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
Tantric Buddhists don't believe in sin. Stupidity, yes, meaning we make ourselves or others suffer. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
From my own personal encounters and studies with both Tantric and Zen Buddhist monks, I have found them to be humorous, warm,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We must be able to deal with ridicule and scorn, which it always seems that Buddhists receive. But we feel that it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism is yoga. Yoga started, who knows when? A long time ago, when the first person found that they could still their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A Buddhist is working not just to get paid, but working to advance spiritually. You shouldn't create a syntactical break in your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We must control the tendencies within our being that are destructive, when we want to slam somebody else, hurt them, injure them,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The essential premise of Buddhism is that there is enlightenment, there is nirvana. Beyond this world, beyond all worlds, there's something radiant,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Dali Lama and other notable Buddhist teachers have now indicated that since the world has plunged into a dark age, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Etiquette is an intelligent way to live. There are certain ways of living you will learn being around advanced students and mostly… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our sense of being worthwhile, our sense of being good, our sense of being anything must go - Final clearance sale. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism suggests there are no elect. Everything rests upon your own self-effort, which is the good news because that means you don't… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Without that poise and balance and gentle humor and caring sense, nothing happens at all. It's just egotism and vanity and jealousy… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the Far Eastern languages we have many different words to describe the varying degrees of reality that a thing, a state… — 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
It takes tremendous self-restraint on the part of the student not to want to monopolize the teacher's attention, to live a very… — 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
Can you control your anger, lust, frustrations, and jealousies? Those are the only people worthy of the higher teachings. By worthy, I… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Buddhist Yoga, we refer to our mutlilife karmic traits as samskaras. They are the internal karmic patterns that make each of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I used to live in Buddhist monasteries and I finally had to leave them because they were just too cluttered for me.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We're connected to the Buddhist order, to the mind of enlightenment. All day long we draw the power and force from that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some people like a harsh teacher. They feel the demands make them learn more quickly. Some like a gentle teacher because they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Studying with a teacher doesn't simply mean going to an occasional seminar or Zen retreat. It means fully applying yourself to what… — 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
