If you can't think of an enlightened person positively, don't think of them at all. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Self-hate doesn't create enlightenment. It just causes you to not enjoy the current moment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Humor enables us to deal with and overcome many of the most painful and difficult situations in our lives. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
From a Buddhist perspective, it is incorrect to always assume that we know what is best. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some tried to kill him; there were assassination attempts. Some hated him ... this is par for the course. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Don't care what anybody says about enlightenment, except the enlightened and those who seek it. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism is the study of changing who we are, modifying or perhaps totally restructuring ourselves as perceivers. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Humility simply means that you do a great job at everything and it isn't really a big deal. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If we don't get violent with ourselves, castigate ourselves, ostracize ourselves and excommunicate ourselves because we didn't live up to the standards… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Computer science is fascinating. As you study computer science, you will find that you develop your mind. It is literally like doing… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What is evil? There is no such thing. In Buddhism we don't recognize evil and therefore we don't give it any power… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am the happiest person I've ever met. This is what Buddhist Yoga and a healthy dose of reading the Declaration of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I recommend computer science to people who practice meditation. The mental structures that are used in computer science are very similar exercises… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your mantrum is the awareness of the dream - to enjoy and appreciate and have gratitude for all; neither to condemn nor… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Get your emotions under control and your life under control. Work really hard and don't make a big deal out of yourself.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The gopis seek Krishna, another part of themselves that create ecstasy. The man seeks the woman, the woman seeks the man. The… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To know that these are people who for a moment, in glory, in light, were true warriors, and you had the chance… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What's important is to be supportive of all who practice. Anyone on any level, even if they don't call it self-discovery, who… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Human beings have become so afraid of the unknown, themselves, and each other that they deprive themselves of that innate ecstasy and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
This study is not for the amateur. It's not for the dilettante. It's not for the cult follower. It's not for someone… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhists don't feel that enlightenment is particularly unusual. We feel that it's the natural state. Enlightenment simply means perceiving life directly as… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What makes a difference is when we take our mind and put it into the scriptures, when we read the Buddhist Canon,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Occasionally, in each age and in different lands, a Buddha is born, that is to say, an enlightened person...they re-codify the ways,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Career success means making enough money to lead the kind of life you would like to lead as a practicing Buddhist. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Even though it's not perceivable to the mind or senses, it's there and enlightenment is absolute freedom. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhists believe that you are who you are today is because of who you have been in all your past lives. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is enough room in eternity for everyone to be enlightened. We gain or lose nothing by the success of others. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As Buddha points out, you should not rely on the opinions of others for validation of your internal progression. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If one thinks of an enlightened person in a negative way, as it hits their aura, it returns very strongly. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Simplify your life and your mind. Think more of infinity and less of yourself. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is the Buddhist belief that at every moment the universe is not only dying but being reborn. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As a student of enlightenment your attitude should not be to become enlightened. It should be to learn. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the world of Buddhist mind, in the advanced states, we go beyond time, space, life, death and Newsweek. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Do not envy others. If someone gets a larger piece of cake, be happy for them. They'll get fat and you'll stay… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Buddhist message is a message not of the negation of life, but one of affirmation. — 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
