It takes tremendous self-restraint on the part of the student not to want to monopolize the teacher's attention, to live a very… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Can you control your anger, lust, frustrations, and jealousies? Those are the only people worthy of the higher teachings. By worthy, I… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some people like a harsh teacher. They feel the demands make them learn more quickly. Some like a gentle teacher because they… — 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
There is no such thing as spiritual achievement; it is simply an awareness intrinsic to all of life. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You need to search your awareness and consider the limitless possibilities of existence in all things and not be so narrow-minded in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Spiritual Balance is the obvious answer to the obsession that sometimes accompanies religious practice, occult practice, philosophical understandings - the assertion that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Once in a while, you will see someone really drippy. The person has to stare at the teacher all the time with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You've gained some powers by your entrance into other dimensions and you use them to attack others or to make others miserable,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism is a practice in which we learn to avoid injuring others, and ourselves. It's a practice in which we learn to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People want to will their self realization. They want to know what the right thing to do all the time is. There… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When we lack etiquette, we trash things. We trash each other. We trash the environment. We lose sight of the value of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What matters is that you meditate, you're seeking enlightenment, you're on the pathway to enlightenment, and you're having fun. Don't look for… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You need to have the humility to accept your limitations as long as they're there, and have the humility to accept their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Faithfulness, faith, all of the words that so few people live, you must live. Only then are you worthy of immortality. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Do not feel that you are destined to enlightenment in this life. You have no idea. This is an illusion of selfhood.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Just because it doesn't work out for you, doesn't mean that it's not wonderful for someone else. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Those who practice deserve your respect. If you respect them, you respect yourself. It's easy to be critical, but it does no… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Buddhism we have a great deal of etiquette. Etiquette is simply ways of living to conserve energy. Etiquette allows people to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you have humility, you are willing to undertake anything to spread the dharma. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The more moral you pretend to be, the less moral you are; the less moral you try to be, the more moral… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Are you still carrying everyone who's insulted you, injured you or interfered with you? That's a lot of weight. I'd let it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Love makes you wise. Love unites. Pain divides. Hate divides even more. Hate separates and brings us down to a very physical… — 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
