The spirit of the West, of America, is different than the East. The cultural conditioning is very different. It seems to be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Combine meditation with career as a yoga. You will find that your practice will not be any less powerful than a person… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think one can advance faster outside a monastery if you use the experiences of daily life to advance yourself. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are two primary ways of studying Zen. Either an individual will enter into a Zen monastery and study with a Zen… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Work sustains us as bodies and it consumes a great deal of energy. The conservation of energy is the component theme of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are monasteries in Japan where they teach Zen with rules, more rules than you can imagine, and you might feel comfortable… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the old days, Zen was not really practiced so much in a monastery. The Zen Master usually lived up on a… — 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
When you visit the Zen Monasteries, one of the first things required is that you bring a donation. They have to pay… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You might say living in a monastery cuts down the commutation time. That alone gives you a couple extra hours a day… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The person who's in the Zen monastery, who's doing a kind of poor job at meditating and a half-ass job cleaning the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I used to live in Buddhist monasteries and I finally had to leave them because they were just too cluttered for me.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The problem with monasteries, ashrams, convents is these institutions become extremely political. In other words, they're really small societies, and much of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is not bad living in a monastery. I've done it many times in many lives. But I think you can do… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The idea of the walls of monastery was to keep everybody else out because you wanted to develop a certain type of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think to be in a monastery or an ashram is not always the answer because we don't fight, we kick back.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We could go to monasteries. I could show you people who are very wise and they have great willpower, but they're not… — 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
