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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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“Search this world and find that being who you feel has the greatest light and become their apprentice.”

World Feels Light This World Buddhism Purity Apprentice

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Satori is a brief flash. Suddenly the light breaks through. For a short timeless time we experience eternity in its unmanifest form. It's comparable to salvikalpa samadhi.”

Light Form Break Eternity Flash Timeless Introduction Break Through Samadhi Satori

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The light is already there. In Zen Buddhism there's a little speck of dust on the mirror, and that's us.”

Littles Light Buddhism Mirrors Dust Introduction Zen Buddhism Specks

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“Both light and dark are eternity. Human beings assign relative values to colors, but beyond the relative, there just is - what in Zen we call "suchness".”

Humans Light Values Dark Human Beings Color Eternity Relative Introduction Light And Dark Relative Value

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“Who is that is dreaming all of this? Ecstasy, pure ecstasy, joy beyond understanding, bliss beyond the dry dullness of the mind's philosophical ranging, light beyond any light in this world - The substance and the essence of all existence is this light, the transcendental light.”

World Mind Dream Light Joy Understanding Existence This World Pure Essence Philosophical Substance Bliss Dry Ecstasy Transcendental Dullness

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“In advanced meditation you become light. You transcend self, ego, time, space, and dimensionality.”

Self Light Space Meditation Ego

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“It is better when you are in the world. You know how much pain there is. You can tell how established you are in the light. To remove yourself from the things you desire or things you find difficult to deal with is no answer.”

Knows World Light Pain Desire Difficult Answers Deals Know How Remove

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“Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it is shared, you are down in duality.”

Ifs Feels Light Effort Eternity Duality Transcendental Shared Experiences

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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

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“Help the world in any way that you want to. I have found that the more light you give and spread, the more you will evolve.”

World Way Want Giving Helping Light Found Compassion Spread Evolve

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“Your mind is made up of light. We call it the dharmakaya, the clear light of reality. The transcendental eternal light is everywhere. It's the light of god or whatever you want to call it.”

Want Mind Made Reality Light Clear Buddhism Eternal Transcendental Eternal Light

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The Tibetan Buddhist realization is that mind does not have any particular qualities or attributes of its own. It's clear - clear light.”

Mind Doe Light Quality Clear Particular Buddhism Realization Buddhist Attributes Tibetan Tibetan Buddhist

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“The white light is the joker in the deck. It creates transmutations that are completely unpredictable, which is what makes it fun, which is why it scares the hell out of most people.”

People Light Fun White Hell Buddhism Scare Unpredictable Deck White Light Transmutation

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“Life reorders you when you go into the clear light. Even the causal structure is liquefied. The clear light of reality, the dharmakaya, changes us into beings of light.”

Reality Light Clear Buddhism Structure

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“Within the universe there is a pure light. It is a light that is beyond all darkness. It does not give way to anything. It is the light of existence, the dharmakaya.”

Way Giving Doe Light Universe Existence Darkness Buddhism Pure

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“Enlightenment is a timeless void. It's an emptiness that's filled with the most excellent light.”

Light Buddhism Enlightenment Filled Excellent Emptiness Void Timeless

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“Keep your mind centered on that which leads to light, intensively. Accept no substitute.”

Mind Light Accepting Buddhism Substitutes

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“As you go into light for longer and longer periods, as you progress in your meditation practice, you transform, you become illumined, you overcome all limitation, all sorrow, and all pain. You learn not to be bound by desire, and eventually you transcend death itself.”

Light Pain Desire Practice Meditation Progress Buddhism Periods Sorrow Overcoming Bounds Limitation Meditation Practice

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“The miracle of enlightenment is that you take the self and let it dissolve in the white light of eternity.”

Self Light White Buddhism Enlightenment Eternity Miracle White Light

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“The only reason you feel pain is because you're so busy looking at yourself instead of looking at the wonderful patterns of light. If you become absorbed in the wonderful patterns of light, then there's no pain.”

Ifs Feels Reason Light Pain Wonderful Buddhism Busy Patterns No Pain

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“All things are void. So how possibly could there be any obscurations since everything is void, when you're void itself? There's only the void. In the void, there's only shining, perfect clear light of reality.”

Reality Light Perfect Clear Buddhism All Things Shining Void

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“The planes of light give you the power to rise above circumstance, the power to rise above your desires and your aversions.”

Giving Light Desire Buddhism Circumstances Planes Rise Above Aversion

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“There are different worlds, endless worlds, and different beings come from different worlds. In my particular case, I come from the stillness. We call it the dharmakaya, the clear light of reality. I know it quite well.”

Knows World Wells Different Reality Light Cases Clear Particular Buddhism Endless Stillness Different Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“At a very early age I was attracted to light, as most children are.”

Children Light Age Rama

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“In my very early childhood, when I was only 3 or 4 or 5, I would enter for many hours into meditative states in which the world would become light and energy and I would transcend the boundaries of the senses.”

World States Light Energy Hours Childhood Senses Boundaries Rama Early Childhood

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“I was sitting outside in our backyard on a summer day, I was around six, and suddenly the whole world dissolved before my eyes and I found myself in a timeless world of light.”

World Whole Light Eye Found Six Summer Sitting Whole World Timeless Rama Backyards Summer Days

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“I started to meditate formally at about 18. I would sit on a mountaintop in Southern California around twilight and focus on my third eye. Everything would become still and rings of light would appear, and I'd go through them. I would be beyond time and space.”

