Frederick Lenz Quotes & Sayings

There is something beyond power. The totality of one's being. Some call it nirvana. We have a higher destiny. Before you can scratch the surface, you have to bring your life into order. — Frederick Lenz

Certainly, I am aware that there have been a number of articles written about me and television shows in which I have been featured and referred to as a "cult leader." — Frederick Lenz

In Zen we study the will. We learn how to cultivate it, to accumulate will. We use it to direct our actions, and we don't overuse it or abuse it - that's a waste. — Frederick Lenz

Selfless giving is a choice. The primary choice we make is not what to give, how to give, where to give. What we are trying to do is become perfect givers. — Frederick Lenz

We should not weep or cry or be upset when we see the generations pass, because all are forms of the infinite creation. They are not real, they are not eternal. — Frederick Lenz

Philosophers are all caught up in their philosophies. That's their house of cards. Religious leaders are caught up in their religious movements to the point where they forget about freedom. Everybody's got their drama going. — Frederick Lenz

Human beings going to their jobs and living their lives are unconscious. They don't know what's going on. They don't know why you are born or why you die. — Frederick Lenz

Buddhism is the study of power initially. It takes a certain amount of power to even know your potential - to have the sense that you can change the way you perceive. — Frederick Lenz

Nirvikalpa Samadhi means you are sitting in meditation and you go beyond the planes of light to nirvana. Then you come back and here you are "back in the saddle again". — Frederick Lenz

As a teacher you just look at someone and you transmit to them what they need to know. Not simply a thought form, but you transmit an awareness level. — Frederick Lenz

The ten thousand states of mind that we talk about in Zen are all levels of perception. You can think of each of the ten thousand states of mind as a dimensional plane. — Frederick Lenz

The life of an unenlightened person is filled with suffering. — Frederick Lenz

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

Try to read books about meditation, but not so many different viewpoints that they get confusing. There is no best way. It's just what works for you at the time. — Frederick Lenz

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

The state between birth and death is not sympathetic. It is a flow system. Whatever your conscious level is, that is how you will reincarnate. — Frederick Lenz

Have a healthy respect and love for yourself, but don't be taken out by your ego. — Frederick Lenz

In my adolescence, love, as I think for most of us, was a tremendous focus. I wanted to find the perfect partner. I did and married her. — Frederick Lenz

You see two people together. They're in a relationship. It's really power that holds those people together. And when the designs of power change, those people will separate and there's nothing they can do in the meantime about it. — Frederick Lenz

This is not the case. There is nothing that is not the Self. The Self does not have to be realized. — Frederick Lenz

I'm always waiting for you, hoping that you'll be really interested, that you'll try completely. In every life I wait for you. I've always been waiting and I always will. — Frederick Lenz

The causal body is the most ancient and timeless part of a person. It has the capacity to know and do things that the physical mind and body cannot. — Frederick Lenz

In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all revolves around the ego. This has nothing to do with the Zen of sports and athletics. — Frederick Lenz

If you are finding that you can stop thought longer and longer, I would say your life is bringing power into your being. You are gaining things out from that field behind the house. — Frederick Lenz

The danger to power is obsession - power junkies. You need a very strong mind and humor to balance yourself. If you don't, you will get shredded. — Frederick Lenz

In order to do an empowerment, a person obviously has to be highly empowered, have the power, and also have the structural knowledge of how to transfer it to someone else. — Frederick Lenz

The purpose of all of this is not to walk around with new vocabulary words, but to cause you to speculate on the marvel of your own being. — Frederick Lenz

When I talk about the realm of spirit, happiness, nirvana, enlightenment, I'm not talking about something ideal or imaginary. There are realms of light that exist, that have always existed and will always exist. They're much more solid than the transient perceived reality that you're currently experiencing — Frederick Lenz

The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up. — Frederick Lenz

The subtle physical body is made up of strands of luminous energy, and the energies are flowing through them constantly in the etheric plane. Above the subtle body is the causal body. — Frederick Lenz

Today in the west the word 'guru' has come to mean someone who leads a cult, someone who deprives others of their intellectual or spiritual freedom and rips them off financially. — Frederick Lenz

The higher octave light that comes from samadhi, the kundalini of samadhi, this you can absorb continuously. You can never overload. It can never hurt you. — Frederick Lenz

Each of is endlessly generating waves with our actions. If you could see the earth from a vibratory point of view, you would see something like radio waves billions of them, cascading constantly into very complex patterns all over the earth. — Frederick Lenz

