Zen is not a religion. There is no room for a cult. There is no dependence on a teacher. There is only… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Spiritual balance is tai chi. It is the center of things. It is the place where yin and yang meet. In the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Even sickness becomes an experience that we pass through in happiness because our happiness is not dependent upon how our body feels,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Reincarnation is the evolution of spirit through matter. Over thousands and millions of lifetimes, the soul evolves. It comes into the light.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's not what you do that matters. It's not what you say. There's nothing that is not holy or spiritual. Be beyond… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
My teaching - of what is perceived to be a complex and foreign sounding religious philosophy - has become the target for… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The ego is not harmonious with happiness and spiritual development. In the process of spiritual transformation we refine it. In the fire… — 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
Don't create a plastic image of what it is to be spiritual and try to become it. You won't be capable of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The life of meditation and religious study is absolutely no guarantee of peak moments. Most people involved in religious study and meditation… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As the years progressed, my spiritual evolution seemed to increase in speed. I stepped outside this world, the selves reordered. The combination,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I would say that Jesus Christ and his followers were a cult, Buddha and his followers were a cult and Mohammed and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation essentially means having a great time. Some people have applied a sense or a feeling to the meditative experience, such that,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The spirit of the West, of America, is different than the East. The cultural conditioning is very different. It seems to be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can focus on me or on any spiritual teacher. Spiritual teachers who have left the body, who are no longer on… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The way you succeed at all this stuff is by stopping trying to succeed and just working very hard without thinking about… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your spiritual journey and your spiritual welfare are really dependent on two primary factors: One, your ability to meditate and two, your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When the spirit is understood, then life becomes not at all common, but a constant magical circus in which you see yourself… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In terms of spiritual development, it's not a big deal whether you have sex or not, the question is more of who… — 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
If a spiritual teacher says something that doesn't make sense to you, you should always listen to yourself and not the teacher.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The teaching process becomes most interesting for spiritual seekers once they've managed to hit the lower samadhis. However at that point many… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When I dive, I dive into a different dimensional plane. I am not in this world anymore. Someone might see the body,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's funny, people who have a lot of sexual energy think of themselves as being not spiritual. They are probably more spiritually… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You might have a warrior spirit in there somewhere, and it's just waiting for the opportunity to come out. If you do,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In this lifetime you can lose everything. Everything passes here. But you don't lose any spiritual knowledge that you have gained in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Today in the west the word 'guru' has come to mean someone who leads a cult, someone who deprives others of their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I entered a spiritual community when I was 20, which I was in for 11 year, with very strict meditative practices, with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Power is the active force in life. It is the force that makes awareness. The general term for spiritual power is kundalini.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A time comes when it isn't enough to read about Buddha, we wish to have that happen to ourselves. That's when we… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A Buddhist is working not just to get paid, but working to advance spiritually. You shouldn't create a syntactical break in your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You have to begin to develop a repertory of jokes, multi-plane spiritual jokes, the sort of things the Zen masters tell each… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A part of us resists all of this and wants to make it sound as if it's much too religious, an arbitrary… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Spiritual dignity says that I don't have to compete with anyone; I don't have to do what my friends do. All I… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Religion is either something we scorn because we are too rational or it's the realm of the fanatic who insists that their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The judgment that you pass today will only hinder a person in their spiritual evolution. All you do is say to the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Flaky devotionalism, bowing and scraping and sucking up to the teacher is very phony. It is counterproductive to enlightenment and spiritual development.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You need to feel good about your life. Winning is a great idea, but you can get stuck in it too. It's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightened teachers are not logical. They don't function from levels that are understandable to the human mind. They're not religious. Religions form… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I had a mother who was very developed psychically and spiritually. She was, in a way, an opposite of my father, a… — 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
