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
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
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
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
If you attain liberation do not feel that it matters or it is important. You had nothing to do with it. If… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Spiritual dignity says that I don't have to compete with anyone; I don't have to do what my friends do. All I… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's considered very, very bad karma, if I can cut to the chase, to take power from a teacher and not use… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People enter states of consciousness where they think they've become enlightened. The best thing to do, if you've gone through one of… — 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
It has been my experience as a teacher over the years and incarnations that what really counts are not techniques. What really… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Without that poise and balance and gentle humor and caring sense, nothing happens at all. It's just egotism and vanity and jealousy… — 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
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
We must control the tendencies within our being that are destructive, when we want to slam somebody else, hurt them, injure them,… — 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
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
Put the mind in alignment with the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment and experience them in various gradations forever. That's the total… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One should never become devoted to a teacher, any more than one should become devoted to a statue of a god. There… — 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
