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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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“Enlightened teachers can do certain miracles, but they are not really miracles. They just know how to use energy on other levels of consciousness. A miracle is in the eye of the beholder, as is all of life.”

Knows Use Eye Certain Energy Can Do Levels Consciousness Know How Teacher Miracle Enlightened Beholder Eye Of The Beholder

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you sit with an enlightened teacher physically, the teacher moves in and out of different states of mind. That is how you learn to do it yourself.”

Mind Different States Moving Teacher Enlightened State Of Mind Do It Yourself

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“Is it important to have an enlightened teacher? No. Yes. If you are an absolute beginner, it really doesn't matter that much, to tell you the truth.”

Ifs Important Matter Teacher Absolutes Enlightened Beginners

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“The later stages of the enlightenment process are trickier, and it is really essential to have a teacher then. You need correction, direction, and most of all you need a master's auric empowerment.”

Needs Process Teacher Stage Masters Essentials Enlightenment Empowerment Enlightened Corrections

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“Most teachers are not enlightened. Very few are. That doesn't mean they are not great teachers.”

Mean Teacher Enlightened Great Teacher

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“The ultimate horror movie for a really un-illuminated being is an enlightened person. They are scared of others seeing what they are all about and what they really do. They are scared of truth.”

Persons Teacher Seeing Horror Ultimate Scared Enlightened

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“When you meditate with an enlightened teacher, you will feel something from them. They just dissolve completely, absorption in nirvana, where they don't even have physical contact with this world anymore.”

World Feels Teacher This World Contact Enlightened Absorption

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“An enlightened person is not in touch with all the ten thousand states of mind simultaneously always. It would be very hard to go shopping let alone drive the car.”

Mind Persons Hard States Would Be Teacher Car Thousand Ten Enlightened State Of Mind Shopping

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“An enlightened person is someone who shifts from one plateau of knowledge to another.”

Persons Teacher Enlightened

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“There is obstruction. Enlightenment is not very popular in this world. History tells us that enlightened teachers who made themselves largely available to human beings had problems.”

World Humans Made Problem Human Beings Teacher This World Enlightenment Available Enlightened World History Obstruction Very Popular

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“Enlightened people live in very charged states of attention, with a tremendous power circuiting through them.”

People States Attention Teacher Enlightened

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“Many enlightened persons are never very well known. Many are reclusive. They live in little villages in India or up in the high Himalayas in Tibet. Some have no students at all. Some have a few.”

Wells Littles Persons Known Teacher Students India Enlightened Village Well Known Tibet Himalayas

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“Once in a while an enlightened teacher goes out into the world and spreads the dharma. They attract some attention, and it is a great spectacle to see who and why and what is drawn.”

World Attention Teacher Spread Enlightened Dharma

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“Nonphysical beings are drawn to enlightened beings. Some come to aid them in there work; some come to interfere. Some just come to watch. Enlightenment is rare in this world.”

World Watches Teacher This World Enlightenment Aids Enlightened Interfere

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“The enlightened being can look through states of mind, but they are also outside of them.”

Mind Looks States Teacher Enlightened State Of Mind

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“The teacher will be moving through thousands of states of mind and sometimes beyond mind. While you are with the teacher, be sensitive to that. Without being flaky and devotional, develop respect for the teacher, just as the teacher respects you.”

Mind Sometimes States Moving Teacher Sensitive Enlightened State Of Mind Devotional

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“Hold a positive thought of an enlightened person in your mind. When that thought touches their aura, it comes back quickly with a positive lift. You will go up.”

Mind Persons Teacher Lifts Enlightened Positive Thoughts Auras

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“If you have done your homework, then the slightest motion from the teacher can cause you to spin into hundreds of different states of mind. That can only happen for the prepared individual.”

Ifs Mind Different States Done Happens Individual Causes Teacher Prepared Enlightened State Of Mind Homework

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“An enlightened person has real power and when they think a good thought, the tremendous power of attention causes their students to actually lift up into those states. It brings a power into their lives.”

Thinking Persons Real States Causes Attention Teacher Students Lifts Enlightened Good Thoughts Real Power

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“People who are enlightened in previous lifetimes have a certain degree of difficulty in regaining their enlightenment. Sometimes it comes in childhood. Sometimes it takes many years to reintegrate the personality structure that they gained when they first entered into this world.”

People World Years Firsts Sometimes Certain Teacher Childhood This World Personality Degrees Enlightenment Difficulty Structure Lifetime Enlightened

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“An enlightened teacher has so much power that when they meditate, a tremendous aura builds up around them. The aura will open up your aura and increase it. You will move into a higher plane of knowledge. You will gain a new view of the world.”

World Moving Views Teacher Higher Gains Increase Planes Enlightened Auras

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“An enlightened teacher is able to put a tremendous amount of power through a person who seeks knowledge and escalates the evolution of the individual.”

Persons Able Individual Teacher Evolution Amount Enlightened

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“The person who helps you is the person who aids you in becoming independent and strong. Good teachers don't answer your questions, they ask you questions.”

Persons Helping Asks Strong Answers Teacher Becoming Independent Aids Enlightened Good Teacher Becoming Independent

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“Only the completely enlightened are beyond winning and losing. Yet, strangely enough, they had to win to get to the point of being beyond winning and losing.”

Enough Winning Teacher Losing Enlightened Winning And Losing

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“An enlightened person lives in the world, passes through the ten thousand states of mind, but they are not bound by them. They can go beyond perception.”

