It wasn't until after living in California for many years that I realized that you don't believe what anybody says, ever. Whatever… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We applaud the people who are film stars, who get elected to an office, who are very athletic, the small group who… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is the Buddhist belief that all things, experiences and people are inherently empty. That is a simple way of saying that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you're going though a difficult time, forget about yourself for a while. Go do something for someone else. This is the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The vast majority of the people who populate our planet live lives of quiet desperation that are all too often quite harsh… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You perceive yourself as being solid and physical, limited to a body. You are made up of light, endless mind. The way… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Try to read books about meditation, but not so many different viewpoints that they get confusing. There is no best way. It's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can just sweep the floor generally and gain nothing from it. Or you can figure out the best way to sweep… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Buddhism we have a great deal of etiquette. Etiquette is simply ways of living to conserve energy. Etiquette allows people to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your existence is passing before you. Grains of sand in the hourglass. The Wicked Witch of the West has you in her… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To feel that you are the Buddha of all times and places and that in some way the salvation of anyone, including… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Life wears us down. We all die here. Depending upon the way you expose yourself to energies and powers and forces will… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
This culture seems to be so obsessed with sexuality, the good and the bad of it. Every advertisement, every preacher, everybody's concerned,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Since infinity is by its very nature infinite, then enlightenment by its very nature is infinite, and thus can be experienced in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most people put the cart before the horse, which is an interesting way to go through life. They approach everything directly. In… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you are unhappy - be that way in your bedroom - but whenever you come out into the world, in real… — 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
There is a certain beauty and refinement that is often found in our world and it is expensive. It shouldn't necessarily be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I don't think people should be primarily concerned with money or material success. They should be concerned with doing that which is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is the direct application of Buddhist teachings to a physical event, a way of doing or accomplishing something, or a way… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nirvikalpa Samadhi means that you've gone off the board; you've gone off the map. There is no way to describe it. You… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To go to the very center of the mind of God, to be that, to become aware of our infiniteness, is the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is really hard to talk about reincarnation because you have always been and you will always be. You just experience different… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The meaning of life changes as you change dimensional planes. The way human beings perceive the world is only one simple method… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is a way beyond this life and beyond death, the path of liberation. In order to be liberated, you have to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am very interested in the enlightenment of women. Very few teachers of advanced self discovery work with women, and if they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To just burn out, to give up just because things don't go your way, to assume that there is no God, no… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People who are involved in self-discovery lead different types of lives. The lives they lead are not necessarily the lives of renunciation.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I personally have fun with enlightenment, the study and the teaching of it. I get a kick out of doing it different… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
On your journey, remember there is no end. That is true knowledge. There is no final knowledge. There is no final enlightenment,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The kundalini is raised or brought down. It can be done in several different ways, and as it moves to the different… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We must control the tendencies within our being that are destructive, when we want to slam somebody else, hurt them, injure them,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Salvakalpa samadhi is like a sea of perfect light; nirvikalpa samadhi is no light, no darkness, no way to describe it. Absorption… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Perhaps you're not the next Buddha. Perhaps you're not the Maitreya. Perhaps that's not your job in this incarnation. Perhaps you have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Personal power is something that is not visible. We can see its effects, but we cannot see power itself. In the same… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Thinking is usually a waste of time and energy, since thinking is essentially a rehashing of what we already know. As a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sexual energy becomes problematic if you use to enslave someone, to demoralize them, to hurt them, to wrap them up. The way… — 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
There is wisdom in not letting anyone really know who you are or what you are like. If you define yourself, people… — 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
