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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 aggregates that we pick up in the human plane will be washed away, and we will become pure spirit, pure light, pure love, and pure ecstasy.”

Humans Light Spirit Meditation Buddhism Pure Picks Planes Ecstasy Pure Love

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The light is not quantifiable. You experience it in meditation when thought stops. When you go beyond the limitations of the ego, the light is waiting for you.”

Light Waiting Meditation Buddhism Ego Limitation Waiting For You

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What you focus on you become. If you spend an hour or two a day meditating and focusing on light, then you will eventually become light.”

Ifs Two Light Hours Focus Meditation Buddhism Meditating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The key to all enlightenment is to have personal experiences in the world of light. All you need to do that is to meditate.”

World Needs Light Meditation Buddhism Keys Enlightenment Personal Experiences

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you take the time to bring the light of the supra-conscious into your being, then automatically all blockages will go away. These are just ways of talking, there are no blockages, schematically I mean.”

Ifs Way Mean Light Talking Buddhism Conscious Going Away Way Of Talking Blockage

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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are seven primary chakras located in the subtle physical body, the body of light and energy that is our awareness and that surrounds the physical.”

Body Light Energy Awareness Buddhism Seven Primaries Subtle Surround Physical Body Chakra Seven Chakras

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The crown chakra is located several inches above the head, but it is not connected. The crown chakra, also known as the thousand-petal lotus of light, references the planes of light, of enlightenment.”

Light Known Buddhism Thousand Enlightenment Connected Planes Inches Crowns Petals Chakra Lotuses

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The thousand petal lotus of light, the crown center, really does not become operative until one is on the verge of enlightenment itself. Then you really don't have to meditate on it. The thousand petals gradually light up.”

Doe Light Buddhism Thousand Enlightenment Crowns Verge Petals Light Up Chakra Lotuses

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Beyond the astral dimensions are the causal dimensions. They are not spatial or time oriented. They are planes of light, and they make up the outer limits of nirvana.”

Light Buddhism Limits Planes Dimensions Spatial Outer Limits

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“The causal dimensions, the planes of light, are happiness. They are all different and are all endless. They border the shores of nirvana, which is beyond discussion - a condition of perfection that cannot be expressed.”

Different Light Conditions Buddhism Perfection Endless Planes Discussion Borders Dimensions Shore

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Beneath our transient physical bodies, we are made up of intelligent light. One's own body of light, the soul, is the most real part of oneself because it lives forever, it doesn't decay and die.”

Made Real Soul Body Light Dies Forever Buddhism Intelligent Oneself Decay Transient Physical Body

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

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

“When you go into the causal realms you become someone else. The light vibrates very quickly. You will see that you are a concurrence of light - taken shape and form in the body you now occupy.”

Body Light Form Taken Buddhism Shapes Realms Vibrate Concurrence

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In meditation, as you go into the causal dimensions, the planes of light, you will be purified, energized and you will become wise.”

Light Wise Meditation Buddhism Planes Dimensions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everything that you see before you with your physical eyes is an illusion. In other words, you are not seeing correctly. Life is made up of light. But if you are only looking through the senses, it seems solid and physical.”

Ifs Made Light Seems Eye Life Is Seeing Illusion Senses Hinduism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The planes of light exist. Yoga is a method of unifying the energies of the body, the mind, and the spirit and directing them towards infinity, the planes of light.”

Mind Body Light Spirit Energy Yoga Method Planes Infinity Hinduism Unifying

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In order to create heat, you have to have something to burn. So what we do in yoga is, we burn ourselves up to create light.”

Light Order Yoga Heat Hinduism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-realization is a very quiet thing. It's not flashy. No one might see you light up a room. No one might observe anything”

Self Light Might Rooms Quiet Self Realization Realization Hinduism Light Up Flashy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are with a fully enlightened being, a jivan mukta, liberated soul, the quality of light is so clear, that you don't really know that it is there until later.”

Ifs Knows Soul Light Quality Clear Enlightened Hinduism Liberated

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Yes, there are siddha powers. Yes, you can heal people, transform attention. You can flood the sky with light at night so you can't even see the stars. But the greatest miracle is the spirit - it is light”

People Light Spirit Night Stars Attention Sky Miracle Heal Hinduism Flood Yes You Can

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantra is the perception of the oneness and the perfection of all things. Not just the perception of light, but the perception of darkness, seeing God in both beauty and horror.”

