From the highest state of mind you have a window whereby you could perhaps move beyond all states of mind, to enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen was a reaction. Just as Buddha came into the world and spoke against the fall of Vedanta, so Buddhism lost its… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We see signs of it perhaps for 28 das or 34 days, then it goes away. Yet we are different. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is the path that focuses the most upon meditation. It is almost exclusively a path of meditation. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
They would spend a lot of their time simply walking around in the woods or in the cities, or they would come… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Just like there are different roads that lead to different places, so there are different levels of awareness that lead to different… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is discipline - the discipline of living life, the discipline of taking a breath, the discipline of not knowing and not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Beyond the ten thousand states of mind is the still point. It exists within them all, yet beyond them. It is not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The ten thousand states of mind are hallucinatory. Hallucinations are real. Dreams are real. But there are some things more real. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is the study of mind in all of its manifestations. The purpose of Zen is to be happy. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Zen you are learning how to make new realities, to build things inside your mind. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Through the study of Zen you can learn to move from lower to higher states of mind at will. Higher states of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no letter of the law to follow in Zen. There is a lot of etiquette, but there are no rules. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can only conceive of what lies beyond the state of mind you are in from the point of view of the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is meditation, the actual experience of life directly, immediately with no buffers. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
According to Zen philosophy each human being has two minds, a finite mind and an infinite mind. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Both Zen and mysticsm have this beautiful quality of happiness and laughter, which I think is so necessary in our modern age. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is the way of splitting the self again and again, untilt there is nothing left. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you are around a lot of human beings who are filled with jealousy and anger and rage and desire, it filters… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A person who undertakes the study of Zen and learns concentration and meditation is like a gymnast. You become a gymnast of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are ten thousand aspects of your mind. Your awareness has ten thousand forms. There is something else. You have to step… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Both light and dark are eternity. Human beings assign relative values to colors, but beyond the relative, there just is - what… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Zen there is a sense of blending, of stepping out of your body and mind and gaining access to powers and… — 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
