Frederick Lenz Quotes
In pranayama you don't worry about taking breaths, you focus on exhalation. If you exhale properly you will inhale. The more deeply you exhale the more deeply you will inhale.
The secret teaching was the bodhisattva ideal, to live for others, for the welfare of all beings. That's enlightenment, not some flashy state of luminosity.
If you are in a state of mind in which all things are one, then you can spend your time in lingerie shops.
Your whole life is inside your mind. Your mind is the prism that refracts the entire universe. Everything around you and within you comes from your mind.
Sometimes it is hard to see in life. If the fog rolls in we can't see anything. Most people get caught up in life that they forget the purpose of life is to be happy.
The Samsara is the movement of life. And you, an individual self, a form, a moment on a wave, are bound.
Now that you've reached everything, you must slay this illusion without slaying it - without becoming caught up in the illusion of slaying illusions.
Yoga means we take responsibility for the tasks in our life. Whatever we are supposed to have karmically, life gives us. The question is: how do we handle it?
Most people abuse power. They use power to dominate others. They use power to destroy others. Ultimately when you do this, you lose it.
In the Bhagavad-Gita Krishna says: Arjuna you cannot avoid action. Everyone is stuck in the world of action. The world of action is forever.
Focus on this moment. Hold your hand and see what it feels like. Go look at some grass. Talk to a palm tree. Outrun a Ferrari. Experience life.
Tantra is for a person who has reached a point in their spiritual evolution where everything looks the same.
Until women assume their rightful place on earth there will never be an end to wars, cruelty and oppression.
Happiness comes from self-knowledge. Self-knowledge means that you have understood your mind. Your mind is the whole universe.
It is harder to develop your occult or psychic body when you are dead because all planes meet in the physical.
Don't think of us as separate beings. Imagine that we are one body and it's been split into millions. When we sit in the mediation hall - that is unity
Your ego interferes, your sense of self. When you let go of the mind, the Frisbee will take its own path.
A saint is someone who has been very selfless and, over a period of lifetimes, generated a tremendous amount of good karma, which has caused them to enter into very lovely states of mind.
Reason is a terrible trap because you will be satisfied with answers. And if you are satisfied with answers, you'll never come to know what life really is.
You are happiest when you are most humble. You are most miserable when you are egotistical.
Love can be the only answer. But snowboarding also works for me. Because I love snowboarding!
Humility doesn't mean hiding in the corner and pretending you are not strong. Humility means to be what you are.
The wisdom of samadhi is quite different. Higher level wisdom cannot be written down. It cannot be spoken. True wisdom is the knowledge of the universe that is beyond physical expression.
How do you know you're even here right now? Perhaps you're not. Perhaps you're far, far away and this is just a dream.
All the lives we ever lead are only dreams, these walking moments, that look so solid to you when you consider yourself awake, are just dreams.
The Zen master walks in his garden, alone. There is no traffic there. There is no shopping there. There are only the flowers.
In no way can words convey the nagual. But they open up the possibility. They allow an admission on the island of the tonal.
Our field trips are an opportunity for you to enter into the world of mystical power.
The social repression and ideological repression of women began with depriving them of education, political decisiveness, mobility and essentially creating sexual slavery.
The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations.
When you see someone's aura, it is an outer reflection of the subtle physical body. It is about the same shape as the physical body, although it can become thousands of things.
It is always possible to get into a higher state of mind. The way you get into a higher state of mind is by generating good karma.
Happiness is something that comes from creating good karma. The monk who feels that what they are doing is unpleasant is not really creating any good karma and will not have a better lifetime.
The trick in life is to find out where you belong. Once you find out where you belong, you will be happy there.
Kundalini is seen as a serpent that can shoot up the shushumna, past the chakras, opening them all and bringing you into different states of awareness.
Just to exist, just to be, to take a breath, to feel that, whether its pleasure or pain, loss or gain, just your experience in life is unique to you. No one sees life like you do.
Krishna says, fight. He says, go out in the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill.
Good karma leads to rebirth also. The desire for higher states of mind is a desire. When you are fixated on higher states of mind, you don't become enlightened.
When you unite the nothingness of your mind with the nothingness of the Frisbee, then the Frisbee is not a Frisbee, and you are not you.
If you are the body, you are in terrible trouble! One small microbe will destroy it one day, if not an accident. You have but a short time to live in this world.
If you are liberated then you can be in the crowd and there is no crowd. You can be surrounded by the world and their is no world. You have shattered the prism of illusion.
Tantra is for someone who practices all the paths because all the paths encompass tantra.
The kundalini energy rests in potential at the base of the spine. It is possible to take that energy and allow it to move, to unleash it, from the base of the spine up to the third eye.
Reincarnation is a dance. It is a movement of life to the rhythm of the universe. Spirit and matter join together as one dancing partner. They dance and it goes on forever.
The way you increase your energy is by letting go, ultimately. There is something inside you that knows what it should do, and you fight it all the time.
