Different schools of Zen have evolved, principally the Rinzai and Soto orders. A whole hierarchy has developed for the teaching and practice… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We want to see the universe in its absolute, pure, naked, perfection. We want to know its wonder. We want to know… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The degree of success that you attain in all of your physical, mental and spiritual undertakings is dependent upon the strength and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A good warrior, a seventh or eighth degree black-belt, will tell you there is no victory. It doesn't make you more powerful… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
While I enjoy teaching people on the basic and intermediate levels to work them up to advanced levels, my real talent is… — 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
The more advanced the teacher, the better for you. The fifth degree black belt is so expert that they will understand that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Emotional control is essential for attaining higher levels of mind. The thing that the teacher looks for in a student is the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People who are enlightened in previous lifetimes have a certain degree of difficulty in regaining their enlightenment. Sometimes it comes in childhood.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is a certain degree of pain to be experienced in the search for self-knowledge, as there is a certain amount 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
