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
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
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
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
Gods and goddesses are not what people think they are. Their names are terms with which we try to convey a certain… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are different pathways - be it Zen, tantra, karma yoga, or jnana yoga. Different ways have been devised to do the… — 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
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
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
Illumination in the outer world is to be happy no matter what is going on. In the inner world, it's more ineffable.… — 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
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
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
Yoga is a science. It is the science of consciousness. Yoga suggests that there is more, other realms, other dimensions, and nirvana… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When all of the selves have been dissolved, you will enter into the super-conscious awareness. Then, you are free. Then, there is… — 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
Psychic development is a necessary skill in leading a successful and happy life. Your intellectual processes and your senses don't give you… — 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
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
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
Consumer goods become enlightenment, relationships, anything! It doesn't really matter because infinity exists in everything. "Greater than the greatest, smaller than the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A very advanced master can glow so strongly that you see divine in them. You look into them and you see infinity… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Yes, there are siddha powers. Yes, you can heal people, transform attention. You can flood the sky with light at night so… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the Far East, a peasant has no problem that someone can be born from another universe into a human body, walk… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The directions for meditation that Sri Krishna gives are very exacting. He tells Arjuna exactly how to get past all the things… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One path leads back to this world, to rebirth; one path leads beyond. Your soul stands at a crossword, trying to make… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Yoga means we go a step further back. In yoga we go to the cause. The cause of pain is not the… — 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
Observe your actions but be so busy that you never contemplate their possible effects. It is only this consciousness that leads to… — 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
Isis, the Egyptian goddess of renewal is symbolized for the Hindus by Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. Brahma is the creator, Vishnu the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Don't become a slave to success or failure, family, friends, possessions. If these things come to you in life, enjoy them, but… — 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
Mind delineates experience, and through the filter of mind, experience becomes something else; it becomes knowledge in tantra. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the Far East, studying yoga is comparable to a mixture of attending one of the best Western universities, and of being… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you are with a fully enlightened being, a jivan mukta, liberated soul, the quality of light is so clear, that you… — 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
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
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
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
Everyone will admire you when you do well. What a horrible thing to do to someone. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
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
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
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
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
Enlightened people live in very charged states of attention, with a tremendous power circuiting through them. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
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
Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
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
You and I are both life. There's just the experience of every moment. We like to call them moments. There isn't really such a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Why waste your time being around people who drag you down? You don't live forever, at least in this life. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Everybody here is so caught up in the game of life they don't see death. They don't see beyond their deaths. They are on… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
