A number of Guru's feel that there is something wrong or sick about being gay. I think it really doesn't matter what… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you had to pick between one or the other, I can't say which one is better; but I would certainly say,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the Zen of sports and athletics, we seek to bring discipline and control into our physical movements, but at the same… — 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 Copy Share Image
Clothing is art. It's an expression of how you feel. I think that it's not so much a question of a certain… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You have developed the second attention much more than you realize and you use it more than you realize as a woman.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Love is something that we don't control. We have to be ourselves. You can be sexual, nonsexual, asexual, bisexual, or trisexual and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As a dialectical teacher, I have had many lives where I have taught Zen and Tibetan Buddhism and mysticism. I teach in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Spend time alone in areas of low population density, where you can feel the stillness. Go out into the desert or up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Practicing zazen and mindfulness constantly and correctly, over a period of time, can bring strength and clarity to your finite mind and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If suddenly you get depressed, it doesn't have to throw you. You can push those emotions aside. You can cultivate happy emotions… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your intent is important. You will pull a very deep power when you are working not just for yourself, but you are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We connect the dots in the drawing with our mind. We give them a meaning, a figurative sense, which is self-reflexive in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you could be sloppy, you're not. When you could be indulgent, you're not. When you could be sad, you laugh instead.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake. You'll gain the power, but with the current mindset that you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you meditate deeply several times a day you will transform and change. You will find that you don't have to inspire… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You don't need to be recluse and stay away from people. But you have to set aside a lot of time for… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you find yourself dwelling on something negative, consciously use your willpower to remove your mind from that which is negative. Move… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Any area you slough off in your life will reflect in your meditation. Be happy when you could be depressed. Push jealous,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is necessary to learn how to do a systems analysis of your life, to learn about the effects of places, people,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Have a wonderful sense of humor, particularly about yourself and your own situation. Yet don't simply laugh. Work to change and improve… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation is something that is indigenous to the heart, which makes it hard to talk about. We don't necessarily need to talk… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One day liberation will come, and it won't be a day; it won't be a year; it won't be a time, a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What can be the dharma at one point in your life can totally reverse itself, and suddenly you might be doing something… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no ultimate objective reality within the ten thousand states of mind. Most people don't like to hear this. But there… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Gain control of the emotions. Be the helmsperson and not blown around by the winds of emotion. While there will be winds,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Divide is like two rivers merging, at the point of merging there is a great deal of activity. The sunset, it's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Work sustains us as bodies and it consumes a great deal of energy. The conservation of energy is the component theme of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We see a lot of people who decide to go out and teach meditation. They become so wrapped up in it that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are chakras in the hands; you've seen me use those quite frequently when I meditate. I project the shakti, the kundalini,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can take the kundalini from the crown center and bring it down. You can bring it up or you can stabilize… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Celibacy doesn't make you enlightened, otherwise every nun or priest in Buddhism or Christianity would be enlightened. People who don't date and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In this world we see nothing but diversity. Everyone thinks separate ideas and wants to develop a separate identity. They fight wars… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We are transmuting the reality of our perceptual field. There are endless, beautiful and perfect universes - or you can go beyond… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically 'in'. But if we were to apply for a financial aid grant as a cult, I'm… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When the time comes for a change, you will find it occurring without having created it yourself. You may think that you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Within silence all things are contained. What appears to our eyes to be life is but a thin curtain, a gauze penumbra,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A student of mine is an actor, he used to go into these interviews and sometimes not get the part. He was… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What we seek to do in Tantric Buddhism is to liquefy ourselves. Life will automatically bring us to the next stage. 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 Image
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 Image
Everyone will admire you when you do well. What a horrible thing to do to someone. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Enlightened people live in very charged states of attention, with a tremendous power circuiting through them. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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 Image
Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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 Image
