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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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“Ashrams often become places where there is a hierarchy and a pecking order and not much enlightenment. That is what some people are drawn to. But that has nothing to do with enlightenment.”

People Order Enlightenment Hierarchy Pecking Order

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Go out into the world, do your best all day, try to think higher thoughts, try to be kind and compassionate, but don't let people take advantage of you.”

People Thinking World Trying Kind Higher Advantage Be Kind Compassionate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are lifetimes where one goes off into the Himalayas and meditate in a cave. But this is not really one of those lifetimes for most people. Our earth has changed.”

People Earth Success Careers Changed Buddhism Lifetime Caves Himalayas

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Some people have a very strange idea that material success does not coincide harmoniously with self-realization, which is absurd. The aversion to material success, or the clinging to it, is an attachment.”

People Doe Ideas Self Strange Materials Self Realization Absurd Realization Attachment Clinging Aversion

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“As we hate ourselves less, we tend to hate other people less too.”

People Hate Compassion Buddhism

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“In my estimation it's silly to go out and spend your time aiding people if you don't have your own act together yet. So I'd rather you spend the time, get it right, and it'll all work out a lot better.”

People Ifs Together Compassion Work Out Silly Estimation

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“In future years a number of you will become spiritual teachers. After many years of study and doing a good job, go out into the world and teach people.You'll reach points of advancement where you'll be able to be of great help to many, many people.”

People World Years Helping Able Jobs Spiritual Numbers Compassion Teach Study Teacher Good Job Advancement Spiritual Teachers

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“To have to liberate everybody doesn't sound very free to me. You're gong to go liberate people who maybe don't want to be liberated.”

People Want Sound Compassion Liberated Gongs

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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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When I was very, very young - four, five, six - I could see inside people, their motives, their dreams, their apprehension of reality.”

People Dream Reality Young Five Four Six Motive Rama Apprehension

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“I really didn't want to be a part of the world because I found that the world was filled with unkindness. People didn't love each other.”

People World Want Found Filled Rama Love Each Other Unkindness

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“I saw more truth and sensitivity in art than I did in many of the people in this world.”

People World Art Saws This World Sensitivity Rama

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“I meditated on my own for some time, read spiritual books, became a vegetarian and had incredible experiences every day, every meditation, where I was just thrown into the infinite - never realizing that other people didn't necessarily have those experiences in meditation that quickly.”

People Book Spiritual Realizing My Own Meditation Infinite Incredibles Thrown Vegetarian Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I was very dawn to people I loved, to my family, to my father, to my sister, to my brothers.”

People Father Brother My Family Dawn My Brother My Sister Rama

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“I lived in a community where celibacy was the rule. My I saw many people asked to leave the ashram for so much as looking intensely at a member of the opposite sex.”

People Sex Community Saws Members Opposites Rama Celibacy

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“I went through times of self-hate, thinking how undeveloped spiritual I was. Everyone else in the ashram, a thousand people, nobody had a girlfriend or boyfriend. I did.”

People Thinking Self Spiritual Hate Thousand Girlfriend Rama Rough Times Self Hate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everybody deals with stress differently. Some people drink, some people use drugs, some people watch TV. I have always found that extreme athletics chills me out and leaves me in a very centered place.”

People Use Found Deals Watches Tvs Drink Drug Stress Extremes Chill Leaving Me Rama Athletics Dealing With Stress

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“I do have a staff of what some people would consider to be very attractive, chic women. They are not on the staff because they are attractive and chic but because they care about the welfare of others.”

People Care Welfare Attractive Staff Rama Chic

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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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“I like to be weird, kinky, straight, in and out, up and down. I like to blow up people's expectations, create them, destroy them, and dissolve them. It is fun.”

People Fun Expectations Blow Up And Down Rama Kinky

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“I'm an observer of life. I like to watch people, and I like to watch cactus. I like to talk to mountains and communicate with my friends in the other spheres and dimensions.”

People Watches Mountain My Friends Communicate Dimensions Spheres Observers Rama Cactus

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“There are so many talented people in film today. There seem to be poor scripts, but the actors and actresses are very talented.”

People Seems Today Film Actors Poor Scripts Actresses Rama Actors And Actresses

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“I have been sought out by a number of people who would have felt uncomfortable coming to a large public meditation. They don't want people to come up and ask for autographs.”

People Want Has Beens Asks Felt Numbers Meditation Come Up Uncomfortable Rama Autographs

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“There have been times when I've made special arrangements to meet people in music, film, business or politics, and I'll continue to do so if the people are sincere.”

People Ifs Has Beens Made Film Special Sincere Arrangements Rama

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“Powerful people affect many others and if I can in some way contribute to their awareness, they will put out better energy to millions and millions of people.”

