Salvakalpa samadhi is like a sea of perfect light; nirvikalpa samadhi is no light, no darkness, no way to describe it. Absorption… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You need energy and life force to see and feel what you need to do. Otherwise you are in a dark room… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In their meditations, the high priests and priestesses of Atlantis had seen that the Atlantean civilization was going to end cataclysmically. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The aggregates that we pick up in the human plane will be washed away, and we will become pure spirit, pure light,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Each day when you meditate, you should devote the first few minutes of your meditation to concentration. This will develop the power… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm not suggesting that everyone should meditate, far from it. Meditation is for very few individuals. I'm speaking of something that is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
With the practice of meditation you can move into other states of mind, sort of ungluing the glue that binds you to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The best thing that you can do to deal with these high speed times is to slow down, inwardly, to take a… — 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
I teach meditation and the pathway to enlightenment because I know that there are other people who, like i did a long… — 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 mantra is a very preliminary exercise for the student to begin to grasp a sense of focus. When they are used… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Whatever you focus on during meditation, you psychically travel to and touch. In meditation, when you think of somebody, you actually go… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The directions for meditation that Sri Krishna gives are very exacting. He tells Arjuna exactly how to get past all the things… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen has lost its zip, if you will, or its nothingness and has become ritualistic Its established in monastaries with strict codes… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is the ability to do physical things in a harmonious way; it is a way to remain centered in a physical… — 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
Words like meditation, karma, samskaras, they're just words. You can get into the jargon, you can speak it, but that doesn't mean… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The chakra is a doorway. These are doorways that lead you into other dimensions. But you have to focus on them to… — 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
When we practice mindfulness, our nonphysical side merges with the nonphysical side of that which we are experiencing. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Those who are already adept at some disciplines of the body will find that the study of Zen and meditation will give… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The emphasis is on meditation in Tantric Zen. The experience of meditation in formal practice, zazen, where you're sitting down and meditating… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation will bring back the powers and awareness from the past; more importantly, it will expand your consciousness today. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You might as well be perfect. There is really not all that much else to do here that is exciting. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
My teacher sent me all over the world to talk about meditation - Europe, all over America, Canada. I would drive thousands… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
After two or three sessions of meditating on your heart chakra, it will no longer be necessary for you to physically touch… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tantra means the avoidance of a set or defined form of spirituality. Tantra is intuitive self-discovery. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation is a refocusing on symbols. It's not emptiness. We are using symbols, doorways to step from one world to another, from… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In meditation the mind stops, thought ceases. When thought stops, the world stops. When the world stops, perception stops. When perception stops,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As you meditate, you will discover, pleasantly, that you too can see beyond this life, that you can see your eternality. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As the kundalini energy increases, as the energy of the psyche becomes more pronounced, which it does as thought becomes eclipsed by… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The way advanced meditation is taught, the way I teach it, the way all enlightened people teach it, is through transference. We… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The sensual experiences in life are not to be avoided. This is the philosophy of Tantric Buddhism - nor are they particularly… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation, in the beginning, is just replacement thinking. Instead of having the usual negative things that wander around in your mind, you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Many people, including Buddhist monks, spend thousands of hours sitting in what they call meditation. In reality, what they're doing is thinking… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
How do you deal with meditating when you stop breathing? The trick is to meditate just a little higher and you won't… — 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
