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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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“Some people see teachers and they associate the feelings of the other students who are present with the teacher. They psychically connect with all those hundreds of minds and they don't key to the teacher at all.”

People Mind Feelings Teacher Students Keys Enlightened Associates

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are going to focus on a teacher, you have to be focused on the teacher and not peripheral vibrations that might be around them or it will totally screw up your meditation.”

Ifs Might Focus Teacher Meditation Focused Enlightened Screws Vibrations Screw Ups

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We hear wonderful stories about some masters who can walk on water and do all kinds of great things. But the real power of the teacher is to transmit power and knowledge directly to an individual.”

Kind Real Stories Individual Water Walks Teacher Wonderful Masters Great Things All Kinds Enlightened Transmit Real Power

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“You become a monk and you practice and the teacher tells you what to do. If you find that you have a resistance to that, and the resistance is strong, it just means you're not interested. Why put yourself through some sort of torture. It means you weren't that interested.”

Ifs Mean Strong Practice Teacher Resistance Torture Enlightened Not Interested Monk

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“Only listen to the observations of the enlightened because everyone else is self-centered, egocentric and bound by the net of desire.”

Self Desire Teacher Bounds Observation Enlightened Self Centered Egocentric

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“With the empowerment of an advanced Teacher, and your own best efforts, you will be able to explore the mysteries of knowledge that lead to completion and perfection.”

Able Effort Teacher Mystery Empowerment Perfection Enlightened Completion Best Effort

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“In order to do an empowerment, a person obviously has to be highly empowered, have the power, and also have the structural knowledge of how to transfer it to someone else.”

Persons Order Teacher Empowerment Enlightened Empowered Transfers

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“If you run into a Buddha, then that energy field, the "rad" level is so high, it's incalculable. Their effect on an individual is for many, many, many, many, many, many lifetimes.”

Ifs Running Individual Energy Levels Teacher Effects Fields Lifetime Enlightened Energy Fields Rad

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“To deal with someone from other infinites is problematic at times, to deal with a true master of all the realms of the yogas. We call them someone with the seven seals of enlightenment, meaning that their gradated perception has past through all the realms.”

Past Deals Teacher Masters Perception Enlightenment Yoga Infinite Seven Realms Enlightened Seals

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“The role of the Buddhist teacher is to explain your options and to show you what creates karma. All our discussions are basically karmic until you're fully engaged in samadhi.”

Shows Roles Teacher Karma Buddhist Discussion Engaged Enlightened Samadhi

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“Buddhism is all about secrets.”

Secret Teacher Buddhism Enlightened

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“In enlightenment you have to convince a teacher not only that you are worthy of teaching, but then that they should show you some of the secrets.”

Should Shows Secret Teacher Teaching Enlightenment Worthy Convince Enlightened

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“Those secrets are things that most people don't learn, because they are not enthusiastic enough, or bright enough, or patient enough, or funny enough; or still enough.”

People Stills Enough Secret Teacher Patient Enlightened Enthusiastic

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“The teacher will perform miracles. Not just to delight and amuse people, but showing them that miraculous occurrences indicate that there is something more.”

People Teacher Miracle Delight Enlightened Miraculous

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“You have to begin to develop a repertory of jokes, multi-plane spiritual jokes, the sort of things the Zen masters tell each other when they're asleep. These are the secret teachings.”

Spiritual Secret Teacher Teaching Masters Jokes Planes Enlightened Zen Master

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“As a teacher you just look at someone and you transmit to them what they need to know. Not simply a thought form, but you transmit an awareness level.”

Knows Needs Looks Form Levels Teacher Awareness Enlightened Transmit

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“Enlightened teachers get all sorts of assignments. Sometimes we end up in the higher astral; sometimes we end up in the realm of pure spirit; sometimes we end up in the desire realms. Sometimes we go down to the lower astral to teach, you don't really teach there, you just sort of are, because everybody is confused.”

