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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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“A person who is enlightened does not have to reincarnate, or they may. If they chose not to, they can go beyond the wheel, and slide into nirvana.”

Ifs May Persons Doe Enlightenment Wheels Enlightened Slides

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What is enlightenment, anyway? I don't know if I can really put it into words, perhaps you can. I can't.”

Ifs Knows I Can Enlightenment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People think that if you are enlightened you are not in touch with the pulse of the physical. Au contraire! The higher you go, the deeper you become, and the more conscious you are of the physical and the sensorial.”

People Ifs Thinking Higher Enlightenment Conscious Deeper Enlightened Pulse

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are liberated then you can be in the crowd and there is no crowd. You can be surrounded by the world and their is no world. You have shattered the prism of illusion.”

Ifs World Enlightenment Illusion Crowds Liberated Shattered Prisms

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A better name for nirvana might be endless love. Love not even in the sense that we see it if we're watching the romantic movie, but love in a sense of no absence.”

Ifs Might Names Enlightenment Absence Endless Endless Love

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If one is enlightened, one does not perceive life with North, South, East and West. There is no California, there is no New York. In a higher bonding state of attention, everything is fluid light.”

Ifs Doe States Light Attention New York Higher Enlightenment West South East Perceive California Enlightened Fluid Bonding East And West

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's a very complicated matter to become enlightened. If it happens to a person without a teacher in this lifetime, you can bet their boots, they've had about a thousand teachers in their last thousand lives because it's a very complicated thing to do.”

Ifs Persons Matter Happens Lasts Teacher Thousand Enlightenment Lifetime Complicated Things To Do Enlightened Boots Complicated Things

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enlightenment is x-rated, honey; if you haven't checked it out. It's hot, it's vivacious. You're going to take your mind and merge it with the entire cosmos.”

Ifs Mind Havens Enlightenment Hot Cosmos Honey Vivacious X Rated

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The world of enlightenment, and that which creates enlightenment, is much different than what most people would think. Most people have Hallmark Card descriptions of what creates enlightenment. And if their descriptions were correct, then everyone who is in religious practice would be enlightened.”

People Ifs Thinking World Different Would Be Religious Practice Enlightenment Cards Description Enlightened Hallmark Religious Practices Hallmark Card

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you ever want to study acting you should be around an enlightened person for a while, because all they do is play roles, since they no longer have a self.”

Ifs Want Should Persons Self Play Acting Roles Study Teacher Enlightened

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“When you are enlightened, your physical body will still feel pain if you get hurt, but you will not be overwhelmed even by extreme physical pain, because your mind is filled with light, love and understanding.”

Ifs Feels Mind Stills Body Light Pain Understanding Hurt Teacher Filled Extremes Enlightened Overwhelmed Physical Body Physical Pain

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

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

“If you are a student of an enlightened master, you can literally tap into his aura, anywhere and at anytime. All you have to do is meditate on your Buddhist master and the light will come into your mind.”

Ifs Mind Light Teacher Students Masters Buddhist Enlightened Auras

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

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

“It's nice if you love a liberated person, and you should, because they love you. They're lovable. They're children playing in a very, very unusual world filled with vortexes of dancing darkness and light.”

Ifs World Should Children Persons Light Darkness Teacher Nice Love You Filled Dancing Enlightened Unusual Light And Darkness Liberated Lovable Children Playing Vortex

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If the teacher is truly enlightened, energy and light is always coming forth from them. To be in their physical presence is a great boon, not of the teacher but of that light which passes through them.”

Ifs Light Energy Teacher Enlightened Boon Energy And Light

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you can develop a connection, what we call an inner connection with the teacher, then it is not even necessary to be in the physical presence of the teacher, although it will always be stronger.”

Ifs Teacher Connections Stronger Enlightened

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“There is always a certain amount of 'transmission loss.' You can have a power generator and if the power is going on 100 miles away, even with very efficient cable there could be a certain amount of loss.”

Ifs Certain Loss Teacher Amount Miles Enlightened Efficient Cables Miles Away Transmission Generator

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“If you become very close to your teacher, if you do well in your meditation, a deep emotional bond will develop between both of you over a period of time. You can be thousands of miles away from your teacher and find that induction is always taking place. That's the ideal.”

