Top 500 Frederick Lenz Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “In both Surfing the Himalayas and Snowboarding to Nirvana, I have tried to transmit as best I could the spirit of humor, and the sense of humor of the monks I have encountered.”

— Frederick Lenz

202. “In the Upanishads they talk about the path of the sun and the path of the moon. The path of the moon is rebirth. The path of the sun leads to self-knowledge, from which there is no return.”

— Frederick Lenz

203. “Nature soothes us. Nature heals us, and something more, the woods are a place of power. Any woods that are still surviving on this planet, those are powerful areas to have kept themselves free from the encroachment of the industrial societies of our earth.”

— Frederick Lenz

204. “There are some teachers who just perform miracles. They can manifest things from the other world into this world. They have siddha powers. They are not necessarily enlightened.”

— Frederick Lenz

205. “There’s a resonance inside us, a sense of who we are. We’re a multi-bodied traveler. We’re an essence. We’re a feeling, an awareness that has an ancient existence.”

— Frederick Lenz

206. “There are special places on our planet, places of power, healing and renewal, places where the mind-body connection is enhanced and that enable us to get back in touch with our deepest innermost feelings.”

— Frederick Lenz

207. “Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live.”

— Frederick Lenz

208. “Jnana yoga is a very demanding practice. It’s necessary for you to become conscious of the fact that you’re not human.”

— Frederick Lenz

209. “One day you will arrive at a station on the train of existence that you’ve always known has been there. You’ll find there will be no train in sight, with no sense of arrival. There is only a perpetual arrival, a timeless condition of infinite awareness.”

— Frederick Lenz

210. “The Zen master walks in his garden, alone. There is no traffic there. There is no shopping there. There are only the flowers.”

— Frederick Lenz

211. “Slow down. Enjoy life. It’s tough to slow down if your mind is going a million miles a second. It’s tough to slow down if you think what these people do here matters.”

— Frederick Lenz

212. “Samsara is the world appearance, the cycle of rebirth, the physically manifest universes and states of mind that you perceive through the medium of ego.”

— Frederick Lenz

213. “Sri Krishna’s message is the message of anyone who comes from far away. His message is the same as Buddha, Lao Tsu, Bodhidharma, Milarepa, Padmasambhava.”

— Frederick Lenz

214. “You must control your anger and jealousy and possessive nature or, as you become more powerful and your will increases in strength, you will injure others.”

— Frederick Lenz

215. “In the Bhagavad-Gita, a dialogue ensues in the middle of a battlefield, symbolizing the battlefield of life which we are fighting through our illusions.”

— Frederick Lenz

216. “There is the experience of enlightenment, to be very aware of what lies beyond the boundaries of cognitive perception, reflection and self-awareness as seen by the personality.”

— Frederick Lenz

217. “The best form of meditation is the sitting meditation. But work is next. Work is a great way to meditate.”

— Frederick Lenz

218. “Sit down, keep your back straight, relax and have an object on which to concentrate; you might use a candle flame, a brightly colored rock, a yantra, which is a geometrical designed specifically for the practice of concentration.”

— Frederick Lenz

219. “Get in touch with nature. The stillness of nature is profound and yet subtle.”

— Frederick Lenz

220. “In the Zen of sports and athletics, we seek to bring discipline and control into our physical movements, but at the same time to eliminate the self that gets in the way of perfect play.”

— Frederick Lenz

221. “Illusion doesn’t mean that something is not real. Illusion simply means that something is less real than something else. This life and this world certainly exist – who is to say the reality of the dream is not real?”

— Frederick Lenz

222. “There are two choices available in duality – one side or the other side. Everyting is formed from that.”

— Frederick Lenz

223. “Enlightenment is to be outside the circle, the circle of death and rebirth. There is a circle inside you. If you meditate and focus on your third eye, you will see a circle of light.”

— Frederick Lenz

224. “Humility doesn’t mean hiding in the corner and pretending you are not strong. Humility means to be what you are.”

— Frederick Lenz

225. “In one particular chapter in Ulysses, James Joyce imitates every major writing style that’s been used by English and American writers over the last 700 years – starting with Beowulf and Chaucer and working his way up through the Renaissance, the Victorian era and on into the 20th century.”

