It is equally easy, initially, for either a man or a woman to attain enlightenment, what we would call liberation or self-realization. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nirvana is the center of things; then there are the outer bandings of attention. The universe is a mind. At the center… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When someone says to me "I want to be enlightened." I immediately take a vacation because I know that the person isn't… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sahaja samadhi means that you have just gone back and forth so many times that there is no back and forth. All… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation erases conditioning. It allows a person to channel the kundalini energy through their subtle physical body and reach enlightened states of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment, meditation is really a shift in perception. It's not a thing that you go and do or become, since you're already… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Flaky devotionalism, bowing and scraping and sucking up to the teacher is very phony. It is counterproductive to enlightenment and spiritual development.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I meet people who neglect career. Their lives aren't centered at all. They don't have much money. They have this spaced-out look… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is competition in Zen. Let's not be ridiculous. There is competition in everything in life; being a winner in Zen means,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is necessary to disassociate oneself from those who would interfere with your success in enlightenment, in your career, in your life.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a guru but as a teacher. If one means 'guru' in the original sense a 'dispeller… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment has nothing to do with being spiritual. Being spiritual is just an idea - it's another ring of perception. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All souls do not reach enlightenment. Some souls reach a certain point and stay there. Some souls actually decline and go into… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment just means that you don't have a structural self. It means you've flipped through the gradated realities. Nothing binds, nothing clings… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In America people have this funny idea about enlightenment and money. Money expresses a level of commitment. Studying enlightenment is like going… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We're connected to the Buddhist order, to the mind of enlightenment. All day long we draw the power and force from that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment means that you've become a sophisticated perceiver, without letting anyone know that you're sophisticated. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What women have done is developed a survival mechanism, and it's a fascinating one and it's been effective and justified, in my… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You are going around on the wheel again and again. You go around and around from lifetime to lifetime. You never quite… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Selectively pick a teacher, one that you respect, not just someone who can talk with wonderful poetic figures about enlightenment, but someone… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Personal power is a feeling that everybody is looking for called satisfaction. It is different from enlightenment, but you need personal power… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Love is something that we don't control. We have to be ourselves. You can be sexual, nonsexual, asexual, bisexual, or trisexual and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your intent is important. You will pull a very deep power when you are working not just for yourself, but you are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For men, it's necessary to push aside that marvelous ego that tells you that you are all knowing and capable, and see… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
After enlightenment your body changes tremendously; its very molecular structure changes just because the kundalini is always streaming through you. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Many Eastern spiritual groups feel that women are not capable of enlightenment. They advise women to have sons and pray to be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A real enlightened teacher is intense and they could care less what you think about anything at any time since you are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is not about being political. It is not a social club. Ashrams often turn into that, I know. Societies of enlightenment… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The process of eliminating the samskaras and reaching complete enlightenment is very technical, wonderful, and mystical process. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Buddhism we don't really believe in sin and salvation as Westerners would define them. We believe in the limitless possibilities of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you sit with an enlightened teacher and silent your mind as they go into nirvana, suchness, the pure power of their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I teach meditation and the pathway to enlightenment because I know that there are other people who, like i did a long… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some people just chase the glittery stuff and they have no substance to their life whatsoever. Actually all they really want is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nirvana is not really a physical place, although sometimes I talk about it as if it were. It is not really an… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
An enlightened person doesn't know it all. Enlightenment simply means walking beyond this and all worlds into nirvana, which is beyond knowledge… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no way to explain enlightenment. It is just a word to indicate something beyond, something very, very far beyond the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The experience of going to the other side to nirvana clarifies and simplifies your view of all things. You see the world… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What we seek to do in Tantric Buddhism is to liquefy ourselves. Life will automatically bring us to the next stage. You… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Krishna suprises Arjuna. He says go fight, go kill. Do this because it's only play money. You can't kill your friends any… — 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