Ends Sometimes Spirit Desire Teach Teacher Higher Pure Realms Confused Enlightened Assignments

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“If what you seek is freedom, the only person who can teach you anything, the only person who can help you is someone who's already done it, who knows the way. No one else can do a damn thing for you but slow you down.”

Ifs Knows Way Persons Done Helping Can Do Teach Teacher Damn Enlightened Damn Things

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“It's ridiculous if you ask me. I don't know what any of us are doing here. But we're a tribe, a network, cruising the galaxy. We have offices in every loka, in every part of existence. I suppose you make that out to be a unique situation. We're Unique! No, I don't think so. We're enlightenment.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Asks Existence Situation Teacher Office Unique Enlightenment Ridiculous Ask Me Enlightened Tribes Galaxy

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“Very few people become enlightened in any given lifetime. On the planet earth their might be a dozen who are fully enlightened and several thousand who live in enlightened states of mind.”

People Mind States Might Earth Given Teacher Planets Thousand Lifetime Enlightened State Of Mind Dozen Planet Earth

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Becoming enlightened is not special, but it's unusual.”

Teacher Special Becoming Enlightened Unusual Becoming Enlightened

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“If it's real enlightenment...you're dealing with someone who's broken through every rule, every barrier, every do and do not, and they've reached an apex of consciousness. They've broken through all the conditioning, all the timidity. They don't buy into any program.”

Ifs Real Consciousness Teacher Broken Enlightenment Program Enlightened Barriers Conditioning Timidity Apex

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“A teacher is there to laugh at you because you have such a high opinion of yourself that you need to be laughed at. You need to sense how small we all are.”

Needs Opinion Laughing Teacher Enlightened Laughed

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“A teacher is someone who has taken their mind much further than you have. They've gone into the void further. They've seen the luminous realities. No one has seen them all...but they've seen more than you have and they understand the trap of self-reflection.”

Mind Self Reality Gone Taken Teacher Reflection Enlightened Void Traps Self Reflection Luminous

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“I can go shopping and pick up some Bounty Towels, the three pack, I can go home and open those up and look at them and see more infinity than in the Buddha's best meditation. If I can't do that, that means I'm wrapped by the Buddha's best meditation.”

Ifs Looks Mean I Can Home Three Teacher Meditation Buddhism Picks Enlightened Infinity Shopping Packs Towels Bounty

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You see a very advanced master who's got a girlfriend, who listens to rock and roll, who thinks about things that are very earthly. The advanced course has to with coming back to everything that you had to reject in the beginning and seeing it as a far greater infiniteness than everything that you've attained.”

Thinking Courses Greater Teacher Seeing Rocks Masters Girlfriend Enlightened Rejects Rock And Roll Coming Back

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most people think that an enlightened Buddhist Teacher is a fireman; His job is to put the fire out so that you can live in your home safely. But seeker beware! A fully enlightened Buddhist teacher is an arsonist! His job is to set your spirit on fire...by feeding the flames of your soul with love.”

People Thinking Soul Home Jobs Spirit Fire Teacher Buddhist Your Soul Flames Enlightened Feeding Seekers Fireman Arsonists

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“You may not need a teacher or you may be drawn to one - everything is individual. But the main thing you need to do is meditate and learn to stop your thoughts and enter into the ocean of infinite awareness. You will be directed from there.”

Needs May Individual Teacher Awareness Ocean Infinite Enlightened

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“If even one woman in the West were to become enlightened, it would change karmas on this planet.”

Ifs Women Planets Enlightenment West Karma Enlightened One Woman

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“The world has never had a greater need for enlightened women and men.”

Men World Needs Women Greater Enlightenment Men And Women Enlightened Men Women

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“Women must work doubly hard to overcome their conditioning in order to become enlightened. They must erase both conscious and unconscious ideas of sexual inferority that have been programmed into their awareness.”

