Frederick Lenz Quotes

At times of extreme intensity, the kundalini can become active. Suddenly a 70-year old lady, who can't lift a bag of prunes, will lift an automobile a few inches because her grandchild got stuck under it.

There is competition in Zen. Let's not be ridiculous. There is competition in everything in life; being a winner in Zen means, competing and winning in the world of enlightenment.

Personal power, knowledge and fun come from how you approach something, not what you approach.

Just because it doesn't work out for you, doesn't mean that it's not wonderful for someone else.

Happiness is just being you, where you are right now. Allow yourself to be you. Shut off all the silly thoughts and desires and crazy emotions

None of this matters a bit. Yet, of course, it matters at that moment. So we try to be mindful of the moment; but it's fleeting.

Tantra won't work unless you've been trapped by spirituality. You have to be trapped by spirituality before you can be liberated from it.

Put a smile on your face. Don't sit in the waiting room of life. Go do something, happily.

The subtle body must be intact to transmit the kundalini.

Be aware of the dark side of others that seek to interfere with our evolution. Keep distant and closed to such beings, recognizing that they are part of the universal process too, but not a part that we need to be open to at this time.

It is fun to be outside; it's good to move your body and there is just a joy in sports and athletics.

We are like an atomic structure. We've got a causal body that's linked together.

You are new at every moment. You are an extension of the previous moment of your awareness. You can radically change, if you unhook yourself from what you have been.

Beginning meditation is a process of unhooking ourselves from thought, being motivated to meditate. It is very exciting in the beginning because we see the tremendous jumps we make in awareness.

We live in a world of careers. Work, as Sri Krishna points out in the Bhagavad Gita, is a necessary path for everyone attaining enlightenment. It is something that we all do. Some people work very hard at not working.

The world is wonderful. It is beautiful when you are in a correct level of attention.

Focus on an object of some type, hopefully an object that's beautiful or powerful. You could find a pretty colored stone that you just feel good about.

Anyone who seeks enlightenment is going to encounter opposition, whether it is from their society or from non-physical forces or friends or whatever it is. Be strong enough to go through that and win.

When we are very young children we know how to feel. It's innate. But as we lead a lifetime, we pick up so many thoughts, impressions, feelings, and ideas, that our sensitivity goes away.

Life is not dependent upon our classifications and our categories, our science. But we are. We find it interesting and helpful.

Slow down. Enjoy life. It's tough to slow down if your mind is going a million miles a second. It's tough to slow down if you think what these people do here matters.

The throat chakra is the center that is aesthetic. It gives an appreciation of beauty.

Between the creative, open and spontaneous approach to life, and the highly disciplined, pragmatic approach, there's a doorway, if you can find it - and it leads to immortality.

Learn to meditate. It's fun. It will give you a strong, wonderful mind.

I found that the breakthroughs for me, as I went through school, came through sexuality, explorations of consciousness, reading, loving, friends, time in nature, and through psychedelic experiences.

Whatever you have learned in your previous incarnations is retained within your causal body, your multi-lifetime body of energy that lives from one incarnation to another.

Buddhism is the study of how to be immeasurably happy.

Jealousy, anger, fear - these are ridiculous emotions that drain your power. You need to control them by being content, trusting that life knows what is best, accepting with an even mind whatever is presented to you.

When I meditate, people see manifestations of light when I go into samadhi and through the samadhis. Sometimes the energy of enlightenment is so clear that people don't realize that their attention has been elevated.

At the moment of birth you are the product of everything that has occurred in every lifetime you've had.

As we hate ourselves less, we tend to hate other people less too.

The tonal is also endless and limitless. We like to think of it as being finite so we feel better.

If you spend too much time in a place like that your power level will be lowered and these beings will annoy you.

You could go through incarnations forever and never become enlightened, unless of course you do something about it.

Some people travel to other dimensions in their astral bodies when they meditate.

How do you overcome the negative karmas and problems and misery that occur to people who abuse power? You stop abusing power.

Remember you have lots of help. God is meditating in you and through you. The beneficent forces of existence are glad to help you. You can focus on any spiritual teacher. We are glad to help you.

Use power carefully. Don't be afraid to have it. Learn balance and wisdom in addition to the unlocking of the kundalini, if you wish to have a happy and enlightened life.

The Grand Canyon is living evidence of the power of water over a period of time. The power may not manifest immediately. Water can be very powerful, like a tidal wave.

Some people, of course, say they're practicing tantra. There are a lot of books on tantric sexual practice in local bookstores. These are usually pretty silly books.

I like extreme athletics, extreme meditation and extremely beautiful women. Perhaps I'm an extreme person, or it's simply my Karma. But I must tell you, as if you hadn't read about me in a newspaper or seen me on a magazine format television show, there are extreme risks involved with all three.

Happiness is everything in the whole universe. It's a state of mind. Your whole life is a state of mind. So be happy, why not?

You can move in and through the astral worlds once you have gained control of your subtle body. The astral worlds are the back corridors of eternity!

The trick is simply to avoid jerks. There are lots of them out there. Most people are unhappy.

Sensations of peace, joy, and love will enter into you. They will be very subtle at first. Then they will grow stronger.

Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another.

To become more aware, it is necessary to do something that you haven't done. Everything that you have done will only make you as aware as you are now.

Humankind has no idea what existence is, at this stage. They're all dreaming, they're all asleep... Once in a great while a fully awakened one is here, observes everybody is sleeping and leaves, quietly.