Now, stopping thought is only the beginning. As Brahmananda, who was a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, once remarked: The inner life begins… — 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
The abuse of power manifests with phony spiritual teachers and phony gurus who tell you how to run your life and what… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People we are emotionally open to and close to affect us more than most people realize. If you are emotionally open to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I meditated on my own for some time, read spiritual books, became a vegetarian and had incredible experiences every day, every meditation,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Phony gurus make themselves objects of adoration and worship. Real spiritual teachers aren't interested in adoration and worship. They like respect only… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most people, without consciously realizing it, absorb a great deal of psychic energy from the people they casually associate with, and even… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is only when you realize that you are mortal and yet immortal simultaneously that you begin to realize that the beautiful… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the end we just realize there's no end. It just goes on forever, in countlessly new forms. That's what's wonderful about… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As a seer, I naturally can see the evolutionary potential of a being. But the potential will not necessarily be actualized. A… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you live in the city, it is necessary to get out of it on weekends. Then you will realize that most… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness does not come from external things as we're really taught as children. It doesn't come from Santa Claus. Happiness is from… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
How do we find a way out? By realizing that there's no place to go, that there's no way out, that there's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To not realize that everyone we think about affects us psychically, to not realize that life is a field of power, is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A balanced person will get depressed, discouraged, frustrated and angry sometimes, but doesn't direct it towards anybody else. If they do, they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I realize that there's a thing called the bodhisattva ideal, and it's a very nice pinnacle of attention. It's a very egotistical… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you hate yourself and your desires, well, you know, God is your desires and God is your self. As long as… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal: — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You don't need to be able to absorb a tremendous amount of the mystical kundalini to realize God. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You must realize you are not the doer, that you are not the action. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Think about the flowers. Life is just a bunch of pretty pictures. All this is supposed to do is force you beyond… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Move beyond the limited parameters that most human beings have and realize that there are thousands and millions of worlds beyond this… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Fear which has been embedded in your mind since you were a tot doesn't go away easily - it's conditioned in. And… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you realize that the ego is making you miserable you don't identify with it. You identify with your soul's humility and… — 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
Free yourself from happiness and unhappiness. Realize there is something beyond both and yet, revel in your time, revel in this world. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you really want to channel all of your energy towards higher mysticism, you should realize that sex does drain a certain… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The earth is not the same everywhere. Certain powers are available in one part of the earth that are not available in… — 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
