The vast majority of the students I have taught have become self-sufficient and confident individuals who enjoy their lives. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most people are taught from an early age on, to conceive of themselves as losers. They are taught that there are a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
They get you when you're young. When you are a kid, you are conditioned. You are taught language, customs, and right and… — 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
In our culture we are taught to be accessible and open; it signifies a good person. In mysticism it is the opposite,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The strongest factor in conditioning is sex, in the sense that the first thing that a person is really taught is whether… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As a dialectical teacher, I have had many lives where I have taught Zen and Tibetan Buddhism and mysticism. I teach in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Bodhidharma who brought Zen from India to the Orient, taught a very pure Zen - in that it was pure Zen. He… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A young girl is taught through the example of other women how to manipulate a man. She's absolutely correct in doing so… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Examine everything that you've been taught, not simply what you've been taught in school, but the images that have been held up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The high priests and priestesses taught the children the secret meditation techniques, along with methods and ways of living that would increase… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Women have been taught that they are not powerful; they've been given an opposite description, that they are weak. The word "effeminate"… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The few women who have been admitted to the study are usually given a second-class status in which they are taught only… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We are taught not to perceive but to avoid direct perceptions of reality and to substitute instead this kind of one-dimensional view… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The way advanced meditation is taught, the way I teach it, the way all enlightened people teach it, is through transference. We… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Buddha taught three cycles of teachings. His first cycle of teachings cover the basics, the prerequisites. This would include the Dharmapada. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Fears are just conditioning. They don't exist. They are something that we are taught by people who are afraid or seek to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Christmas time - an Enlightened Teacher came into the world, taught, and died. His message was simple: Forgive. While the human beings… — 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
The way you learn is by sitting with the Master, as he moves into those states of attention, you feel that and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The operative condition on this particular planet, the central mode which human beings follow, is fear. We are taught to fear. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Buddha would never speak about enlightenment. The way he taught people about enlightenment was they meditated with him. He exposed them… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Higher meditation is not taught through techniques or words. The real meditation experience is taught inwardly. You shift a person through different… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People are taught to fear god. They are taught to fear everything. It has become such a natural state that no one… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Each one of you has created a sense of self. That's what the tonal does. Each one of you is taught 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
