An enlightened teacher simply expresses enlightenment in their life by living. It is the student's job to gain the teachings. The teacher's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Liberated souls are a rare commodity in this world. They are no better; it's just you, a little later, in the next… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Many spiritual teachers have done this. They have disbanded their whole community because everyone got angry. The karma, at a certain point,… — 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
Etiquette is an intelligent way to live. There are certain ways of living you will learn being around advanced students and mostly… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The advanced student of meditation takes an active part in supporting the work of their teacher. They happily work more hours or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If what you seek is freedom, the only person who can teach you anything, the only person who can help you is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The teacher will perform miracles. Not just to delight and amuse people, but showing them that miraculous occurrences indicate that there is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Many people claim to be liberated...it's an endless list! According to "moi", as Ms. Piggy would say, there are currently, on this… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People go to mediums and they get in touch with spirits outside of the body. Most of these spirits are pretty malevolent… — 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
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
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
I was a traditional teacher for a time, but my students would ride the energy. I wanted to free people not give… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is obstruction. Enlightenment is not very popular in this world. History tells us that enlightened teachers who made themselves largely available… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
An advanced way to meditate, of course, is to focus on your teacher. If you have a spiritual teacher and you focus… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Gaining energy is accomplished by meditating, by right actions, right thoughts, right deeds, by studying with a real teacher or by just… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some come to a teacher for power. They still have all the desires, angers and jealousies of an unevolved person. Consequently, they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some souls attain enlightenment. No one knows why. You could say it is individual inclination. I'm not convinced that's the case. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you are enlightened, your physical body will still feel pain if you get hurt, but you will not be overwhelmed even… — 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
A teacher will have an initial contact at some point with someone. It happens inwardly first. Before you ever meet an advanced… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The teacher will have a certain imprint, and each teacher imprints differently. Ultimately the imprint of the teacher is a limitation that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I've been very fortunate because many of the teachers I had were exceptional. But I didn't realize that at the time that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The inner cry is a very good way to meditate. As you're sitting there in meditation, just cry inwardly to God, to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Will is guided by wisdom. Wisdom comes from introspection, looking inside yourself, probing, studying the wisdom of the teachers, the masters and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Throughout the course of my life, I have been very fortunate to have had excellent teachers - not just in meditation, but… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you're very liberal, then you should go and find a very liberal Zen teacher, a liberal interpretation of the doctrines of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Get your emotions under control and your life under control. Work really hard and don't make a big deal out of yourself.… — 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
I know some teachers say that you shouldn't display the psychic powers and other powers referred to as the siddhas, but as… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightened teachers and people who help them, have a lot of trouble. People try to interfere with the work and spread awful… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I learned from my own teachers, a long time ago in another universe, the quality of quiet fortitude that is renewed by… — 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
There are other options that no one ever told you about. These are things mom and dad never explained to you; your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A teacher is there to laugh at you because you have such a high opinion of yourself that you need to be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A real liberated teacher never asks for a commitment from a student. That's absurd, a person wants to be there and they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The way of Zen is to become independent and strong. Don't rely on others for perceptions of life and truth. Do it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We need a new imprinting. We need the imprinting of enlightenment, of freedom. That comes through our association with a higher being.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is very important to always hold the thought of an enlightened teacher in your mind in a very positive way. When… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
