I've lived in worlds where there are three or four suns. We had incredible sunsets, beautiful. But they weren't more beautiful than… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you do things in a selfish way, let alone a destructive way, then you are bound by that karma. Your state… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The mind is like a lake. It reflects eternity when it's very still. If ripples appear, lots of them, then the reflection… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You don't have to take drugs to be happy. You don't have to drink to be happy. You don't have to have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you are enlightened, your physical body will still feel pain if you get hurt, but you will not be overwhelmed even… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation is the way the mind is. That's why in Zen they call it the natural state, which means you don't have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Computer science is fascinating. As you study computer science, you will find that you develop your mind. It is literally like doing… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The dreams of eternity are the states of mind. When we wake up from the dreams there's only enlightenment. There could never… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People on this planet are currently preparing to blow themselves up in ultimate thermonuclear wars. We are living among beings whose state… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Success will come about because you are in a higher state of mind. If you create good karma, then you will go… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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
In the beginning, when you are meditating, just ignore thought. Shine it on. Then after you are comfortable sitting there, try selectively… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness comes from self-knowledge. Self-knowledge means that you have understood your mind. Your mind is the whole universe. — 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
We cut up time and space and mind and place and being and non-being. We create a world of ideas. This is… — 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
Mindfulness is when you are engaged in activities but the mind is set into the meditative state all the time. Meditation is… — 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
Most people are operating out of repetition. If you come to work or school each day with the same mind-state, you probably… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We call it the transmission of the lamp in Zen. That's when we take enlightened states of mind and literally, you can… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The majority of the ten thousand states of mind cannot be discussed. It is rather a question of teaching a person to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Think about the flowers. Life is just a bunch of pretty pictures. All this is supposed to do is force you beyond… — 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
Perfect mind, the diamond mind, radiating all universes through your being, each pulse beat is the universe, each breath, eternity. Enlightenment, try… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All success in sports and athletics, from the Zen point of view, comes from the mind. No matter what kind of shape… — 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
I've moved a lot of my students into a high state of mind, but they don't do the things I have shown… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Will is guided by wisdom. Wisdom comes from introspection, looking inside yourself, probing, studying the wisdom of the teachers, the masters and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your whole life is inside your mind. Your mind is the prism that refracts the entire universe. Everything around you and within… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The person of power uses their power to open up their mind to higher levels all the time, which creates tremendous happiness. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I recommend, for many people, the study of computer science. Our natural resource in America is the mind. The mindset in computer… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Let's say you dissolve and become infinite light. There is this sense of being light even though the mind is not thinking… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
From the highest state of mind you have a window whereby you could perhaps move beyond all states of mind, to enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the Orient we have known for thousands of years that the most powerful tonic for ill health is a happy and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightened teachers are not logical. They don't function from levels that are understandable to the human mind. They're not religious. Religions form… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you sit and meditate and begin to experience expanded states of mind, you will be afraid. The light makes most people… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is not a religion. There is no room for a cult. There is no dependence on a teacher. There is only… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As you focus your attention on the heart center, you will begin to feel your thoughts slowing down. You'll begin to feel… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is very important to always hold the thought of an enlightened teacher in your mind in a very positive way. When… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The teaching of the ten thousand states of mind, particularly as one advances further, is done through transmission. This is where we… — 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
