There is a beautiful flow to the study of Zen. If it is not making you happier, then you are not practicing… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mysticism is the study of power, its use, and its abuse. At every moment you are getting stronger or you are growing… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The study of Zen is the study of energy, power, knowledge and balance. It is the science of energy conservation and control.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You may not need a teacher or you may be drawn to one - everything is individual. But the main thing you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In enlightenment you have to convince a teacher not only that you are worthy of teaching, but then that they should show… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I personally have fun with enlightenment, the study and the teaching of it. I get a kick out of doing it different… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The study of enlightenment is really a reorganization of our perceptual body or our perceptual field. We learn to see life more… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A great deal of energy is lost in the study by people who interact with non-physical beings. They get into your mind… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Believe in yourself, step one. Believe in the order, step two. Believe in the teachings, step three. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it - I read… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We see an enlightened teacher to gain a sense of humor, to learn balance and proportion and of course to learn wisdom. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Throughout the course of my life, I have been very fortunate to have had excellent teachers - not just in meditation, but… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The teaching process is lengthy because there are many, many states of mind to go through. And in each state of mind… — 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
Enlightened teachers get all sorts of assignments. Sometimes we end up in the higher astral; sometimes we end up in the realm… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In advanced practice there is a sense of commitment to the study. It is happy; it's never forced. It is a natural… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most of the teaching I do is not verbal. It's in every movement of my body. It's in my dance. It's in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Old Zen, the Zen Master would do literally anything to break down the concept of what the study was. He would… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
This study is not for the amateur. It's not for the dilettante. It's not for the cult follower. It's not for someone… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A real liberated teacher never asks for a commitment from a student. That's absurd, a person wants to be there and they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
His second cycle of teachings discusses the cosmology of the universes. But in his later years, he wrote the tantric texts. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is necessary to learn how to do a systems analysis of your life, to learn about the effects of places, people,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What you need to learn are basic types of concentration, bringing more energy into your life, plugging up the holes where you… — 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
The teaching of the ten thousand states of mind, particularly as one advances further, is done through transmission. This is where we… — 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