It is my experience that if a person practices self discovery with intent, they will be successful. Success is an outer sign… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We're connected to the Buddhist order, to the mind of enlightenment. All day long we draw the power and force from that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Advanced practice is the entrance into the ten thousand states of mind. Most people exist in five or six of these states… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Spiritual Balance is the obvious answer to the obsession that sometimes accompanies religious practice, occult practice, philosophical understandings - the assertion that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A well known Los Angeles newspaper referred to a small group of gentlemen who live up on a mountain and practice Zen… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You are moving in and out of different advanced states of mind through your practice of meditation and mindfulness. It's that level… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One or two of my friends set longevity records for people who had AIDS. What they did, incredibly hard though it was,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The practice of meditation is emptying the mind. When the mind is empty, completely empty, it's perfect meditation. It's really that simple. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism is a practice in which we learn to avoid injuring others, and ourselves. It's a practice in which we learn to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What matters is that you meditate, you're seeking enlightenment, you're on the pathway to enlightenment, and you're having fun. Don't look for… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All of the exoteric teachings are only designed to give you the type of life that will allow you to practice the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As your meditation practice improves from month to month, more and more light and ecstasy will spill over into the moments of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To practice jnana yoga, the yoga of knowledge and discrimination, it's necessary to have a highly developed mind. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I know some teachers say that you shouldn't display the psychic powers and other powers referred to as the siddhas, but as… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can go through hundreds of lifetimes in one, and it all starts with daily meditation practice. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most people we observe who practice self-discovery just get caught up in a new description, a new "ism", a new religion, a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All of the previously described techniques can be practiced with your eyes open and closed. Most people find that it is easier… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is only in the last 800 years that the rules have come into being and conservative Zen has surfaced. It is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As you go into light for longer and longer periods, as you progress in your meditation practice, you transform, you become illumined,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Those who practice deserve your respect. If you respect them, you respect yourself. It's easy to be critical, but it does no… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Practice love and self-acceptance and you'll have an absolutely beautiful life. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Different schools of Zen have evolved, principally the Rinzai and Soto orders. A whole hierarchy has developed for the teaching and practice… — 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