Stills Light Would Be Eye Space Focus Thirds Rings California Southern Twilight Time And Space Rama Third Eye Southern California

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“I first went into samadhi when I was 19. I was meditating in the mountains and had been meditating on a daily basis for several years. Suddenly there was no time or space or life or death or myself or the Universe. I was absorbed in light.”

Years Firsts Light Universe Space Mountain Bases Rama Meditating Samadhi Life Or Death

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“I found light in the darkness ... or it found me.”

Light Found Darkness Rama Darkness To Light

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“As the years progressed, my spiritual evolution seemed to increase in speed. I stepped outside this world, the selves reordered. The combination, the aggregate of beings that I was, dissolved in the white light of eternity.”

World Years Self Light Spiritual White This World Evolution Eternity Increase Speed Combination Rama White Light Spiritual Evolution

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“My happiness is dependent upon light. Since light is endless, I'm bound to be happy always.”

Light Bounds Endless Dependent Rama

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“Sexuality, I think, is a little bit different, for me, than it is for most people, in that there's almost no body awareness whatsoever. It's just light, but that's how everything is for me.”

People Thinking Littles Different Body Light Bits Awareness Little Bit Sexuality Rama Body Awareness

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“The music is used as a backdrop. I take the kundalini and I play against the notes with it. I do a light show inwardly and outwardly with the vortexes of energy as you sit there. It's no big deal. It's just what I do.”

Play Shows Bigs Light Used Energy Deals Music Is Notes Big Deal Rama Backdrop Vortex

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“I teach meditation and the pathway to enlightenment because I know that there are other people who, like i did a long time ago and continue to, want to climb that mountain to the highest light.”

People Knows Want Long Light Teach Meditation Buddhism Mountain Highest Long Time Enlightenment Climbs Long Time Ago Pathways Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“My seminars are for you. They are moments, hours and evenings outside of time. A chance, in a highly charged environment, to meditate, find stillness, and remember who you are. A place, with others of like mind, to find and lose yourself in the transcendental light.”

Mind Moments Light Remember Hours Loses Chance Environment Buddhism Who You Are Evening Stillness Rama Transcendental Losing Yourself Seminars Remember Who You Are

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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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“There are some great stories in The Second Ring of Power about how Don Juan and Don Genaro found their apprentices and what they went through to fool their students into seeking light.”

Stories Light Found Students Buddhism Fool Seeking Rings Rama Apprentice Don Juan Juan

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“Samadhi is the highest octave spiritual light. Not the best, but the highest octave.”

Light Spiritual Buddhism Highest Rama Samadhi Spiritual Light

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“When I enter into nirvikalpa samadhi, most can see this light, or feel it. This light creates very powerful, steady spiritual transformation. The reason you are here is to sit in this light.”

Feels Reason Light Spiritual Powerful Buddhism Transformation Steady Very Powerful Rama Spiritual Transformation Samadhi

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“As you sit in this light from week to week, you will transform and grow and develop. It washes away the samskaras, the past-life tendencies. It washes away the karmic tendencies from this life.”

Light Past Grows Week Buddhism Tendencies This Life Rama Past Life Samskara

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“When I meditate, people see manifestations of light when I go into samadhi and through the samadhis. Sometimes the energy of enlightenment is so clear that people don't realize that their attention has been elevated.”

People Has Beens Sometimes Light Energy Realizing Attention Clear Buddhism Enlightenment Manifestation Rama Samadhi

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“As far as miracles are concerned, I'm not aware that I perform miracles. After many years and lifetimes of meditation, I am able to use the kundalini energy to alter other people's awareness and aid them in their search for light and certainty.”

People Years Use Light Able Energy Meditation Awareness Buddhism Concerned Miracle Lifetime Aids Certainty Rama

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“I am a liberated teacher. A person who meditates with me, even though they may be thousands of miles away, will draw that light into them.”

May Persons Light Teacher Buddhism Draws Miles Liberated Rama Miles Away

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“My teenage freinds when I was growing up, they have no idea that I attained liberation but I help them. They don't need to know. I can send them energy and light and help them in their evolution.”

Knows Needs I Can Ideas Helping Light Energy Growing Up Growing Buddhism Evolution Liberation No Idea Teenage Rama Energy And Light

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“There are people I feel in other parts of the world who will never meet me or hear my name. They are probably better off. I help them inwardly. I feel their souls seeking light, and I help all who come.”

People World Feels Soul Helping Light Names Buddhism Seeking Better Off Rama

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“I am a Teacher. I am the keeper of mysteries. You seek knowledge and power, Truth, Light, and happiness. I am happy to aid you in your search.”

Light Teacher Mystery Buddhism Aids Rama Keepers Knowledge And Power

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“It's not my light to begin with, in a sense; it's the light of God, the light of eternity. So take all you want!”

Want Light Buddhism Eternity Rama

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“Reality is perfect light. It frees you from the limitations of this world, from the ugliness, from the unhappiness of limited perception.”

World Reality Light Perfect This World Perception Limitation Unhappiness Ugliness Samadhi

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The light of the supra-conscious, of salvakalpa and nirvikalpa samadhi, is not connected to this world at all. It passes through this world but it is not part of this world, in a way of speaking.”

World Way Light This World Conscious Connected Samadhi

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Let's say you dissolve and become infinite light. There is this sense of being light even though the mind is not thinking it, one feels it, which indicates that one is still there - at least half of one.”

Thinking Feels Mind Stills Light Half Infinite Samadhi

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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