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While I enjoy teaching people on the basic and intermediate levels to work them up to advanced levels, my real talent is for the advanced students. You could say that I’m like a ninth-degree black belt in martial arts (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
If I used justice, you’d all be dead. The karma that you throw at me when you don’t like me - if I just let it come back, you’d all be destroyed in no time (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
I deal with two types of students. Those who have a very deep-seated knowledge of love, which are few, or those in all their lives have ignored love (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
Don Juan, in the teacings of Carlos Castaneda, makes the same point. You have to fool people into seeking knowlege. People will not do it of their own volition (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
As a dialectical teacher, I have had many lives where I have taught Zen and Tibetan Buddhism and mysticism. I teach in many different modalites. But the theme that unites them - is love (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
It’s very funny. People do not want to achieve liberation or be happy. This is the basic guideline they teach you in Spiritual Training School (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
Tonight I have inundated you with the mystical kundalini. Now, of course, I’m moving into the supra-conscious; it’s kind of a doubleheader this evening (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
I like Miracles. They inspire me. Miracles are the fun of enlightenment. When a teacher does a miracle, and everyone sees it, they have faith in what the teacher has to say about self-discovery (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically ‘in’. But if we were to apply for a financial aid grant as a cult, I’m afraid we would be turned down for lack of proper qualifications (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
Unfortunately, in self-discovery, you get the culty types who want the father figure or mother figure to tell them everything to do. They don’t want to do any work. They want to hang on your energy and try to drain it (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
I think that pain gives us appreciation of joy - it’s a package deal. And I definitely think that the joys of life far outweigh the pain (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
I am a Teacher. I am the keeper of mysteries. You seek knowledge and power, Truth, Light, and happiness. I am happy to aid you in your search (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
It’s not my light to begin with, in a sense; it’s the light of God, the light of eternity. So take all you want! (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
It is implicit in the self that the self will automatically evolve if you can dissolve it. It re-patterns itself after archetypal formations that exist deep within the mind (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
You can go to India and you can see gurus go into samadhi. But when they come out of samadhi, they’re nasty. They’re egocentric. They don’t have a deep regard or understanding of what life is. It’s just a little trick they can do, a one-trick pony (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
The tantras are ancient sacred books of India and Tibet. The tantras detail specific means for attaining liberation (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
The emphasis is on meditation in Tantric Zen. The experience of meditation in formal practice, zazen, where you’re sitting down and meditating and concentrating (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
Tantra is for the person who has self control but doesn’t care anymore. It is for the person who is able to abandon self-control and its fixation (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
For most people the prohibitions are a good thing. But If you are able to maintain very powerful states of mind, then you’ll find yourself in everything you see (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
Tantric Buddhists don’t believe in sin. Stupidity, yes, meaning we make ourselves or others suffer (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
Zen is Tantric Buddhism, Vajrayana is tantric Buddhism - these are various forms of it. Tantric Buddhism simply means cutting to the chase (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
Your soul wants experience. It wants the world. You’re a human - and your eternal. The two are the same (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
Tantric Buddhism is just a collection of things that work by doing them. And sometimes we add new things. We have electronic music; we did not have it in Tibet (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
The perfect view of existence comes from an unclouded, uncluttered life and mind whereby the radiance of perfect attention of the mind of the universe floods us at every moment. This is Buddhism. This is being on the path (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
Buddhism is not just going to temple, being at a ceremony and dressing up. That is the church of Buddhism. Esoteric Buddhism is to move beyond this world (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
Meditation is the short path to happiness. Meditation takes you beyond the desire-aversion operating system that offers very limited happiness and a great deal of frustration (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
The advanced education in Tantra obviously has to do with the entrance into samadhi, the negation of the self. That is what the path of negation means, not the negation of life, but the negation of anything that is not enlightenment (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
There are two sides to self-discovery, as in most things, an outer more popular side and an inner side. The popular side presents more of a simplified form (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)