World Mind Persons States Teacher Thousand Ten Perception Bounds Enlightened State Of Mind

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“It is important to monitor your mind constantly. This is particularly important if you are studying with an enlightened teacher, because you are absorbing tremendous power from the teacher.”

Ifs Mind Important Study Teacher Enlightened Absorbing

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“People come to a teacher to learn self-discovery. A teacher who just wants to keep you on a string forever, the god-guru concept, a teacher like that is very abusive. Those people are actually usually taking their students energy.”

People Want Self Energy Forever Teacher Students Concepts Discovery Self Discovery Enlightened Strings Guru Abusive

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“If you meditate with a teacher who is enlightened, you can ride with them into stages of mind that are perhaps not available to you at this time.”

Ifs Mind Teacher Stage Available Enlightened

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“The role of the teacher is to make sure that the practice is pure. By guiding the student, you make sure that they are really going into the planes of light and not fooling themselves.”

Light Roles Practice Teacher Students Pure Planes Enlightened

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“A teacher can show you the ways. But no one can do it for you. You have to take what you learn from them and go out and live it. You have to change your life.”

Way Shows Can Do Teacher Enlightened Changing Your Life

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“I think it is best to let the experience you have with a teacher direct itself, Instead of trying to make the experience into what you might like it to be. Leave it alone!”

Thinking Trying Might Teacher Direct Enlightened

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“It is incumbent upon the student to go to the teacher to learn.”

Teacher Students Enlightened Incumbents

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“Some teachers are extremely inaccessible. They feel their teachings are for very few so they make it intentionally hard to get to themselves.”

Feels Hard Teacher Teaching Enlightened Inaccessible

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“Some teachers are very accessible. They advertise a great deal, they go out into the public. If they're advanced teachers, doubtlessly they are very inaccessible in terms of physical proximity.”

Ifs Term Deals Teacher Enlightened Proximity Inaccessible

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“A teacher will have an initial contact at some point with someone. It happens inwardly first. Before you ever meet an advanced teacher, they have somehow traveled inwardly along the astral planes.”

Firsts Happens Teacher Contact Planes Enlightened Traveled Initials

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“An enlightened teacher teaches you how to gain power. They give you power. They teach you how to shape it so that it becomes an instrument of beauty and not an instrument of unhappiness.”

Giving Teach Teacher Shapes Gains Instruments Enlightened Mysticism Unhappiness Gaining Power

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“The teaching process is lengthy because there are many, many states of mind to go through. And in each state of mind there is a different aggregate of self to be explored.”

Mind Different Self States Process Teacher Teaching Enlightened State Of Mind Lengthy

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“Most teachers of self-discovery have two types of students. They have students they deal with in a more exoteric way than the esoteric students. Esoteric truths are presented to usually a smaller group of students.”

Way Two Self Deals Teacher Groups Students Type Discovery Self Discovery Enlightened Esoteric

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“With a teacher it is necessary to be sensitive to their directions; most of the time they won't say much. You have to be still and silent to understand.”

Stills Teacher Silent Sensitive Enlightened

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“You must discriminate between those who claim to help you and only want to manipulate you and those who are free, who never manipulate.”

Want Helping Teacher Claims Enlightened Manipulate

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“It is not the responsibility of the enlightened teacher to bring the student to enlightenment. That may be true in the classroom, but in the world of enlightenment you have to find it, enter into it.”

World May Responsibility Teacher Students Enlightenment Being True Enlightened Classroom

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“A teacher is really invaluable. A teacher will instruct you in how to stabilize your energy field, increase it, and decrease the loss of energy in your life and how to be balanced, wise, and funny.”

Energy Loss Power Teacher Wise Fields Increase Enlightened Balanced Decrease Invaluable Energy Fields

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“An enlightened being comes into the world because they can help. They are off the wheel. They will experience different states of mind. They will suffer. They will know joy. But ultimately, they are free of all that.”

Knows World Mind Different States Helping Joy Suffering Teacher Wheels Enlightened State Of Mind

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“To see someone manifest all the astral lights, to be surrounded by light, to have light emanating from their body, pulsing waves of gold light - this is the miracle of enlightenment.”

Body Light Teacher Enlightenment Gold Miracle Wave Enlightened Manifest

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“If you sit with an enlightened teacher and silent your mind as they go into nirvana, suchness, the pure power of their aura will bring you on a journey into the world of perfection.”

Ifs World Mind Teacher Journey Pure Perfection Silent Enlightened Auras

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“Miracles have a purpose. Miracles help people believe in enlightenment. The real miracle is the transformation of consciousness from limitation and pain to enlightenment and ecstasy.”

People Believe Real Helping Pain Purpose Consciousness Teacher Enlightenment Miracle Transformation Limitation Enlightened Ecstasy

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“No one can bring you into higher states of attention permanently. I can take an individual and i can change their awareness. That's easy. But how long will it last?”

Long I Can States Lasts Individual Easy Attention Teacher Awareness Higher Enlightened

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“There are some teachers who just perform miracles. They can manifest things from the other world into this world. They have siddha powers. They are not necessarily enlightened.”

World Teacher This World Miracle Enlightened Manifest Other Worlds

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“There is no such thing as a miracle. A miracle is just what somebody else doesn't understand. If we went back into the Stone Age and we lit a match, they'd say, "Ahh miracla, miracla!"”

Ifs Age Teacher Buddhism Stones Miracle Enlightened Lit Rama Stone Age

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“A true master has developed, in their inner practices and studies, certain powers. These powers are sometimes of the miraculous nature, the transmission of attention.”

Sometimes Certain Attention Practice Study Teacher Masters Enlightened Miraculous Transmission

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About the Author

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

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