Frederick Lenz Quotes

Psychic beings are childlike, delicate and easily destroyed.

There is no fanaticism in any of this. There is intensity. You have to make it happen. You have to put your will into perfecting your daily life, into monitoring your thoughts.

In the beginning we define what is spiritual. But as you go on, you see that everybody and everything is an instrument of infinity.

They say Casanova made love to over 10,000 women. Do you think it changed him? It probably aged him a little bit. But I doubt that it changed him. If it had changed him, he would have stopped somewhere along the line and done something a little different.

I have seen people who practice yoga and Buddhism who are scared to death of the sorcery powers of others. This is absurd.

The world is filled with people who understand. I personally value people who don't understand. People who understand have nothing more to learn. People who don't understand have hope. Do you understand?

You don't really have a choice. You are alive and you will die.

Sometimes there are people who only meditate with a teacher. They ride the teacher's energy. They don't really learn how to meditate. They learn how to ride the energy.

The spirit of the West, of America, is different than the East. The cultural conditioning is very different. It seems to be harder for people to work in teams, more difficult for people here to live in harmony, in a monastery.

During the age of Atlantis, the low population density and the resulting purity of the earth's aura, made conditions ideal for discovering secret meditation techniques.

That's why their realization is not integrated and complete, and they must go through many, many lifetimes very often before that acceptance will take place.

Within silence all things are contained. What appears to our eyes to be life is but a thin curtain, a gauze penumbra, which stultifies our vision, which prevents us from seeing the truth.

Anything that you might want to be is around somewhere. You can become it. You just have to get into the state of mind that allows that to occur.

I consider those persons to be my students who come and meditate with me on a regular basis, who, in spite of the hardships and difficulties on the path of knowledge, still continue to try, and who respect me as I respect them.

I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs.

In Buddhist practice a great deal of time is spent practicing mandala meditation. You learn to visualize and hold simultaneous concepts in the mind during meditation.

Lao Tsu always points a finger directly to us. He says we must begin with ourselves. It's impossible to bring order into the world unless we bring order into ourselves.

We can say the stars are moving because we have a relative context.

In order to create heat, you have to have something to burn. So what we do in yoga is, we burn ourselves up to create light.

In tantra, samsara is viewed as the same thing as nirvana. Eating a hamburger is meditation.

You must constantly strive to enlarge your awareness. Naturally, if you do, you will have an uncommonly fine and happy life.

You may feel a sensation of floating. You may see colors, maybe no phenomena, it doesn't matter. You are absorbing power.

Examine your experience of the incarnation so far and realistically add up the moments of happiness and unhappiness and you tell me, oh somewhat vaguely nobly born, you tell me, what has it been like for you?

Keep some of your attention on your navel center when you are in a situation in which you feel your power is being drained. You will find that you will keep your power tighter, you won't lose as much.

All the records of your past lives are contained within your own mind, just as the records of your ancestors are contained within your DNA.

Reason is necessary. It is necessary to deal with the world.

How do you end a meditation session? It's nice to chant a mantra again. Maybe repeat it a few times. It seals the meditation. Do your best and then just give it to eternity.

In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference between them.

Hundreds of thousands of years ago a very powerful civilization lived in what we now call North America. They congregated around power places - interdimensional vortexes where it is very easy to shift from one plane of reality to another.

Learn the motions of infinity within your mind. Your mind becomes a perfect mirror to the motions of infinity.

You're composed of an aggregate of different forms and energies, the samskaras. These are lines within your own being. When you go into samadhi, these lines dissolve gradually so you become less formed.

Perception defines everything.

Those who dissolve their body of perception completely are absorbed into what we would call nirvana.

I am involved in the creation of software, and I'm also in the music business.

What matters is that you meditate, you're seeking enlightenment, you're on the pathway to enlightenment, and you're having fun. Don't look for reassurance in the eyes of others. Look for reassurance in your own eyes. Only you know if Buddhist practice is improving the quality of your life.

A person without much power is easily influenced by others, whether they are physical or non-physical beings. Their life is easily ruined. They are blown around like a leaf in the wind.

Human beings, when they encounter that which can't be understood, either run away from it, run towards it blindly, or just rationalize it out of existence.

It's an adversarial world outside of the safety of nirvana and enlightenment. In life, all beings need to feed on other beings just in order to exist. Some beings also like to cause others to needlessly suffer, just out of pure maliciousness

What we are seeking is the nexus of all possible worlds and states of mind, which is within us. The source of yin and yang is within you.

It is necessary to have a very liberal and simultaneously very conservative mentality to practice Tantric Zen.

The strong conquer the weak. The weak serve the strong and hope to become strong so they can conquer others who are weaker.

Look for the things in your life that bring you stillness and happiness, not the things that make you crazy. Look inside yourself and look for that perfect stillness.

You've got to make a person aware of how miserable they really are and show them how happy they can be. Otherwise, why should they seek this nebulous goal called self-discovery.

Alow immortality to work through you. Be but a mere instrument. And that instrument should be so absorbed in the perfect perfection of existence, that it knows not even that it is absorbed.

Buddhism suggests there are no elect. Everything rests upon your own self-effort, which is the good news because that means you don't have to wait around for some nebulous God to help you.

Step beyond your role as a perceiver, merge everything into the flux.

Career success means making enough money to lead the kind of life you would like to lead as a practicing Buddhist.

You have no idea of how many people have control of your life. Make lists of people you trust and love and constantly examine the people in your life.