Frederick Lenz Quotes

This lifetime right now you have a specific destiny. You are destined to die at a certain time, to make a certain amount of money, to have certain associations and friendships.

The experiences you'll have, the people you'll love, the jobs, the joys, the sorrows, the way you'll die. It is all predestined, unless you will a change.

Karma exists within causality. It is three-dimensional. Free will exists outside of causality; it is not bound by karma.

If there wasn't a way around the samskaras, no one would ever become enlightened.

Free will exists and operates outside causality. It is not hooked to karma. Free will is like a well that is on your property. You can choose to draw water from the well or not.

If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns.

Free will exists within each of us. Most people choose not to use their free will, so consequently they rarely alter their karmic patterns.

The person who gives selflessly in this lifetime immediately goes into a better state of mind. That is instant karma.

Intent is all-important. Your intent determines what happens to you inwardly, in a karmic sense.

Everyone experiences desire. Desire is not bad. There is no good or bad from the point of view of karma. There is only structured reaction.

Selfless actions create a higher karma, which brings you into higher states of mind. When you are in higher states of mind you will see things that you never saw before.

You did something noble. This will cause a release of energy. It causes a vibratory shift. It means you are moving into a different plateau of consciousness.

If your motives are high and noble and your work is hard and you do a good job, then whatever the task is in your life, it will benefit you.

By practicing Buddhist Yoga, you can become happy, ecstatic and free in your current incarnation, even if you have never been that way before in any of your past lives.

If you are not happier every day, if you don't see a progression of development, then you are certainly not practicing yoga or Buddhism and therefore you cannot be amassing any positive karma.

My favorite cause is the enlightenment of others. I think that is the best place to put money. You get the highest yield in terms of karma on your money.

If you work an extra ten hours to help spread the dharma, this will cause for much faster progression. You're doing something for a higher cause, for a higher ideal.

To go beyond karma you have to end the structure of self.

You have all died many times before and none of you look the worse for it.

You can't die. Bodies come and go but your spirit is eternal. You're the stuff that life is.

We don't really remember where we came from, and we're not too sure about where we go to, if we are, after this thing we call life.

You don't really have a choice. You are alive and you will die.

Death is a doorway. It is a very small, thin doorway and only a portion of our being can walk through.

At the time of death we walk through a doorway and our spirit, which is very thin, slides through into another world.

In the end we just realize there's no end. It just goes on forever, in countlessly new forms. That's what's wonderful about the universe there's no escape from living. Death doesn't even end it.

The perceptual body that you are at the time of death ceases to be. It is not structured quite so tightly.

When you die you pass into inner worlds and continue to perceive. Death is not the dissolution of the self. Death is rather just a change in perception.

When you see that you are not the body, that the body comprises only a small fraction of the aggregate of your awareness, then death is no fear, life is no fear, there is no fear.

If you can die, you are confused because death is a perception of something ending and something else obviously beginning, which means we're still hung up on qualities.

Anything that ends with death isn't really mind, just the things that pass through a mind.

There is no life and there is no death. Life and death are moving shadows cast upon the ground by clouds that sweep across the sky.

Death is simply a change in perception. It is not an end to perception as a finite being.

Death is only a summer vacation for us. We don't really change or lose what we have learned or who we have been when we die, because we are our karma.

When you die you forget. Death is a sleep, a forgetting. You forget about your previous lifetime. The essence of your being is the same. But at death, the personality dissolves

The personality structure at the time of death dissolves. You will never be exactly the you you are again.

Death doesn't change anything. It just gives you a new location. The physical mind dissolves. But the overriding state of mind that you die in is the state of mind that you are born into.

Knowing about reincarnation helps us relax. It assists us with an understanding of death and dying. Death is not an end, quite the contrary.

Life is eternal and it's worth living. What we do in this life is not futile. Death is not the end. Our practice in this life will assist us in our next life.

Only one who has achieved immortality of awareness can laugh with life and laugh with death.

Don't be afraid to take a chance, to jump. Because death will always swallow you up anyway. Death is a friend; it encourages us to become aware, to become free.

Sometimes I think death is a greater awareness than life. Life gives us the illusion of immortality, whereas death gives us the certainty of immortality

All action is generated by desire. It is the desire to live that causes us to reincarnate.

The spirit seeks the spirit just as matter seeks matter.

Nothing you can do can prevent your death. Nothing you can do can prevent your rebirth. To step beyond life and death is self-discovery.

At the end of this lifetime, you will leave this world. Your awareness field will stay together in a certain sense and then it will seek to return to things that are familiar. You will reincarnate.

You will be reborn. You will come from the inner to the outer again. This process goes on indefinitely.

At the moment of birth you are the product of everything that has occurred in every lifetime you've had.

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.

Our adult personality is a mirror image of who we were in the last stage of our life in our previous incarnation.

If you meditate and continue to have fun with yoga and Buddhism, you will amass knowledge and will move to a higher incarnation. In your next lifetime you will be much wiser, much happier.