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
There are two primary ways of studying Zen. Either an individual will enter into a Zen monastery and study with a Zen… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Naturally, the Zen Master Rama philosophy is to have a high state of awareness and material success. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They've been… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Find a teacher of Tantric Zen and study with them because it is transference of awareness, a sharing of the perception of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Zen, and in other forms of self discovery, we do have a transference that occurs where psychically, information, blocks of attention,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We throw you as many as you want, in this profession, and the more you want the more we'll give you, until… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What is Tantric Zen? Well, I don't think I can give you a straight answer, since I don't happen to be a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The samurais were very interested in Zen because they admired the tremendous precision that the Zen Masters had, their lack of fear… — 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 call it the transmission of the lamp in Zen. That's when we take enlightened states of mind and literally, you can… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If the Zen master sees that it will cause a person to progress, he will ask that person to do a task.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When I go visit my brother monks in Japan and sit down with other Zen Masters, they look at my crazy clothes… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the old days, Zen was not really practiced so much in a monastery. The Zen Master usually lived up on a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You have to begin to develop a repertory of jokes, multi-plane spiritual jokes, the sort of things the Zen masters tell each… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A master of an art is someone who's been mastered by the art. They've become so one with what they teach that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you're very, very conservative and you like that sort of practice, go find a very conservative Zen master and just do… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Zen master can see precisely what it will take to cause your awareness to become free. But the Zen master can't… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the advanced practice, the relationship between the Zen master and the student becomes very terse. The Zen master will expect things… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You're not listening to the Zen master, what he is saying outwardly, but even more importantly...what he is saying inwardly. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness only comes when you let go of who you think you are. If you think you're wealthy and powerful and noble… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Old Zen, the Zen Master would do literally anything to break down the concept of what the study was. He would… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Zen Master was constantly attempting to break up concepts that people had about what it was like to be a spiritual… — 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
