You have elected to follow this path you do not know. You have elected to follow the path because eternity has elected… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
Our failure to see and access the pure joy and radiance of life is owning to a lack of awareness. In any… — Frederick Lenz Access Copy Share Image
You remember, you are drawn back to the pathway to enlightenment, to meditation, and when you begin to meditate your past life… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
Lao Tsu always points a finger directly to us. He says we must begin with ourselves. It's impossible to bring order into… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
This is only a small part of the totality. From this island earth we see only a fragment of creation and its… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving… — Frederick Lenz Emotion Copy Share Image
Only until you rise above the use of the second attention for manipulation that you can enter into a consciousness in which… — Frederick Lenz Attention Copy Share Image
The souls now incarnating are power souls. It is a dark age. To incarnate now one needs psychic self-defense. — Frederick Lenz Age Copy Share Image
If your parents were strong in one way and weak in another, you will be strong in the same way and weak… — Frederick Lenz Awareness Copy Share Image
There are many universes, countless universes, and many of them are invisible. We call these the astral planes, but they are as… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
Perhaps my own struggle against the negativity created by these so-called critics has enabled me to develop a more resilient, peaceful, inner… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
You can focus on me or on any spiritual teacher. Spiritual teachers who have left the body, who are no longer on… — Frederick Lenz Body Copy Share Image
Your mind is filled with thoughts and desires. Your moods shift constantly. You are not sure what it is you want, it… — Frederick Lenz Continuity Copy Share Image
Most people are completely oblivious to eternity. They look at the sky at night and they think that's eternity; it is just… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
You have to learn to be very, very gentle to start with - with yourself eventually. Meditation is not something that you… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
A child is imprinted not by simply teaching. But their attention is like soft clay. The attention field of adults is stratified.… — Frederick Lenz Adults Copy Share Image
What you have done causes things to happen. Your situation in life now has been caused, is predicated upon, your previous actions.… — Frederick Lenz Action Copy Share Image
In the state of emptiness, you are the action not the performer of the action. Allow an activity or event to take… — Frederick Lenz Action Copy Share Image
The continuity of perception is an individualized being, when that continuity is lost, the being no longer exists as they have been. — Frederick Lenz Awareness Copy Share Image
No one's lazy. What we would call the laziest person on earth expends a tremendous amount of energy to not do things. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's necessary for you to work out a way of living that's very strong and very tight and very powerful, otherwise you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All the eyes of God are looking through all the stars, or looking at the stars through our eyes. There's only the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is always possible to get into a higher state of mind. The way you get into a higher state of mind… — Frederick Lenz Good karma Copy Share Image
Look at the big picture of the wheel of life. Above it, there is a Buddha. He is pointing, not towards the… — Frederick Lenz Big picture Copy Share Image
Zen is a very quick path. Zen is the path of meditation. The word Zen means emptiness or fullness, meditation. Meditation is… — Frederick Lenz Emptiness Copy Share Image
You cannot be born and you cannot die because you don't even exist ... in the sense that you think of existence. — Frederick Lenz Birth Copy Share Image
If one thinks of an enlightened person in a negative way, as it hits their aura, it returns very strongly. — Frederick Lenz Auras Copy Share Image
When we dream, we create. All of life is a dream or a series of waking dreams. We dream our surroundings. We… — Frederick Lenz Body Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is a lot like dying. You might wonder why there aren't more enlightened people. It is because they are afraid to… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
The reason why there's such a rigid repression of the mentally ill is the psyche of humanity senses something. It senses that… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
You are no different in this lifetime than you were in your last lifetime. This lifetime is simply a continuation of your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Because they dream so strongly in themselves, their superiority and women's inferiority, they project an image that a woman finds very, very… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The integrity of the subtle body is totally important. As the subtle body wears, we get sick. That is why, eventually, the… — Frederick Lenz Body Copy Share Image
Seeing occurs, of course, through stopping thought. Thought is the fog. When thought stops in meditation, at any point, when there's no… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Dharma is the Truth that all of existence is. It does not disagree with anything. It is the perception of existence in… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
Of course, there are the old hardcore teacher types like me who sit around and tell jokes, realizing, what's the difference anyway… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Buddha taught three cycles of teachings. His first cycle of teachings cover the basics, the prerequisites. This would include the Dharmapada. — Frederick Lenz Basics Copy Share Image
One should never become devoted to a teacher, any more than one should become devoted to a statue of a god. There… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
So the intelligent use of power is to never interfere with anyone else's success. Use the power you get to just be… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
