The constraints that humankind has set upon itself are so narrow, so rigid. If you don't wear your clothes one day, they'll… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is passive meditation. It is passive because your energy and your attention are divided between your actions and your practice, your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Instead of your ego directing you and making countless mistakes, allow yourself to be guided by the invisible principles of the universe… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Karma is simply the law of cause and effect in action. All moments and occurrences are caused by other moments and occurrences… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our actions and experiences will direct us. In other words, we will be guided by the inherent emptiness of the things we… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We seek absolute neutrality in Buddhism. We don't want to be drawn into anything in particular. We don't want to be pushed… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Zen we study the will. We learn how to cultivate it, to accumulate will. We use it to direct our actions,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Simply by performing good actions and thinking good thoughts you will not attain enlightenment. It takes something more. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I can understand pathways to enlightenment where people shun certain aspects of the sensual world because they feel that these aspects are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To do something perfectly, you must not think about what you are doing at all ... Your thoughts are what create imperfections… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The person who practices advanced meditation is usually not married, some are. They usually don't have children, some do. But chances are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Selfless giving is love in action. Initially you will feel that you should help in a certain way, with a certain result.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Personal power is a feeling that everybody is looking for called satisfaction. It is different from enlightenment, but you need personal power… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You have to free yourself from your mental conditioning through association with the holy, through doing good works, through meditating, through laughter,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Feel the underlying meaning of the teachings that are espoused by me or anyone else. The word's don't mean much. Words are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To go to the very center of the mind of God, to be that, to become aware of our infiniteness, is the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's always better to be conservative in action. One must always consider the dangers in the world. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Never settle for that which is easy and comfortable or the necessity of seeking that which is difficult and uncomfortable. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Observe your actions but be so busy that you never contemplate their possible effects. It is only this consciousness that leads to… — Frederick Lenz 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 Copy Share Image
Humility has tremendous power. Think of Gandhi. That was humility in action. He changed the shape of an entire nation. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mind only comes into apparent existence through the action of perception. Mind appears to exist because it perceives. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everything knows what is best for itself. That is what the Sanskrit word dharma means. Dharma means the best of all possible… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are physical karmas. They are reactions and results from actions. But those are bound to a particular lifetime. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the state of emptiness, you are the action not the performer of the action. Allow an activity or event to take… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What you have done causes things to happen. Your situation in life now has been caused, is predicated upon, your previous actions.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You get to the point where you have to wash the dishes. That's the fun in life. Being behind the scenes and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Each of is endlessly generating waves with our actions. If you could see the earth from a vibratory point of view, you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are places that are very draining. There are places where there is another dimensional crossover but to a dimension that is not powerful… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
You can draw power from everything in your life. In order to do that, everything has to be set up in a proper way. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Everyone will admire you when you do well. What a horrible thing to do to someone. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get to watch… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
A human being can only absorb a small amount of the mystical kundalini, you can be exposed again and again to it, but it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Enlightened people live in very charged states of attention, with a tremendous power circuiting through them. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Karma means changing planes of reality or changing fields of attention. There will be perhaps a resulting physical action stemming from the change of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
You and I are both life. There's just the experience of every moment. We like to call them moments. There isn't really such a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Why waste your time being around people who drag you down? You don't live forever, at least in this life. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Everybody here is so caught up in the game of life they don't see death. They don't see beyond their deaths. They are on… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
