Frederick Lenz Quotes
Tantric Zen, and the people who practice it, of course, make some people feel extremely uncomfortable.
Tantric Zen is for someone who is really broad-minded. It is Bodhidharma's Zen, your Zen, my Zen. Which doesn't mean I have a problem with Japanese Zen. Most Japanese Zen is minding your p's and q's.
Don't worry about your future lives, past lives. Button up your shirt! Stand up straight! Go out and do something. Go out and have some fun. Be alive, change, dissolve, explode!
Those who scorn and hate the world and hate themselves miss the point. The point was that there wasn't one. There was no place to go to.
In Tantric Zen, career, relationships, the type of insurance you have - all things are part of your evolution, your awareness, your experience of the suchness of existence.
Everything is dependent upon your state of mind. That is all there is, states of mind, ten thousand of them. Beyond all states of mind is nirvana.
Free yourself from happiness and unhappiness. Realize there is something beyond both and yet, revel in your time, revel in this world.
The highest type of meditation is done in silence. In silence there are no mantras. Mantras are not essential, but they can be very helpful.
A mantra is a very powerful word. It vibrates like music does, only not on this plane but on other planes of reality. It creates a powerful force. It starts the kundalini moving.
There are thousands of mantras. Everyone has favorites. I prefer three - Aum, Sring, and Kring.
Start a meditation session by repeating a mantra, perhaps, "Aum", which is the most powerful of all mantras. Then, after repeating the mantra perhaps a dozen times, focus on a yantra.
Lakshmi is a celestial being who lives in a higher plane of existence. Her mantra is "Sring." When you chant it, it brings beauty and light into your consciousness.
Kring is the mantra of power. "Kring" should only be repeated when you are in deep meditation.
Towards the end of your meditation session, or when you feel your meditation is deep, chant "Kring" seven times. Repeat it with sharp intensity, without elongating the syllables.
A mantra is a thought. Use a mantra to help you still your mind initially and then move into silent meditation.
It is not a good idea to continually repeat a mantra during meditation. Repeating a mantra throughout your mediation causes you to fixate on a specific level of consciousness.
It is more important to repeat a mantra several times with total absorption than to parrot it for hours on end.
After meditation, it is a good idea to bow and offer your meditation to god, to that stillness and perfection that is existence. Feel that you are giving your meditation away.
At the end of meditation period we always bow and we touch our head to the floor and say "Buddha's name be praised."
Bow and offer your meditation to Eternity, as you would offer a Flower to your lover.
Learn not to judge your meditation. Just meditate, do your best, set a minimum period of time and meditate.
How do you end a meditation session? It's nice to chant a mantra again. Maybe repeat it a few times. It seals the meditation. Do your best and then just give it to eternity.
Don't judge your meditations. Don't rate them. The physical mind cannot tell how well you did. As long as you are sitting there trying, something will happen.
Each time you meditate you have the possibility of completely changing your life in one meditation. If you meditate with your whole heart and your whole soul, you will become light itself.
Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment. Move the ego aside and be still, open, clear, bright and fully conscious.
You should always feel, no matter how many times you've meditated before, that this is your first meditation. You have no idea what will happen or what won't happen.
There are many ways to meditate. When you meditate, you are learning how to feel again.
If you can bring earnestness to your meditation, you will find that happiness is something that will run through your life constantly.
There's no risk in doing a lousy meditation or not meditating at all. There's no risk in being convenient and comfortable. There's a lot of risk in the world of enlightenment.
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.
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.
Sometimes people start to meditate and they get a headache. It's because they're trying too hard. You're pulling in too much energy.
When you meditate, you focus to clear the mind and to bring the willpower together. But then, toward the end of the session let go, just become eternity.
Every time you sit down to meditate, you have to sit down with a resolve to win. You are going to sit there and will your mind to be happy, quiet and still.
The trick to keeping your meditation practice alive, not simply consistent but wonderful, is you need to bring a certain will or force into every meditation.
The essence of Taoism is really expressed by these few words. Taoism is the way of the child, the way of the fool, the way of someone who doesn't need to be noticed.
The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level of existence.
When it reaches a blockage, water find the easiest path around the blockage, or it continues to assemble, and flows over the blockage.
Wisdom is knowing that if you bend, you don't have to break. Sometimes it is necessary to go with the flow of life.
Lao Tsu always points a finger directly to us. He says we must begin with ourselves. It's impossible to bring order into the world unless we bring order into ourselves.
Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one might think it was in some way antithetical to contempory life.
Many sections are taken up with political discussions and how the way of the ruler, the merchant, the householder, and the army interact with the Tao.