Be a perpetual beginner. Always be inspired. It is that attitude of inspiration and belief that creates energy. — Frederick Lenz Attitude Copy Share Image
We are not really separate beings of light. That's a dream we are having, the dream of multiplicity. Meditation takes us beyond… — Frederick Lenz Awareness Copy Share Image
The mind must be made calm and still. Then it is aimed at the sky, at the brightness, at that infinitude of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We break off obsession by laughing at ourselves, by learning to be funny, by just seeing the joy in life and by… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current… — Frederick Lenz Choice Copy Share Image
Obviously, following my convictions has come at a personal price, but they are important enough that I have been willing to endure… — Frederick Lenz Abuse Copy Share Image
Everything is perception. A hallucination is a perception of a certain reality. It is a perception of a certain state of mind. — Frederick Lenz Awareness Copy Share Image
How do you end a meditation session? It's nice to chant a mantra again. Maybe repeat it a few times. It seals… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
There are two primary ways of studying Zen. Either an individual will enter into a Zen monastery and study with a Zen… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you draw from the endless awareness of nirvana, you are no longer a slave to fortune. When pleasant experiences come your… — Frederick Lenz Awareness Copy Share Image
One day I was meditating on a cliff overlooking the ocean in Southern California and I was absorbed in a state of… — Frederick Lenz California Copy Share Image
From the point of view of meditation, there is nothing that is not God. When we meditate, we are participating in a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As an enlightened teacher of Buddhism, I'd like to welcome you to the pathway to enlightenment. I'd like to encourage you to… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
The majority of the ten thousand states of mind cannot be discussed. It is rather a question of teaching a person to… — Frederick Lenz Awareness Copy Share Image
Get your emotions under control and your life under control. Work really hard and don't make a big deal out of yourself.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We call someone a saint in a world in which everyone is abnormal. The normal person becomes extraordinary. But there's nothing extraordinary… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If someone is in the same state of mind and doesn't seek to block your success, you have a friend. Such friends… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As you go into the light, you will gain a more profound happiness. That happiness will free you from the desire-aversion cycle. — Frederick Lenz Aversion Copy Share Image
You've got to make a person aware of how miserable they really are and show them how happy they can be. Otherwise,… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
This is what Krishna says in the Bhagavad-Gita - Karma Yoga. If you can't avoid action, you might as well act. — Frederick Lenz Action Copy Share Image
The advanced student of meditation takes an active part in supporting the work of their teacher. They happily work more hours or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A life that most people will never even know about can be yours in this study, but only if you approach it… — Frederick Lenz Approach Copy Share Image
You're an emanation of enlightenment. Enlightenment, which is the universe, has created the hallucination that is you in a form that shifts. — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
You don't force change; you just open yourself to its possibilities and let it work through you. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You are not a singular self. You are a corporation. Inside you is eternity. A human being is not so simple. — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
What we are seeking is the nexus of all possible worlds and states of mind, which is within us. The source of… — Frederick Lenz Mind Copy Share Image
If you are losing power in your relationships, with others, then you have to try and remedy that, if you can't, you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's as if all your past is written on the blackboard, and if we could erase it, your past would no longer… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People who are drawn to meditation have had lots of incarnation in the world of experience, and we know the score. We… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
Teamwork - everything is one. You can connect with the emptiness of all things. All things are empty. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some people meditate because they want to get the larger picture on life. It could get kind of discouraging if this was… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
Samsara is the world appearance, the cycle of rebirth, the physically manifest universes and states of mind that you perceive through the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Eternity gives life to all and sustains all, transforms all on the wheel of dharma - until all attain perfection. — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
A person trying to meditate is doing something that's impossible since meditation is not an action. — Frederick Lenz Action Copy Share Image
Paradise is not the place you go when you die. Paradise is when your mind is in a perfect state. — Frederick Lenz Christianity Copy Share Image
The teacher will perform miracles. Not just to delight and amuse people, but showing them that miraculous occurrences indicate that there is… — Frederick Lenz Delight Copy Share Image
When women come into their full power, a balance will occur which has not been seen for so long that no one… — Frederick Lenz Balance Copy Share Image
Buddhism suggests that you have that choice; you are in the driver's seat. Hertz or somebody has put you there. You have… — Frederick Lenz Absolutes Copy Share Image
By disciplining and training the mind to focus on one thing, we gain control of perception; we learn to grab it and… — Frederick Lenz Concentration Copy Share Image
It's necessary to respect all other ways and other teachings on the subject because even though they may not make a lot… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
