We have to leave everything we have been, a perceiver, "I" as an individual. That is enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment doesn't simply mean being in heavenly states of mind. It doesn't mean being a saint. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sex can never bring about enlightenment. Only enlightenment brings about enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everyone is afraid of enlightenment, knowledge, completion. People are afraid of being exposed. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The world has never had a greater need for enlightened women and men. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Dharma simply means the right thing in the right place, in the right space. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your very success is what's going to destroy you. The survival mechanism that you've developed is the very thing which will cause… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is already there inside us and all things. All we have to do is get something out of the way that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the enlightenment cycle, attention is paid to bringing back the awareness field from other lives. This does not simply mean memory,… — 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
Kundalini can be transmitted. A person who is very adept at the enlightenment process can transmit it. Whether you feel it or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you visit the Zen Monasteries, one of the first things required is that you bring a donation. They have to pay… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There's a source, there's a perennial source from which all things come forth. We call it the Godhead, Nirvana, the Tao, enlightenment.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Forever is not an idea or a concept, it is reality. All of the things here come from forever. We call forever… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The perfect view of existence comes from an unclouded, uncluttered life and mind whereby the radiance of perfect attention of the mind… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What you focus on you become. So always focus on that which is highest, brightest, happiest and most noble of all things,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There comes a time when a race of beings makes a decision. When they chose to reject enlightenment, it's the end of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism has existed forever, just like we have, and occasionally it's codified; it's put together into a system by someone who likes… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is possible to move to an enlightened state of mind from a lower bardo or level of awareness. It can happen,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
That which is right is different for each one of us in each situation. There isn't a moral code that I or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What the enlightened person sees no one could ever tell or describe. Wonder beyond belief. We live in a universe filled with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A woman's place, her entire experience in life, has been and in many places still is dependent upon the man she marries. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We have ideas of God and nirvana or truth or enlightenment. These ideas will go away in nirvana because the suffusion is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Almost anyone can see the golden light in an enlightened master's aura when the master meditates, unless, of course, the person is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation is a bright, hopeful practice in which we learn to make our mind quiet so that the infinite, perfect light of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is an ocean of awareness that slides through the human part of us and dissolves it, and leaves us forever in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In their confusion and delusion, men hate the womb that gives them birth. Not all men, certainly , but enough men to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Women have developed the second attention because they were repressed, because they were manipulated, because they were used as property, as chattel,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
While notable advances in certain parts of the world in woman's rights have occured in the last hundred years, the centuries of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A lot of men hate women subconsciously or just are very confused about them or are afraid of them or are afraid… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The sexual energies returned, when they're not evolved, are still linked with violence and the fear of power - the fear of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Each of the small enlightenments that a Zen practitioner has, which are known in Zen as "Satori experiences," provides deeper insights into… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The later stages of the enlightenment process are trickier, and it is really essential to have a teacher then. You need correction,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen students see themselves as athletes. Their competitive sport is enlightenment; only with enlightenment do we compete. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To not follow the dharma, either intentionally or through lack of awareness, creates a very low level of attention. In this low… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think enlightenment is something that you decide to do after you have met someone who is enlightened. Something touches your heart,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If the teacher is truly enlightened, energy and light is always coming forth from them. To be in their physical presence is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People on the pathway to enlightenment become very successful in whatever they approach, because they have learned to discipline the mind. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is vain to think that we choose, that our own energy, our own intellect will create the possibility of us experiencing… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most people don't care much about enlightenment and the truth. They'd rather watch the Home Shopping Network, and maybe that's another kind… — 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
