The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Don't try and understand this with your mind. There will be no absolute knowing, no certainty in these thoughts and philosophies and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To go within doesn't mean to become enraptured with who you are, or to become enraptured with ideas of who you are. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We cut up time and space and mind and place and being and non-being. We create a world of ideas. This is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Wisdom isn't to know these words. Wisdom isn't to have ideas or philosophies - those are just thoughts. Wisdom is to be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no time. There is no space. There is no condition. There is only awareness, awareness of these ideas. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is about breaking out of your ideas and experiencing life and not ideas. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We aren't anything in particular. There is no self. There are only ideas and states of mind. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You are fighting against nothingness all the time by creating a series of shields that you call personality, life history, feelings, ideas,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In this world we see nothing but diversity. Everyone thinks separate ideas and wants to develop a separate identity. They fight wars… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Women must work doubly hard to overcome their conditioning in order to become enlightened. They must erase both conscious and unconscious ideas… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Purity is something that can be consciously developed. Expect to have impure moments, thoughts, and ideas. One day they will go away,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We were imprinted with a value system as young children. The sensory experiences of life can trigger and stimulate a variety of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Master Fwap, who told me that snowboarding, or any activity could be improved by the practice of meditation. Since I had had… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Kirshna says its better to be a winner than a loser. It runs counter to what a lot of people whould think,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We see in meditation that our experiences are endless, that we are endless, eternal spirit, not as a thought or an idea… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you seek enlightenment, then career is a very important idea on your agenda. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you want to follow the path of love, it's a good idea to meditate on the heart chakra everyday. The heart… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Forever is not an idea or a concept, it is reality. All of the things here come from forever. We call forever… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Fear is just an idea in the mind that limits you. You cannot become enlightened if you are afraid, nor can you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Stopping thought also involves shifting your values. Thought is stimulated by ideas that we have about life and the world. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Close the eyes, and focus on the third eye, the heart chakra, or the navel center. It is a good idea to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can enjoy the ideas of salvation, as long as you realize that there's no one to be saved. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There won't be emptiness. Emptiness is just another idea, another illusion. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To perfect your nature doesn't mean to have some idea of what a perfect person is and to simply be that. That… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. It's an illusion. It's a hallucination. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Self-discovery is realistic. It's not built on ideas and philosophies. It's what works. Philosophies are nice if you like philosophies. But self-discovery… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is not a good idea to continually repeat a mantra during meditation. Repeating a mantra throughout your mediation causes you to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Beyond all of this is something else, perfection; not just as an ideation, but as a living reality. Even though it may… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Advanced meditators are not even desirous of liberation anymore - that is just another attachment. There is no liberation. There is no… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You need to feel good about your life. Winning is a great idea, but you can get stuck in it too. It's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To be fixated on Sahaja Samadhi is to be fixated. To be fixated on the idea of being not fixated is fixation… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The problem is with any practice is that it is a practice. That is why people don't win. The reason why people… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's a good idea to be in the physical presence of the enlightened teacher because it's not physical. You can hear the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Granted you want to go beyond ideas and beyond thought, but that takes years of practice. If you must think, think good… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everything is stuck together. People are stuck together. They can't change. Ideas are stuck together - they're irrevocable. We think that the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The ghetto is not where you live. The ghetto is inside your mind. And anyone who tells you that you can't get… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mantras have an important place in meditation. But the idea has become somewhat prevalent in the West, and in the East 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
