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 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
Some people have a very strange idea that material success does not coincide harmoniously with self-realization, which is absurd. The aversion to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You have no idea of how many people have control of your life. Make lists of people you trust and love and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What is perfection anyway in the physical? It is an idea we have. When it doesn't happen we get all bent out… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
After meditation, it is a good idea to bow and offer your meditation to god, to that stillness and perfection that is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When we are very young children we know how to feel. It's innate. But as we lead a lifetime, we pick up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When I talk about subtle bodies, causal bodies and things like that, it is a good idea not to take it all… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To meditate what you need to do is free yourself from your ideas and your thoughts. All of the higher dimensional planes,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We live inside too much. We live inside and we have square thoughts and square ideas because we live in square houses.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Opportunities, creative ideas or the lack of them, happiness, frustration, brilliance, talent, success and failure - all are determined by the state… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In America people have this funny idea about enlightenment and money. Money expresses a level of commitment. Studying enlightenment is like going… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
God is Godless. God is an idea that we have, another construct, a prop, which doesn't suggest that God doesn't exist. God… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Feel eternity around you. Not as an idea, not as a nice intellectualization, but to really feel it; not to be some… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's easy to tell the evolutionary level of a group of beings, or an individual being, simply by examining their behavior, their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is a good idea to become involved with sports and athletics. It makes you strong. You need to be strong to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Naturally, to follow dharma, we have to find out what it is. You have to struggle with it. The answer will not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Love yourself even when you don't measure up to your own expectations. You have a certain idea of what you should do… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some people harbor the idea or belief that all teachers should teach for free. Obviously these people have never been teachers, particularly… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People use ideas of non-duality as an escape from reality. It is very easy to say there is no winning and losing… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Buddhists believe that everything in life is random. There are patterns that are intrinsic to life. We don't know why, we… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The ideas that we have about self are an aggregate within a state of mind, and they chain us to a state… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You're much too hung up on all of your ideas and your desires. You still have not penetrated the essence of yoga. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Do not feel that you are destined to enlightenment in this life. You have no idea. This is an illusion of selfhood.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Men, through the ideas they have, project a field of attention that limits women. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When most people see a tree, they don't see a tree at all. They see an idea that they have developed of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Self is infinite. The Self is eternal. You are that Self. Beyond words, thoughts, ideas, forms and belief systems. There is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In order to go beyond ideas to direct realization, it's essential to have a great deal of purity. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment has nothing to do with being spiritual. Being spiritual is just an idea - it's another ring of perception. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Self-discovery is a very advanced art. What we're doing basically is screwing around with what you're made up of. We're taking awarenesses,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The idea of the walls of monastery was to keep everybody else out because you wanted to develop a certain type of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We have ideas of God and nirvana or truth or enlightenment. These ideas will go away in nirvana because the suffusion is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's up to you to avail yourself to knowledge. Knowledge doesn't need you. The idea of a compassionate God was formulated, obviously,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The idea of self is dependent upon attraction, aversion and memory. Memory is simply a serial account of attractions and aversions that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Humankind has no idea what existence is, at this stage. They're all dreaming, they're all asleep... Once in a great while a… — 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
