You see, Buddhists are optimists. We never saw sunsets in Atlantis like we do now. We didn't have those great chemicals in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As you become more aware of your own imperfections, you simultaneously become more aware of the overall perfection of the universe. — 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
Knowledge of the Enlightenment Cycle, of the ways that inner dimensions and nirvana work, lifts you far above the transient sorrows, pains,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People who are advanced meditators don't worry about liberation and self-realization; they instead are interested in the welfare of others and aiding… — 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
It is very important to always hold the thought of an enlightened teacher in your mind in a very positive way. When… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Love makes you wise. Love unites. Pain divides. Hate divides even more. Hate separates and brings us down to a very physical… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Buddhists believe that everything in life is random. There are patterns that are intrinsic to life. We don't know why, we… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The pathway to enlightenment is beautiful. There are a lot of wonderful things that happen along the way. Win or lose, you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The teacher has nothing to do with people who use their mental powers to block the enlightenment of others. These people lack… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everything that I teach as an enlightened Buddhist teacher is towards directing an individual to happiness, a balanced wisdom and knowledge that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The thing about Buddhism is that it stresses attainment of something ineffable, that is where it differs from other religions in that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Behind the transient reality, there is something else. It is a deeper, more permanent and unchanging reality that we Buddhists call nirvana. — 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
Buddhism is the study of power initially. It takes a certain amount of power to even know your potential - to have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Flaky devotionalism, bowing and scraping and sucking up to the teacher is very phony. It is counterproductive to enlightenment and spiritual development.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In America people have this funny idea about enlightenment and money. Money expresses a level of commitment. Studying enlightenment is like going… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the esoteric teachings, a transference process takes place between teacher and student where knowledge is actually transmitted from one to the… — 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
People over-focus on teachers as an excuse to avoid their own life, and that way they fail to take responsibility for themselves.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Do not be selfish and feel new people will take more of the teacher's attention and you won't get it. That's nonsense.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Those who practice deserve your respect. If you respect them, you respect yourself. It's easy to be critical, but it does no… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you become obsessive in spiritual practice, if you just try and try, you are not going to be happy. You are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
By practicing Buddhist Yoga, you can become happy, ecstatic and free in your current incarnation, even if you have never been that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Buddhism we don't really believe in sin and salvation as Westerners would define them. We believe in the limitless possibilities of… — 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
Beyond learning and unlearning is awareness, and beyond awareness is consciousness, and beyond consciousness is immortality, and beyond immortality is dharma and… — 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 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
Are you still carrying everyone who's insulted you, injured you or interfered with you? That's a lot of weight. I'd let it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Work sustains us as bodies and it consumes a great deal of energy. The conservation of energy is the component theme of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you attain liberation do not feel that it matters or it is important. You had nothing to do with it. If… — 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
Spiritual dignity says that I don't have to compete with anyone; I don't have to do what my friends do. All I… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Over a period of years he collected thousands of discples. Many became his students. Many didn't become his students but whenever he… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is the Buddhist belief that all things, experiences and people are inherently empty. That is a simple way of saying that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism leads you to the awareness that all things are holy. Everything is holy. The dark has its own light, in other… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's considered very, very bad karma, if I can cut to the chase, to take power from a teacher and not use… — 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
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
