Intelligent martial arts is not getting in battles and winning them. Intelligent martial arts is avoiding battles because battles use up energy,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In poetry, and in my study in graduate school, I was drawn to a particular poet, Theodore Roethke. I did a dissertation… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If your nature is infinite awareness trapped in a body, suddenly there's a lack of happiness, a lack of freedom. No matter… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Ego synthesized is selfhood, the sense of self-importance, that you really matter ... nothing could be further from the truth. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To become completely aware is the journey of enlightenment. There is pain in it and suffering. But you already have those things… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All I have to teach you are feelings, the words don't matter much. But as you listen, feel the stillness of my… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Practice smiling for five minutes. Stop trying to meditate. Just smile. Let your smile get bigger and bigger. Oh, you're unhappy, you're… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If I had my choice I'd hang out anywhere. I mean, it doesn't matter. It's all God; it's all the same. There's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tantra is only recommended for someone who has a very developed will power, a terrific sense of humor, and a sense that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Diet is a matter of personal preference, but if you're interested in the advanced states of meditation, eating mammals should be avoided.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you attain liberation do not feel that it matters or it is important. You had nothing to do with it. If… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's only illusions that destroy us. It's illusions that convince us that we can't. It's the illusions of the transient that tell… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Take your energy - instead of losing it in all the little hassles and all the little battles you could have fought… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sex is a highly personal matter, yet it seems to get more impersonal all the time. How do I feel about sex?… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There comes a time in life when you just buckle down and have a good time with what you're doing. It doesn't… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
God is within your mind. God is within all things. As a matter of fact, there is nothing that is not God. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It really doesn't matter to me whether a person has a lot of money or a little bit of money. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It doesn't really matter what you do. It is your state of mind that matters. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what your work really is. It is exciting to do well at something. It empowers you. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Illumination in the outer world is to be happy no matter what is going on. In the inner world, it's more ineffable.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The absorption in nirvana is all that matters. All the strategies of your life are only there to empower you for your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone knows why they meditate. As a matter of fact I'm not even sure that we do meditate. All… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Be in harmony with the Tao, with the basic principles of creation. To not be in harmony with that flow, no matter… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Humility means coming to the root of the matter, honestly looking at yourself and saying: "This is me for better or for… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nirvikalpa samadhi is another matter. I don't feel that's really up to us. That happens at a certain time when our being… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The dreams of existence of that we call time, space, matter, subject, object, yin, yang - everything flows forth from this tai… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
How strange it is to be human. For a short moment we are conscious of the glories of life then we become… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What matters is that you meditate, you're seeking enlightenment, you're on the pathway to enlightenment, and you're having fun. Don't look for… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I know some teachers say that you shouldn't display the psychic powers and other powers referred to as the siddhas, but as… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sometimes in an incarnation you get a feeling of frustration. It is not working out the way you want. If you pull… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Life is forever. Death is only a temporary abridgment. It is just a state of transition where you will move from one… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We must be able to deal with ridicule and scorn, which it always seems that Buddhists receive. But we feel that it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nirvikalpa samadhi is another matter. In order to enter into nirvikalpa samadhi, you must have a great deal of humility. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In reality, as any physicist will tell you, the physical world is made up of moving energy. All matter is energy. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Matter is fun for a while; but ultimately, it is the spiritual experience where we leap beyond what we know- that is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The essence of all reincarnation is to have the best lifetime now that you've ever had, no matter what's going on. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Slow down. Enjoy life. It's tough to slow down if your mind is going a million miles a second. It's tough to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You should always feel, no matter how many times you've meditated before, that this is your first meditation. You have no idea… — 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
