Top 41 Tantric Buddhism Quotes
#1. The sensual experiences in life are not to be avoided. This is the philosophy of Tantric Buddhism - nor are they particularly to be sought after.
Frederick Lenz
#2. In Tantric Buddhism our feeling is that there is no problem with the sensual world unless you have a tremendous attraction or aversion to it.
Frederick Lenz
#3. Zen is Tantric Buddhism, Vajrayana is tantric Buddhism - these are various forms of it. Tantric Buddhism simply means cutting to the chase.
Frederick Lenz
#4. Prostration: placing the body in reverence, to submit, to surrender. In many faiths it is used to relinquish the ego. In Tibetan tantric Buddhism they do one hundred thousand prostrations to overcome pride. In Islam, prostration has been known to overcome many diseases.
Eve Ensler
#5. A critical part of Tantric Buddhism is a process of turning of the activities and experiences in your daily life into meditation.
Frederick Lenz
#6. What we seek to do in Tantric Buddhism is to liquefy ourselves. Life will automatically bring us to the next stage. You don't really have to know where you're going - It's like breathing.
Frederick Lenz
#7. Tantric Buddhism is just a collection of things that work by doing them. And sometimes we add new things. We have electronic music; we did not have it in Tibet.
Frederick Lenz
#8. In Tantric Buddhism we call the inherent knowledge that all animate and inanimate objects possess of themselves - their emptiness.
Frederick Lenz
#9. For the person who wants to get to the mystical experience directly, Tantric Buddhism is the path.
Frederick Lenz
#10. Tantric Buddhism means that we become mature adults and we learn the reality of chaos theory.
Frederick Lenz
#11. In Tantric Buddhism, we believe that Samsara is Nirvana. That is to say that everything in the universe is part of us. And we also are part of everything in the universe.
Frederick Lenz
#12. Be neither attracted nor repulsed is the message of Tantric Buddhism. Don't be drawn to something, don't run away from it. Just naturally accept whatever comes into life.
Frederick Lenz
#13. Tantric Zen is the original Zen, Zen without rules, Zen without form. Zen can certainly take rules and form. So Tantric Zen might have some rules and form, but it would remain formless even though it had rules and form.
Frederick Lenz
#14. Tantric Zen is not being kinky; nor is it being conservative and austere. It is eclectic. It is a real mixture of all things.
Frederick Lenz
#15. Boston is a great center of learning. That surgeon was a tantric Buddha," said Ram in admiration, "The smell of cautery is the finest incense. It sharpens the mind.
Joe Niemczura
#16. Tantric Zen is the exploration of everything, since everything is a part of enlightenment.
Frederick Lenz
#17. The tantric path involves taking the mind and directing it beyond the senses.
Frederick Lenz
#18. In Tantric Zen there is no rule. There is only your immediate experience.
Frederick Lenz
#19. Nostalgia is an illness
for those who haven't realized
that today
is tomorrow's nostalgia.
Zeena Schreck
#20. The gopis seek Krishna, another part of themselves that create ecstasy. The man seeks the woman, the woman seeks the man. The Tantric Buddhist seeks annihilation of the ego.
Frederick Lenz
#21. Tantric Zen, at first, does not appear to have a method. In Tantric Zen, you could meditate on a Brillo box or you could meditate on the clear light of reality.
Frederick Lenz
#22. Tantric Zen is the awareness of the infinitude of all things. To gain that awareness, to be it, is enlightenment.
Frederick Lenz
#24. Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it.
Frederick Lenz
#25. Tantric Zen leads to illumination and fun right here and now, which is why I like it.
Frederick Lenz
#26. Tantric Zen is all about the practice of zazen meditation. If you meditate well, you'll be in very powerful states of mind and then it really doesn't matter what you do.
Frederick Lenz
#27. What is Tantric Zen? Well, I don't think I can give you a straight answer, since I don't happen to be a very straight Zen master.
Frederick Lenz
#28. 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.
Frederick Lenz
#29. It is necessary to have a very liberal and simultaneously very conservative mentality to practice Tantric Zen.
Frederick Lenz
#30. Tantric Zen is more suited for this age that we live in. It give you rules, but in a gentle way. It's not as demanding.
Frederick Lenz
#31. Some people, of course, say they're practicing tantra. There are a lot of books on tantric sexual practice in local bookstores. These are usually pretty silly books.
Frederick Lenz
#32. In Tantric Zen you can be humorous and make fun of anything or you can be very serious.
Frederick Lenz
#33. If you're in the tantric sex state of mind, what someone else experiences when they have sex is not what you'll experience. You won't even notice what your body is doing, particularly.
Frederick Lenz
#35. I teach Zen, tantric mysticism, jnana yoga, bhakti yoga, Tibetan mysticism, occultism and psychic development. I also teach poetry and literature, film and many other different things.
Frederick Lenz
#36. Tantric Zen, and the people who practice it, of course, make some people feel extremely uncomfortable.
Frederick Lenz
#37. There's a place where everything comes together and where it's all the same. That state of mind, in which all things are the same, is the state of mind of Tantric Zen.
Frederick Lenz
#38. In the West people spend most of their time and energy working. The problem is you are so tired from work that you don't have much energy to meditate - unless you use work in a tantric way.
Frederick Lenz
#39. 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.
Frederick Lenz
#40. What I term Zen, old Zen, the original face of Zen, new Zen, pure Zen, or Tantric Zen is - Zen in its essence.
Frederick Lenz
#41. Your immediate experience is Tantric Zen. How aware are you of your immediate experience? - Probably not that aware.
Frederick Lenz
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