Meditation is a process in which we're essentially, at first, breathing out. We're exhaling existence, taking it out of the mind, and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Eventually you will go into samadhi. Samadhi is a very advanced meditation. You dissolve into the clear light of eternity again and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Zen the emphasis is on meditation and developing your body, mind and spirit to find inner peace, strength, clarity and enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tantric Buddhism is just a collection of things that work by doing them. And sometimes we add new things. We have electronic… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is discipline - the discipline of living life, the discipline of taking a breath, the discipline of not knowing and not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In meditation, as you go into the causal dimensions, the planes of light, you will be purified, energized and you will become… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The study of Zen is a retraining. It is a series of new ways, not just one way, to learn to use… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tantric Zen is the original Zen, Zen without rules, Zen without form. Zen can certainly take rules and form. So Tantric Zen… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Through the practice of concentration and various techniques, we silence the mind and we enter into a flow of perfect light. We… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For years and years you enter into samadhi every day in order to attain liberation. Eternity fashions a new self which you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some people are drawn to meditation without knowing why. Their inner being realizes that they've totally fouled up their life so far,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Focus your attention on the top of your neck. Take that energy and transmit it in two lines to your hands. Then… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation is the study of making the mind still. As your mind becomes still, a power enters you. This power transmogrifies your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Learn to meditate, practice and don't get frustrated. It will take you years to learn to meditate perfectly. Every time you try,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As you sit in this light from week to week, you will transform and grow and develop. It washes away the samskaras,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We sit in meditation and cry to God, we cry to the light, as little children, knowing God will do everything for… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Practice mediation and concentration exercises, and begin to think more about regaining your sensitivity by avoiding draining situations. Not because of fear… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is a very fast path to enlightenment, fast in comparison to some other paths, not fast for the person who practices… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I observe many people who say they are meditating, but I sure don't see them meditating. They sit and touch a lot… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Salvakalpa samadhi is a tremendous acceptance and liberation, but it is not complete absorption in nirvana, in that consciousness. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Be mindful, which is more of a passive meditation practice. It is passive when you are active. Then there is active meditation,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our current perception is very cloudy and all screwed up. As our perception increases through meditation, we're seeing life more correctly. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen doesn't believe in the reconciliation of opposites because from the point of view of Zen, there is no point of view. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some people go into tantra with the idea, sort of an intellectual approach, that now they can just do everything and stay… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If the world does not shine brightly, even just the physical, sensual perception after meditation, you have not meditated. You have sat… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We see a lot of people who decide to go out and teach meditation. They become so wrapped up in it that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The practice of mindfulness is monitoring your mind all day and all night. It's enjoyable to just remove things that make you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
My feeling is that drugs and alcohol take away from the pure experience of meditation. That does not mean that occasionally, a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In meditation you can erase the conditioning. But still, you have to fight the description of the world that everyone else is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Buddhist Yoga, we refer to our mutlilife karmic traits as samskaras. They are the internal karmic patterns that make each of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you can bring earnestness to your meditation, you will find that happiness is something that will run through your life constantly. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tantric Zen, at first, does not appear to have a method. In Tantric Zen, you could meditate on a Brillo box or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The highest type of meditation is done in silence. In silence there are no mantras. Mantras are not essential, but they can… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you meditate your mind will become razor sharp. Your memory and retention will be superb. New talents and abilities will begin… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you're very liberal, then you should go and find a very liberal Zen teacher, a liberal interpretation of the doctrines of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Throughout the course of my life, I have been very fortunate to have had excellent teachers - not just in meditation, but… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The inner cry is a very good way to meditate. As you're sitting there in meditation, just cry inwardly to God, to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I recommend computer science to people who practice meditation. The mental structures that are used in computer science are very similar exercises… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
This is the process of mental analysis, sifting through the selves, sifting through your thoughts, practicing mindfulness, learning to control thought. — 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
