Sometimes people start to meditate and they get a headache. It's because they're trying too hard. You're pulling in too much energy. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is a wonderful continuity of being, the continuous awareness of self, a sense of yourself continuing in time and space. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no loneliness when you meditate, you feel eternity. How could you ever be lonely? You just feel God's love for… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is x-rated, honey; if you haven't checked it out. It's hot, it's vivacious. You're going to take your mind and merge… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you are doing that which is within you, what that part of you that is beyond body would like you to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In mysticism we have to take all the imprinting that has occurred to us and wash it. Then we need to be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Do not feel that you are destined not to make that final liberation in this life. This is egotism in a reverse… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As a monk you have a responsibility to meditate many hours a day. Not just to sit there but to think of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism is a practice in which we learn to avoid injuring others, and ourselves. It's a practice in which we learn to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The only reason you feel pain is because you're so busy looking at yourself instead of looking at the wonderful patterns of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The vast majority of the people who populate our planet live lives of quiet desperation that are all too often quite harsh… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People enter states of consciousness where they think they've become enlightened. The best thing to do, if you've gone through one of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To meditate, you need to feel, and feeling is a lost art. You need to feel the stillness of existence and also… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In this prison camp, the Gestapo state brain-police planet Earth, what is normal is insane and what is insane is normal. But… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The vast majority of beings who incarnate on this planet are at the stage of their evolution where power is the dominant… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Human beings go to church. The guy in the front dressed in black is the guy you defer to. He is in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
None of this matters a bit. Yet, of course, it matters at that moment. So we try to be mindful of the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you sit, you've put a place on the island of the tonal for the possibility of your thoughts stopping for a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Life is an endless matrix of existence. And as you experience it in that pure form, that's what we call enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Balance is the most important of all qualities. We don't want a little bit of rapid growth and then to stagnate. We… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you are just spaced out and you have no purpose in life, you pick everything up. Everybody else's thoughts will come… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You'll find that you will be able to reorder the island of your tonal so that it's in good shape - logical,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you meditate and still your mind, you will gain the wisdom of knowing things in this world, in other worlds and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Begin with your daily life. Take your life as a challenge and try to bring yourself into harmony with each thing in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The problem with love is attachment; love makes you dependent. Unattached love - you love for the hell of it. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness is in the mind and the mind is the universe. Your mind is the universe, not just this physical universe that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Being a Buddhist monk means never losing one's optimism in spite of all difficulties. It also means being harder on yourself than… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are four principal pathways that lead to enlightement: The yoga of love, the yoga of service, the yoga of knowledge, and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Physical circumstance will not cause happiness. Or if it does, there is the fear of loss. Now you are a slave to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What does God really look like stripped naked? That's the province of enlightenment...the formless, perfect face of existence. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Stop trying to do things that will make you happy. Happiness is a state of mind; because otherwise, you are a slave… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you use your will all the time, then it runs out. You deplete yourself and then, when you really need it,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Certainly, I am aware that there have been a number of articles written about me and television shows in which I have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If this is the only life, then everything assumes too great an importance. We have to get everything out of life and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Feel the wind. This wind blows from world to world and from life to death. This is the wind of dharma. Be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
How do you become enlightened? Have fun, meditate, don't take yourself too seriously, brush between incarnations and have a good teacher. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Humility doesn't mean hiding in the corner and pretending you are not strong. Humility means to be what you are. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everyone in advanced meditation practice should be involved with the economic support of the spread of the dharma. We live in a… — 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
