We've decided what we are. That's the dream. When the dream fades, it's not that we don't exist. How could we not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is a popular conception about karma, and that is that as you sow, so shall you reap. That's only true if… — Frederick Lenz Conception Copy Share Image
At every moment, you have the opportunity to crap out. The world will always tell you to play it safe and just… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
Now when I speak about Zen, I have a problem, in the sense that the Zen of today has lost the essence,… — Frederick Lenz Essence Copy Share Image
It is impossible to move on to new states of mind unless you seek the forgiveness of those you've offended. — Frederick Lenz Action Copy Share Image
Laughing at fear is one of the best things you can do. When you are afraid, instead of just plunging into panic,… — Frederick Lenz Anxiety Copy Share Image
Selflessness implies fun. Its fun to be free. Freedom is inner stillness and not being haunted by your desires, your fears, your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment does not put an end to awareness. It puts an end to limited awareness. It doesn't necessarily put an end to… — Frederick Lenz Awareness Copy Share Image
Time holds the final claim check for everything we gain or attain in this lifetime. All of our possessions, along with the… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
One should feel that one's friends, the people who meditate around you, who seek, are likewise pligrims on a journey. They're traveling… — Frederick Lenz Bhakti yoga Copy Share Image
I started to meditate formally at about 18. I would sit on a mountaintop in Southern California around twilight and focus on… — Frederick Lenz California Copy Share Image
It seems strange, since the aspect of a woman is power and that her subtle physical body conducts light very well, that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your life may be draining away. Every day you may be getting older instead of younger, more frustrated instead of happier. Your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Success, failure, pain, small furry animals, household products, freeways, Star Wars systems - all are interlinked in the dance of tantra, the… — Frederick Lenz Animal Copy Share Image
Even enlightened people think of themselves as beginners. They probably think of themselves as beginners more than others do - perpetual beginners… — Frederick Lenz Begin again Copy Share Image
Chanting a mantra at the beginning of your meditation helps you clear the mind and takes you deep within the self. Chanting… — Frederick Lenz Awareness Copy Share Image
You're always looking for the ultimate. It's kind of like journeying to Ixtlan. You're never going to get there, but that is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Those who seek liberation want to go beyond individualized perception. The essence of their being wants to dissolve back into the cosmos. — Frederick Lenz Cosmos Copy Share Image
Next to meditation itself, I really can't think of anything more important than the development of your career. — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
Enlightenment simply means that you've run out of questions, and that the answers don't matter anymore. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are some careers that will develop your mind more than others. In the study of enlightenment, it is most important to… — Frederick Lenz Body Copy Share Image
Your heart chakra is not in your physical body. It is in your subtle physical body, but it comes in contact with… — Frederick Lenz Body Copy Share Image
There is illusion, the way you see things now, thinking that there is a tomorrow, there is a today, there is time… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The kundalini rises and the kundalini is hot, it's a hot energy. Sometimes you feel it cascading up your spine, and it's… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
This is a time of great confusion, of great darkness; other networks are slipping in through other dimensional planes. Soon the network… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
It is one thing to teach a dynamic Oriental philosophy and religious code; it is quite another to put such a discipline… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
When you go into samadhi there is no breath at all. The kundalini is perfectly stabilized. Usually it stabilizes in the solar… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Consciousness is the screen. The images on the screen are your perceptions, the illusion that life is solid, that there is a… — Frederick Lenz Consciousness Copy Share Image
Wisdom is to see the difference between nirvana and this world, this self-reflection that the mind creates. — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
The attention that's being projected by men who simply watch you walking down the street, in the office, or in bed, in… — Frederick Lenz Attention Copy Share Image
The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The essence of Taoism is really expressed by these few words. Taoism is the way of the child, the way of the… — Frederick Lenz Children Copy Share Image
Perfect mind, the diamond mind, radiating all universes through your being, each pulse beat is the universe, each breath, eternity. Enlightenment, try… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The big problem with power, of course, is obsession. Once you get some of it and feel it, it dominates your whole… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Miramar, my recording company, has decided to offer a compilation of my music for snowboarding, which will have the same cover as… — Frederick Lenz Book Copy Share Image
In Buddhist Yoga, we refer to our mutlilife karmic traits as samskaras. They are the internal karmic patterns that make each of… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
All success in sports and athletics, from the Zen point of view, comes from the mind. No matter what kind of shape… — Frederick Lenz Athletics Copy Share Image
You can do anything. You can perform miracles, but it won't fulfill you. What will fulfill you is the stillness of eternity. — Frederick Lenz Balance Copy Share Image
Many of the people I work with I've worked with in other lifetimes. I moved to California because I knew that many… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
If you can bring earnestness to your meditation, you will find that happiness is something that will run through your life constantly. — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