People Ifs Way I Can Energy Powerful Millions Awareness Rama

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“I am a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Aren't we all? I teach meditation to many different types of people, you mentioned celebrities. I also teach meditation to many people who are not famous, but are, in my eyes, very important.”

People Important Different Eye Teach Meditation Type Different Things Different Peoples Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In writing Snowboarding to Nirvana I have intentionally written an inspirational spiritual adventure story, which will hopefully provide people with metaphysical techniques, spiritual knowledge, hope and a brighter view of life.”

People Writing Stories Spiritual Views Written Adventure Technique Hopefully Metaphysical Brighter Rama Snowboarding Spiritual Knowledge

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“Every person I've known has had an effect on me, as have people whom I've not met in the physical in this life, but whom I've met inwardly, teachers from other eras - Sri Ramana Maharshi, Sri Ramakrishna and Lao Tse.”

People Persons Known Teacher Effects Mets This Life Eras Rama Laos

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“I develop artificially intelligent technologies, along with educational and game software and let the business people take it where they will.”

People Games Technology Intelligent Educational Software Rama

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“I personally, only work with people in my business who show excellence. I have a business, the business of enlightenment.”

People Shows Enlightenment Excellence Rama

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“I don't think people should be primarily concerned with money or material success. They should be concerned with doing that which is right and being in harmony with the way of life.”

People Thinking Way Should Materials Concerned Harmony Rama

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“I'm a Zen Master. I'm an occult teacher. I teach people how to become that, how to be perfect.”

People Perfect Teach Teacher Masters Buddhism Rama Occult Zen Master

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“I just felt that it was my responsibility, since so many people had taken the time to help me along, to do the same for others.”

People Helping Felt Responsibility Taken Buddhism Help Me Rama

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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

“While I enjoy teaching people on the basic and intermediate levels to work them up to advanced levels, my real talent is for the advanced students. You could say that I'm like a ninth-degree black belt in martial arts.”

People Art Real Enjoy Black Levels Teaching Talent Students Buddhism Degrees Martial Arts Belts Rama Black Belt Real Talent

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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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“Many of the people I work with I've worked with in other lifetimes. I moved to California because I knew that many of my students from past lives were in California.”

People Past Students Buddhism Moved Lifetime California Rama Past Life

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“I was a traditional teacher for a time, but my students would ride the energy. I wanted to free people not give them a placebo.”

People Giving Wanted Energy Teacher Students Buddhism Traditional Rama Placebo

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“I love people who make mistakes. That's why I'm in the teaching business. I love people who make mistakes because I enjoy watching them learn and helping them, assisting them. I find it a beautiful process.”

People Helping Beautiful Process Enjoy Mistake Teaching Buddhism Making Mistakes Rama Assisting

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“I'd love to find some people to teach advanced meditation to. I've been looking for many years. There are a few around. Once in a while I run into another one. It's a very limited league at this time, in this world.”

People World Years Running Teach Meditation This World Buddhism League Rama

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“It's very funny. People do not want to achieve liberation or be happy. This is the basic guideline they teach you in Spiritual Training School.”

People Want School Spiritual Teach Achieve Buddhism Training Liberation Rama Guidelines Funny People

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“People love misery, they love to feel sorry for themselves, and they definitely don't want to be enlightened. That's the first thing they tell you at boot camp in the higher worlds.”

People World Want Feels Firsts Buddhism Higher Misery Sorry Enlightened Camps Boots Rama Boot Camp

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Don Juan, in the teacings of Carlos Castaneda, makes the same point. You have to fool people into seeking knowlege. People will not do it of their own volition.”

People Buddhism Fool Seeking Rama Don Juan Juan Volition

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“I select people to work more closely when they are prepared to and I see that. They don't have to tell me. I know. I will give them a task of some type, and that task becomes the koan between us.”

People Knows Giving Buddhism Type Tasks Prepared Select Rama

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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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Every day I get letters from people thanking me for helping them to become successful, whether because of their personal growth or because of economic rewards. A few of my former students have even become millionaires.”

People Helping Growth Successful Economic Students Buddhism Letters Personal Growth Rewards Former Millionaire Rama Becoming Successful Former Students

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The word "Guru", as it is used in the contemporary American scene, is someone who takes all your money and tells you what to do with your life. You assume no responsibility. A lot of people want that free ride.”

People Want Used Responsibility Buddhism Scene Assuming Contemporary Guru Rama

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“I don't engage in brainwashing, I don't dictate forms of lifestyle, I don't perform mass marriages or even singular marriages. I don't tell people what to believe.”

People Believe Form Buddhism Mass Lifestyle Rama Brainwashing

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“People get together and go to the movies or on hikes, but everyone maintains their own independent domicile.”

People Together Buddhism Independent Rama Get Together

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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