Chaos is not disorder. Chaos is the totality of existence. You could call it God. You could use the term, the Tao. I like chaos. It means more to us in English. Chaos is all things, wild and wonderful, connected perfectly by the life force. — Frederick Lenz

The essence of your awareness field definitely goes on after death. It goes through death, it goes into non-physical states for a time, and then eventually is pulled back and it reincarnates. — Frederick Lenz

A certain amount of the kundalini is always floating through the ida and the pingala. These two little nerve tubes, on either side of the shushumna, keep us alive. — Frederick Lenz

In the case of the brujos, the sorcerers in Mexico, the Spanish Conquest forced them to develop their second attention. — Frederick Lenz

When I began to play Frisbee, I would play with my friends and we used to do difficult things. We would stand in front of lines of trees that were parallel. We would spend hours throwing frisbees back and forth between these tight spots. — Frederick Lenz

For a person who lives in time, differences are the most important thing because they represent your existence. — Frederick Lenz

I have been sought out by a number of people who would have felt uncomfortable coming to a large public meditation. They don't want people to come up and ask for autographs. — Frederick Lenz

When I was very, very young - four, five, six - I could see inside people, their motives, their dreams, their apprehension of reality. — Frederick Lenz

To become conscious of God, to become God's consciousness, to become God, to be God and to be beyond God, God being beyond God, God having an existence separate from the creation, to be that, to merge with that, to lose one's self and find one's self endlessly again and again in that is self-realization. — Frederick Lenz

When we talk about self-realization, we're talking from the point of view of limitation of the mind. Real knowledge is to see that you are that - you are eternity. — Frederick Lenz

The United States is filled with power places. The majority of them, however, are to be found either along the West Coast and in the southwestern United States or along the Eastern Seaboard. — Frederick Lenz

Feel that the energy of your willpower can easily deflect tension-causing feelings and frustrations that are directed towards you from the outside world. — Frederick Lenz

Once you become very powerful and advanced, you must be willing to go back to school and start over, and go to a wise person who will show you the way. Very few people are willing to do that. — Frederick Lenz

The absorption in nirvana is all that matters. All the strategies of your life are only there to empower you for your final assault on the impenetrable cliffs of forever. — Frederick Lenz

A Buddhist monk has a responsibility first and foremost to themselves, and that's to find the truth each day in every part of their life. — Frederick Lenz

When we meditate and we are able to stop thought, we get a sense of being beyond the body. Our consciousness expands and we see ourselves as beings of light. — Frederick Lenz

Continually reorder the mind and the mental structures, the ability to think in prescribed ways, to analyze in prescribed ways, and to stop thought for periods of time. — Frederick Lenz

Naturally, the Zen Master Rama philosophy is to have a high state of awareness and material success. — Frederick Lenz

There is a certain degree of pain to be experienced in the search for self-knowledge, as there is a certain amount of joy. You just do it because you find yourself doing it. There just doesn't seem to be much else worthwhile. — Frederick Lenz

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. — Frederick Lenz

Just as the subtle physical body holds together the physical body, the causal body holds together the body of awareness. — Frederick Lenz

Reincarnation is a process in which a finite being will go through a series of transmutations and will perceive different things. There will be a continuity of perception. — Frederick Lenz

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. — Frederick Lenz

Yes, there are siddha powers. Yes, you can heal people, transform attention. You can flood the sky with light at night so you can't even see the stars. But the greatest miracle is the spirit - it is light — Frederick Lenz

I practice selfless giving not because I'm remarkable but just because I find that its terrifically fun! — Frederick Lenz

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

It is only hard work that brings about results, doing things for others. Forget about your problems. Take responsibility for your life and make it into something beautiful in the midst of changing circumstances. — Frederick Lenz

Your life will be joyful and complete when you have a pure heart and your motives are unsullied. — Frederick Lenz

You become someone else when you meditate. It isn't just a little technique. If you really pursue it, you change radically - you evolve. — Frederick Lenz

The tonal is so strong, that it even arranges a syntactical place for God and thus kills the mystery, the reality, and paralyzes the being. — Frederick Lenz

Men fearing their innate power, pushed woman back into slavery. — Frederick Lenz

They say that faith can move mountains, so can bulldozers, so can nuclear weapons. I'm not really sure if that's what faith is intended for. I guess if there is a mountain that has to be moved, and you've got nothing else to do it with, you could probably do it with faith. — Frederick Lenz

Most human beings are completely out of touch with their spiritual nature and with the inner dimensions that exist within themselves. They don't realize each person has a soul, an inner core of light and intelligence as vast as the ten thousand worlds, whose inner nature is emptiness, ecstasy and happiness. — Frederick Lenz

