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Teaching Quotes by Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz describes a teacher who lives enlightenment, showing students how to step outside ordinary thinking. He says meditation, right actions, and studying with a true teacher build inner energy. He also mentions that many mental states are beyond words, so teaching often relies on direct experience.

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Believe in yourself, step one. Believe in the order, step two. Believe in the teachings, step three.

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I don't think there is a right approach to teaching self discovery. Every situation is unique.

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So I went off on my own and started the process of spiritual teaching.

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I was very immersed in the world. I'm very worldly. I love world. I was immersed in my career, in school, in…

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The deeper inner teachings are presented to very few because few would understand them. The exoteric teachings are presented to many.

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Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings.

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His second cycle of teachings discusses the cosmology of the universes. But in his later years, he wrote the tantric texts.

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When we talk, answer questions, I'm addressing your tonal. I'm teaching you a way or a series of ways of dealing with…

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The teaching that we receive is not necessarily very accurate. The value systems that our cultures have developed are not every open.…

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It is best to study from a teacher of ANY subject, as long as you focus on the teachings and NOT on…

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The secret teaching was the bodhisattva ideal, to live for others, for the welfare of all beings. That's enlightenment, not some flashy…

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Some teachers are extremely inaccessible. They feel their teachings are for very few so they make it intentionally hard to get to…

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It is inevitable that, in the process of teaching an Asian religion in a Western country, many of the teachings will seem…

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I love people who make mistakes. That's why I'm in the teaching business. I love people who make mistakes because I enjoy…

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The essence of the teachings is to lose self importance and to care more for the welfare of others and the magical…

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In enlightenment you have to convince a teacher not only that you are worthy of teaching, but then that they should show…

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All of the exoteric teachings are only designed to give you the type of life that will allow you to practice the…

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Lao Tsu doesn't seem to hold to much stock for words or phrases or teachings.

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I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs.

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If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism…

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An enlightened teacher simply expresses enlightenment in their life by living. It is the student's job to gain the teachings. The teacher's…

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It's necessary to respect all other ways and other teachings on the subject because even though they may not make a lot…

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While I enjoy teaching people on the basic and intermediate levels to work them up to advanced levels, my real talent is…

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Gaining energy is accomplished by meditating, by right actions, right thoughts, right deeds, by studying with a real teacher or by just…

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The majority of the ten thousand states of mind cannot be discussed. It is rather a question of teaching a person to…

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My teaching - of what is perceived to be a complex and foreign sounding religious philosophy - has become the target for…

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A child is imprinted not by simply teaching. But their attention is like soft clay. The attention field of adults is stratified.…

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Can you control your anger, lust, frustrations, and jealousies? Those are the only people worthy of the higher teachings. By worthy, I…

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The teaching of the ten thousand states of mind, particularly as one advances further, is done through transmission. This is where we…

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Some people harbor the idea or belief that all teachers should teach for free. Obviously these people have never been teachers, particularly…

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In the esoteric teachings, a transference process takes place between teacher and student where knowledge is actually transmitted from one to the…

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Feel the underlying meaning of the teachings that are espoused by me or anyone else. The word's don't mean much. Words are…

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The teaching process is lengthy because there are many, many states of mind to go through. And in each state of mind…

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The highest teaching is never written down. It's only communicated from teacher to student because it's a "transmission of the lamp." It's…

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Mindfulness is the direct application of Buddhist teachings to a physical event, a way of doing or accomplishing something, or a way…

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I personally have fun with enlightenment, the study and the teaching of it. I get a kick out of doing it different…

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The teaching process becomes most interesting for spiritual seekers once they've managed to hit the lower samadhis. However at that point many…

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Different schools of Zen have evolved, principally the Rinzai and Soto orders. A whole hierarchy has developed for the teaching and practice…

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Most of the teaching I do is not verbal. It's in every movement of my body. It's in my dance. It's in…

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You get to the point where you have to wash the dishes. That's the fun in life. Being behind the scenes and…

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I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get to watch…

If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns.

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Enlightened people live in very charged states of attention, with a tremendous power circuiting through them.

Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it…

Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance.

The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations.

Karma means changing planes of reality or changing fields of attention. There will be perhaps a resulting physical action stemming from the change of…

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…

Why waste your time being around people who drag you down? You don't live forever, at least in this life.

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…