A teacher is not someone you need perpetually. You need them to show you how to get through the doorway; but once… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We hear wonderful stories about some masters who can walk on water and do all kinds of great things. But the real… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you think it makes a difference if I have ten thousand sports cars, ten million girlfriends and lead a very flashy… — 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
With a teacher it is necessary to be sensitive to their directions; most of the time they won't say much. You have… — 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 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
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
The teaching that we receive is not necessarily very accurate. The value systems that our cultures have developed are not every open.… — 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
An enlightened teacher is able to put a tremendous amount of power through a person who seeks knowledge and escalates the evolution… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People come to a teacher to learn self-discovery. A teacher who just wants to keep you on a string forever, the god-guru… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As a teacher you just look at someone and you transmit to them what they need to know. Not simply a thought… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Once in a while an enlightened teacher goes out into the world and spreads the dharma. They attract some attention, and it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Experience is a great teacher. You will have to go through the trials and tribulations and the ecstasies and abandoned moments of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Unfortunately the student often feels guilt for not living the type of life that their Teacher suggested, or they feel that they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The study of meditation is the entrance into the world of Wonderland. It has nothing to do with how you'd like it.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The deeper side of the study occurs on levels of attention your mind is not aware of, but that your superconscious mind… — 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
I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get… — 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
Once in a while, you will see someone really drippy. The person has to stare at the teacher all the time with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is a lot of opposition. You will experience it. But the joys that come from the study, more than compensate for… — 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
Psychic development is not a fanatical, freaky study, predicting the future, talking to UFOs, and being able to find out curious facts… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Once in while a teacher may make a recommendation, it is usually after going through the basic Socratic method of trying to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Without balance and wisdom, power becomes very destructive. It creates unhappiness and not happiness. To simply see a teacher to gain power… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen has lost its zip, if you will, or its nothingness and has become ritualistic Its established in monastaries with strict codes… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
Those who are already adept at some disciplines of the body will find that the study of Zen and meditation will give… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In order not to lose your resolve and purpose, you need to unite with others of like mind and work with an… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are phony teachers who profess all kinds of things, and I think you will figure out real fast who they are.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Universities are very clarifying places of power, because everyone is focused on trying to figure out exactly what to do with their… — 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
The teacher is not a person; they're a field of energy. They're a series of levels of attention. While they have a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You get to the point where you have to wash the dishes. That's the fun in life. Being behind the scenes and… — 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
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
