The three principal samskaras have to do with sex, money and power. In all those countless incarnations that one goes through in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Life is eternal and it's worth living. What we do in this life is not futile. Death is not the end. Our… — 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
The only problem that occurs in the practice of tantra is when you don't practice tantra and fool yourself. You get caught… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Buddhist practice a great deal of time is spent practicing mandala meditation. You learn to visualize and hold simultaneous concepts in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It takes quite a bit of time to become enlightened. But it really is not so different from learning any other art;… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The tremendous population increase has made meditation and psychic perception, things that come naturally to spiritually evolved people, difficult to practice and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sometimes, as we practice jnana yoga, we feel that life has no meaning, no purpose. We feel that there is no reason… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The problem is with any practice is that it is a practice. That is why people don't win. The reason why people… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Granted you want to go beyond ideas and beyond thought, but that takes years of practice. If you must think, think good… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If a person sets out to practice meditation in this lifetime and they have a little bit of spiritual evolution behind them… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Practice meditating on the heart chakra. This is only one of them, but it's quite good for the first few years of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The practice of meditation is an ancient practice. It's been practiced in many lands, for many lifetimes. You may have practiced it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Practice humility constantly. Whenever you start to think well of yourself, push those thoughts aside. Whenever you think ill of yourself, push… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You need energy and life force to see and feel what you need to do. Otherwise you are in a dark room… — 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
Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Try to feel that you are beyond time and space when you practice meditation. Go beyond this world, beyond time, beyond life,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
They wanted to preserve and protect the mystical knowledge gained from their meditation practices and pass it on to future civilizations they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The dream is so thick; the Maya is so thick. There's no magic as long as there's all this thought. So the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the advanced practice, the relationship between the Zen master and the student becomes very terse. The Zen master will expect things… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Practice smiling for five minutes. Stop trying to meditate. Just smile. Let your smile get bigger and bigger. Oh, you're unhappy, you're… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A true master has developed, in their inner practices and studies, certain powers. These powers are sometimes of the miraculous nature, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you become obsessive in spiritual practice, if you just try and try, you are not going to be happy. You are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
With the practice of meditation you can move into other states of mind, sort of ungluing the glue that binds you to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sexuality, for the person who practices tantra, is a marvelous way to experience illusion. Illusion is just another way of seeing things.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The role of the teacher is to make sure that the practice is pure. By guiding the student, you make sure that… — 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
When you have grown accustomed to sitting and meditating, try to stop your thoughts. That's the bottom line in meditative practice. — 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
For years we practice meditation, like any art, and we get better at it each day. In the beginning it's just enough… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The person who practices advanced meditation is usually not married, some are. They usually don't have children, some do. But chances are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some people, of course, say they're practicing tantra. There are a lot of books on tantric sexual practice in local bookstores. These… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tantra is for the advanced spiritual practitioner who is ready to push aside spiritual practice in the name of spiritual practice. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation is a practice of detaching and then stopping ourselves from thinking; our thoughts are interruptions in the flow of awareness. Consciousness,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Occasionally, in each age and in different lands, a Buddha is born, that is to say, an enlightened person...they re-codify the ways,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The trick to keeping your meditation practice alive, not simply consistent but wonderful, is you need to bring a certain will or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One who practices jnana yoga has practiced the other yogas for many, many lifetimes. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The essence of all practice is to be cool. Life is not worth getting excited about because whatever you perceive is an… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you want to experience the unalloyed ecstasy of life, you can accomplish this through the twin Buddhist practices of meditation and… — 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
