If you sit with an enlightened teacher and silent your mind as they go into nirvana, suchness, the pure power of their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The stars in the sky last for billions of years. That's nothing to the mind, nothing. It's an instant, a millisecond. The… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism is yoga. Yoga started, who knows when? A long time ago, when the first person found that they could still their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The ten thousand states of mind are hallucinatory. Hallucinations are real. Dreams are real. But there are some things more real. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you meditate you will be able to get in touch with that part of yourself which knows what it wants, as… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can be in a state of mind for a few seconds and forget that you were ever in any other state… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Very few people become enlightened in any given lifetime. On the planet earth their might be a dozen who are fully enlightened… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One person will eat meat and it will lower their attention field. Another person won't even be affected by it because they're… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You must constantly check that you are meditating properly, and not become, what Clint Eastwood refers to as, "a legend in your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
An enlightened being comes into the world because they can help. They are off the wheel. They will experience different states of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All states of mind have different views. On the higher plateau, opportunities will open to you because you can see them. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you meditate, you are shifting your state of mind to a higher vibratory level that will give you a much more… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are some beings who reach a point where they no longer want to move through the ten thousand states of mind.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness does not come from external things as we're really taught as children. It doesn't come from Santa Claus. Happiness is from… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation simply means entering into states of mind which are happiness, profound happiness, simple happiness, beautiful happiness, complicated, uncomplicated - There are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your ability to use mind whatever way you choose is outrageous. Much will depend upon how intensely you approach the study and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Programming will aid a person in developing their mind and will aid their meditation. I find that people who have pursued programming… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Spiritual evolution is a movement from the states of mind that reflect life less accurately to the states of mind that reflect… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Focus on one point and hold your attention there. The mind will waiver, you'll think a million thoughts, but each time you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When there is no thought in the mind, no thought of thought, when the mind is quiet but fully alert, we experience… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What we focus on we become. If you are just focusing on unhappy things, you will become unhappy. If you focus on… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
While I may not be able to describe to you exactly what enlightenment is like, I can tell you that it is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All the records of your past lives are contained within your own mind, just as the records of your ancestors are contained… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There was a time when you came forth from infinity, your essence that is. You've always existed, and you'll always exist. But… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment simply means that you've gotten above the body-mind complex. You've refined the self, dissolved it in the white light of eternity… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the study of Zen you can learn how to strengthen and clarify your finite mind. Your finite mind is like a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
An enlightened person is not in touch with all the ten thousand states of mind simultaneously always. It would be very hard… — 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
When you meditate you can stand back from your desire. When you silence the mind and there is stillness, only then can… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment doesn't mean you stop being a student. Being a student is a state of mind. Enlightenment simply means that you are… — 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
Everything is God. Everything is light. It is only when we live in illusions, when there are shadows in our mind that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Learn to accept the transitory nature of existence of the body and the mind; see eternity in everything, this world, the other… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation is coming back to your original self, if we can use self without a sense of self. It's perfect, clear light,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Drinking alcohol takes you into a lower state of mind. If you drink a lot of it, things get very fuzzy and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's not going to be easy. It's the earth. What creates power in your life is when you perfect your mind, your… — 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
What is self? Self is the mind viewing itself. That's all. The mind stops viewing itself and turns towards infinity. There is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you allow people, places and things, to pass through your mind during meditation, you will pull in all those other auras… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You perceive yourself as being solid and physical, limited to a body. You are made up of light, endless mind. The way… — 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
