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Individual Quotes by Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz says a psychic smile can hide inner emptiness, and that seeing this helps us decide who stays in our lives. He also claims anyone can realize truth at any moment without tradition, that teachers point out mistakes, and that true success is simply practicing dharma while riding the ever‑moving wave of samsara.

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In the course of an individual being's evolution we will practice each of these yogas. One path is not superior to another.

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The vast majority of the students I have taught have become self-sufficient and confident individuals who enjoy their lives.

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An individual has to be tenacious enough to become enlightened.

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The Samsara is the movement of life. And you, an individual self, a form, a moment on a wave, are bound.

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It is the teacher's job to point out mistakes so that an individual doesn't continue to hurt themselves or others.

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Success is not success in an individual endeavor. Success is simply to practice the dharma impeccably.

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Diet is highly individual. You have to see what your body wants and what is healthy for it.

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We have to leave everything we have been, a perceiver, "I" as an individual. That is enlightenment.

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An enlightened teacher is able to put a tremendous amount of power through a person who seeks knowledge and escalates the evolution…

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There are two primary ways of studying Zen. Either an individual will enter into a Zen monastery and study with a Zen…

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The psychic plane is clouded over by emotions and thoughts and the general dullness and malaise that develops in our contemporary world…

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If you run into a Buddha, then that energy field, the "rad" level is so high, it's incalculable. Their effect on an…

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Any individual is capable of realizing the truth at any time. No tradition is necessary, no chain, no lineage. Once you have…

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No one can bring you into higher states of attention permanently. I can take an individual and i can change their awareness.…

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We hear wonderful stories about some masters who can walk on water and do all kinds of great things. But the real…

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As spirits we have always existed in a generalized form, since we are all part of the universe. As individual spirits, we…

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It's easy to tell the evolutionary level of a group of beings, or an individual being, simply by examining their behavior, their…

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There are people who will think of you in negative ways. You will feel it sometimes. It can actually be physically painful…

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You may not need a teacher or you may be drawn to one - everything is individual. But the main thing you…

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If you have done your homework, then the slightest motion from the teacher can cause you to spin into hundreds of different…

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Occasionally in my travels I meet people who have pushed too far into the nagual. These individuals are not too balanced but…

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There is a dharma for yourself, for someone else, for a family, for a nation, for a universe. There are collective and…

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Rama is a fairly common name in India. It symbolizes an individual who is interested both in enlightenment and martial arts. I…

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Avoid the things in your life that take away from your stillness. Find things that add to that stillness. Bring them more…

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Tantra is spiritual, not religious. It deals with the spirit. Religion is just an applied body of doctrines that's believed or not…

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The average individual spends many, many lifetimes meditating and seeking and chewing bubblegum and doing things like that to attain the experience…

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The realms of light exist everywhere forever. But it is up to an individual to raise their mind to a level of…

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Most individuals on earth are not drawn to the higher light at this time. That doesn't make you superior to anyone else.…

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Some souls attain enlightenment. No one knows why. You could say it is individual inclination. I'm not convinced that's the case.

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The majority of the ten thousand states of mind cannot be discussed. It is rather a question of teaching a person to…

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You can take power from others; you can steal it. It is not a very high-grade power. It will give you a…

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An esoteric or enlightened teacher of Buddhism is someone who has the ability to transfer power to another individual. A real empowerment…

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People who are capable of practicing tantra are individuals who have meditated for many, many years and developed very strong and powerful…

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The way of Zen is to become independent and strong. Don't rely on others for perceptions of life and truth. Do it…

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If you are psychic you may see that the smiling faces aren't smiling at all, inside. You can eliminate those individuals from…

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C. S. Lewis, Plato, Aristotle and many more names that I could add, including Einstein's, were individuals who were able to see…

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Everything that I teach as an enlightened Buddhist teacher is towards directing an individual to happiness, a balanced wisdom and knowledge that…

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The effort to lift one's self into perfect enlightenment is a profound thing. It has nothing to do with individual will. It's…

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Very few individuals have the tenacity and the love to propel them beyond everything they know and can trust to face the…

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In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all…

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Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it…

Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance.

The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations.

Karma means changing planes of reality or changing fields of attention. There will be perhaps a resulting physical action stemming from the change of…

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…

Why waste your time being around people who drag you down? You don't live forever, at least in this life.

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…