Top 500 Frederick Lenz Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “Zen is the way of splitting the self again and again, untilt there is nothing left.”

— Frederick Lenz

402. “Everything that we do involves energy, personal power. The more energy we have, the more we can accomplish.”

— Frederick Lenz

403. “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

404. “We are luminous beings. Beneath our transient physical bodies we are made of intelligent light.”

— Frederick Lenz

405. “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

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

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Frederick Lenz

408. “Simply by performing good actions and thinking good thoughts you will not attain enlightenment. It takes something more.”

— Frederick Lenz

409. “Inspire people very selectively with sincerity and with respect. You want to increase your energy? Then want, inside your heart, to inspire others. It will lift you tremendously.”

— Frederick Lenz

410. “We see the most beautiful creations whither. The beautiful young maiden becomes the old woman and she hates her body because it isn’t what it used to be. The young man becomes the old dotard who has trouble remembering.”

— Frederick Lenz

411. “I was drawn to the arts because I sensed that I was by nature Bohemian, and yet very conservative.”

— Frederick Lenz

412. “Learn not to judge your meditation. Just meditate, do your best, set a minimum period of time and meditate.”

— Frederick Lenz

413. “Don’t think of us as separate beings. Imagine that we are one body and it’s been split into millions. When we sit in the mediation hall – that is unity.”

— Frederick Lenz

414. “Now, tantra is a little bit different than other forms of Buddhism because in tantra what we do is we use the sensorial worlds as access points or pathways to ineffability.”

— Frederick Lenz

415. “The nagual doesn’t give you the ability to get what you want in the tonal.”

— Frederick Lenz

416. “In Buddhism we meditate. We make our minds quiet by learning to focus on the chakras, release internal energy that we call kundalini, and bring ourselves into high states of consciousness.”

— Frederick Lenz

417. “If a person sets out to practice meditation in this lifetime and they have a little bit of spiritual evolution behind them and they’re quite dedicated, it really is not at all an impossible task to enter into salvakalpa samadhi in this particular lifetime.”

— Frederick Lenz

418. “Beyond all of this is something else, perfection; not just as an ideation, but as a living reality. Even though it may just be an idea for you, hold that idea in your mind.”

— Frederick Lenz

419. “It is not simply a transient happiness that you experience in meditation that creates balance; it is a transformative light. Inner light is the most powerful thing there is.”

— Frederick Lenz

420. “Christianity is a marketable product. It has very little to do with Jesus Christ. I’m sure it has nothing to do with Jesus Christ at all – what the experience was like to be around the guy.”

— Frederick Lenz

421. “In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it – I read it.”

— Frederick Lenz

422. “Thought is the ultimate tonal. Each thought is like a dike that blocks out the nagual.”

— Frederick Lenz

423. “To meditate, you need to feel, and feeling is a lost art. You need to feel the stillness of existence and also the sound of existence. You need to feel that which lies beyond your awareness field, and that which is within it.”

— Frederick Lenz

424. “Trying to use the power of yoga to improve your life, this is a terrible mistake. Because all you are doing is binding yourself more. You’re putting more of your attention into the transient world.”

— Frederick Lenz

425. “The logical and extralogical exercises you do in meditation are very similar to advanced systems analysis and programming.”

— Frederick Lenz

426. “Emotional control is essential for attaining higher levels of mind. The thing that the teacher looks for in a student is the degree of self-control, not coldness that someone has.”

— Frederick Lenz

427. “You need to accept the fact that you will often do exactly the opposite of what you think is right. You need to accept that you’re going to do that and still love yourself.”

— Frederick Lenz

428. “Wisdom is something that seeks itself. The wiser you become the more you’d like to know.”

— Frederick Lenz

429. “Occupy yourself with what’s in your life now. Address those situations and subjects as fully as possible with your best efforts. That is what produces happiness and clarity and knowledge and power.”

— Frederick Lenz

430. “Meditation is a very powerful time and you are very psychic. It is most important to not allow your attention, your mind, to wander.”

— Frederick Lenz

431. “A long time ago a very powerful race of Indians lived here. They were from another cycle; their being was of another composition. They are still here, even now, you can see them on the mountain rims.”

— Frederick Lenz

432. “Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment, and I would encourage you to follow that pathway as far as you can, into ecstasy.”

— Frederick Lenz

433. “The natural elements in the forests, mountains, deserts and large bodies of water, help shield you from the thought forms and auras of other human beings.”

— Frederick Lenz

434. “Zen is the path that focuses the most upon meditation. It is almost exclusively a path of meditation.”

— Frederick Lenz

435. “Learn to accept the transitory nature of existence of the body and the mind; see eternity in everything, this world, the other worlds, and nirvana.”

— Frederick Lenz

436. “Observe your actions but be so busy that you never contemplate their possible effects. It is only this consciousness that leads to liberation. Everything else is illusion.”

— Frederick Lenz

437. “When you sit and meditate and begin to experience expanded states of mind, you will be afraid. The light makes most people very, very afraid. The only way to overcome the fear is walking down into the light.”

— Frederick Lenz

438. “When you meditate properly you are able to take your mind and merge it with the cosmos. Essentially, this causes your IQ to increase.”

— Frederick Lenz

439. “Nothing you can do can prevent your death. Nothing you can do can prevent your rebirth. To step beyond life and death is self-discovery.”

— Frederick Lenz

440. “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

441. “All the concepts, all knowings, all truths, all religous systems, all beliefs, fall away in the white light of eternity.”

— Frederick Lenz

442. “An enlightened person doesn’t know it all. Enlightenment simply means walking beyond this and all worlds into nirvana, which is beyond knowledge and ignorance.”

— Frederick Lenz

443. “Something in you wants to go beyond, wants to be free from this endless round of perception. Enlightenment is that.”

— Frederick Lenz

444. “Mindfulness means that as we go through the day we learn to gain control of our mind, our emotions. We learn to conserve energy in a variety of simple and complicated ways that we learned in Buddhist practice.”

— Frederick Lenz

445. “Only until you rise above the use of the second attention for manipulation that you can enter into a consciousness in which there is enlightenment.”

— Frederick Lenz

446. “Tantric Zen is a state of mind.”

— Frederick Lenz

447. “The only reason you feel pain is because you’re so busy looking at yourself instead of looking at the wonderful patterns of light. If you become absorbed in the wonderful patterns of light, then there’s no pain.”

— Frederick Lenz

448. “If we put five people together, are there really five people? I don’t think so, not in the world of magic. In the worlds of magic, there is only one being, reflecting itself in countless forms.”

— Frederick Lenz

449. “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

450. “When you go into samadhi there is no breath at all. The kundalini is perfectly stabilized. Usually it stabilizes in the solar plexus area.”

— Frederick Lenz