Everything you do in meditation is amplified. If you meditate for five minutes with your complete mind focused on happiness, that is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The first task is to discover the dharma by introspection, by constantly questioning yourself and asking yourself, "What is right?" — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The higher octave light that comes from samadhi, the kundalini of samadhi, this you can absorb continuously. You can never overload. It… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Matter is fun for a while; but ultimately, it is the spiritual experience where we leap beyond what we know- that is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no best teacher. Life itself is the teacher. There is no best method. All that matters is that it works. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When most people see a tree, they don't see a tree at all. They see an idea that they have developed of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The day-to-day life we lead has nothing to do with enlightenment. It is just around the corner, and we don't see it. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The sensual experiences in life are not to be avoided. This is the philosophy of Tantric Buddhism - nor are they particularly… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are billions of people on earth. They are all transmitting thoughts and impressions, most of which are not directed towards enlightenment.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People want power but not wisdom. Power without wisdom is a very dangerous thing. Better to have wisdom first. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Past life knowledge is not the wedding album of existence. Past life remembrance in Buddhism is the ability to bring a greater… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditate. Inspire others. Spend time by yourself. Manage your career properly. Work at something constructive, that doesn't injure others, and put your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the beginning what is necessary is to feel that there is something worthwhile to be attained otherwise we won't do it. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you are truly wise, you love life very deeply. You love the things in your life, transient though they may be. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is most important to have time alone. To be alone is not to be alone. It is only possible to truly… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Tantric Buddhism, we believe that Samsara is Nirvana. That is to say that everything in the universe is part of us.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Pilgrimages are journeys to places of power. People sometimes make pilgrimages to the caves where Milarepa or other great yogis meditated. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Many people, including Buddhist monks, spend thousands of hours sitting in what they call meditation. In reality, what they're doing is thinking… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Spiritual balance is the principle that allows the mind to be still. You cannot expect the world to settle down, everything to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Human beings are not so in harmony with the dharma. That is why they suffer so much. But you as an individual… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As you learn to accept that the body is transitory, as you watch it with love, but without attachment, the body will… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Thousands and thousands of incarnations and nothing to show for it. You must choose whether to follow the path of love or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment occurs when your mind merges with nirvana, with what Tibetans call the Dharmakaya, the clear light of reality, which is the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Those who practice lower sorcery hurt themselves the most because they interact with negative thoughts and apply power to them; they devastate… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nonphysical beings are drawn to enlightened beings. Some come to aid them in there work; some come to interfere. Some just come… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In terms of spiritual development, it's not a big deal whether you have sex or not, the question is more of who… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you meditate you are accessing eternity. You are plugging yourself into that source which is all light and all beauty and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you are subjected to this light, depending on how strong the dose is, you will have two or three days in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Put the mind in alignment with the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment and experience them in various gradations forever. That's the total… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The population of the planet is increasing at an alarming rate, and yet each day human beings manage to destroy ten species. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Career success is using your daily work, schoolwork, work in the world, work at home, as a way of advancing your mental… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no fanaticism in any of this. There is intensity. You have to make it happen. You have to put your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation is when we go beyond incarnation, beyond all cycles, to immortality, to something that is not transient. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Once you have personally experienced enlightenment, you will see beyond the ocean of death to the everlasting shores of immortality. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is necessary first in the practice of Kundalini yoga to determine what the dharma is. There is a dharma for you. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment doesn't mean you know anything. It doesn't mean you don't know anything. It means that you've returned to the source, consciously. — 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
