I'm always waiting for you, hoping that you'll be really interested, that you'll try completely. In every life I wait for you.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If I had my choice I'd hang out anywhere. I mean, it doesn't matter. It's all God; it's all the same. There's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I had a father who was strong and kind and loving beyond ... at the same time who was extremely puritanical, who… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People get together and go to the movies or on hikes, but everyone maintains their own independent domicile. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I personally have fun with enlightenment, the study and the teaching of it. I get a kick out of doing it different… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I went through times of self-hate, thinking how undeveloped spiritual I was. Everyone else in the ashram, a thousand people, nobody had… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I develop artificially intelligent technologies, along with educational and game software and let the business people take it where they will. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is important to have intensive blocks of time together. During our nights together there is a tremendous interchange of knowledge, power… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Honesty, I went through terrible, terrible times where I just took myself over the coals. I thought I must be the most… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In writing Snowboarding to Nirvana I have intentionally written an inspirational spiritual adventure story, which will hopefully provide people with metaphysical techniques,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I show people the techniques for gaining knowledge, and this inspires them in their search for truth, freedom and happiness. I also… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
My teenage freinds when I was growing up, they have no idea that I attained liberation but I help them. They don't… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is one thing to teach a dynamic Oriental philosophy and religious code; it is quite another to put such a discipline… — 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
The word "Guru", as it is used in the contemporary American scene, is someone who takes all your money and tells you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Every new movement or group of people who seek to explore awareness is considered a cult. The United States was founded by… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Naturally, the Zen Master Rama philosophy is to have a high state of awareness and material success. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
With the use of psychedelics, it was all based around the Tibetan Book of the Dead, using them to experience enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One of my greatest personal heroes is Jerry Lopez. When you can snowboard like he surfs, you'll be there! — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's very funny. People do not want to achieve liberation or be happy. This is the basic guideline they teach you in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am an expert in the world of the supremely happy because I am happy. I've never met anybody as happy as… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I feel a number of people who will never be students whom I'm corresponding with inwardly. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Over the years of much self-hate, I came to realize that whether sexuality was in my life or not, it didn't seem… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am a liberated teacher. A person who meditates with me, even though they may be thousands of miles away, will draw… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The way advanced meditation is taught, the way I teach it, the way all enlightened people teach it, is through transference. We… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no best teacher. Life itself is the teacher. There is no best method. All that matters is that it works. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I lived in a community where celibacy was the rule. My I saw many people asked to leave the ashram for so… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I dive all over the world: Fiji, Australia, the Caribbean, Hawaii, and many other places. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Love can be the only answer. But snowboarding also works for me. Because I love snowboarding! — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's not my light to begin with, in a sense; it's the light of God, the light of eternity. So take all… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Of course, there are the old hardcore teacher types like me who sit around and tell jokes, realizing, what's the difference anyway… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The source of their motivation ranges from what you might expect - from the seeking of money and publicity, to those who… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I started to meditate formally at about 18. I would sit on a mountaintop in Southern California around twilight and focus on… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically 'in'. But if we were to apply for a financial aid grant as a cult, I'm… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I studied with a number of different teachers. But really, I've never studied with teachers. To be honest, the only thing that's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In both Surfing the Himalayas and Snowboarding to Nirvana, I have tried to transmit as best I could the spirit of humor,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People love misery, they love to feel sorry for themselves, and they definitely don't want to be enlightened. That's the first thing… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Many spiritual teachers have done this. They have disbanded their whole community because everyone got angry. The karma, at a certain point,… — 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
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
Everyone will admire you when you do well. What a horrible thing to do to someone. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
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
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
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
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
Enlightened people live in very charged states of attention, with a tremendous power circuiting through them. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
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
Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
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
You and I are both life. There's just the experience of every moment. We like to call them moments. There isn't really such a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Why waste your time being around people who drag you down? You don't live forever, at least in this life. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Everybody here is so caught up in the game of life they don't see death. They don't see beyond their deaths. They are on… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
