Frederick Lenz Quotes
Be mindful, which is more of a passive meditation practice. It is passive when you are active. Then there is active meditation, when you are passive, sitting still.
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.
Step one in overcoming fears is to make a fear list. Make a list of all the things that you are afraid of. Start out with the small fears and conquer them.
If you run into a Buddha, then that energy field, the "rad" level is so high, it's incalculable. Their effect on an individual is for many, many, many, many, many, many lifetimes.
The role of the Buddhist teacher is to explain your options and to show you what creates karma. All our discussions are basically karmic until you're fully engaged in samadhi.
The yoga of discrimination is only practiced once you have started to go into Samadhi.
On waking from the dream, we see that birth and death, the sense of self, other - all of these things fade away.
People who are drawn to meditation have had lots of incarnation in the world of experience, and we know the score. We know that experience is great, but it's not enough.
Those secrets are things that most people don't learn, because they are not enthusiastic enough, or bright enough, or patient enough, or funny enough; or still enough.
We must constantly remind ourselves that we are eternity, infinite, beyond birth and death.
Discrimination, viveka, means you know the difference between the transient and the eternal. That's what discrimination means in Shankara's yoga.
You can enjoy the ideas of salvation, as long as you realize that there's no one to be saved.
You can enjoy the beauties of this world, as long as you remember this world doesn't exist.
A perfect life is to observe - to realize that you have no control over the events in your life, that there are no events in your life, that there is no life.
We have to remind ourselves that we are not the transitory body, we are not the person who is having experiences, we are not affected by action or inaction.
Jnana yoga is a very demanding practice. It's necessary for you to become conscious of the fact that you're not human.
The teacher will perform miracles. Not just to delight and amuse people, but showing them that miraculous occurrences indicate that there is something more.
God is limitless awareness. There, now I have told you everything I know about God ... a lot of good it did you.
The idea is that the savior came, and simply by the coming of the savior you're saved. Nonsense, human beings wish! If that were the case, we'd live in a perfect world.
When you see paintings of some of the saints, or of Christ, they all have lights around their heads. What the painters are trying to convey is the psychic light, which is around everyone.
Christ said, 'Seek and ye shall find.' Learn the ways to seek which will expedite your journey and make it more fun.
It's necessary when you follow the path of love to love those around you first. Desire tells us that we should have someone else in our life.
We know that many of the apostles of Christ were killed. Eleven out of 12 met violent deaths when they were just talking about God and light.
The Romans had to kill him because he was threatening the order because he had a great deal of personal power.
If someone else is supposed to be in your life, they will be in your life - you can't stop them from coming if its the will of eternity.
Christ was crucified because he threatened the tonal of the time. He was killed because he threatened the established order of the political regime.
Love more deeply and without the sense of what you love being your personal possession.
All he said was that we're all free if we pursue spirit. That's all he said. He didn't say let's set up a Vatican Concil. He didn't say, Martin Luther, you need to put our demands on the door.
Love is something that comes to us in life. Quietly, it overwhelms us. It is something that you cultivate. You make it happen.
Much of the time your attention is directed towards the world of sexuality, it's done through the second attention of a woman - not simply in your physical presence but from thousands of miles away.
As a woman you must unite with other women for a while and perhaps even reject the world of men, just to balance yourself.
You have to begin to develop a repertory of jokes, multi-plane spiritual jokes, the sort of things the Zen masters tell each other when they're asleep. These are the secret teachings.
If her security rests upon her alliance with a man, another woman may take that man away; therefore women have no unity between themselves.
Your very own sister may take your husband away and your husband may be the ticket for economic survival.
Women do not help each other attain enlightenment because in the description of the world they've been given, unlike that of men, it's every woman for herself in order to survive.
What a man must do is realize that his continued belief in the inferiority of women is going to produce a type of karma that is going to hold him back, and already has.
Women have allowed you to think that, which is a part of their inaccessibility in using their second attention.
The majority of times when a man thinks he has been the instigator, which men like to think, in sexual and romantic experiences, that has not been the case.