Those who seek liberation want to go beyond individualized perception. The essence of their being wants to dissolve back into the cosmos. — Frederick Lenz

The logical and extralogical exercises you do in meditation are very similar to advanced systems analysis and programming. — Frederick Lenz

I can assure you that next to my bed, there is always a copy of the Dharmapada which I read from every night. — Frederick Lenz

A part of us resists all of this and wants to make it sound as if it's much too religious, an arbitrary thing that we have to do with our life. This is nonsense. This is the real fun. — Frederick Lenz

Selfless-giving burns away the layers of the onion. Purity and humility keep meditation and selfless-giving clear. Love radiates through the entire practice because we do all of it only for love. — Frederick Lenz

Feel the wind. This wind blows from world to world and from life to death. This is the wind of dharma. Be in love with the wind. It is an intimate lover. It enraptures you. It blows you through eternity. — Frederick Lenz

If I give Susan a new Cuisinart then she'll be happy ... If she's thankful to me, my life will be better ... she will do something for me. — Frederick Lenz

The word "Guru", as it is used in the contemporary American scene, is someone who takes all your money and tells you what to do with your life. You assume no responsibility. A lot of people want that free ride. — Frederick Lenz

The only reason you feel pain is because you're so busy looking at yourself instead of looking at the wonderful patterns of light. If you become absorbed in the wonderful patterns of light, then there's no pain. — Frederick Lenz

A walk in the woods can reveal many things, and it is a good time to practice transcendentalism. Look at a tree and realize it's not just a tree, its roots may go into the ground but it may also go into other worlds, other eternities. — Frederick Lenz

Everything is a formation or an aggregate of love. — Frederick Lenz

It is much more likely that you will attain liberation if you want liberation for others, than just for yourself. — Frederick Lenz

In every home in America, in the world, there was cruelty, anger and hatred - things I didn't feel. — Frederick Lenz

Now when I speak about Zen, I have a problem, in the sense that the Zen of today has lost the essence, in my estimation, of what I call "old Zen." — Frederick Lenz

For most persons, the mystical kundalini energy is easier to initially perceive, unless you're extremely sensitive. It's more of a rush, a flash. There's an electric quality to it, a burning heat. — Frederick Lenz

Experience is a great teacher. You will have to go through the trials and tribulations and the ecstasies and abandoned moments of wonderfulness that all of us did on the way to enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz

If you are going to set out to develop mystical powers to impress your friends and do other things to your enemies, the difficulty with it is that you will not be moving towards enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz

Psychic perception is a much more efficient and accurate method of seeing and knowing reality. — Frederick Lenz

You must consider that there is opposition from other human beings and also non-physical forces that don't want you to succeed. — Frederick Lenz

The first sexual experience is a significant imprinting of attention. — Frederick Lenz

There are different pathways that lead to enlightenment. We could say that everyone's life is one of the pathways. Your life is a pathway that leads to enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz

Mindfulness is the direct application of Buddhist teachings to a physical event, a way of doing or accomplishing something, or a way of thinking and viewing something. — Frederick Lenz

There are certain protective forces in the universe that do watch over us, but the innocent die too. — Frederick Lenz

Astrologically, at that age, you experience a Saturn return. It is considered an auspicious time to "reboot" your life. It's a chance to have a clean start and move forward into something very exciting. — Frederick Lenz

One doesn't actually meditate on the navel. The chakra is located about two or three inches below the navel, at that point there is an energy access sphere in the middle of the body. — Frederick Lenz

You have dreamed me into your dream to awaken you from the dreams of life, death and separativity. — Frederick Lenz

The third eye is located between the eyebrows and a little above. The heart center is located directly in the center of the chest. The naval center is about two inches below the navel. — Frederick Lenz

Most power is lost in one's own mind by thinking negative thoughts, by worrying about the future, by focusing on the past, as opposed to thinking positive, strong, and happy thoughts. — Frederick Lenz

It is better to agree with a "wrong" idea than to press a "right" idea on other people. — Frederick Lenz

They can't stop you if, in your heart, you seek enlightenment, empowerment, balance and knowledge. — Frederick Lenz

Love is beginningless and endless ecstasy. It is an unfathomable mystery. It is the study of our lives. — Frederick Lenz

Don't try and understand this with your mind. There will be no absolute knowing, no certainty in these thoughts and philosophies and ideas. — Frederick Lenz

Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. — Frederick Lenz

Once in a while, you will see someone really drippy. The person has to stare at the teacher all the time with that devoted and disgusting and sick look. It's boring, misplaced devotionalism. — Frederick Lenz