Examine everything that you've been taught, not simply what you've been taught in school, but the images that have been held up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
My teaching - of what is perceived to be a complex and foreign sounding religious philosophy - has become the target for… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A lot of people have this live or die attitude with mediation. It has to be all or nothing. I don't think… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The study of Buddhism is essentially the study of modification, how we modify the state of mind we're in, how we modify… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I try to teach people to continually search and question the meaning of everything they are taught and everything they believe in.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The teaching process becomes most interesting for spiritual seekers once they've managed to hit the lower samadhis. However at that point many… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is best to study from a teacher of ANY subject, as long as you focus on the teachings and NOT on… — 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
At the same time, I went through college, received a Ph.D. and started to teach. I wrote books. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some teachers are extremely inaccessible. They feel their teachings are for very few so they make it intentionally hard to get to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can't teach someone to be enlightened. It's something you have to go and do. You can't teach someone to meditate well.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Feel the underlying meaning of the teachings that are espoused by me or anyone else. The word's don't mean much. Words are… — 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
This is the most exciting study there is. It is the only thing I know of in life that makes you feel… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If the kundalini is flowing through you at a very rapid rate, if you are not in harmony with the dharma, then… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In poetry, and in my study in graduate school, I was drawn to a particular poet, Theodore Roethke. I did a dissertation… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The few women who have been admitted to the study are usually given a second-class status in which they are taught only… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People who want to go to power places all of the time and want to be around powerful people, they don't last… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The study of Zen is a retraining. It is a series of new ways, not just one way, to learn to use… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the study of Zen you can learn how to strengthen and clarify your finite mind. Your finite mind is like a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
During the time of Atlantis, members of the Mystery Schools discovered and developed specific concentration exercises that they found would radically increase… — 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
