If you can't think of an enlightened person positively, don't think of them at all. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Self-hate doesn't create enlightenment. It just causes you to not enjoy the current moment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
From a Buddhist perspective, it is incorrect to always assume that we know what is best. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Humility simply means that you do a great job at everything and it isn't really a big deal. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is enough room in eternity for everyone to be enlightened. We gain or lose nothing by the success of others. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If one thinks of an enlightened person in a negative way, as it hits their aura, it returns very strongly. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The etiquette is higher consciousness, sensitivity, gentleness, gracefulness, intensity, power, and knowledge. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Simplify your life and your mind. Think more of infinity and less of yourself. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If we don't get violent with ourselves, castigate ourselves, ostracize ourselves and excommunicate ourselves because we didn't live up to the standards… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your mantrum is the awareness of the dream - to enjoy and appreciate and have gratitude for all; neither to condemn nor… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Get your emotions under control and your life under control. Work really hard and don't make a big deal out of yourself.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you are going to set out to develop mystical powers to impress your friends and do other things to your enemies,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If someone is in the same state of mind and doesn't seek to block your success, you have a friend. Such friends… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We seek to unify ourselves with the endless light of truth, of God, of nirvana. We recognize the infinite playing through all… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All things are spiritual. It doesn't matter what you do or who you are or what kind of blue jeans you wear,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You must be accommodating with your teacher. You must have a sense of humor about your teacher and the impossible things they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To know that these are people who for a moment, in glory, in light, were true warriors, and you had the chance… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What's important is to be supportive of all who practice. Anyone on any level, even if they don't call it self-discovery, who… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As a student of enlightenment your attitude should not be to become enlightened. It should be to learn. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Do not envy others. If someone gets a larger piece of cake, be happy for them. They'll get fat and you'll stay… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You are a part of everything. You are like the guys in the bar and that gal on the corner with the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sometimes there are people who only meditate with a teacher. They ride the teacher's energy. They don't really learn how to meditate.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the beginning we define what is spiritual. But as you go on, you see that everybody and everything is an instrument… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Don't judge others. Always be open to them. Avoid the cult mentality, you know, the super-slick, "I'm superior because I meditate, because… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Do not feel that you are destined not to make that final liberation in this life. This is egotism in a reverse… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As a monk you have a responsibility to meditate many hours a day. Not just to sit there but to think of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What is important in self-discovery is the person who keeps going, who has a smile, who is kind to others, who works… — 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
Any individual is capable of realizing the truth at any time. No tradition is necessary, no chain, no lineage. Once you have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The hallmark of a person who is following the pathway to enlightenment is that they bring excellence into everything, no matter how… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
That's what self-discovery seems to mean to most people. You're going to beat yourself up. You're going to reduce what you're supposed… — 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
Perhaps you're not the next Buddha. Perhaps you're not the Maitreya. Perhaps that's not your job in this incarnation. Perhaps you have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As Buddhist monks, our task is to bring ourselves resolutely more and more into light, to forgive and forget, to forget those… — 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
If you become obsessive in spiritual practice, if you just try and try, you are not going to be happy. You are… — 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
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
