Love yourself even when you don't measure up to your own expectations. You have a certain idea of what you should do… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Wisdom is seeing that there are templates in the universe that you can follow. They will show you what to do and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tantric Zen is all about the practice of zazen meditation. If you meditate well, you'll be in very powerful states of mind… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Let the rain of unhappy and tragic experiences fall, as sometimes it inevitably must, even in the lives of the enlightened masters.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness does not come from external objects. It comes from peace of mind. You can be famous; you can be a king,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When we talk about self-realization, we're talking from the point of view of limitation of the mind. Real knowledge is to see… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What makes a difference is when we take our mind and put it into the scriptures, when we read the Buddhist Canon,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The mind of the Buddha is perfect because it is empty and yet it contains all things. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you are in a state of mind in which all things are one, then you can spend your time in lingerie… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Computer science is the most misunderstood field there is. You are being paid to solve puzzles. For a person who has practiced… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is implicit in the self that the self will automatically evolve if you can dissolve it. It re-patterns itself after archetypal… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The danger to power is obsession - power junkies. You need a very strong mind and humor to balance yourself. If you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Beyond all of this is something else, perfection; not just as an ideation, but as a living reality. Even though it may… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is a perfect state of mind. It is the direct seeing of reality. The world most people see, which they call… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your mind is your life. It's your essence and your substance. It's the part of you that has always been and will… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As Buddhist monks, our task is to bring ourselves resolutely more and more into light, to forgive and forget, to forget those… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The entire structure of the human mind blocks out most of infinity. To a certain extent it's necessary because otherwise one would… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most power is lost in one's own mind by thinking negative thoughts, by worrying about the future, by focusing on the past,… — 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
Everything you do in meditation is amplified. If you meditate for five minutes with your complete mind focused on happiness, that is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The state of mind that you are in causes you to act in a certain way. Your actions will bear results. The… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I go snowboarding and scuba diving to get to places of power where I can more correctly perceive the still center of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions… — 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
