Beyond all of this is something else, perfection; not just as an ideation, but as a living reality. Even though it may… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is a perfect state of mind. It is the direct seeing of reality. The world most people see, which they call… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your mind is your life. It's your essence and your substance. It's the part of you that has always been and will… — 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
The entire structure of the human mind blocks out most of infinity. To a certain extent it's necessary because otherwise one would… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most power is lost in one's own mind by thinking negative thoughts, by worrying about the future, by focusing on the past,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation, in the beginning, is just replacement thinking. Instead of having the usual negative things that wander around in your mind, you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everything you do in meditation is amplified. If you meditate for five minutes with your complete mind focused on happiness, that is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The state of mind that you are in causes you to act in a certain way. Your actions will bear results. The… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I go snowboarding and scuba diving to get to places of power where I can more correctly perceive the still center of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In advanced Zen a person comes to realize that the existence of things and their ability to perceive them correctly is completely… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The unlimited mind, the diamond mind of the Buddha, is your mind, if you can get in touch with it. Stop thinking… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Even though it's not perceivable to the mind or senses, it's there and enlightenment is absolute freedom. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Anything that ends with death isn't really mind, just the things that pass through a mind. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The study of Zen is a retraining. It is a series of new ways, not just one way, to learn to use… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Use your mind to discriminate. Choose to advance yourself, to bring more purity into your being. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Zen the emphasis is on meditation and developing your body, mind and spirit to find inner peace, strength, clarity and enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the study of Zen you can learn how to strengthen and clarify your finite mind. Your finite mind is like a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We call it the transmission of the lamp in Zen. That's when we take enlightened states of mind and literally, you can… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When your mind is tranquil and at peace with the universe, when it has become void of all thought - you become… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You're going to merge your mind with the mind of eternity that goes on forever; that is not easy. It's very intense.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When there is no thought in the mind, no thought of thought, when the mind is quiet but fully alert, we experience… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In meditation, when your mind becomes perfectly still and calm, you will experience the golden light of eternity. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Let's say you dissolve and become infinite light. There is this sense of being light even though the mind is not thinking… — 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
