we call enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
To practice jnana yoga, the yoga of knowledge and discrimination, it's necessary to have a highly developed mind. — Frederick Lenz Discrimination Copy Share Image
The karma that is most interesting is the mental karma because ultimately it generates physical action. — Frederick Lenz Action Copy Share Image
Long before the advent of what scientists and scholars consider to be the beginning of human civilization, there was an age undreamed… — Frederick Lenz Advent Copy Share Image
