The teacher will be moving through thousands of states of mind and sometimes beyond mind. While you are with the teacher, be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A child in the 4th grade who's just learning algebra is not imperfect. While there may be a child in the 12th… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some teachers are very accessible. They advertise a great deal, they go out into the public. If they're advanced teachers, doubtlessly they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You get a very different type of education if you go out to the desert, to the places of power, places where… — 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
In the esoteric teachings, a transference process takes place between teacher and student where knowledge is actually transmitted from one to the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The deeper inner teachings are presented to very few because few would understand them. The exoteric teachings are presented to many. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you respect your teacher, you do better. Respect is only good because it will help you. Real liberated people, what can… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The reason you study with a teacher is primarily for the empowerments, for someone who is enlightened to transfer power to you.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Transmission does not have to take place physically. The student doesn't have to be sitting across from you. But it's easier if… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People over-focus on teachers as an excuse to avoid their own life, and that way they fail to take responsibility for themselves.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Do not be selfish and feel new people will take more of the teacher's attention and you won't get it. That's nonsense.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Good teachers are not known for telling you what you want to hear, and consequently they're rarely popular because they tend to… — 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
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
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
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
Your ability to use mind whatever way you choose is outrageous. Much will depend upon how intensely you approach the study and… — 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
Often, in the student's confusion, she or he directs anger at the teacher, blaming them for the pain they are experiencing, or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A good teacher will show you the ropes in the world of power. They will give you the wisdom that is necessary… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am a Teacher. I am the keeper of mysteries. You seek knowledge and power, Truth, Light, and happiness. I am happy… — 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
The person who helps you is the person who aids you in becoming independent and strong. Good teachers don't answer your questions,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All of the exoteric teachings are only designed to give you the type of life that will allow you to practice the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A teacher had two types of students. One type of student is a close student. The other is also a close student,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It has been my experience as a teacher over the years and incarnations that what really counts are not techniques. What really… — 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
The highest teaching is never written down. It's only communicated from teacher to student because it's a "transmission of the lamp." It's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A person who undertakes the study of Zen and learns concentration and meditation is like a gymnast. You become a gymnast of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is the direct application of Buddhist teachings to a physical event, a way of doing or accomplishing something, or a way… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Studying with a teacher doesn't simply mean going to an occasional seminar or Zen retreat. It means fully applying yourself to what… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is a study. It's a discipline. It involves the active use of will to make things happen or not happen. These… — 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 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
The life of meditation and religious study is absolutely no guarantee of peak moments. Most people involved in religious study and meditation… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you can develop a connection, what we call an inner connection with the teacher, then it is not even necessary to… — 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
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
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
