People are unhappy because they don't understand life; by happy, I mean complete, aware, conscious, poignant, caring, loving, unaffected, cosmic, simplistic, humble,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What will happen in those encounters? Who knows? It wouldn't be much fun if you knew all of that; you'd be watching… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Karma is the sum total of who you are, everything you've been. The mind state you are in is karmic. Meaning, it's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mind only comes into apparent existence through the action of perception. Mind appears to exist because it perceives. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is competition in Zen. Let's not be ridiculous. There is competition in everything in life; being a winner in Zen means,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A Buddhist monk has a responsibility first and foremost to themselves, and that's to find the truth each day in every part… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The greatest miracle is the miracle of wakefulness, to awaken from the dream of life and to see infinity everywhere, even in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
On the pathway of knowledge we view life as in a dream. We feel that all of this world is a dream. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The human mind generates an auric field that covers up naturalness, innate divinity of life. That auric field is a field of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The universe is ecstasy. We have many other ways of perceiving infinity. And when you perceive life through these other modes, that's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you visit Nirvana, there is neither existence nor nonexistence. Your baggage never arrives because there is no one there to claim… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If your motives are high and noble and your work is hard and you do a good job, then whatever the task… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I respect self-giving and I've tried to lead my life with that as the ideal. But real self-giving is when we take… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Find a teacher of Tantric Zen and study with them because it is transference of awareness, a sharing of the perception of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Eternity is selfless giving. Eternity sends forth all of the worlds, the very fabric of existence. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A person without much power is easily influenced by others, whether they are physical or non-physical beings. Their life is easily ruined.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Human beings have become so afraid of the unknown, themselves, and each other that they deprive themselves of that innate ecstasy and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Lao Tsu says the way of life is ancient, timeless. It is existence which he calls the Tao - a mysterious source,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I don't put much stock in powers that people have to hurt others, in sorcery and all this nonsense. There are murders… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Illusion doesn't mean that something is not real. Illusion simply means that something is less real than something else. This life and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our life interferes, our mind, our thoughts. Meditating is not just a practice of asserting will and learning to control the mind,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Each of the small enlightenments that a Zen practitioner has, which are known in Zen as "Satori experiences," provides deeper insights into… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's an adversarial world outside of the safety of nirvana and enlightenment. In life, all beings need to feed on other beings… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your life may be draining away. Every day you may be getting older instead of younger, more frustrated instead of happier. Your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Life is a series of dreams, a series of interlocking awarenesses. I don't necessarily believe in linear time. Everything happens all at… — 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
