Let us say your wife, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend makes you happy. If they leave, you're bound to be unhappy. You are the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The attainment of enlightenment makes you happy forever. It frees you from the mental and emotional pains that human beings experience every… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What makes us happy is to have a spiritual experience ... that experience of ecstasy in the deepest meditation; that's happiness. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Just to exist, just to be, to take a breath, to feel that, whether its pleasure or pain, loss or gain, just… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everything that I teach as an enlightened Buddhist teacher is towards directing an individual to happiness, a balanced wisdom and knowledge that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Occupy yourself with what's in your life now. Address those situations and subjects as fully as possible with your best efforts. That… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Beyond happiness and unhappiness is truth. Truth is not affected by anything in the relative world. Truth is the unifying aspect of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is not simply a transient happiness that you experience in meditation that creates balance; it is a transformative light. Inner light… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Even sickness becomes an experience that we pass through in happiness because our happiness is not dependent upon how our body feels,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the chakras, it's the heart chakra, anahata, the central chakra, three above and three below, which symbolizes happiness and love, psychic… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Consistency is nice, I think, personally. I like to be consistently happy. I like to be consistently more aware and more conscious… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To become balanced, meditate on the heart center in the center of the chest. There you will experience happiness, refinement, sensitivity, beauty,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The fulfillment of desire does not necessarily make you happy because there is a satiation factor. You can get some apple pie… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness has to do with how quickly you vibrate, how intelligent you are, how subtle your awareness field is, how deep you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Does power bring happiness? Does it bring refinement? Does it bring humor? Does it bring a good-heartedness, or is it just cold?… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness is something that comes from creating good karma. The monk who feels that what they are doing is unpleasant is not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
They've destroyed their environment, by and large. They've eliminated most other species on the planet, which is just an indication of their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you were just you, you would be happy. But of course, you don't know who or what you are. So how… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are really only three important things to remember in life: To care, to share, and to be fair. This is not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is hard to see in life. If the fog rolls in we can't see anything. Most people get caught up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People are unhappy because they don't understand life; by happy, I mean complete, aware, conscious, poignant, caring, loving, unaffected, cosmic, simplistic, humble,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
With the happiness, ecstasy and power you gain from meditation, you can gradually remove your mind from the things it has become… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A long time ago individuals looked at life and saw that most people aren't happy. They saw this was obviously an inefficient… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Old Zen was very funny; there was a great deal of humor and happiness. Zen today seems much drier. While there's a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Forget that you are anybody and just perform the activities around you. Look at them. Watch what you are doing, my God!… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no reason not to love. There is no reason not to be joyous. There is no reason not to celebrate… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Jealousy, anger, fear - these are ridiculous emotions that drain your power. You need to control them by being content, trusting that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are no problems, there is only confusion. When confusion passes away, there is only happiness. Happiness is not complicated at all. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If your nature is infinite awareness trapped in a body, suddenly there's a lack of happiness, a lack of freedom. No matter… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The pathway to enlightenment is happiness. It doesn't really matter if you're successful, if you're in prison, if you're dying - if… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You don't have to do anything to be happy, nor do you have to avoid anything. Happiness comes from within your mind.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am an expert in the world of the supremely happy because I am happy. I've never met anybody as happy as… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Matter is fun for a while; but ultimately, it is the spiritual experience where we leap beyond what we know- that is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everything you do in meditation is amplified. If you meditate for five minutes with your complete mind focused on happiness, that is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Practice smiling for five minutes. Stop trying to meditate. Just smile. Let your smile get bigger and bigger. Oh, you're unhappy, you're… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The worst thing you can do is to sit and brood and feel sorry for yourself. Nor should you feel wrong about… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness is something that you can definitely achieve. At first, it will just come for a moment or two. Then it will… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Following dharma puts you in a proper field of attention. In a proper field of attention, regardless of what your outer circumstances… — 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
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