The ten thousand states of mind that we talk about in Zen are all levels of perception. You can think of each… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Thoughts can increase our understanding of a subject, or they can just as easily constrict or block our understanding of a subject.… — 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
The action of giving is in a certain vibratory level, meaning giving exists in a certain plane of consciousness. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I don't think you see your minds. I think you see your thoughts; you see your desires; you see your relatives, friends,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you think an angry thought about someone, it's like hitting them. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Karma means who you are and where your awareness field is on the band of perception. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Consciousness, like a complex system of software, has thousands of levels of nested, self-accessing subroutines — 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
Power is the thing that holds a band of perception together, and a band of perception is life for those who perceive… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Those who seek liberation want to go beyond individualized perception. The essence of their being wants to dissolve back into the cosmos. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you are with an enlightened teacher, you will feel both pleasant and unpleasant things magnified. That happens when you meditate… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In meditation all the fake dull thoughts that you think, all the ridiculous philosophies, the necessities, all the things that won't matter… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you were in a perfected state of consciousness, you would only see perfection in all things. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment, meditation is really a shift in perception. It's not a thing that you go and do or become, since you're already… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Self is the perception of perception. Beyond self there's no perception of perception. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What more could there be, but the absolute beauty of our lives? Look around you, for heaven's sake and stop thinking. It… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In meditation the mind stops, thought ceases. When thought stops, the world stops. When the world stops, perception stops. When perception stops,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Through the practice of concentration and various techniques, we silence the mind and we enter into a flow of perfect light. We… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Ingnore your thoughts. As you focus more intensely, you may feel as if you are floating. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mind only comes into apparent existence through the action of perception. Mind appears to exist because it perceives. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Use the practice of mind and body; in order to make those moves perfectly, you have to pull your mind out of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Find a teacher of Tantric Zen and study with them because it is transference of awareness, a sharing of the perception 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
