Arjuna, who is the fearless waririor in the story is a very wordly indvidual, we assume with high past lives. — Frederick Lenz Arjuna Copy Share Image
Zen was a reaction. Just as Buddha came into the world and spoke against the fall of Vedanta, so Buddhism lost its… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
Everything knows what is best for itself. That is what the Sanskrit word dharma means. Dharma means the best of all possible… — Frederick Lenz Action Copy Share Image
The process is not simply of constructing a new tonal from scratch, but reordering the one you have. — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
The more moral you pretend to be, the less moral you are; the less moral you try to be, the more moral… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs. — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
With the use of psychedelics, it was all based around the Tibetan Book of the Dead, using them to experience enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Book Copy Share Image
The strategy of winning is gaining personal power. There are no techniques to learn that will cause you to win. You need… — Frederick Lenz Athletics Copy Share Image
Enlightenment requires discipline, balance, knowledge, power, happiness and a sense of responsibility and sacrifice, being able to do things with your life… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The purpose of all our explanations is not to have you understand anything, but for you to snap from the understanding of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It has been my experience as a teacher over the years and incarnations that what really counts are not techniques. What really… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism 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
It's good to visit Hawaii if you're seeking power. You don't really need to live here. Just to come over for a… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all… — Frederick Lenz Achievement 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
Ramakrishna didn't suddenly become enlightened. We had years of him meditating, seeking, crying to Mother Kali, going in and out of samadhi;… — Frederick Lenz Cry Copy Share Image
In order to create heat, you have to have something to burn. So what we do in yoga is, we burn ourselves… — Frederick Lenz Heat Copy Share Image
Use power to intelligently apprehend people who might harm you. Use that power to not be afraid. Simply step around them. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When we practice mindfulness, our nonphysical side merges with the nonphysical side of that which we are experiencing. — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
People are so tired. The world is set up to exhaust you and drain you. That's how humankind has devised their world.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Without balance and wisdom, power becomes very destructive. It creates unhappiness and not happiness. To simply see a teacher to gain power… — Frederick Lenz Balance Copy Share Image
The planes of light give you the power to rise above circumstance, the power to rise above your desires and your aversions. — Frederick Lenz Aversion Copy Share Image
In different lifetimes, you incarnate in different dimensional planes, let alone in different universes in the physical universe. — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
Perception not only defines existence but it creates existence. It gives it form. Without perception there is no existence. — Frederick Lenz Awareness Copy Share Image
Those who are already adept at some disciplines of the body will find that the study of Zen and meditation will give… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The judgment that you pass today will only hinder a person in their spiritual evolution. All you do is say to the… — Frederick Lenz Bhakti yoga Copy Share Image
Intelligent martial arts is not getting in battles and winning them. Intelligent martial arts is avoiding battles because battles use up energy,… — Frederick Lenz Art Copy Share Image
If you think of spiritual practice as unpleasant work - it is not spiritual practice as I know it. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One of my greatest personal heroes is Jerry Lopez. When you can snowboard like he surfs, you'll be there! — Frederick Lenz Hero Copy Share Image
The kundalini energy enables us to do things that would not happen otherwise, to apply an occult pressure, to use energy to… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
The way you increase your energy is by letting go, ultimately. There is something inside you that knows what it should do,… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
You don't have to do anything to be happy, nor do you have to avoid anything. Happiness comes from within your mind.… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
The emphasis is on meditation in Tantric Zen. The experience of meditation in formal practice, zazen, where you're sitting down and meditating… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's very funny. People do not want to achieve liberation or be happy. This is the basic guideline they teach you in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The pathway to enlightenment is happiness. It doesn't really matter if you're successful, if you're in prison, if you're dying - if… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
Meditation will bring back the powers and awareness from the past; more importantly, it will expand your consciousness today. — Frederick Lenz Awareness Copy Share Image
Never think too much of yourself. Realize you are only an instrument of eternity. Do not get stuck in that terrible trap.… — Frederick Lenz Balance 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… — Frederick Lenz Duality Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is a perfect state of mind. It is the direct seeing of reality. The world most people see, which they call… — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
You might as well be perfect. There is really not all that much else to do here that is exciting. — Frederick Lenz Buddhism Copy Share Image
