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
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
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
If even one woman in the West were to become enlightened, it would change karmas on this planet. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The final battles are the samskaras of good karma. They prevent Samadhi. Naturally for a religious person the avoidance is intensive. They… — 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
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
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
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
There are people in the Himalayas who are thousands of years old. But that's just a power, you see. It would seem… — 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
In sanskrit they say: "Tat twam asi" - thou art that. You are God. The bubble of your awareness bursts and you're… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sri Krishna says whatever role we have in life, we have to play it to the hilt. We have to take it… — 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
The smoke from the fire passes through the building and the soot affixes itself to the walls. The smoke passes through the… — 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
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
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
Mind delineates experience, and through the filter of mind, experience becomes something else; it becomes knowledge in tantra. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Ramakrishna didn't suddenly become enlightened. We had years of him meditating, seeking, crying to Mother Kali, going in and out of samadhi;… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Yoga is a removal of the conscious awareness from the world as you know it - the world that you've constructed -… — 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
The void is ready to snatch you up like a Pac Man machine and Laskshmi is on vacation. You chant Sring -… — 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
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
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
