Through the study of Zen you can learn to move from lower to higher states of mind at will. Higher states of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness is a state of mind. The key to happiness is being able to disconnect your life from your perceptions. If you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Good karma leads to rebirth also. The desire for higher states of mind is a desire. When you are fixated on higher… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Anything that you might want to be is around somewhere. You can become it. You just have to get into the state… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Karma means that through your thoughts and feelings and actions, you are generating a state of mind. That state of mind has… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is possible to move to an enlightened state of mind from a lower bardo or level of awareness. It can happen,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can get stuck in being wise. You can get stuck in having a developed will. It is very hard to get… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness comes from living in the moment, this moment, now, right here. If you are in obscure states of mind, you won't… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you have more personal power and you are in higher states of mind, then naturally you can see things and adhere… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you change your state of mind, your whole life changes, nothing remains the same. Nothing looks the same, because you have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The essence of Buddhism is simply that the mind is forever. We are always experiencing different states of mind in one form… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no ultimate objective reality within the ten thousand states of mind. Most people don't like to hear this. But there… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Part of what we seek in Buddhism is the sense of quiet observation. We don't get so involved in a state of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you have done your homework, then the slightest motion from the teacher can cause you to spin into hundreds of different… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You are moving in and out of different advanced states of mind through your practice of meditation and mindfulness. It's that level… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tantric Zen is all about the practice of zazen meditation. If you meditate well, you'll be in very powerful states of mind… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To be in thousands of states of mind simultaneously as you perform simple physical tasks gives you a reverence for life. Each… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The study of Buddhism is essentially the study of modification, how we modify the state of mind we're in, how we modify… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
An enlightened person lives in the world, passes through the ten thousand states of mind, but they are not bound by them.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Beyond the ten thousand states of mind is the still point. It exists within them all, yet beyond them. It is not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the Far Eastern languages we have many different words to describe the varying degrees of reality that a thing, a state… — 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
Stress is a state of mind and if you realize that you will find that it's something you can deal with. It… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Thought control is the ability to direct mind and attention anywhere. Your ability to win is dependent upon the power of your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The ten thousand states of mind that we talk about in Zen are all levels of perception. You can think of each… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Reincarnation is simply changing awareness. What you are reincarnating into are different states of mind. The whole show is on the inside. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There's a place where everything comes together and where it's all the same. That state of mind, in which all things are… — 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
When you live in a psychic state of mind, you are happy. You don't have to do anything. Life is always beautiful,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can get stuck in one state of mind or a general area of mind for a thousand lifetimes. Some states of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If someone is in the same state of mind and doesn't seek to block your success, you have a friend. Such friends… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everything is perception. A hallucination is a perception of a certain reality. It is a perception of a certain state of mind. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Samsara is the world appearance, the cycle of rebirth, the physically manifest universes and states of mind that you perceive through the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We get so involved with the latest craze or having the latest car or the most high-powered house that we lose touch… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What we are seeking is the nexus of all possible worlds and states of mind, which is within us. The source of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everything is a state of mind. Astral travel is the ability to wander through different states of mind and develop psychic perceptions. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you do things in a selfish way, let alone a destructive way, then you are bound by that karma. Your state… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The dreams of eternity are the states of mind. When we wake up from the dreams there's only enlightenment. There could never… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People on this planet are currently preparing to blow themselves up in ultimate thermonuclear wars. We are living among beings whose state… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Success will come about because you are in a higher state of mind. If you create good karma, then you will go… — 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
