There have been people who have categorized the bands of perception in different yogic systems. It gives them pleasure to create names… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Selfliss giving rounds the edges in spiritual practice. Many people can meditate very well but they're still very egotistical. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Since there were others, a long time ago, who were kind enough to give me a hard time and allow me to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The description you have been given of the world is an aberrant one. It does not accept and give proper place to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sit down and get out a piece of paper and start making lists. Ask yourself, are you in harmony with the things… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Every day work on your humility through your meditation, giving more of yourself, giving those things you don't want to give. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You could go outside today and have a glum face, or you could put a smile on your face and go out… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
An enlightened teacher teaches you how to gain power. They give you power. They teach you how to shape it so that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You might say living in a monastery cuts down the commutation time. That alone gives you a couple extra hours a day… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Death doesn't change anything. It just gives you a new location. The physical mind dissolves. But the overriding state of mind that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All those moments spent in concetration will give you a terrific strength and with that strength you will cut aside all illusions. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I select people to work more closely when they are prepared to and I see that. They don't have to tell me.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your spiritual journey and your spiritual welfare are really dependent on two primary factors: One, your ability to meditate and two, your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's a long journey and along the journey you'll get tired. But if, when you're very, very tired and you're about to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I respect self-giving and I've tried to lead my life with that as the ideal. But real self-giving is when we take… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can take power from others; you can steal it. It is not a very high-grade power. It will give you a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Be kind, be loving, be generous. Give of yourself, give of your time and you'll be free. It's the oldest secret, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I was a traditional teacher for a time, but my students would ride the energy. I wanted to free people not give… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Feel that your body is like a bundle of flowers. When someone gives you flowers you enjoy their beauty, their purity. But… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Eventually you're supposed to get so confounded by this whole thing that you just give up completely, and that's when it starts… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If, when you give to someone you think you're better than they are because your practing selfless giving, you're not loving. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The parent gives the child a new car, money. They know the child wants these things and has to do what they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The soldier is willing to give their life, perhaps for someone they never even met in their country. That's a very high… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think that pain gives us appreciation of joy - it's a package deal. And I definitely think that the joys of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We label things through value systems that we have developed. But nothing is or is not unless we feel it is that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Selfless giving is a choice. The primary choice we make is not what to give, how to give, where to give. What… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Gaining energy is accomplished by meditating, by right actions, right thoughts, right deeds, by studying with a real teacher or by just… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Selfless-giving burns away the layers of the onion. Purity and humility keep meditation and selfless-giving clear. Love radiates through the entire practice… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We're not aware of the joy of our own immortality. When we give to someone else it opens a doorway and gives… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you burn yourself out in two years of intense selfless giving, what good is that if you could have given 20… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The one thing you can give God that will truly impress God is freindship. God is an eternal companion who is with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation will give you the power to overcome fear. As you sit and meditate each day, it makes you stronger. The energy… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Love is the only rule in self-discovery. If you've forgotten that rule, you've forgotten everything. It's not what you can get; it's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
How do you end a meditation session? It's nice to chant a mantra again. Maybe repeat it a few times. It seals… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You are moving in and out of different advanced states of mind through your practice of meditation and mindfulness. It's that level… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Practicing zazen and mindfulness constantly and correctly, over a period of time, can bring strength and clarity to your finite mind and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Beyond the ten thousand states of mind is the still point. It exists within them all, yet beyond them. It is not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To be in thousands of states of mind simultaneously as you perform simple physical tasks gives you a reverence for life. Each… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Yoga means we take responsibility for the tasks in our life. Whatever we are supposed to have karmically, life gives us. The… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Selfless giving changes our concept of our identity. When we give to others our unselfishness removes the spot of "self" that stained… — 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
