Top 100 Frederick Lenz Quotes
#1. If you have humility, you are willing to undertake anything to spread the dharma.
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#2. There's a different film being made in every mind. And of course, the star of the film is the mind, the personality, the self.
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#3. We live in a competitive society. To pretend that it is not there is ridiculous. That is how the whole planet is set up. If you are not competitive, you do not succeed, you do not survive.
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#4. Krishna says, fight. He says, go out in the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill.
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#5. It is possible to contact higher beings who are not in the body. But the being you really want to contact is you.
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#6. There are six chakras or energy vortexes that lie along that tube. There is a seventh chakra located several inches above the head, but it is not connected.
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#7. Don Juan speaks of the island of the tonal as something that's in the middle of the ocean ... the nagual.
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#8. The description you have been given of the world is an aberrant one. It does not accept and give proper place to the nagual, to the mysterious unknown that is our heritage.
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#9. A student of mine is an actor, he used to go into these interviews and sometimes not get the part. He was "taken out". Someone would use power in a way that would cause him not to succeed
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#10. People have power and it is very important to respect that. Everybody's had thousands of lifetimes, and who knows what anyone has learned in a lifetime ... respect not fear.
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#11. You draw the mystical kundalini from the earth. Earth is an element. Fire, air, earth, water, and ether - the mystical kundalini comes through them all.
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#12. If you keep focusing, gradually thoughts will become quieter and quieter, gradually the images will disappear from the mind. What is happening is the kundalini energy begins to radiate and rise, it causes the mind to be quiet.
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#13. There are no rules. Nothing you can do will take you to liberation; therefore, nothing you avoid will help you along the path to liberation.. Everything is liberation.
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#14. Observe your actions but be so busy that you never contemplate their possible effects. It is only this consciousness that leads to liberation. Everything else is illusion.
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#15. The state between birth and death is not sympathetic. It is a flow system. Whatever your conscious level is, that is how you will reincarnate.
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#16. As long as you exist, you are aware of the manifest universes through the senses, through feelings and through mind.
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#17. If one becomes enlightened, as I did in past incarnations, we leave the structural universes behind. We don't even have past incarnations because the form that had those incarnations has dissolved into the clear light of reality.
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#18. Throughout the course of my life, I have been very fortunate to have had excellent teachers - not just in meditation, but in martial arts, music, scuba diving, and in my academic education.
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#19. We have developed psychic powers in other lives. Now we have many problems because of it, many voices in the mind due to this crowded earth.
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#20. When I meditate, people see manifestations of light when I go into samadhi and through the samadhis. Sometimes the energy of enlightenment is so clear that people don't realize that their attention has been elevated.
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#21. If you are losing power in your relationships, with others, then you have to try and remedy that, if you can't, you need to sever the relationship.
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#22. I realized that my friends in the ashram needed to be celibate because, for them, sexuality was a very tacky issue.
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#23. The miracle of enlightenment is that you take the self and let it dissolve in the white light of eternity.
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#24. The mind is like a lake. It reflects eternity when it's very still. If ripples appear, lots of them, then the reflection is not clear. We lose the clarity of the perfect reflection.
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#25. Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment. There are joys, of course, and they should be enjoyed. There are sorrows, and they should be passed over briefly.
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#26. If you are just spaced out and you have no purpose in life, you pick everything up. Everybody else's thoughts will come into your mind, everyone else's desires.
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#27. You're not capable of stepping into nirvana at this time. If you did it would be disastrous. You're tonal would be swamped.
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#29. Very often people give to others to control them and dominant them.
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#30. You have probably had past lives where you were in better stages of mind than you are in now.
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#31. If you stay in the attention you are in, then you can predict everything that will happen to you for the rest of your life.
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#32. They would spend a lot of their time simply walking around in the woods or in the cities, or they would come over to his house and he would teach them with a great deal of humor and laughter about the nature of existence.
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#33. I've moved a lot of my students into a high state of mind, but they don't do the things I have shown them how to do. So then, they drop down into a lower stage of attention.
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#34. You can think whatever you want, you can create all the labels you choose, but the universe just is. You can come to terms with it or not. If you don't come to terms with it, we say you live in illusion.
