In Zen we classify ten thousand different states of mind, different ways of seeing life. There is something beyond the ten thousand… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The majority of the ten thousand states of mind cannot be discussed. It is rather a question of teaching a person to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation simply means entering into states of mind which are happiness, profound happiness, simple happiness, beautiful happiness, complicated, uncomplicated - There are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I went through times of self-hate, thinking how undeveloped spiritual I was. Everyone else in the ashram, a thousand people, nobody had… — 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
The tantras can be very confusing for a person who is new to Buddhism, and for several thousand years the rule was… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Once you have mastered the ten thousand states of mind, it's paranirvana, the absorption into the stillness forever. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are ten thousand planes of awareness within the infinite mind of the diamond mind, your deeper mind. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everything is dependent upon your state of mind. That is all there is, states of mind, ten thousand of them. Beyond all… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's a very complicated matter to become enlightened. If it happens to a person without a teacher in this lifetime, you can… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are ten thousand states of mind. Most people spend their entire lives confined to a few of these states of mind. — 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
Each of the ten thousand states of mind presents you with a different view of essence and experience. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We play in the jungle gym of sexuality until our spirit takes us out into a clear field where we can see… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
During the age Atlantis, there were only several hundred thousand people living on our planet. They lived in a sublime state of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The path of Zen is not easy. It's wonderful. It's beautiful beyond compare. You will experience more ecstasy and beauty than most… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The causal body holds the structure. The causal body is the coding. So you are not just scattered all over the ten… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nirvikalpa samadhi is a state of no mind, beyond the ten thousand states of mind, where there is nothing but perfection, where… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are some beings who reach a point where they no longer want to move through the ten thousand states of mind.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
An enlightened person is not in touch with all the ten thousand states of mind simultaneously always. It would be very hard… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I can assure you, as a practitioner of Buddhism, that there are ten thousand states of mind, at least, give or take… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The thousand petal lotus of light, the crown center, really does not become operative until one is on the verge of enlightenment… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As a monk you have a responsibility to meditate many hours a day. Not just to sit there but to think of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you think it makes a difference if I have ten thousand sports cars, ten million girlfriends and lead a very flashy… — 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
