Advanced meditators are not even desirous of liberation anymore - that is just another attachment. There is no liberation. There is no… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Gain control of the mind and make it still, initially just during periods of meditation, but then throughout the day and throughout… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When we practice mindfulness, our nonphysical side merges with the nonphysical side of that which we are experiencing. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In every situation, feel before acting, just for a second. Look for a feeling. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Power either goes up or down. Your thoughts are the harness of power. It is necessary to think positive thoughts, not just… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Whenever you find yourself becoming angry or jealous, try to see good quality in the person. You will suddenly be thinking a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Zen you practice zazen, mindfulness and other forms of introspection to find out who you are and what you want, to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Part of what we seek in Buddhism is the sense of quiet observation. We don't get so involved in a state of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Every time you find yourself becoming angry, jealous or frustrated, stop and think the opposite thought. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Why do everything perfectly? Isn't perfection just an illusion? Tell me if it's an illusion if they don't fix your car perfectly… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you are just thinking a lot of silly thoughts and having a lot of worries, you waste a tremendous energy and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you do something half-heartedly, you don't get much of a result. When you do it fully, you get a great result. — 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
Winning has to do with gaining personal power through the practice of meditation and mindfulness; not draining your energy on ridiculous things… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our actions and experiences will direct us. In other words, we will be guided by the inherent emptiness of the things we… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You have to look at your own thought forms. Are you sitting around and thinking a lot of negative thoughts? These injure… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our life interferes, our mind, our thoughts. Meditating is not just a practice of asserting will and learning to control the mind,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Personal power, knowledge and fun come from how you approach something, not what you approach. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Practicing zazen and mindfulness constantly and correctly, over a period of time, can bring strength and clarity to your finite mind and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
By perfecting the practices of zazen and mindfulness, by learning patience and love and by realizing the essential emptiness of all phenomena,… — 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
We are so absorbed in our thoughts that every thought that comes through is a reality. We have to start to detach… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In your thoughts, you need to be selective. Thoughts are powerful vehicles of attention. Only think positive thoughts about yourself and your… — 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