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#35. Things that are impossible - are everyday experiences when you live in advanced states of mind. You live in a world of constant miraculous awareness.
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#36. There are thousands of mantras. Everyone has favorites. I prefer three - Aum, Sring, and Kring.
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#37. Everyone in advanced meditation practice should be involved with the economic support of the spread of the dharma. We live in a material world, and it's very expensive to teach meditation.
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#38. My seminars are for you. They are moments, hours and evenings outside of time. A chance, in a highly charged environment, to meditate, find stillness, and remember who you are. A place, with others of like mind, to find and lose yourself in the transcendental light.
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#39. Feel the underlying meaning of the teachings that are espoused by me or anyone else. The word's don't mean much. Words are supposed to be catalysts for higher states of attention. That is where the action is.
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#40. Meditate well so you can be a good instrument of eternity. You could have a mediocre meditation today, but you're not going to. Today you might run into someone who you might talk to about the dharma.
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#41. You don't have to meditate. You don't have to practice self-discovery and Buddhism. You should only practice self-discovery if you really have had it with the human world.
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#42. At the end of your life you will probably end up in an old-age home, or in a back room in one of your children's houses, left only with a handful of fading memories and a body racked with great pain and suffering.
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#43. Trust life, trust that it will always guide you to the right thing, and be kind, be compassionate.
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#44. As incarnations go by, the atom gets more complex. That is, your being, the part of you that reincarnates from lifetime to lifetime, the aggregate, grows thicker and denser.
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#45. Dimensionality only exists because the mind can perceive life that way, but that's only one simple method that the mind has for perceiving itself, for perceiving life.
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#46. When the mind is not only silent, but that part of the mind that could become conscious that the mind is silent dissolves in light, then we see and feel purity. We become it, the purity of the eternal light.
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#47. I recommend, for many people, the study of computer science. Our natural resource in America is the mind. The mindset in computer science is very similar to the mindset in Zen.
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#48. The very advanced practitioners of martial arts never had to raise a hand. They could knock an opponent down without physically touching them, just with chi, pure power. We don't see too many of them anymore.
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#49. Some people are like psychic sponges, they drain power form others constantly. They lower your awareness because they are at a lower level. If you spend too much time with them, you get pulled down.
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#50. To go within doesn't mean to become enraptured with who you are, or to become enraptured with ideas of who you are.
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#51. Purity is receptivity, the ability to sit and wait patiently, for as long as necessary, for the coming of the light.
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#52. The computers in Atlantis were infinitely evolved as opposed to what we see today. The science, the technology, everything was really done with light. All processing was done with light, with crystal formations and structures. Electricity is much too slow.
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#53. What is gone before is gone. All you have now are the results of your actions.
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#54. I am the happiest person I've ever met. This is what Buddhist Yoga and a healthy dose of reading the Declaration of the Independence, The Constitution and the Federalist Papers and anything else I could get my hands on has given me.
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#55. The mystical kundalini goes the other direction. It starts at the base of the spine, at the root chakra and goes up.
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#56. If we get above the individualized soul's journey, you will see that we are all one. We are all one light. In that sense, we are all enlightened.
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#57. Even enlightened people think of themselves as beginners. They probably think of themselves as beginners more than others do - perpetual beginners who begin again each moment because their subject is endless.
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#58. Meditation is the freeing of ourselves from all mental states and concepts of self.
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#59. It wasn't until after living in California for many years that I realized that you don't believe what anybody says, ever. Whatever they say, they're just making a movie - they just like the way they sound.
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#60. Remember you have lots of help. God is meditating in you and through you. The beneficent forces of existence are glad to help you. You can focus on any spiritual teacher. We are glad to help you.
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#61. It is not necessary to wrap people up. The reason you're doing it is because you don't have enough power. If you had enough power, you could unlock your own personal power - you wouldn't need to control others.
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#62. Personal power is not the end of the process. It is a tool that you use to get someplace. The purpose of the car is not to live in the car, it is to drive you someplace you want to go.
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#63. There are seven primary centers, junctions, within the subtle physical body. These are called the seven chakras.
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#64. There is no beginning and there is no end. Nothing is final. There is no absolute. There is no highest point, nor is there a lowest point. These configurations are ideas. Ideas are primitive constructs, symbolic representations, reflections in a mirror.