Ifs Wells Teacher Meditation Emotional Periods Ideals Miles Enlightened Miles Away Deep Emotional

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you respect your teacher, you do better. Respect is only good because it will help you. Real liberated people, what can you do for them? They've got everything. They are everything. They don't need to be worshipped or adored.”

People Ifs Needs Real Helping Teacher Enlightened Liberated

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Even to the sage who's doing Sahaja Samadhi, the great guru, I'd say: "Hey buddy, you know, I like the robes and everything, but remember, you're only touching infinity. And if you claim to be doing more, I think you're pretty much in the senses and the body and the mind because infinity is endless."”

Ifs Thinking Knows Mind Body Remember Teacher Claims Senses Endless Hey Enlightened Touching Infinity Sage Guru Buddy Remember You Remembers You Robes Samadhi You Re Pretty

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If a spiritual teacher says something that doesn't make sense to you, you should always listen to yourself and not the teacher. A little common sense would end all cults.”

Ifs Should Littles Ends Spiritual Common Teacher Common Sense Make Sense Enlightened Cult Listen To Yourself Spiritual Teachers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's a good idea to be in the physical presence of the enlightened teacher because it's not physical. You can hear the ocean from quite a ways away, but if you're standing right in front of it, it's easier.”

Ifs Way Ideas Teacher Fronts Easier Ocean Standing Enlightened Good Ideas

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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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“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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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“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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“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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“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

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

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

“If global extinction is to be avoided, woman must unite and come to terms with their destiny.”

Ifs Women Term Destiny Enlightenment Extinction Avoided

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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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“If it's not true love, then that energy will gradually wear the subtle physical down.”

Ifs Energy Women Enlightenment Subtle

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“If her security rests upon her alliance with a man, another woman may take that man away; therefore women have no unity between themselves.”

Ifs Men May Women Security Enlightenment Unity Alliances Another Woman

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“If you seek to change your life and attain enlightenment, you must deal with these questions. If there is no truth in this, then ignore these silly words.”

Ifs Women Deals Enlightenment Silly Changing Your Life

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“All he said was that we're all free if we pursue spirit. That's all he said. He didn't say let's set up a Vatican Concil. He didn't say, Martin Luther, you need to put our demands on the door.”

Ifs Needs Said Spirit Christianity Doors Demand Pursue Luther

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I would say that Jesus Christ and his followers were a cult, Buddha and his followers were a cult and Mohammed and his followers were a cult. Every religion starts out as a cult and if it becomes 'box office', it is accepted.”

Ifs Jesus Christ Christianity Office Jesus Christ Boxes Accepted Followers Cult Box Office

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The idea is that the savior came, and simply by the coming of the savior you're saved. Nonsense, human beings wish! If that were the case, we'd live in a perfect world.”

Ifs World Humans Ideas Wish Human Beings Perfect Christianity Cases Saved Nonsense Savior A Perfect World

Author:Frederick Lenz

“They say that faith can move mountains, so can bulldozers, so can nuclear weapons. I'm not really sure if that's what faith is intended for. I guess if there is a mountain that has to be moved, and you've got nothing else to do it with, you could probably do it with faith.”

Ifs Moving Christianity Mountain Weapons Moved Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Move Mountains Bulldozers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you hate yourself and your desires, well, you know, God is your desires and God is your self. As long as you hate God, you'll never realize God.”

Ifs Knows Wells Long Self God Desire Hate Realizing Hate You Knowing God Hate God

Author:Frederick Lenz

“How can you give something to someone who has everything? If you think men are tough to shop for at Christmas, try God. God has everything except one thing, friends. God doesn't have friends.”

Ifs Thinking Men Giving Trying God One Thing Tough Shops

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Some people say: "There is no God; because, if there was a God, God would stop all the suffering." Nonsense! God is oblivious to suffering. God is beyond suffering. That's what makes God, God, by definition.”

People Ifs God Suffering Definitions Nonsense There Is No God Oblivious

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“If you can't make freinds with God, make freinds with someone is friends and maybe you'll get invited to the party.”

Ifs God Party Invited

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“The universe is a matrix. It's a doorway into itself. But that doorway remains invisible if you don't have enough energy flowing through you.”

Ifs Enough Universe Energy Power Remains Invisible Doorways

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“We are power. But these are only words if you don't have the personal power to unlock the gates of immortality and of mortality.”

Ifs Power Immortality Gates Mortality Personal Power

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About the Author

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

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