We have this recurring dream that we're human beings, that we have bodies, that we're in time and space, that there is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Human beings affix themselves to things that are of little or no importance. They affix themselves to the transitory, to things that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People are so tired. The world is set up to exhaust you and drain you. That's how humankind has devised their world.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To suffer because of anything you see, feel or experience here in the world of moment to moment is a mistake. It… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As long as you wish to separate yourself from the immortal consciousness, you will suffer. You will experience the pain of the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To become completely aware is the journey of enlightenment. There is pain in it and suffering. But you already have those things… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness is not freedom. You may become happy tomorrow; but I assure you, your happiness will be smashed by the pains of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
At the moment you're suffering from what we call Maya. Maya is illusion. Maya is a Sanskrit word that suggests that we… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Dogs have fleas; people have each other. We are born to die. Life is a continuing tragic comedy. Everything and everyone we… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment. There are joys, of course, and they should be enjoyed.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Life for most people is a bad dream. They live in pain, grabbing at what they can for pleasure. As they grow… — 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… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The time we waste never comes again. The opportunities we miss never come again. The loves we lose never come again. Indeed,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The world is futile when viewed through the persona of the body. The body is not simply the physical body but it's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Life exists in countless forms in countless dimensions, in places that we simply cannot see. The essence of life - while it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The comedies, the tragedies we see played out on this earth before us, don't last. But we are eternal spirits. These events… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Compassion allows us to accept everything. That's why there's always a tear in the eye of the Buddha that no one sees,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Christ didn't have to. Buddha didn't have to. They came back to teach. They came back to die, to suffer, when it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you wake up for a moment and look around at life, you will observe that nothing here lasts, nothing works out.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A human being is bound by emotion, enslaved by their desires. A person is never really at peace with themselves because they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's an adversarial world outside of the safety of nirvana and enlightenment. In life, all beings need to feed on other beings… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Beyond all of this is something else, perfection; not just as an ideation, but as a living reality. Even though it may… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You have but a short time to live in this world. As you age, you will experience the pains of aging. If… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are billions of people out there walking around and they don't meditate. You can tell. They are not having a good… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The dreams of human beings are dark, heavy and morbid and simplistic and boring. The dreams of immortality are endless and shining,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Outside of nirvana, the planes begin, the subtlest planes of light that vibrate fastest, all the way on down through the astral… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tantra is for the desperate. Unless you've really experienced pain and suffering, tantra won't work. Unless you've really experienced exultation and ecstasy,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
How could being the entire cosmos and all of its wonder and all of its stages and cycles, and yet being that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Only the enlightened are consistently happy. Their happiness is not predicated upon the events and experiences that take place in this world.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We are all incarnate Buddhas. We just have not realized it deeply. We have not moved the mind - what our friend… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Nirvana, it is you, my friend, who goes away. You take an eraser and erase yourself. It's like the Road Runner… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We live in a world of wars and wars alarms, of famines, of oppression. While there are many wonderful people in this… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you draw from the endless awareness of nirvana, you are no longer a slave to fortune. When pleasant experiences come your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All the joys in all the worlds of all beings who have ever been or will ever be, will never equal the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People don't really want to know the truth. The truth is that you are all dead in the future, everything that you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We could take all the pleasures that have ever been and will ever be in all the universes and add them up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no movement in Nirvana. There is no sameness. And one does not consider it to be timeless because one is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When we lack etiquette, we trash things. We trash each other. We trash the environment. We lose sight of the value of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Being on the path means we again meditate with joy. We deal with the suffering of life and the pain of existence… — 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