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#65. Overcoming fear is a critical factor for anyone who wishes to be really happy, or anyone who wishes to become enlightened
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#66. As long as you are in the relative worlds, you should be realistic and know there is winning and losing here.
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#67. There is no evil, there's no bad; there's no good. These are human ideas. There's no creator, there's no creation; there's no God, there's no nirvana, there's no perfection. These are ideas.
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#68. I am here at Lake Tahoe and there is magic at 6,000 feet.
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#69. If you are a successful person and you let a lot of people in and around your life, they can drain your power. It won't go to them, but it will leave you.
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#70. Happiness will come through the practice of yoga and Buddhism, that happiness is not something you will lose at the end of this lifetime. It will stay with you.
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#71. Grow up. Get a life. Life is pain. Anybody who tells you something other than that is trying to sell you something.
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#72. Theoretically, everyone's inner being knows everything. There is a part of us that is aware of all things. But that doesn't necessarily do us a whole lot of good unless we are conscious of that.
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#73. What they have done over the centuries is evolve the fine use of sexual power.
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#74. Celibacy doesn't make you enlightened, otherwise every nun or priest in Buddhism or Christianity would be enlightened. People who don't date and can't get any action would be enlightened.
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#75. After two or three days, the door will close and you will not be able to make those changes as easily.
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#76. That's what self-discovery seems to mean to most people. You're going to beat yourself up. You're going to reduce what you're supposed to be and do to a set of rules so you can defy them, or so you can perform them and feel smug.
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#77. Other networks seek to interfere with the natural process of chaos. Enlightenment is chaos, complete beyond conception
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#78. Think about what is in front of you, if you must think.
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#79. Spiritual people are often persecuted because of their beliefs. Christians were fed to the lions. Jews were slaughtered in concentration camps. Various forms of persecution still exist today throughout the world.
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#80. Karma means that through your thoughts and feelings and actions, you are generating a state of mind. That state of mind has a view. That view will cause things to happen to you or not happen to you.
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#81. The practice of mindfulness is monitoring your mind all day and all night. It's enjoyable to just remove things that make you unhappy from your mind, to clarify your emotions.
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#82. There's no point in getting frustrated at yourself. Just be truthful.
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#83. "There are no illusions" - This is a gross illusion.
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#84. It is always easier to capture eternity in the falling snow or along the coast where the waves crash and in solitary and lonely places. It is the quiet places where it is easiest to feel eternity.
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#85. While notable advances in certain parts of the world in woman's rights have occured in the last hundred years, the centuries of conditioning and the mentality that views women as inferior still prevade our world today.
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#86. The sexual energies returned, when they're not evolved, are still linked with violence and the fear of power - the fear of women.
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#87. Nirvana is the center of things; then there are the outer bandings of attention. The universe is a mind. At the center of its mind is nirvana.
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#88. Nirvana is a state of perpetual bliss and ecstasy, unaffected by the transient ups and downs of its own creations.
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#89. Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is being moved to a new square on the board of life.
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#90. When you allow desire, anger and frustration to dominate you, you are losing power.
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#91. In the creative arts you draw a special power. The discipline required is awesome to be an actor or an actress, to be really good, not just another one waiting tables.
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#92. If there is no way out and confrontation and battle is inevitable, one can use power and strategy, balance and wisdom and enlightenment to win, of course. But the best battle is the battle that is never fought.
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#93. We may have a tiny little room that we rent, and if we keep it clean and it's impeccable, then we gain a power from that.
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#94. If you're very, very conservative and you like that sort of practice, go find a very conservative Zen master and just do traditional Japanese practice, which is not that traditional actually.
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#95. One doesn't actually meditate on the navel. The chakra is located about two or three inches below the navel, at that point there is an energy access sphere in the middle of the body.
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#96. To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake. You'll gain the power, but with the current mindset that you have you'll probably create more unhappiness for yourself than happiness.
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#97. Simply by performing good actions and thinking good thoughts you will not attain enlightenment. It takes something more.
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#98. 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.
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#99. When your spirit is free and your body is well developed, magic occurs. You are able to let go and become the play.
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#100. Be honest! You are not going to want to admit energy loss. Someone is making it hard for you to look.
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