— Frederick Lenz

226. “What is important in self-discovery is the person who keeps going, who has a smile, who is kind to others, who works hard at everything, and who keeps their mind on their own business and not everybody else’s.”

— Frederick Lenz

227. “No self-effort in the direction of enlightenment is ever wasted. Even if you don’t become fully enlightened in a given lifetime, you will be much happier and more aware.”

— Frederick Lenz

228. “You can focus on Jesus or Buddha or Krishna, Ramakrishna, Lao Tsu, Yukteswar, Yogananda, Vivekananda, any of the great spiritual teachers who have lived, or on a living teacher, and draw light from them.”

— Frederick Lenz

229. “Whenever you find yourself becoming angry or jealous, try to see good quality in the person. You will suddenly be thinking a higher thought and that will elevate you.”

— Frederick Lenz

230. “Personality is a manifestation of ego. Ego is the central sense of separateness that a person has from the rest of the universe. Personality is the form that that separateness take.”

— Frederick Lenz

231. “Freedom is within oneself. But to get beyond the thoughts and desires requires power.”

— Frederick Lenz

232. “Sometimes in life, we have to go backward a certain distance in order to go forwards. If we have conflicts within ourselves that we have not resolved, then we will find ourselves living inside of these conflicts, not in the realms of light.”

— Frederick Lenz

233. “Consider the way you speak and your use of language; it’s a reflection of your warrior spirit.”

— Frederick Lenz

234. “Sahaja samadhi means that you have just gone back and forth so many times that there is no back and forth. All you see is enlightenment in this world and the other side. There is no other side anymore. It means that you are wakeful.”

— Frederick Lenz

235. “Meditation is the journey to happiness.”

— Frederick Lenz

236. “Imagine wave after wave of joy passing through your whole body. As each wave passes through your body, feel that all worries, tensions, anxieties and problems are being washed away.”

— Frederick Lenz

237. “The Tibetan Buddhist realization is that mind does not have any particular qualities or attributes of its own. It’s clear – clear light.”

— Frederick Lenz

238. “In the old days, Zen was not really practiced so much in a monastery. The Zen Master usually lived up on a top of the mountain or the hill or in the forest or sometimes in the village.”

— Frederick Lenz

239. “When you focus on the third chakra it has to pull the kundalini from the root center, through the second, up to the third chakra.”

— Frederick Lenz

240. “If you are interested in Taoism, I would suggest that you read the Way of Life by Lao Tsu, the founder of Taoism. I personally prefer the Witter Brynner translation.”

— Frederick Lenz

241. “The kundalini runs through you. It runs through the ida and the pingala, the two nerve channels in the subtle body; but there’s a central channel, the shushumna, which is blocked. When it runs through that, then you can use the mystical kundalini.”

— Frederick Lenz

242. “Yantras are specific designs that have a great deal of power in them, as do mantras, which are words of power. Yantras are designs of power that tap into other levels of attention. They remind us of things in other worlds.”

— Frederick Lenz

243. “There is a dharma for yourself, for someone else, for a family, for a nation, for a universe. There are collective and individual dharmas.”

— Frederick Lenz

244. “A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They’ve been essentially mastered by Zen.”

— Frederick Lenz

245. “People think that if you are enlightened you are not in touch with the pulse of the physical. Au contraire! The higher you go, the deeper you become, and the more conscious you are of the physical and the sensorial.”

— Frederick Lenz

246. “All of the exoteric teachings are only designed to give you the type of life that will allow you to practice the esoteric teachings.”

— Frederick Lenz

247. “Every time you find yourself becoming angry, jealous or frustrated, stop and think the opposite thought.”

— Frederick Lenz

248. “Zen is meditation, the actual experience of life directly, immediately with no buffers.”

— Frederick Lenz

249. “Samadhi is the highest octave spiritual light. Not the best, but the highest octave.”

— Frederick Lenz

250. “The magic of life, of course, is not something that can be explained. Structures can only take us to the point where they begin or end. Beyond structures is the white light.”

— Frederick Lenz