To realize the Self involves an action, it implies that there is something to realize, that there is time, a temporal world,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The way you become happy is by realizing that there is no self. No self at all, not a silly millimeter of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I like Miracles. They inspire me. Miracles are the fun of enlightenment. When a teacher does a miracle, and everyone sees it,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you ever want to study acting you should be around an enlightened person for a while, because all they do is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Self-discovery is realistic. It's not built on ideas and philosophies. It's what works. Philosophies are nice if you like philosophies. But self-discovery… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You've got to make a person aware of how miserable they really are and show them how happy they can be. Otherwise,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As long as we remain self-reflective and keep looking at who and what we are, as long as we keep our analysis… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Self-discovery is a very advanced art. What we're doing basically is screwing around with what you're made up of. We're taking awarenesses,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Whenever you are in a perceptual field, it seems like it's ultimate. It's a self-wrapping consciousness. There doesn't seem or appear to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am Western and I see no need or reason to change that. The Western lifestyle has many things to offer, as… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We can only conceive of changing the self-reflection in response to our concept of self-reflection, which is predicated on our concept of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One of the greatest mistakes that people make who pursue self-discovery is they neglect to develop their careers. There is a popular… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In our world, in our pre-World War III condition, meditation is considered a cult activity and people who practice self-discovery are actually… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You don't have to meditate. You don't have to practice self-discovery and Buddhism. You should only practice self-discovery if you really have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you die you pass into inner worlds and continue to perceive. Death is not the dissolution of the self. Death is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are two sides to self-discovery, as in most things, an outer more popular side and an inner side. The popular side… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To have the detached eye of the occultist, to look outward, to not be so self-reflective and to learn to step through… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Self-realization doesn't imply loss, gain, even transition; it's only a settling. The separate sounds on the beach, the birds, the waves, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The advanced education in Tantra obviously has to do with the entrance into samadhi, the negation of the self. That is what… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You identify with your self. You have a personal history. You have commitments. There are things that you want to experience and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A teacher is someone who has taken their mind much further than you have. They've gone into the void further. They've seen… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We examine everything in existence and we come to see that everything is transitory and temporal, that which is left over is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in self-discovery, you get the culty types who want the father figure or mother figure to tell them everything to do.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I respect self-giving and I've tried to lead my life with that as the ideal. But real self-giving is when we take… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
This is the process of mental analysis, sifting through the selves, sifting through your thoughts, practicing mindfulness, learning to control thought. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I try to teach people to continually search and question the meaning of everything they are taught and everything they believe in.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When all of the selves have been dissolved, you will enter into the super-conscious awareness. Then, you are free. Then, there is… — 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
People who are advanced meditators don't worry about liberation and self-realization; they instead are interested in the welfare of others and aiding… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Buddhism suggests there are no elect. Everything rests upon your own self-effort, which is the good news because that means you don't… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
This solidity is not true. The apparent solidity is the delusion of the senses and of the self. Everything is made up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation without selfless giving is not enough. You may go into very high states of consciousness but the rough edges will still… — 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
Even a good self will create another good self in the next life, and another one, and that good self will never… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most people are not in the world of awe and wonder. They're in the world of deadness. Their perceptual fields and bodies… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The effort to lift one's self into perfect enlightenment is a profound thing. It has nothing to do with individual will. It's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Life is invisible. The illusion is that what we perceive is in some way not a reflection of self. Life reflects the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is through many lifetimes of shifting the aggregate of the self that one finally reaches a point of maximum velocity whereby… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the dead world of the Western mind all that is seen are shades of gray. There's a cloud over every experience.… — 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
