Compassion and empathy are not the same as feeling sorry for oneself. They are emotions that extend our perceptual ranges. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The action of giving is in a certain vibratory level, meaning giving exists in a certain plane of consciousness. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Love the fading flowers as much as you love the undifferentiated which lasts forever. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One of the traditional Tantric methods of mediation is to imagine that you are taking on the suffering of all beings. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Help the world in any way that you want to. I have found that the more light you give and spread, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You have to refine your being. You have to go through all of the stages and steps of erasing yourself through service… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's suggested that enlightenment has some tremendous compassion, some driving necessity to help humanity. I don't think that's the case at all.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The secret teaching was the bodhisattva ideal, to live for others, for the welfare of all beings. That's enlightenment, not some flashy… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's up to you to avail yourself to knowledge. Knowledge doesn't need you. The idea of a compassionate God was formulated, obviously,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In future years a number of you will become spiritual teachers. After many years of study and doing a good job, go… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Compassion allows us to accept everything. That's why there's always a tear in the eye of the Buddha that no one sees,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The essence of the teachings is to lose self importance and to care more for the welfare of others and the magical… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In self-giving you must be so careful of egotism. You must be so careful when you are aiding others in their liberation… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In my estimation it's silly to go out and spend your time aiding people if you don't have your own act together… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Advance yourself by advancing others. Do not judge others. Be of service to them, but realize that you are not necessarily the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Selfless-giving burns away the layers of the onion. Purity and humility keep meditation and selfless-giving clear. Love radiates through the entire practice… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I respect self-giving and I've tried to lead my life with that as the ideal. But real self-giving is when we take… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Selfless giving is love in action. Initially you will feel that you should help in a certain way, with a certain result.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I realize that there's a thing called the bodhisattva ideal, and it's a very nice pinnacle of attention. It's a very egotistical… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What will really release the kundalini is creating a stillness in your life. This stillness will come about through deep caring and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Energy is gained by giving energy. When we give energy, we gain energy. This is different than having someone manipulate you and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To think that God is compassionate is a terrible mistake. To think that God is wrathful is equally stupid. God isn't emotional.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To feel that you are the Buddha of all times and places and that in some way the salvation of anyone, including… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
By perfecting the practices of zazen and mindfulness, by learning patience and love and by realizing the essential emptiness of all phenomena,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To have to liberate everybody doesn't sound very free to me. You're gong to go liberate people who maybe don't want to… — 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
