You don't have to do anything to meditate. That's what makes it so difficult. Everybody wants to do something. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our thoughts will swim around and talk to us while we're sitting there, make fun of us, ignore us. But if you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Only when there are no impressions of others clouding our mind, can we sit and practice the glorious practice of meditation. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The place that you gain the most power is within your own mind. Stopping thought generates power. That is why people meditate.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People who meditate seek good moments forever. They know that there are other worlds beyond this world. They feel it. I experience… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is not a good idea to continually repeat a mantra during meditation. Repeating a mantra throughout your mediation causes you to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation is a bright, hopeful practice in which we learn to make our mind quiet so that the infinite, perfect light of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you go into samadhi, either salvikalpa or nirvikalpa, what happens is you erase, you loosen, the aggregates. You simplify them. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Move the kundalini from the solar plexus region into the heart center, which purifies it and connects the two halves of you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everything is dependent on your ability to stop thoughts. The longer you can stop your thoughts in meditation, the faster you will… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The study of Zen is the study of energy, power, knowledge and balance. It is the science of energy conservation and control.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You will notice the phenomena of meditation. You may see dazzling lights, feel energy coursing through different parts of your body, feel… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For the first few years, it's most beneficial to meditate on the heart chakra. The heart chakra, called the anahata chakra in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Initially the student, in some traditions, is given a mantra, a particular word of power to focus on. While thoughts are cascading… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A well known Los Angeles newspaper referred to a small group of gentlemen who live up on a mountain and practice Zen… — 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
By the time the Egyptian civilization had begun to flourish, the earth's aura had already become so dense it was impossible to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tantric Zen, and the people who practice it, of course, make some people feel extremely uncomfortable. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness is found principally in meditation. Let your mind flow out into eternity. You have to exert some effort. Then you will… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What I term Zen, old Zen, the original face of Zen, new Zen, pure Zen, or Tantric Zen is - Zen in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you go into the planes of light, all of the incorrect ways of seeing and understanding life that you pick up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Why is it when you start to meditate you stop at a certain point? Because you're tied to the world, you have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The key to all enlightenment is to have personal experiences in the world of light. All you need to do that is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Learn the motions of infinity within your mind. Your mind becomes a perfect mirror to the motions of infinity. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give… — 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
Visualize the soft white light continuing to expand as it gently swirls around, until it has filled the earth, the sky, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are essentially three stages in learning how to meditate. In the beginning you are simply trying to ignore thought. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To meditate with humility, consider existence. It is infinite. You are finite. You are a finite portion of infinite existence. Let this… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no letter of the law to follow in Zen. There is a lot of etiquette, but there are no rules. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Don't judge your meditations. Don't rate them. The physical mind cannot tell how well you did. As long as you are sitting… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Use the previous techniques in rotation. It will prevent your meditation experience from becoming stale. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The second stage of meditation begins when you can successfully stop thought for long periods of time. At this point you move… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Focus your awareness on the heart chakra. As you do, you will feel your consciousness shifting. You may feel different perceptions of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Any area you slough off in your life will reflect in your meditation. Be happy when you could be depressed. Push jealous,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you get in a battle with someone, you don't get their power if you win. Power is something that you have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Higher meditation is not taught through techniques or words. The real meditation experience is taught inwardly. You shift a person through different… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Every time you sit down to meditate, you have to sit down with a resolve to win. You are going to sit… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Now when I speak about Zen, I have a problem, in the sense that the Zen of today has lost the essence,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Next to meditation itself, I really can't think of anything more important than the development of your career. — 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
