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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Attraction and aversion create a sense of self. There is no self. They are just thoughts. They are insubstantial. When you die,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
My teenage freinds when I was growing up, they have no idea that I attained liberation but I help them. They don't… — 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. Approach your career from this standpoint and you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most people have no idea how unhappy they are because they don't know what happiness is. When they get a little break… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Some people go into tantra with the idea, sort of an intellectual approach, that now they can just do everything and stay… — 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
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
So when we wake from the ignorance of this world, the dream of existence, all of the experiences that we have ever… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You will have to put aside some things in your life, habits, ideas, ways of seeing life. You will have to learn… — 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
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
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
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
There is no evil, there's no bad; there's no good. These are human ideas. There's no creator, there's no creation; there's no… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
You need to turn your room into a place of power. It's a good idea to have flowers around, candles, incense, you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You should always feel, no matter how many times you've meditated before, that this is your first meditation. You have no idea… — 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
