Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All the records of your past lives are contained within your own mind, just as the records of your ancestors are contained… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you are smart, you never retire. You may retire from that job you have had for many years, but you will… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Maybe if you stopped asking "why" all the time, you might be happy. Leave it alone, you know? Life is happy. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In your thoughts, you need to be selective. Thoughts are powerful vehicles of attention. Only think positive thoughts about yourself and your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You think you are somebody and that is where the problem begins. You're really not somebody, you're everybody. You objectify yourself into… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The role of the Buddhist teacher is to explain your options and to show you what creates karma. All our discussions are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is a time you can't turn it back. When a person is very destructive, when they hate you tremendously, you have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the enlightenment cycle, attention is paid to bringing back the awareness field from other lives. This does not simply mean memory,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you accentuate yourself, thinking or acting like you are important, then you must want to look good to someone in this… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You're standing in a closet, and you've been in it so long that you can't remember that there's anything else, that there's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Power doesn't make you happy. Actually, power without knowledge and balance is problematic. Power is something that will automatically follow when you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mindfulness means that as we go through the day we learn to gain control of our mind, our emotions. We learn to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We have a body, but we also have a subtle body, a body of energy that looks like our physical body. The… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our spirit grows and develops traits in each incarnation that it passes through, and then collects and carries the essence of those… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to wrap people up. The reason you're doing it is because you don't have enough power. If you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You must constantly check that you are meditating properly, and not become, what Clint Eastwood refers to as, "a legend in your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is a good idea to become involved with sports and athletics. It makes you strong. You need to be strong to… — 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
Several very good friends of mine have died of AIDS. I spent a great deal of time with them when they went… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Between the creative, open and spontaneous approach to life, and the highly disciplined, pragmatic approach, there's a doorway, if you can find… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Obstructions on the way to enlightenment, are you kidding? Hey, they crucify people here. You think this is an easy place? — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The power chakra is the navel center. The center of balance is the heart chakra; it's the center of our being. The… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you meditate, you are shifting your state of mind to a higher vibratory level that will give you a much more… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Transform yourself. It is not the opponent that will change, or the Frisbee. They will change in relation to your change. You… — 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
There are some beings who reach a point where they no longer want to move through the ten thousand states of mind.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The world won't necessarily change but your understanding of it will, and therefore the world will change. Your attention will no longer… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What you need to learn are basic types of concentration, bringing more energy into your life, plugging up the holes where you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Love is the chariot of emotion which takes us to our beloved. When we love we see beyond the prism of illusion. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness does not come from external things as we're really taught as children. It doesn't come from Santa Claus. Happiness is from… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation is not emptiness. That is a way of trying to talk about something that is impossible to put into words. It… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are people I feel in other parts of the world who will never meet me or hear my name. They are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Be a great capitalist. Be a great socialist. Be a great whatever you want to be, but do it with style, clarity… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The aura of billions of people coats all experiences like a thick cloud of smog. Just to live on the earth is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Intelligence is something that is not just thinking, it's feeling. Ultimately, the highest reflection of intelligent life is cooperative life in which… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There's no risk in doing a lousy meditation or not meditating at all. There's no risk in being convenient and comfortable. There's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Humility feels that there is someone, somewhere who can do anything I can do better - except one thing: no one can… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you think you are a vile slime, that means that you aspire to something higher...It's because you have a sense of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You are complete. Completion has taken place in you eons ago. Accept yourself. Enjoy yourself. This time will never be again, so… — 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
