Frederick Lenz Quotes

One of the traditional Tantric methods of mediation is to imagine that you are taking on the suffering of all beings.

Work sustains us as bodies and it consumes a great deal of energy. The conservation of energy is the component theme of Buddhist practice and yoga. That is why people live in monasteries.

You get to the point where you have to wash the dishes. That's the fun in life. Being behind the scenes and doing things for others; being an instrument of that cause. That is the secret teaching.

It is impossible to move on to new states of mind unless you seek the forgiveness of those you've offended.

So, those who hate, those who are violent in nature, live in a world of hate and fear and violence inside themselves, inside their minds, inside their awareness.

Those who love and who have a sense of purity live in a very luminous band of awareness.

I think that the world ended a long time ago and no one realizes it. We're in a dream somewhere in a vortex of energy that just hasn't realized its nonexistence yet.

When we dream, we create. All of life is a dream or a series of waking dreams. We dream our surroundings. We dream our friends, our relations. We dream our bodies. We dream our dreams.

Death is not the end of who we are. It is only a brief pause in the endless cycle of our lives. Each of us is a spirit that cannot die.

If your nature is infinite awareness trapped in a body, suddenly there's a lack of happiness, a lack of freedom. No matter what you get you'll never be happy, because these are all trinkets.

Be kind, be loving, be generous. Give of yourself, give of your time and you'll be free. It's the oldest secret, the one thats most often forgotten - and that is to have fun through giving.

From age to age an enlightened person comes along, one who has made friends with God. They're usually forgotten or scorned.

Selfless giving is friendliness. An attitude towards life, a reverence for life. It is one of the highest of all ways.

Once we've achieved perfect meditation, we're terribly trapped because that's an illusion...any enlightenment that seems ultimate is an illusion.

The ego is not harmonious with happiness and spiritual development. In the process of spiritual transformation we refine it. In the fire of love we melt the ego down.

In the Bhagavad-Gita, a dialogue ensues in the middle of a battlefield, symbolizing the battlefield of life which we are fighting through our illusions.

You will always see, if this group is a highly evolved group or on the way up, a movement towards oneness.

People you are emotionally open to can drain your power level or raise it tremendously, depending on what their intentions are.

The highest teaching is never written down. It's only communicated from teacher to student because it's a "transmission of the lamp." It's a transmission of mind.

A real enlightened teacher is intense and they could care less what you think about anything at any time since you are lost in illusions.

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

People seem to get caught up in jargon like they get caught up in ashrams and power structures and they never become free. They become masters of jargon and power structures.

An enlightened person doesn't know it all. Enlightenment simply means walking beyond this and all worlds into nirvana, which is beyond knowledge and ignorance.

In India and other places, there are people who fool themsleves. They walk around all day saying, "Who am I? Who am I?"

We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving you have no time for this. You just push these emotions out.

On the path of love we feel that if we love today, it's only because God is loving through us, because there is a special grace present with which we can love.

The stillness of God is perfect. Nothing has to be added to it. Nothing can be taken away.

Everything is the will of God - we are only instruments of her will and we learn to just love and accept.

There is nothing and no one else but your dear friend, eternity, who has always loved you, who will always love you.

Chaos theory simply suggests that what appears to most people as chaos is not really chaotic, but a series of different types of orders with which the human mind has not yet become familiar.

Be fair. Don't present your version of the truth to others. Lose your ulterior motives! Be accurate and pure in your presentation of the way, and you will become the way.

There's no place to go. There's nothing to attain. There's nothing to be reached. Love itself is all that you want.

One who practices the yoga of love is like child. When the child has a problem, it cries. When it cries, someone comes and helps the child.

On the path of love we don't feel we necessarily have control. In the yoga of love we feel it's only God who does everything. We can't breathe one breath without God.

The power that enables us to transform our awareness is the release of kundalini. All yoga, either directly or indirectly, all Buddhism, relates to the release of the kundalini energy.

Ask youself: "Am I loving as deeply as I am capable of loving?"

We're too insignificant and small to really be able to do anything, except cry, not unhappily, but an inner cry, a feeling of reaching to God.

While we all have a great capacity to love, very few of us will love the proper way.

In the yoga of love, one has a teacher. It is the teacher whom one loves.

I was very drawn to music of all types, from Beethoven to Jimi Hendrix. There were musicians and composers who obviously were expressing a vision that was beyond the mundane.

As long as you're running away from a part of yourself, you can't see immortality.

You can only be really happy when you become what you really are.

There is no such thing as completion. These are only stages in an endless progression. There are no final outcomes or decisions, since nothing ever stays the same.

When you do something for someone else, it's for you. When you do something for yourself, it's for someone else.

After this happens again and again, we reach a point were there is nothing but satori, which is what nirvikalpa samadhi is like.

Self-giving means that we have to understand the nature of giving. When most people give, they give expecting a return on their investment.

The only way you can really evaluate spiritual advancement is to see how someone treats those who are close to them.

The essence of your being reincarnates.

I recommend computer science to people who practice meditation. The mental structures that are used in computer science are very similar exercises done in Buddhist monasteries.

When you meditate deeply, you will see beyond life and death. You will see that you can't die and you can't be reborn. You are existence itself.