We call it the transmission of the lamp in Zen. That's when we take enlightened states of mind and literally, you can… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If the Zen master sees that it will cause a person to progress, he will ask that person to do a task.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When I go visit my brother monks in Japan and sit down with other Zen Masters, they look at my crazy clothes… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the old days, Zen was not really practiced so much in a monastery. The Zen Master usually lived up on a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You have to begin to develop a repertory of jokes, multi-plane spiritual jokes, the sort of things the Zen masters tell each… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The later stages of the enlightenment process are trickier, and it is really essential to have a teacher then. You need correction,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People seem to get caught up in jargon like they get caught up in ashrams and power structures and they never become… — 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
If you are a student of an enlightened master, you can literally tap into his aura, anywhere and at anytime. All you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
No one on this earth attains enlightenment anymore without an enlightened master as a guide, unless that person was enlightened in many… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A master of an art is someone who's been mastered by the art. They've become so one with what they teach that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you're very, very conservative and you like that sort of practice, go find a very conservative Zen master and just do… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Zen master can see precisely what it will take to cause your awareness to become free. But the Zen master can't… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the advanced practice, the relationship between the Zen master and the student becomes very terse. The Zen master will expect things… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A person who wants to progress more rapidly and wishes to overcome unhappiness sooner, should try to find an enlightened master. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You're not listening to the Zen master, what he is saying outwardly, but even more importantly...what he is saying inwardly. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness only comes when you let go of who you think you are. If you think you're wealthy and powerful and noble… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Old Zen, the Zen Master would do literally anything to break down the concept of what the study was. He would… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Zen Master was constantly attempting to break up concepts that people had about what it was like to be a spiritual… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The teaching of the ten thousand states of mind, particularly as one advances further, is done through transmission. This is where we… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Zen master walks in his garden, alone. There is no traffic there. There is no shopping there. There are only the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Being a siddha master is indeed a great accomplishment, but it is not the same as being enlightened. People confuse siddha masters,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm a Zen Master. I'm an occult teacher. I teach people how to become that, how to be perfect. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Deluded beings think that if they get in a battle with a Zen Master or with a Don Juan, that it's going… — 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
