When we are very young children we know how to feel. It's innate. But as we lead a lifetime, we pick up… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
As a student of enlightenment your attitude should not be to become enlightened. It should be to learn. — Frederick Lenz Attitude Copy Share Image
Everybody out there is just doing things for themesleves. So if you don't do that you've got to be crazy ... crazy… — Frederick Lenz Being crazy 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
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 are having problems with money, the answer isn't cutting back. The answer is to make more money. — Frederick Lenz 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
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
Everything starts within your own mind. The physical choices you make, drain your power or give you power. If your power is… — Frederick Lenz Choices Copy Share Image
If you can develop a connection, what we call an inner connection with the teacher, then it is not even necessary to… — Frederick Lenz Connections Copy Share Image
Most people, without consciously realizing it, absorb a great deal of psychic energy from the people they casually associate with, and even… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The important thing to remember is to follow the path of light. As the fictional character Yoda, from Star Wars, correctly pointed… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
The dialectical change of mind that occurs in Buddhism is not simply the assimilation of a new philosophical basis or religious basis… — Frederick Lenz Assimilation Copy Share Image
Happiness is not freedom. You may become happy tomorrow; but I assure you, your happiness will be smashed by the pains of… — Frederick Lenz Age Copy Share Image
Phony gurus make themselves objects of adoration and worship. Real spiritual teachers aren't interested in adoration and worship. They like respect only… — Frederick Lenz Adoration Copy Share Image
Samadhi is an experience of such depth, such joy, such indifference and such love, that nothing else is really like it or… — Frederick Lenz Color 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
Everybody goes into different dimensional planes. You do it every night when you dream. You are journeying into other dimensional planes. Dreams… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
The kundalini energy is often compared to a snake that is coiled up. Because it is coiled up it can spring very… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
If you know that you have had countless lives, then what happens in this life is not quite as traumatic. — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
Don't run away from the world. The world is God. Don't run towards the world. God is the void. Don't be afraid… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
A better name for nirvana might be endless love. Love not even in the sense that we see it if we're watching… — Frederick Lenz Absence Copy Share Image
What will happen in those encounters? Who knows? It wouldn't be much fun if you knew all of that; you'd be watching… — Frederick Lenz Encounters Copy Share Image
Cry to god. If you do that just for a couple minutes with your whole being, just like a child who so… — Frederick Lenz Barriers Copy Share Image
