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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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“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 wonder of immaculate, perfect, pure mind is that when it is in its perfect, extant state without confusion, it can be anything it wants to be.”

Want Mind States Perfect Wonder Pure Enlightenment Confusion Immaculate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enlightenment doesn't mean you stop being a student. Being a student is a state of mind. Enlightenment simply means that you are everything and everywhere. It doesn't preclude being a student.”

Mind Mean States Students Enlightenment State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enlightened teachers are not logical. They don't function from levels that are understandable to the human mind. They're not religious. Religions form around them, usually after they've died.”

Mind Humans Form Religious Levels Teacher Function Died Enlightened Logical Human Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“An enlightened master is a perpetual source of the cosmic light because his mind is always merged with nirvana.”

Mind Light Teacher Masters Source Enlightened Cosmic Perpetual

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

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

“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

“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

“Once in while a teacher may make a recommendation, it is usually after going through the basic Socratic method of trying to get people to figure it out themselves. A good teacher challenges your mind, your intellect, and your spirit.”

People Trying Mind May Spirit Challenges Teacher Figures Method Intellect Enlightened Good Teacher Recommendations Socratic

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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

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

Mind Looks States Teacher Enlightened State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

“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

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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

“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

“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

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You must ban together with other women of like mind and for the first time find fellowship, womanship, without the need to compete, without having to climb to the top over each other.”

Needs Mind Firsts Together Women Enlightenment First Time Climbs Fellowship Bans

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The Buddhist mind is more complicated than the Christian mind. It comes up with endless heavens, endless hells, endless earths, and then we have something lower than hell. We have endless sub-realms that make hell look like Club Med and we have endless nirvana.”

Mind Looks Earth Christian Heaven Christianity Hell Come Up Clubs Complicated Endless Buddhist Realms Meds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Paradise is not the place you go when you die. Paradise is when your mind is in a perfect state.”

Mind States Dies Perfect Christianity Paradise Places You Go

Author:Frederick Lenz

“God is within your mind. God is within all things. As a matter of fact, there is nothing that is not God.”

Mind Matter God Facts All Things Matter Of Fact

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everything is God. Everything is light. It is only when we live in illusions, when there are shadows in our mind that we are afraid.”

Mind God Light Illusion Shadow

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“When you meditate you can stand back from your desire. When you silence the mind and there is stillness, only then can you tell if a desire is dharma.”

Ifs Mind Desire Silence Buddhism Stillness Dharma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Very often, in order to bring about stillness we have to be tirelessly active in the outer world. You might suppose this would agitate the mind. It will not, if it is the dharma.”

Ifs World Mind Might Order Buddhism Active Stillness Dharma Outer Worlds Agitate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness does not come from external objects. It comes from peace of mind. You can be famous; you can be a king, a queen, anything. It does not necessarily bring happiness or peace of mind. It comes about through following dharma.”

Mind Doe Objects Buddhism Kings Following Queens Peace Of Mind Dharma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To practice jnana yoga, the yoga of knowledge and discrimination, it's necessary to have a highly developed mind.”

Mind Practice Yoga Discrimination

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When we talk about self-realization, we're talking from the point of view of limitation of the mind. Real knowledge is to see that you are that - you are eternity.”

Mind Real Self Views Talking Yoga Eternity Point Of View Self Realization Realization Limitation Real Knowledge

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If we really reflect and discriminate, we'll find that all things are created by our perception, that all states exist within the mind.”

Ifs Mind States Perception Yoga All Things All State

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What is self? Self is the mind viewing itself. That's all. The mind stops viewing itself and turns towards infinity. There is no self, there's only infinity.”

Mind Self Turns Yoga Infinity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Answers can suit the relative mind. In the dream we can be thirsty. But upon awaking from the dream, there's no thirst.”

Mind Dream Answers Yoga Suits Relative Thirst Thirsty

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Don't try and understand this with your mind. There will be no absolute knowing, no certainty in these thoughts and philosophies and ideas.”

Trying Mind Ideas Philosophy Knowing Yoga Absolutes Certainty

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Love yourself even when you don't measure up to your own expectations. You have a certain idea of what you should do and what you should be - it's only a silly idea that passes through your mind.”

Should Mind Ideas Certain Love You Expectations Yoga Silly Love Yourself Bhakti Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Whenever you engage in a selfless action that contributes to the welfare of others, this will create a vibratory pattern that will lead you into higher states of mind.”

Mind States Action Higher Yoga Patterns Karma Welfare State Of Mind Selfless Karma Yoga Right Action

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The study of Buddhism is essentially the study of modification, how we modify the state of mind we're in, how we modify the realm we're in.”

Mind States Study Buddhism Realms State Of Mind Modification

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Buddhism suggests that you have that choice; you are in the driver's seat. Hertz or somebody has put you there. You have an absolute choice about what you experience in your mind.”

Mind Choices Buddhism Absolutes Seats Drivers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What makes a difference is when we take our mind and put it into the scriptures, when we read the Buddhist Canon, the Pali Canon, when we read the Tibetan books, when we read anything inspiring - somebody else's journey into the world of enlightenment.”

World Mind Book Differences Journey Enlightenment Scripture Buddhist Making A Difference Tibetan Canon

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In meditation the mind stops, thought ceases. When thought stops, the world stops. When the world stops, perception stops. When perception stops, the sense of "I" as a perceiver falls away.”

World Mind Fall Meditation Humility Buddhism Perception Cease

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Purity is essential for just your own peace of mind; otherwise, you'll go through this world like a mad person, howling and screaming and cursing, never satisfied, never happy.”

World Mind Persons This World Buddhism Essentials Mad Satisfied Purity Peace Of Mind Cursing Mad Person

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When the mind is not only silent, but that part of the mind that could become conscious that the mind is silent dissolves in light, then we see and feel purity. We become it, the purity of the eternal light.”

Feels Mind Light Buddhism Eternal Conscious Silent Purity Eternal Light

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As you engage your mind in the scriptures, your mind will become pure.”

Mind Buddhism Pure Scripture Purity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Use your mind to discriminate. Choose to advance yourself, to bring more purity into your being.”

Mind Use Buddhism Purity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We aren't anything in particular. There is no self. There are only ideas and states of mind.”

Mind Ideas Self States Particular State Of Mind Nothingness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The world wasn't created. It is created anew at every moment by mind.”

World Mind Moments Nothingness

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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