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Frederick Lenz was an American author known for his profound understanding and unique insights into Zen Buddhism. His works blended Zen philosophy with modern life, resonating with readers worldwide.

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“The kundalini energy enables us to do things that would not happen otherwise, to apply an occult pressure, to use energy to create effects perhaps thousands of miles away.”

Use Happens Energy Effects Buddhism Pressure Miles Occult Miles Away

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“Kundalini can be transmitted. A person who is very adept at the enlightenment process can transmit it. Whether you feel it or not, it's affecting you in a very positive way.”

Way Feels Persons Process Buddhism Enlightenment Transmit Very Positive Adept

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“You can transmit the kundalini physically when people are there, and of course, long distance. It is energy, inter-dimensional energy.”

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“The kundalini rises and the kundalini is hot, it's a hot energy. Sometimes you feel it cascading up your spine, and it's kind of searing or it's tingling, it almost feels sexual.”

Feels Kind Sometimes Energy Buddhism Hot Spine

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“It's funny, people who have a lot of sexual energy think of themselves as being not spiritual. They are probably more spiritually inclined. All that sexual energy is kundalini.”

People Thinking Spiritual Energy Buddhism Funny People

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“People who tap the kundalini and are able to release it are more successful. Anyone who is really on top has some access to the kundalini. They have learned somewhere down the line, in this or other lives, ways of releasing power.”

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“What will really release the kundalini is creating a stillness in your life. This stillness will come about through deep caring and introspection. It will come about slowly and then quickly - it builds momentum.”

Buddhism Creating Caring Release Stillness Introspection Momentum

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“To increase the flow of kundalini that will alter our perception, it is necessary to clarify the purpose of one's being. This is to come to understand dharma.”

Purpose Buddhism Perception Flow Increase Dharma

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“It is necessary first in the practice of Kundalini yoga to determine what the dharma is. There is a dharma for you.”

Firsts Practice Buddhism Yoga Determine Dharma

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“Don't worry about techniques. Don't worry about chakras. Instead, concern yourself with finding the dharma and meditate. Then the kundalini will release.”

Worry Buddhism Findings Concern Technique Release Dharma Chakra

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“Have your life properly aligned with dharma. The technicalities of the movement of the kundalini are easy to master. Dharma is much more complex.”

Easy Movement Masters Buddhism Complexes Dharma Technicalities

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“Try and stop your thoughts. Be patient and then the kundalini will flow through you and bring about substantial changes in your awareness.”

Trying Awareness Buddhism Flow Patient Be Patient

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“The sign that the kundalini is releasing is not the development of miraculous powers, but that your mind is becoming quieter.”

Mind Buddhism Development Becoming Miraculous

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“If the kundalini is flowing through you at a very rapid rate, if you are not in harmony with the dharma, then you will have great problems with the study.”

Ifs Problem Study Buddhism Harmony Rate Rapids Dharma

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“There is a way to open up the chakras, there is a mystical way. But if you do that, you'll get yourself into very hot water, and it's ultimately slower.”

Ifs Way Water Buddhism Hot Mystical Chakra Hot Water

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“It is possible with pure willpower to force the kundalini up the shushumna, through the chakras. You will develop visions of other worlds that will not necessarily stop when you want them to. This is a condition we call insanity.”

World Want Force Vision Conditions Buddhism Pure Insanity Willpower Other Worlds Chakra

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“Awakening the mystical kundalini prematurely is dangerous, because unless you have refined your being, you'll get all screwed up, entities, weird powers ... strange things. That is why I don't teach anyone how to open up the chakras.”

Teach Dangerous Strange Buddhism Awakening Entity Mystical Refined Strange Things Screwed Up Chakra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What I teach you to do is how to bring the light of the supraconscious throughout your being, because once you have done that, the chakras will open up by themselves.”

Done Light Teach Buddhism Chakra

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“Ecstasy can be painful when it's intense enough, when the kundalini surges enough. The ecstasy is so complete, it's overwhelming sometimes.”

Sometimes Enough Buddhism Painful Intense Ecstasy Overwhelming

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“Kundalini Yoga is the yoga of power. Without wisdom, a powerful person does not become more powerful. Their power will turn back on them and eventually destroy them. So those who are truly wise become most powerful.”

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“There's many kinds of kundalini, just as there's a spectrum of light. Put light through a prism and you get different gradations. So there are different gradations of kundalini. Some gradations of kundalini are darker, some are lighter.”

Kind Different Light Buddhism Spectrum Lighters Prisms

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“The kundalini comes in two primary forms when it comes forward from a spiritual teacher.”

Two Spiritual Form Teacher Buddhism Primaries Spiritual Teachers

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“The highest octave kundalini is the golden light which occurs in the supraconscious; it is the supraconscious. It's what they call Sat Chit Ananda - existence, consciousness, bliss ... full consciousness.”

Light Existence Consciousness Buddhism Highest Golden Bliss Sat Golden Light

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“The kundalini of the supraconscious has nothing to do with the shushumna. That light comes down, from the crown center and has nothing to do with the opening. It descends and inundates.”

Light Buddhism Opening Crowns

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“The mystical kundalini is very different. It is a much more intense transformative energy which, when used, allows a person to make tremendous spiritual leaps in a short period of time.”

