Top 500 Frederick Lenz Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “Let’s say you dissolve and become infinite light. There is this sense of being light even though the mind is not thinking it, one feels it, which indicates that one is still there – at least half of one.”

— Frederick Lenz

352. “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

353. “Qualityless simply means there is no way to discuss it. There is no way to pin it down. It could be anything at any given moment since infinity is not bound even by itself, nor the words that human beings choose to try and talk around it.”

— Frederick Lenz

354. “The yoga of selfless giving is easy for anyone to practice. The key is detachment. The spirit is unattachment to results.”

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355. “As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect indicative – ridiculous. It has qualities, shadings, differentiations, rhythmic structures of symbolic meaning.”

— Frederick Lenz

356. “Both light and dark are eternity. Human beings assign relative values to colors, but beyond the relative, there just is – what in Zen we call “suchness”.”

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357. “There is enough room in eternity for everyone to be enlightened. We gain or lose nothing by the success of others.”

— Frederick Lenz

358. “You can judge a civilization by its level of agreement with the green world. When people respect nature, it’s a sign of a healthy situation. When they denigrate nature, it’s a sign of an unhealthy civilization that will soon perish.”

— Frederick Lenz

359. “Nirvikalpa Samadhi means that you’ve gone off the board; you’ve gone off the map. There is no way to describe it. You have attained liberation and are no longer bound by the cycle of existence. You just are, and yet you’re not, at the same time.”

— Frederick Lenz

360. “Get some distance on yourself and undertand the multilevel structure that’s operating. There’s a power structure within you. You’re a very political creature.”

— Frederick Lenz

361. “A critical part of Tantric Buddhism is a process of turning of the activities and experiences in your daily life into meditation.”

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362. “All happiness is inside your own mind. Chances are, you have not discovered that. Meditation is about experiencing the happiness inside your mind.”

— Frederick Lenz

363. “The tantric path involves taking the mind and directing it beyond the senses.”

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364. “In the second stage we stop thought for limited periods of time.”

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365. “The network of enlightenment is a very wide network. It’s not relegated to a simple type of being. It’s not the network of the goody-goods.”

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366. “Pick a profession that will give you enough money to give you economic freedom. It is nice to pick a career that really taxes your mind. Use your mind in new and creative ways. You will find that your mind will develop and become stronger.”

— Frederick Lenz

367. “I am Western and I see no need or reason to change that. The Western lifestyle has many things to offer, as do the Eastern methods of self discovery. I think blending the two is very desirable.”

— Frederick Lenz

368. “When the world stops, time stops.”

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369. “Happiness is something that you don’t postpone. If you are postponing happiness – it is something you will probably never experience much of.”

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370. “If the chi is being wasted by useless activities, emotions and associations that drain us, then we don’t have enough power when it comes time to perform.”

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371. “Societies on this planet are based upon fear, not upon love. The strong dominate the weak.”

— Frederick Lenz

372. “Many people, including Buddhist monks, spend thousands of hours sitting in what they call meditation. In reality, what they’re doing is thinking and ruminating upon their problems.”

— Frederick Lenz

373. “I am very interested in the enlightenment of women. Very few teachers of advanced self discovery work with women, and if they do it’s usually in a very second handed way. They treat women as second class citizens.”

— Frederick Lenz

374. “Once in while a teacher may make a recommendation, it is usually after going through the basic Socratic method of trying to get people to figure it out themselves. A good teacher challenges your mind, your intellect, and your spirit.”

— Frederick Lenz

375. “In the process of self-discovery you will learn to be kind when you could be harsh. You will learn to forgive, mostly yourself. You will learn to be patient because you may have to wait quite a while to become that which you will eventually be.”

— Frederick Lenz

376. “The dreams of eternity are the states of mind. When we wake up from the dreams there’s only enlightenment. There could never be anything else.”

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377. “You don’t love perfectly without first loving imperfectly.”

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378. “Meditation is the art of life. Meditation is not simply a practice. It is an experience, awareness, and a way of perceiving life.”

— Frederick Lenz

379. “The samurais were very interested in Zen because they admired the tremendous precision that the Zen Masters had, their lack of fear and pain and their absolute lack of fear of death.”

— Frederick Lenz

380. “Tantra is for a person who has reached a point in their spiritual evolution where everything looks the same.”

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381. “If we are in a high enough state of consciousness we see that life is only a passing dream.”

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382. “The illusion of selfhood, ego, a separate identity is false.”

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383. “Stop trying to be different. Just do what you are good at, and work really hard. You have to work hard to be chaos.”

— Frederick Lenz

384. “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

385. “You can stay in the safe, secure oblivion and pain of ignorance, not knowing, and just die. You’ll just die, like everyone else, and shuffle into another incarnation that won’t be very different.”

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386. “If you have only been around people who use power in cruel and petty ways, then when you hear the very word, you may have a negative reaction.”

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387. “The Buddhist mindset seeks to eliminate the self. That is to say, what we want to experience is life, not self. When there’s less self and more life, we’re very content, and when there’s more self and less life we’re quite unhappy.”

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388. “Zen is the way of splitting the self again and again, untilt there is nothing left.”

— Frederick Lenz

389. “The light of the supra-conscious, of salvakalpa and nirvikalpa samadhi, is not connected to this world at all. It passes through this world but it is not part of this world, in a way of speaking.”

— Frederick Lenz

390. “I recommend computer science to people who practice meditation. The mental structures that are used in computer science are very similar exercises done in Buddhist monasteries.”

— Frederick Lenz

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

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392. “Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment. Move the ego aside and be still, open, clear, bright and fully conscious.”

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393. “As we grow up, we are exposed to hate and greed and anger and jealousy and peanut brittle and all kinds of things, our subtly body erodes.”

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

— Frederick Lenz

395. “Meditation is the journey to happiness.”

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396. “If you seek to change your life and attain enlightenment, you must deal with these questions. If there is no truth in this, then ignore these silly words.”

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397. “The continuity of perception is an individualized being, when that continuity is lost, the being no longer exists as they have been.”

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398. “There are so many traps. There are so many opportunities. Life is a river and we take our boat and we go down it.”

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399. “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.”

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400. “To think that God is compassionate is a terrible mistake. To think that God is wrathful is equally stupid. God isn’t emotional. You are. To superimpose your emotions on infinity is typically human.”

— Frederick Lenz