If we are in the same state of mind, we just self-reflect, things are dull and gray and kind of boring. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People who have power, who think negatively of others and seek to injure them, are practicing a kind of voodoo, a lower… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The more lives you have, the harder it is to change, yet the stronger you are. It's a kind of funny dichotomy. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are phony teachers who profess all kinds of things, and I think you will figure out real fast who they are.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Trust life, trust that it will always guide you to the right thing, and be kind, be compassionate. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some people meditate because they want to get the larger picture on life. It could get kind of discouraging if this was… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
This kind of love doesn't work very well, it destorys the nature of love. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As we grow up, we are exposed to hate and greed and anger and jealousy and peanut brittle and all kinds of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
With Zen we do it more through slight of hand, a very subtle and delicate shift in consciousness, which shifts the world.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is my experience that people who don't participate in society, who don't have jobs, who don't have friends, are just very… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To go to the very center of the mind of God, to be that, to become aware of our infiniteness, is the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sometimes beings come forth from that realmless realm. Light incarnates and wanders around through the samsara, kind of looking at itself in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I had a father who was strong and kind and loving beyond ... at the same time who was extremely puritanical, who… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Karma is engendered by states of mind. If you are in a happy state of mind, that will engender one kind of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There's many kinds of kundalini, just as there's a spectrum of light. Put light through a prism and you get different gradations.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You'll notice all around the Hindu temples couples, statues and drawings, in various erotic forms of love-making. This used to give the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You must be kind to others. You must foster a caretaker personality of gentleness and perseverance, even in the midst of adversity. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We are taught not to perceive but to avoid direct perceptions of reality and to substitute instead this kind of one-dimensional view… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is another kind of wisdom, the wisdom of following - the wisdom of not taking the lead with your ego. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You and I might define a 'soul mate' differently. For most people, a soul mate has some kind of sexual connotation. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Career success means making enough money to lead the kind of life you would like to lead as a practicing Buddhist. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Real meditation engenders humility and purity, always. Yet I don't really think it demands any kind of lifestyle. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Be kind; you're only here for a while. No sense of superiority, just do things for others. It's really fun. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your dharma is what kind of work you should be doing, what kind of people you should associate with, whether you should… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Karmic progression implies that we are kind of alliterating steps to life. There's alliteration, a kind of rhythmic structure. Once we're in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some people get tired of continual perception of the finite universe. They feel the perception of the universe over and over in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the process of self-discovery you will learn to be kind when you could be harsh. You will learn to forgive, mostly… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To stop thought it's necessary to put your life into a state of balance. Otherwise you can sit and meditate for hours… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The person who's in the Zen monastery, who's doing a kind of poor job at meditating and a half-ass job cleaning the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Go out into the world, do your best all day, try to think higher thoughts, try to be kind and compassionate, but… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you look deeply inside them you'll only see eternity; whereas with most human beings, when you look inside, you'll see all… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you're interested in matching your mind with the most intelligent kind of beast I have ever encountered, get yourself a Scotty… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All things are spiritual. It doesn't matter what you do or who you are or what kind of blue jeans you wear,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Do a strong work meditation all day. You won't be as exhausted as everyone else because you have been gaining a kind… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am at the Continental Divide with the astral beings. They're most beautiful. They're most luminous. They have many shapes and sometimes… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You're always looking for the ultimate. It's kind of like journeying to Ixtlan. You're never going to get there, but that is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The kundalini rises and the kundalini is hot, it's a hot energy. Sometimes you feel it cascading up your spine, and it's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All success in sports and athletics, from the Zen point of view, comes from the mind. No matter what kind of shape… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Be kind, be loving, be generous. Give of yourself, give of your time and you'll be free. It's the oldest secret, the… — 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
