The way to meditate is by not trying to be too good at it too quickly. This is essential, because otherwise you… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
If we try and direct our lives with only our limited rationalistic thoughts and our sense perceptions, then our actions and our… — Frederick Lenz Action Copy Share Image
If you are having problems with money, the answer isn't cutting back. The answer is to make more money. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
An enlightened teacher has personal power. Sitting and meditating with an enlightened teacher in a meditation hall or at a power spot… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
If you're in the tantric sex state of mind, what someone else experiences when they have sex is not what you'll experience.… — Frederick Lenz Body Copy Share Image
Humility means freedom. It provides growth and takes you out of the cycle of change that you are currently in, which is… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
We have two choices in life: One is to fulfill ourselves. The other is to take the time and energy that we… — Frederick Lenz Choices Copy Share Image
Zen is a study. It's a discipline. It involves the active use of will to make things happen or not happen. These… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the advanced practice, the relationship between the Zen master and the student becomes very terse. The Zen master will expect things… — Frederick Lenz Graduate school Copy Share Image
The burden you are carrying around is the burden of self. You seek release from that. You want to let it all… — Frederick Lenz Burden Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you are with an enlightened teacher, you will feel both pleasant and unpleasant things magnified. That happens when you meditate… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient… — Frederick Lenz Birth Copy Share Image
A good warrior, a seventh or eighth degree black-belt, will tell you there is no victory. It doesn't make you more powerful… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A surfer is poised on a wave on his board, cutting quickly to the left. He'll always be there, in that moment.… — Frederick Lenz Birth Copy Share Image
The life of meditation and religious study is absolutely no guarantee of peak moments. Most people involved in religious study and meditation… — Frederick Lenz Bored Copy Share Image
Learn not to be attached to other people, to certain types of experiences. Allow the flow of life to guide you wherever… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everything is dependent upon your state of mind. That is all there is, states of mind, ten thousand of them. Beyond all… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If I had my choice I'd hang out anywhere. I mean, it doesn't matter. It's all God; it's all the same. There's… — Frederick Lenz Choice Copy Share Image
I was sitting outside in our backyard on a summer day, I was around six, and suddenly the whole world dissolved before… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You are on a vast wheel of birth and death. You have been through thousands of lifetimes, thousands yet to come. — Frederick Lenz Birth Copy Share Image
In order to go beyond ideas to direct realization, it's essential to have a great deal of purity. — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
We're too insignificant and small to really be able to do anything, except cry, not unhappily, but an inner cry, a feeling… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Until you've reached that point where you've perfected your lower nature and cleansed your emotional being, jnana yoga will have to wait. — Frederick Lenz Emotional Copy Share Image
There are millions of little opportunities out there to advance yourself. But you need the personal power to see how to do… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
The worst thing you can do is to sit and brood and feel sorry for yourself. Nor should you feel wrong about… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
I had a father who was strong and kind and loving beyond ... at the same time who was extremely puritanical, who… — Frederick Lenz Father Copy Share Image
To meditate what you need to do is free yourself from your ideas and your thoughts. All of the higher dimensional planes,… — Frederick Lenz Cosmos Copy Share Image
Whenever we do something for someone else, we affirm that we are not simply in it for ourselves, that our self is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
A true master has developed, in their inner practices and studies, certain powers. These powers are sometimes of the miraculous nature, the… — Frederick Lenz Attention Copy Share Image
At the moment you're suffering from what we call Maya. Maya is illusion. Maya is a Sanskrit word that suggests that we… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A lot of people who are involved in self-discovery lose energy to abusive teachers, to abusive friends and to entities, non-physical beings. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are ten thousand states of mind. Most people spend their entire lives confined to a few of these states of mind. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is fun to be outside; it's good to move your body and there is just a joy in sports and athletics. — Frederick Lenz Athletics Copy Share Image
Studying with a teacher doesn't simply mean going to an occasional seminar or Zen retreat. It means fully applying yourself to what… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
There's a different film being made in every mind. And of course, the star of the film is the mind, the personality,… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
Things that are impossible - are everyday experiences when you live in advanced states of mind. You live in a world of… — Frederick Lenz Awareness Copy Share Image
For most people the prohibitions are a good thing. But If you are able to maintain very powerful states of mind, then… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Good and bad karma are just ways of evaluating causal experience. What you do affects your attention field. — Frederick Lenz Attention Copy Share Image
There are many, many different worlds. Just as there are different continents on earth, there are different dimensional planes. — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
