If you want to be liberated, if you choose to be what I am, then you've chosen freedom. You can do this. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Old Zen, the Zen Master would do literally anything to break down the concept of what the study was. He would… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Salvakalpa samadhi is a tremendous acceptance and liberation, but it is not complete absorption in nirvana, in that consciousness. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Humility means freedom. It provides growth and takes you out of the cycle of change that you are currently in, which is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your existence is passing before you. Grains of sand in the hourglass. The Wicked Witch of the West has you in her… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Love is self-realization. Love is liberation. The only way beyond time, to unravel the knot of existence, is to love. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The sign of an advanced spiritual person is that they don't think they're an advanced spiritual person until after liberation. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Something in you wants to go beyond, wants to be free from this endless round of perception. Enlightenment is that. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is much more likely that you will attain liberation if you want liberation for others, than just for yourself. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If what you seek is freedom, the only person who can teach you anything, the only person who can help you is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In self-giving you must be so careful of egotism. You must be so careful when you are aiding others in their liberation… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As we love truly and deeply, we see the white light of truth in them. Seeing this reminds us that the same… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Then you will pick yourself up, no matter how tired you are, and go forward again and again and again, until you've… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Philosophers are all caught up in their philosophies. That's their house of cards. Religious leaders are caught up in their religious movements… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People who are advanced meditators don't worry about liberation and self-realization; they instead are interested in the welfare of others and aiding… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I had a mother who was very developed psychically and spiritually. She was, in a way, an opposite of my father, a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One day liberation will come, and it won't be a day; it won't be a year; it won't be a time, a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are no rules. Nothing you can do will take you to liberation; therefore, nothing you avoid will help you along the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The awareness of liberation is not liberation. The awareness of time is not liberation. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness is not freedom. You may become happy tomorrow; but I assure you, your happiness will be smashed by the pains of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation is the freeing of ourselves from all mental states and concepts of self. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is through many lifetimes of shifting the aggregate of the self that one finally reaches a point of maximum velocity whereby… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We need a new imprinting. We need the imprinting of enlightenment, of freedom. That comes through our association with a higher being.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Since everything is God and everything contains God, you see God in everything, everything is a step towards liberation. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is not a religion. There is no room for a cult. There is no dependence on a teacher. There is only… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The awareness of place, space, or condition is not liberation. You can't say what it is, but you can sure say what… — 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
