Frederick Lenz Quotes

“Become conscious of what you think during the day. A negative thought will enter you. At first it will be vague, innocuous, but then it will root in your consciousness and soon it will be impossible to eradicate.”

— Frederick Lenz

“Zen is a study. It's a discipline. It involves the active use of will to make things happen or not happen. These are the secrets of power.”

— Frederick Lenz

It is very hard to perceive the future on a regular basis simply because the future changes.

— Frederick Lenz

“You need to dream nicer dreams. I come from a world that is a much nicer dream.”

— Frederick Lenz

“It is impossible to move on to new states of mind unless you seek the forgiveness of those you've offended.”

— Frederick Lenz

“You can't teach someone to be enlightened. It's something you have to go and do. You can't teach someone to meditate well. It's something you have to go and do.”

— Frederick Lenz

“Salvakalpa samadhi is like a sea of perfect light; nirvikalpa samadhi is no light, no darkness, no way to describe it. Absorption is complete, that's nirvana.”

— Frederick Lenz

“The way of Zen is to become independent and strong. Don't rely on others for perceptions of life and truth. Do it individually. Go to a teacher of Zen to learn how to do that, not to get answers for individual life situations.”

— Frederick Lenz

“In Zen we have no gurus.”

— Frederick Lenz

“If you are smart, you never retire. You may retire from that job you have had for many years, but you will pick up another career for yourself of some type.”

— Frederick Lenz

“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.”

— Frederick Lenz

“Taking a walk isn't really taking a walk, taking a shower isn't really taking a shower, living isn't living, and dying isn't dying. It only appears to be.”

— Frederick Lenz

You will gain energy by meditating deeply, by speaking the truth, by learning to be still and by avoiding the crowd, most of the time, not all of the time.

— Frederick Lenz

“The high priests and priestesses taught the children the secret meditation techniques, along with methods and ways of living that would increase their pranic levels and help them develop their psychic skills.”

— Frederick Lenz

I examine each student carefully: Is there a balance between their tonal and their nagual?

— Frederick Lenz

“The navel center will bring the power of all three of the lower chakras into your being, but with safety.”

— Frederick Lenz

“Use the previous techniques in rotation. It will prevent your meditation experience from becoming stale.”

— Frederick Lenz

“Obviously there is a lot more ecstasy in the spirit than in the flesh but the flesh has its moments!”

— Frederick Lenz

Tantric Zen leads to illumination and fun right here and now, which is why I like it.

— Frederick Lenz

There are those who will seek to block you. There are also non-physical forces. To win in the world of enlightenment, it is necessary to be able to will away these forces, to see they're insubstantial.

— Frederick Lenz

“There are powers and forces that will seek to block you, to make your life more difficult. But if you are up to the study, then you continue to progress without getting discouraged.”

— Frederick Lenz

“If you wait till you're very sure, then you'll find yourself doing it, and when you do there'll be an ease.”

— Frederick Lenz

“A lot of people trash their subtle physical body with psychedelic drugs. While they do certainly give you experiences in altered levels of attention, you pay a price for it. They definitely screw up the subtle physical. Hatha Yoga can be good for that.”

— Frederick Lenz

“Existence is the awareness of awareness.”

— Frederick Lenz

We remember a few people who've been enlightened. We build churches and edifices in their name. But few people, if any, feel that they could ever be like that; and if that's how they feel - that's how it will be.

— Frederick Lenz

“There are a lot of human beings out there who are very hostile towards anything that rocks their perceptual boat.”

— Frederick Lenz

“The human mind generates an auric field that covers up naturalness, innate divinity of life. That auric field is a field of doubt.”

— Frederick Lenz

“There's this cave and all humanity is in it and there's this terribly bright light at the other end and everybody's afraid of it.”

— Frederick Lenz

“If you were just you, you would be happy. But of course, you don't know who or what you are. So how can you possibly be happy? That is why you have got to study Zen ... or something.”

— Frederick Lenz

“The whole quality of your life depends on your state of mind. There are very high states of mind that very few people experience. They are also quite pragmatic and practical and they make you more efficient at living and working in the world.”

— Frederick Lenz

“There's no difference between winning and losing. They are the same type of experience. Winning and losing are sensorial, affixed to an ego, blocked in time and space and none of them ultimately make you happy very long”

— Frederick Lenz

“Meditate and bath in the light of eternity. Nothing else is worthwhile.”

— Frederick Lenz

A very advanced master can glow so strongly that you see divine in them. You look into them and you see infinity constantly changing, evolving and radiating in new forms.

— Frederick Lenz

Psychic development is a necessary skill in leading a successful and happy life. Your intellectual processes and your senses don't give you enough information to distinguish the real from the unreal.

— Frederick Lenz

“Who needs to go the horror movies? Just go outside or turn on the TV. Buddha called it the "nightmare of the day." Welcome to incarnate experience.”

— Frederick Lenz

“There is illusion, the way you see things now, thinking that there is a tomorrow, there is a today, there is time and that there is life and death. Those are just appearances”

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Frederick Lenz

“When the spirit is understood, then life becomes not at all common, but a constant magical circus in which you see yourself reflected in all forms and all formlessness.”

— Frederick Lenz

“The later stages of the enlightenment process are trickier, and it is really essential to have a teacher then. You need correction, direction, and most of all you need a master's auric empowerment.”

— Frederick Lenz

God is seen as a male whose first creation was another man, Adam, whom we are told was made in his image and likeness.

— Frederick Lenz

“Observe how women defeat each other; whether it's simply for a promotion, for a husband, for survival, so she won't be beaten up in a relationship. She has to now fear every other woman because every woman represents a threat to her.”

— Frederick Lenz

“Beyond happiness and unhappiness is truth. Truth is not affected by anything in the relative world. Truth is the unifying aspect of existence.”

— Frederick Lenz

“In that undifferentiated reality of the Self there is eternal bliss. All the phantoms of existence fade away.”

— Frederick Lenz

“Love is visceral and real. Love is physical. It embraces all things. Love doesn't space you out or take you out of this world.”

— Frederick Lenz

“If there's no one in your life to love right now, love yourself. A large part of the path of love is learning to love yourself.”

— Frederick Lenz

“Eternity does nothing but give.”

— Frederick Lenz

“Everything starts within your own mind. The physical choices you make, drain your power or give you power. If your power is low, then you stay in lower levels of mind and you don't see opportunities.”

— Frederick Lenz

“I'm not speaking metaphorically, plants that you have in your house, or if you've ever made friends with a tree somewhere, there is a moment that these beings can aid you.”

— Frederick Lenz

“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.”

— Frederick Lenz

“When you are enlightened, your physical body will still feel pain if you get hurt, but you will not be overwhelmed even by extreme physical pain, because your mind is filled with light, love and understanding.”

— Frederick Lenz