Frederick Lenz Quotes

After the meditation session you have to be a little bit careful. If you start to think a lot of thoughts and become very active, you can prevent some of the meditative awareness from coming into your mind.

We sought a tribal society, to be close to each other, not to sit behind a television with our families and not see our families, not just to watch the evening news and the inane comedies designed to pacify the multitudes, but rather to explore ourselves.

It is really important that you live in a place that has good energy. Where you sleep, where you dream, where you meditate, where you spend a lot of time is key.

Instead of tryig to stop thought when you meditate, focus your attention on love. Suddenly you'll find your thoughts are slacking. Light is everywhere and suddenly there is no thought.

If you feel the purpose of life is struggle, Darwinian fitness, dog eat dog, then you will be eaten by a dog, or you will eat dog. You become what you focus on.

We must control the tendencies within our being that are destructive, when we want to slam somebody else, hurt them, injure them, or push them out of the way. A reverence for life needs to be developed, in which all things are sacred.

Be neither attracted nor repulsed is the message of Tantric Buddhism. Don't be drawn to something, don't run away from it. Just naturally accept whatever comes into life.

Approach each task in your life, no matter how simple or how complex, with power.

One day the play ends and the screen goes blank. There is nothing. Everything returns to its original formlessness - and then another dream begins.

A part of them has grown very attached to a certain way of life.

It is not simply a transient happiness that you experience in meditation that creates balance; it is a transformative light. Inner light is the most powerful thing there is.

If your parents were strong in one way and weak in another, you will be strong in the same way and weak in the same way. Even though you detest the weakness in them, you will find that you will do exactly the same things because they imprinted you.

Tantra has to do with the reconciliation of opposites. All the yogas recommend that you avoid certain experiences. In tantra there is no avoidance.

Love is self-realization. Love is liberation. The only way beyond time, to unravel the knot of existence, is to love.

If someone confronts you about draining them it could be a "double reverse." They are draining you and accuse you instead of draining them, just to throw you off.

To go within doesn't mean to become enraptured with who you are, or to become enraptured with ideas of who you are.

Transform yourself. It is not the opponent that will change, or the Frisbee. They will change in relation to your change. You must change.

How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places.

Who do you think of first in the morning? Good manipulators do it in the dream plane. The morning practice of meditation increases the aura to ward of negative energy. Meditate before bed if you are being attacked psychically.

Close the eyes, and focus on the third eye, the heart chakra, or the navel center. It is a good idea to alternate them.

It is a dangerous assumption to say that people who drain energy "don't know what they are doing." People are sophisticated aware beings. Don't sit around and equivocate; they'll drain you more.

Interestingly enough after diving to 235 feet in Saba, I visited the Virgin Islands. There, as a pure Karmic coincidence, I met the inventor of the snowboard, Steve Sanders, Mr. Burton's brother.

If you are not as happy as you used to be, chances are you are not meditating properly. You may be trying to skip steps. You are using power incorrectly. Your motives are not pure. You don't vibrate quickly.

Beyond learning and unlearning is awareness, and beyond awareness is consciousness, and beyond consciousness is immortality, and beyond immortality is dharma and beyond dharma is nirvana.

The sights of infinity can be too strong. They can scorch the soul. It's best to take infinity on a little at a time.

I think perhaps the greatest book ever written was Ulysses by James Joyce.

Pilgrimages are journeys to places of power. People sometimes make pilgrimages to the caves where Milarepa or other great yogis meditated.

All the sutras in the world are useless. All the lectures of all the teachers don't really mean anything. They are only words. They point in a direction, that is their only use.

It was a time period in the 1960, when a generation of souls looked at the established society, looked at the pettiness, the greed, the hate, and rejected it and tried to create something new. Their creation neither succeeded nor failed. It was another experience.

My happiness is dependent upon light. Since light is endless, I'm bound to be happy always.

Tantra is the left-handing path, meaning it is the road less taken.

I am humility, nothing more and nothing less. I am one blade of grass in a sea of grass. I am one wave in an endless ocean of waves. I am one glowing star in a galaxy of stars.

When you think an angry thought about someone, it's like hitting them.

To go to the very center of the mind of God, to be that, to become aware of our infiniteness, is the goal of Buddhism and along the way, to be as kind to others as possible without thinking that we are particularly wonderful.

There are those who want to revolutionize the world with meditation. I really don't think that is necessary. The world is already revolutionized.

Happiness does not mean that everything works out. Usually nothing works out, but you get a kick out of it anyway.

When we have complements or oppositions, change occurs.

The key to all enlightenment is to have personal experiences in the world of light. All you need to do that is to meditate.

I'm only here for a while, so I'd like to do what I can.

If someone else runs faster than you or makes more money than you or is more adept at anything, that doesn't mean you have lost. You are measuring yourself only against yourself and your tendencies not to do all that you are capable of doing.

You don't choose because if you choose you might make the wrong choice, based upon ego or illusion. Instead, you let eternity make all the choices for you.

Buddhists believe that you are who you are today is because of who you have been in all your past lives.

Sometimes you won't feel pleasant during a meditation session; it seems like an uphill run. But when you get to the top, the view is rather breathtaking.

Go through the things that life gives you to go through, happily. You have to loosen the grip of time, gradually.

For an advanced preceiver, the play of life is to assemble and reassemble the self in alternate realities of which this is one.

It is only when we are by ourselves that we can know others. When we are with other human beings we are distracted. People try and dream us into their dreams.

Freedom is within oneself. But to get beyond the thoughts and desires requires power.

The samsara is the sense of self. I've had past experiences. I'm aware of the moment. I will have future experiences.