Persons Different Spiritual Used Energy Buddhism Periods Intense Leap Mystical

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“The mystical kundalini goes the other direction. It starts at the base of the spine, at the root chakra and goes up.”

Buddhism Roots Mystical Spine Chakra

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“You draw the mystical kundalini from the earth. Earth is an element. Fire, air, earth, water, and ether - the mystical kundalini comes through them all.”

Earth Water Fire Air Buddhism Elements Draws Mystical

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“For most persons, the mystical kundalini energy is easier to initially perceive, unless you're extremely sensitive. It's more of a rush, a flash. There's an electric quality to it, a burning heat.”

Persons Energy Quality Buddhism Easier Burning Perceive Sensitive Heat Electric Flash Mystical

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“There's lower mystical kundalini and higher mystical kundalini. There are ranges within the range.”

Buddhism Higher Range Mystical

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“The mystical kundalini energy has some, I don't know if you'd call them limitations, but there are certain operational factors which you should understand about it.”

Ifs Knows Should Certain Energy Buddhism Factors Limitation Mystical

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“When you are subjected to this light, depending on how strong the dose is, you will have two or three days in which you can make tremendous changes within your self, in the structure of your being.”

Two Self Light Three Strong Buddhism Structure Dose

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“This light unglues the formation and structure of the being for a certain period of time. It will reassemble automatically.”

Light Certain Buddhism Periods Structure Formation

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“After two or three days, the door will close and you will not be able to make those changes as easily.”

Two Able Three Doors Buddhism

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“A human being can only absorb a small amount of the mystical kundalini, you can be exposed again and again to it, but it won't really make a difference. You can only absorb so much.”

Humans Differences Human Beings Buddhism Amount Making A Difference Exposed Again And Again Mystical Small Amounts

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“The higher octave light that comes from samadhi, the kundalini of samadhi, this you can absorb continuously. You can never overload. It can never hurt you.”

Light Hurt Buddhism Higher Samadhi Overload

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“Neither is detrimental, but the mystical kundalini is a bit more raucous.”

Bits Buddhism Mystical Detrimental

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“Not all teachers utilize both forms of light.In certain circles, those teachers who can manifest the light of samadhi but not the mystical light have put down the mystical light.”

Light Form Certain Teacher Buddhism Circles Manifest Mystical Samadhi

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“They have said this is a lower level. Ridiculous! They're really both the same light, just two different forms.”

Said Two Different Light Form Levels Buddhism Ridiculous

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“If you had to pick between one or the other, I can't say which one is better; but I would certainly say, in my orientation, the light of samadhi is all-pervasive. Samadhi will free you.”

Ifs I Can Light Buddhism Picks Orientation Samadhi

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We have a body, but we also have a subtle body, a body of energy that looks like our physical body. The subtle physical body is made up of energy, of light that vibrates at a very high rate so the human physical eyes can't see it.”

Humans Looks Made Body Light Eye Energy Buddhism Rate Subtle Physical Body Vibrate

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“When you see someone's aura, it is an outer reflection of the subtle physical body. It is about the same shape as the physical body, although it can become thousands of things.”

Body Buddhism Shapes Reflection Subtle Auras Physical Body

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“Inwardly the sun also has an energy field, it has an aura, so does the earth, so does the moon, and so do all the planets. We're affected by those auras. It's not something that you really want to reason out.”

Want Doe Reason Earth Energy Sun Fields Planets Buddhism Moon Affected Auras Energy Fields

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“Just as we have a physical body, so we have an etheric body and the etheric body is made up of energy, of light.”

Made Body Light Energy Buddhism Physical Body

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“Just as your physical body is composed of tissue, organs, bones, and different parts, so your subtle physical body has many different parts.”

Different Body Buddhism Bones Subtle Organs Tissues Physical Body

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“There are seven primary centers, junctions, within the subtle physical body. These are called the seven chakras.”

Body Buddhism Seven Primaries Subtle Physical Body Chakra Junction Seven Chakras

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“The subtle physical body is made up of strands of luminous energy, and the energies are flowing through them constantly in the etheric plane. Above the subtle body is the causal body.”

Made Body Energy Buddhism Planes Subtle Luminous Strands Physical Body

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“Just as there are primary colors from which all of the others come forth when they're combined, so there are primary vibratory qualities of energy and light within us.”

Light Energy Quality Color Buddhism Primaries Light Within Primary Colors Energy And Light

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“Our physical health is dependent upon energy. We have a short lifespan compared with past Yuga's.”

Past Energy Buddhism Dependent Short Life Physical Health

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can move in and through the astral worlds once you have gained control of your subtle body. The astral worlds are the back corridors of eternity!”

World Dream Body Moving Buddhism Eternity Subtle Corridors

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“Some people travel to other dimensions in their astral bodies when they meditate. But astral traveling doesn't bring a person lasting happiness. If astral traveling is not done properly, it can be quite dangerous.”

People Ifs Persons Done Body Dangerous Buddhism Dimensions Lasting Lasting Happiness

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

About the Author

Born: February 9, 1950
Died: April 12, 1998
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Quotes: 4397

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