If you're studying Buddhism you never really have enough time because you're going to die. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
With the empowerment of an advanced Teacher, and your own best efforts, you will be able to explore the mysteries of knowledge… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It takes quite a bit of time to become enlightened. But it really is not so different from learning any other art;… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
No self-effort in the direction of enlightenment is ever wasted. Even if you don't become fully enlightened in a given lifetime, you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You must learn to meditate and stop your thoughts. You must overcome all egotism and selfishness by serving others. You must cleanse… — 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
Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Determine where you are and where you wish to be. Then use all of your self-effort to make that happen, following the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you could be sloppy, you're not. When you could be indulgent, you're not. When you could be sad, you laugh instead.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The effort to lift one's self into perfect enlightenment is a profound thing. It has nothing to do with individual will. It's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Occupy yourself with what's in your life now. Address those situations and subjects as fully as possible with your best efforts. That… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You may have thousands of lives to go between now and before you're a real hard-core seeker of enlightenment, hardcore meaning you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness is found principally in meditation. Let your mind flow out into eternity. You have to exert some effort. Then you will… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's not what you do - it's the intensity of your feeling that determines how far you go in the spiritual life. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you want to become enlightened, you've got to get all the bullshit out of your life. You have to clear up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You could go through incarnations forever and never become enlightened, unless of course you do something about it. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Buddhism what we seek to do is change ourselves into someone who's beautiful to be. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Self-honesty is not putting yourself down or feeling sorry for yourself. Self-honesty is looking at things as they are and then being… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you are mindful in your work, if you put your best effort into it, then something comes back to you. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
At the end of each meditation session, bow your head toward the ground. Give away your meditation to the universe. Whether you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Eventually light prevails, you just have to be patient. So practice Buddhism, learn to be enlightened, put a smile on your face,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism suggests there are no elect. Everything rests upon your own self-effort, which is the good news because that means you don't… — 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
