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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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“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

“A person who wants to progress more rapidly and wishes to overcome unhappiness sooner, should try to find an enlightened master.”

Want Should Trying Persons Wish Teacher Progress Masters Overcoming Enlightened Unhappiness

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

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

“No one on this earth attains enlightenment anymore without an enlightened master as a guide, unless that person was enlightened in many previous incarnations.”

Persons Earth Teacher Masters Enlightenment Guides Enlightened Incarnation

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

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

“Almost anyone can see the golden light in an enlightened master's aura when the master meditates, unless, of course, the person is blocked up psychically.”

Persons Light Courses Teacher Masters Golden Enlightened Auras Blocked Golden Light

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

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

“At times your entire body tingles with ecstasy as you feel the waves of psychic energy that emanate from the master's aura touching your own body.”

Feels Body Energy Teacher Masters Wave Enlightened Ecstasy Touching Psychics Auras Emanate

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

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

“Being a siddha master is indeed a great accomplishment, but it is not the same as being enlightened. People confuse siddha masters, who have the power to perform miracles, with enlightened masters who can enter into samadhi.”

People Teacher Masters Miracle Accomplishment Enlightened Samadhi Great Accomplishment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

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“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

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“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

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“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

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“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

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“While people who are enlightened are worthy of respect, to put them on a pedestal is a mistake. To undervalue them is also a mistake.”

People Mistake Teacher Worthy Enlightened Pedestal

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“The more advanced the teacher, the better for you. The fifth degree black belt is so expert that they will understand that you're a beginner and throw you perfectly so that no harm will befall you.”

Black Teacher Degrees Harm Experts Enlightened Fifth Belts Beginners Black Belt

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“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

“Many people claim to be liberated...it's an endless list! According to "moi", as Ms. Piggy would say, there are currently, on this earth, 12 beings who are self-realized. Eleven are men, one is a woman. Most of them are in the Far East, most of them you've never heard of and probably never will.”

People Men Self Earth Teacher Heard Claims East Lists Endless Enlightened Eleven Liberated Piggy

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“The abuse of power manifests with phony spiritual teachers and phony gurus who tell you how to run your life and what to wear and what to eat, all that sort of stuff. They abuse. People don't realize that, listen to them and ruin their lives.”

People Running Spiritual Stuff Realizing Teacher Abuse Ruins Enlightened Guru Phony Abuse Of Power Spiritual Teachers

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“Phony gurus make themselves objects of adoration and worship. Real spiritual teachers aren't interested in adoration and worship. They like respect only because they realize respect will help the student.”

Real Helping Spiritual Realizing Teacher Objects Students Worship Enlightened Guru Adoration Phony Spiritual Teachers

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“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

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“An esoteric or enlightened teacher of Buddhism is someone who has the ability to transfer power to another individual. A real empowerment is not just a ceremony.”

Real Individual Ability Teacher Buddhism Empowerment Enlightened Ceremony Transfers Esoteric

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Liberated souls are a rare commodity in this world. They are no better; it's just you, a little later, in the next act or in the next play.”

World Littles Soul Play Next Teacher This World Enlightened Commodity Liberated Next Play

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“I think only a person who's studied WITH someone for many years is in a position to voice a true opinion about a particular teacher.”

Thinking Years Persons Voice Opinion Teacher Position Particular Enlightened

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“When you find a teacher, you devote your time and energy to what they believe in. You surrender not them but to the infinite, which operates through them.”

Believe Energy Teacher Infinite Surrender Enlightened Believe In You Time And Energy

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“A real liberated teacher never asks for a commitment from a student. That's absurd, a person wants to be there and they want to learn everything they can.”

Want Persons Real Asks Teacher Students Commitment Absurd Enlightened Liberated

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“There is deception. People who think they are enlightened and it's just ego.”

People Thinking Teacher Ego Deception Enlightened

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“There are phony teachers who profess all kinds of things, and I think you will figure out real fast who they are. They just don't feel right.”

Thinking Feels Kind Real Teacher Figures All Kinds Enlightened Feels Right Phony

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“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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“Sometimes when you are with an enlightened teacher, you will feel both pleasant and unpleasant things magnified. That happens when you meditate with someone who goes into very strong states of altered consciousness.”

Feels Sometimes States Happens Strong Consciousness Teacher Pleasant Enlightened Very Strong Altered

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“Enlightened teachers can do certain miracles, but they are not really miracles. They just know how to use energy on other levels of consciousness. A miracle is in the eye of the beholder, as is all of life.”

Knows Use Eye Certain Energy Can Do Levels Consciousness Know How Teacher Miracle Enlightened Beholder Eye Of The Beholder

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“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

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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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“The later stages of the enlightenment process are trickier, and it is really essential to have a teacher then. You need correction, direction, and most of all you need a master's auric empowerment.”

Needs Process Teacher Stage Masters Essentials Enlightenment Empowerment Enlightened Corrections

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“Most teachers are not enlightened. Very few are. That doesn't mean they are not great teachers.”

Mean Teacher Enlightened Great Teacher

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“The ultimate horror movie for a really un-illuminated being is an enlightened person. They are scared of others seeing what they are all about and what they really do. They are scared of truth.”

Persons Teacher Seeing Horror Ultimate Scared Enlightened

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“When you meditate with an enlightened teacher, you will feel something from them. They just dissolve completely, absorption in nirvana, where they don't even have physical contact with this world anymore.”

World Feels Teacher This World Contact Enlightened Absorption

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“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

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“An enlightened person is someone who shifts from one plateau of knowledge to another.”

Persons Teacher Enlightened

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“There is obstruction. Enlightenment is not very popular in this world. History tells us that enlightened teachers who made themselves largely available to human beings had problems.”

World Humans Made Problem Human Beings Teacher This World Enlightenment Available Enlightened World History Obstruction Very Popular

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“Enlightened people live in very charged states of attention, with a tremendous power circuiting through them.”

People States Attention Teacher Enlightened

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“Many enlightened persons are never very well known. Many are reclusive. They live in little villages in India or up in the high Himalayas in Tibet. Some have no students at all. Some have a few.”

Wells Littles Persons Known Teacher Students India Enlightened Village Well Known Tibet Himalayas

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“Once in a while an enlightened teacher goes out into the world and spreads the dharma. They attract some attention, and it is a great spectacle to see who and why and what is drawn.”

World Attention Teacher Spread Enlightened Dharma

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“Nonphysical beings are drawn to enlightened beings. Some come to aid them in there work; some come to interfere. Some just come to watch. Enlightenment is rare in this world.”

World Watches Teacher This World Enlightenment Aids Enlightened Interfere

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

Mind Looks States Teacher Enlightened State Of Mind

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“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

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“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

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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

“An enlightened person has real power and when they think a good thought, the tremendous power of attention causes their students to actually lift up into those states. It brings a power into their lives.”

Thinking Persons Real States Causes Attention Teacher Students Lifts Enlightened Good Thoughts Real Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People who are enlightened in previous lifetimes have a certain degree of difficulty in regaining their enlightenment. Sometimes it comes in childhood. Sometimes it takes many years to reintegrate the personality structure that they gained when they first entered into this world.”

People World Years Firsts Sometimes Certain Teacher Childhood This World Personality Degrees Enlightenment Difficulty Structure Lifetime Enlightened

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“An enlightened teacher has so much power that when they meditate, a tremendous aura builds up around them. The aura will open up your aura and increase it. You will move into a higher plane of knowledge. You will gain a new view of the world.”

World Moving Views Teacher Higher Gains Increase Planes Enlightened Auras

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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