Beyond the parameters of the self is an ocean ... and it's most excellent. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Krishna once said to Arjuna: Consider the past and future with an equal mind, and pass the peanut M&M's. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The perceiver of the dream, the one whom the dream is unfolding before, is what we call the Self. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If even one woman in the West were to become enlightened, it would change karmas on this planet. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sri Krishna refers, of course, to this world as a joyless, transient world. Obviously, he's never been to Disneyland. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The body comes and goes. This life, my friend, will come and go. It is a fleeting moment, an impulse in an… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you are not happier every day, if you don't see a progression of development, then you are certainly not practicing yoga… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The road for Arjuna is unexpected. Sri Krishna says you have to face that which you fear the most that which you're… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Trying to use the power of yoga to improve your life, this is a terrible mistake. Because all you are doing is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One day the play ends and the screen goes blank. There is nothing. Everything returns to its original formlessness - and then… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We live in a world of careers. Work, as Sri Krishna points out in the Bhagavad Gita, is a necessary path for… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Self-realization doesn't imply loss, gain, even transition; it's only a settling. The separate sounds on the beach, the birds, the waves, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When the sun sets, beautiful though it may be, billions of stars appear. The ego is but one sun. When that sun… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everything that you see before you with your physical eyes is an illusion. In other words, you are not seeing correctly. Life… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You'll notice all around the Hindu temples couples, statues and drawings, in various erotic forms of love-making. This used to give the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Krishna says, fight. He says, go out on the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill; and whether… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We're at the end of the cycle. You've all known it since childhood. In the Hindu division of the ages, this is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The dreams of the self are manifold and endless and they exist in all the myriad worlds and conditions that appear to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Now, stopping thought is only the beginning. As Brahmananda, who was a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, once remarked: The inner life begins… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To encounter such a being is considered the ultimate karmic blessing in the sense that your life will be so configured that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What Sri Krishna is saying, is that it's a terrible mistake to believe that this life we lead is real. Obviously it's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The self plays among the waves of existence. It surfaces, it comes up for a while, and then it disappears again. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A war is an incarnation. A battle is a day of your life. So we do one day at a time in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Self-realization is a very quiet thing. It's not flashy. No one might see you light up a room. No one might observe… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We are immortal life. Think of the opportunity of self-realization. What a gas! — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Those who seek liberation want to go beyond individualized perception. The essence of their being wants to dissolve back into the cosmos. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the Bhagavad-Gita Krishna says: Arjuna you cannot avoid action. Everyone is stuck in the world of action. The world of action… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Good karma leads to rebirth also. The desire for higher states of mind is a desire. When you are fixated on higher… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You have to elevate yourself to that point and bring your mind into the Godhead, into nirvana, into that perfect and pure… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Self-realization is a strange term. You don't actually realize your 'self'. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The planes of light exist. Yoga is a method of unifying the energies of the body, the mind, and the spirit and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tantra is the perception of the oneness and the perfection of all things. Not just the perception of light, but the perception… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Yoga means we accept responsibility for the tasks in our life, and we know that being a king, being an enlightened teacher,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The state of mind that you are in causes you to act in a certain way. Your actions will bear results. The… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the Upanishads they talk about the path of the sun and the path of the moon. The path of the moon… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There's a source, there's a perennial source from which all things come forth. We call it the Godhead, Nirvana, the Tao, enlightenment.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sri Krishna is said to be an avatar, which is a human way of trying to define very big. That is to… — 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