Has Beens Ideas Hard Order Women Awareness Enlightenment Conscious Overcoming Unconscious Enlightened Conditioning Erase Conscious And Unconscious

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“Meditation erases conditioning. It allows a person to channel the kundalini energy through their subtle physical body and reach enlightened states of awareness.”

Persons States Body Energy Women Meditation Awareness Enlightenment Subtle Enlightened Conditioning Erase Physical Body

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“Christmas time - an Enlightened Teacher came into the world, taught, and died. His message was simple: Forgive. While the human beings of this planet have still not absorbed this simple Truth, it remains the Truth.”

World Humans Stills Human Beings Simple Christianity Teacher Taught Planets Messages Died Remains Forgiving Enlightened Simple Truths Christmas Time

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“You are god. To be conscious of that not just from the point of view of the human form, to be endless and beginningless perfect being, is to be enlightened.”

Humans God Form Perfect Views Conscious Point Of View Endless Enlightened Human Form

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“From age to age an enlightened person comes along, one who has made friends with God. They're usually forgotten or scorned.”

Persons Made God Age Forgotten Enlightened Scorned

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“I think enlightenment is something that you decide to do after you have met someone who is enlightened. Something touches your heart, your being at a very deep level.”

Thinking Heart Levels Mets Enlightenment Enlightened Very Deep

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“Through the practice of meditation and the auric empowerments and guidance of an enlightened master, you can totally change your karmic destiny.”

Practice Destiny Meditation Masters Empowerment Guidance Enlightened

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

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

“It is possible to wake up very quickly, to become enlightened, or you can do it gradually.”

Can Do Wake Up Enlightened You Can Do It

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“The scriptures recommend love and service to the enlightened to develop purity.”

Buddhism Scripture Purity Enlightened

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“Personal power is a feeling that everybody is looking for called satisfaction. It is different from enlightenment, but you need personal power to become enlightened. Personal power is not the end of the process.”

Needs Different Ends Feelings Action Process Enlightenment Satisfaction Enlightened Mysticism Personal Power Right Action

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“Some people say that if you have sex you can't be enlightened. I think it isn't really so much whether you have sex or not, but it's what you're doing with your attention level during that time.”

People Ifs Thinking Action Sex Levels Attention Buddhism Enlightened Right Action

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Even a good self will create another good self in the next life, and another one, and that good self will never be enlightened. You'll be bound, life after life, by good karma.”

Self Action Next Bounds Karma Enlightened Right Action Self Will Next Life Good Karma

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“An individual has to be tenacious enough to become enlightened.”

Enough Individual Effort Enlightened Tenacious

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“If you want to become enlightened, you've got to get all the bullshit out of your life. You have to clear up your mind completely.”

Ifs Want Mind Effort Clear Enlightened Bullshit

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“It takes quite a bit of time to become enlightened. But it really is not so different from learning any other art; all you need is time, a good teacher, and practice.”

Needs Art Different Bits Effort Practice Teacher Enlightened Good Teacher

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“You could go through incarnations forever and never become enlightened, unless of course you do something about it.”

Courses Effort Forever Enlightened Incarnation

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“You can't teach someone to be enlightened. It's something you have to go and do. You can't teach someone to meditate well. It's something you have to go and do.”

Wells Effort Teach Enlightened

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“Eventually light prevails, you just have to be patient. So practice Buddhism, learn to be enlightened, put a smile on your face, go find a great teacher, meditate, and stay funny.”

Light Faces Effort Practice Teacher Buddhism Patient Enlightened Your Face Be Patient Great Teacher Smile On Your Face

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If I had my choice I'd hang out anywhere. I mean, it doesn't matter. It's all God; it's all the same. There's only nirvana for the enlightened.”

Ifs Mean Matter Choices Enlightened Hanging Out Rama

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“The way advanced meditation is taught, the way I teach it, the way all enlightened people teach it, is through transference. We transfer light and power to someone else.”

People Way Light Teach Meditation Taught Buddhism Enlightened Rama Transfers Transference

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About the Author

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

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