Light Darkness Seeing Horror Perception All Things Perfection Oneness Hinduism Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Take a deep breath and exhale slowly. Mentally picture all tiredness, tension, and fatigue leaving you. Visualize that a wave of golden light is entering you at the top of your head and passing throughout your entire body.”

Body Light Breaths Leaving Wave Passing Passings Golden Tension Entering Fatigue Visualization Deep Breath Take A Deep Breath Tiredness Golden Light

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Picture that the waves of golden light have now become a solid river of golden light that is constantly passing through you. Picture this golden light expanding beyond your body and filling up the entire room.”

Body Light Rooms Rivers Wave Your Body Passing Passings Golden Expanding Filling Visualization Passing Through Filling Up Golden Light

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation is a refocusing on symbols. It's not emptiness. We are using symbols, doorways to step from one world to another, from darkness into light, from death to immortality.”

World Light Steps Darkness Meditation Symbols Immortality Emptiness Doorways Visualization

Author:Frederick Lenz

“An advanced way to meditate, of course, is to focus on your teacher. If you have a spiritual teacher and you focus on them during mediation, then you access the light that flows through them.”

Ifs Way Light Spiritual Courses Focus Teacher Flow Access Visualization Mediation Spiritual Teachers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can focus on Jesus or Buddha or Krishna, Ramakrishna, Lao Tsu, Yukteswar, Yogananda, Vivekananda, any of the great spiritual teachers who have lived, or on a living teacher, and draw light from them.”

Light Spiritual Jesus Focus Teacher Draws Krishna Visualization Spiritual Teachers Great Spiritual Laos Vivekananda

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Focusing on an enlightened teacher is a doorway. It is not a person. We are focusing on the light that passes through them. We are moving through them into the planes of light and eventually to nirvana.”

Persons Light Moving Teacher Planes Enlightened Doorways Visualization

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditate upon all the perfect light within your own mind! Do this repeatedly and the radiant Bodhisattvas of Wisdom and Laughter will visit you and change your karma forever!”

Mind Light Perfect Forever Laughter Karma Visualization Radiant Light Within Bodhisattva Visits You

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In meditation have a complete focus on light, brightness, spiritual oneness, God, infinity, eternity. You know - silly things.”

Knows Light Spiritual Focus Meditation Eternity Silly Oneness Infinity Visualization Brightness Silly Things

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Instead of tryig to stop thought when you meditate, focus your attention on love. Suddenly you'll find your thoughts are slacking. Light is everywhere and suddenly there is no thought.”

Light Attention Focus Slacking

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are planes that are not light. There are planes that are shadowy. But that is not our interest in meditation. We want brightness, ecstasy, brilliance beyond comprehension.”

Want Light Interest Meditation Planes Ecstasy Brilliance Comprehension Brightness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can't just sit in emptiness. Even the enlightened don't sit in emptiness. We call it emptiness - but we move our mind into a world of light.”

World Mind Light Moving Emptiness Enlightened

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You will notice the phenomena of meditation. You may see dazzling lights, feel energy coursing through different parts of your body, feel as if you are floating, hear sounds, or smell fragrances.”

Ifs Feels May Different Body Light Energy Sound Meditation Smell Your Body Floating Fragrance Dazzling

Author:Frederick Lenz

“This solidity is not true. The apparent solidity is the delusion of the senses and of the self. Everything is made up of infinite, intelligent light.”

Made Self Light Ignorance Intelligent Infinite Senses Delusion Mysticism Solidity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If we get above the individualized soul's journey, you will see that we are all one. We are all one light. In that sense, we are all enlightened.”

Ifs Soul Light Journey Enlightened Reincarnation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Reincarnation is the evolution of spirit through matter. Over thousands and millions of lifetimes, the soul evolves. It comes into the light. The growth is slow.”

Soul Matter Light Spirit Growth Millions Evolution Lifetime Evolve Reincarnation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enlightenment is the experience of pure light.”

Light Pure Enlightenment

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

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

“Beyond this world and beyond all other worlds there is an all-perfect light. It is pure intelligence, ecstasy, peace and happiness. It is the light that shines beyond darkness, time, space and dimensionality.”

World Light Space Perfect Darkness This World Pure Enlightenment Shining Ecstasy Other Worlds Peace And Happiness

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

About the Author

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

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