Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Life hurts at times. It hurts to have a body at times, hurts to be born, hurts to live, hurts to die,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is better when you are in the world. You know how much pain there is. You can tell how established you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Being on the path means we again meditate with joy. We deal with the suffering of life and the pain of existence… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You have but a short time to live in this world. As you age, you will experience the pains of aging. If… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There's really no pain in the realm of the higher astral. A lot of spirits are playing mini-golf having a good time. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The pathway to enlightenment is joyful. It may sound harsh. I suggest just the opposite. It is rather easy compared to the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tantra is for the desperate. Unless you've really experienced pain and suffering, tantra won't work. Unless you've really experienced exultation and ecstasy,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think I've learned more from women than anyone else, and perhaps from love - what a wonderful testing ground, what a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Eve was blamed for the fall of man, and in return all women to come were to inheret her karmic responsibility for… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Pain and suffering only occur in temporal time. They don't occur in the world of forever. They only occur in limited transient… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The samurais were very interested in Zen because they admired the tremendous precision that the Zen Masters had, their lack of fear… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can stay in the safe, secure oblivion and pain of ignorance, not knowing, and just die. You'll just die, like everyone… — 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… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Yoga means we go a step further back. In yoga we go to the cause. The cause of pain is not the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To become completely aware is the journey of enlightenment. There is pain in it and suffering. But you already have those things… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Often, in the student's confusion, she or he directs anger at the teacher, blaming them for the pain they are experiencing, or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you want to help people, if you care, go to the cities. The city is where the pain is the greatest… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the Enlightenment Cycle, of the ways that inner dimensions and nirvana work, lifts you far above the transient sorrows, pains,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If your life is based around your being comfortable, you're not very comfortable. You suffer quite a bit - becuase in the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I don't really have a problem with the pain of life. Perhaps that is because I am a martial artist and I… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think that pain gives us appreciation of joy - it's a package deal. And I definitely think that the joys of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you're a sniveler, a whiner, a complainer, you will never be happy. We all have that side. Get a little stoical… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We've developed a very complex filing system for existence. We see things in terms of good or bad. We feel happiness, joy,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Compassion allows us to accept everything. That's why there's always a tear in the eye of the Buddha that no one sees,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I too have experienced the extreme pain of living, but I have also experienced some of its remarkable ecstasy. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is always going to be pain. There is always going to be pleasure. But what is not always going to be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Grow up. Get a life. Life is pain. Anybody who tells you something other than that is trying to sell you something. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
With the happiness, ecstasy and power you gain from meditation, you can gradually remove your mind from the things it has become… — 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
Success, failure, pain, small furry animals, household products, freeways, Star Wars systems - all are interlinked in the dance of tantra, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Learn to be happy in any and all circumstances, whether you're experiencing pleasure or pain, whether there's loss or gain, whether the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Only real love of the infinite will motivate you. While pain motivates, once we feel comfortable and the pain has stopped, we'll… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We fall into states of illusion - we forget all this. We get caught up in desires, frustrations, political movements, philosophies, religions,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most people have no idea how unhappy they are because they don't know what happiness is. When they get a little break… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is a certain degree of pain to be experienced in the search for self-knowledge, as there is a certain amount of… — 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
