In the Far East, it is taken for granted that the training of a monk is physically rigorous and academically challenging. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The tantras can be very confusing for a person who is new to Buddhism, and for several thousand years the rule was… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In both Surfing the Himalayas and Snowboarding to Nirvana, I have tried to transmit as best I could the spirit of humor,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A Buddhist monk has a responsibility first and foremost to themselves, and that's to find the truth each day in every part… — 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
When I go visit my brother monks in Japan and sit down with other Zen Masters, they look at my crazy clothes… — 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
Happiness is something that comes from creating good karma. The monk who feels that what they are doing is unpleasant is not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As a monk you have a responsibility to meditate many hours a day. Not just to sit there but to think of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Put the mind in alignment with the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment and experience them in various gradations forever. That's the total… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your journey is to see how deeply you can interface your mind with infinity. That's the journey of a monk - to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Many people, including Buddhist monks, spend thousands of hours sitting in what they call meditation. In reality, what they're doing is thinking… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Being a Buddhist monk means never losing one's optimism in spite of all difficulties. It also means being harder on yourself than… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Originally, I was interested in athletic pursuits like snowboarding, martial arts and surfing. When I went to the Himalayas and met a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
From my own personal encounters and studies with both Tantric and Zen Buddhist monks, I have found them to be humorous, warm,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You become a monk and you practice and the teacher tells you what to do. If you find that you have a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point. — 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
