Top 500 Frederick Lenz Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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

202. “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.”

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203. “Never settle for that which is easy and comfortable or the necessity of seeking that which is difficult and uncomfortable.”

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204. “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.”

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205. “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.”

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206. “Use power wisely. If you search your heart, I think you will.”

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207. “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.”

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

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

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210. “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.”

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

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212. “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.”

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

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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.”

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215. “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?”

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216. “None of this matters a bit. Yet, of course, it matters at that moment. So we try to be mindful of the moment; but it’s fleeting.”

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217. “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

218. “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.”

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219. “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.”

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220. “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.”

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221. “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.”

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

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223. “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.”

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224. “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.”

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

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226. “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.”

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

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228. “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.”

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229. “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.”

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230. “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

231. “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.”

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232. “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.”

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233. “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.”

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234. “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.”

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

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236. “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.”

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237. “The end of this world occurs when you move from one world into another, from one reality into another.”

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

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239. “We have to push ourselves to stillness – to the natural state.”

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

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241. “By fully focusing your mind on your chakras, stilling your thoughts, and increasing your kundalini flow, you can rise above your body consciousness and unite your mind with the clear light of nirvana.”

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

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243. “There is no final stage in nirvana. Nirvana is beyond definition. It is not quantifiable.”

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244. “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.”

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245. “Chanting a mantra at the beginning of your meditation helps you clear the mind and takes you deep within the self. Chanting a mantra at the end of meditation helps you seal the meditation. It helps you bring the awareness of the meditation down into your daily life.”

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246. “The person who did all of these things has gone away, vanished without a trace in the ecstasy of existence.”

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247. “The universe is endless. Enlightenment is endless. You have only touched the outer periphery of the endless still center of perfect being.”

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248. “Sit in front of an object of concentration with the eyes open. Focus on a candle flame, or a yantra, a little dot, something small. Just look at it. Focus on it until there is nothing else in your mind. This develops willpower.”

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249. “Lao Tsu says the way of life is ancient, timeless. It is existence which he calls the Tao – a mysterious source, beyond understanding, and all of us are a reflection, if not that source of life ourselves.”

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250. “It is necessary to be focused. This is the raison d’etre of career.”

— Frederick Lenz