Home / Authors / Frederick Lenz

Frederick Lenz

Frederick Lenz Quotes

Author

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.

Filter quotes by topic

All Buddhism Ifs People Mind World Enlightenment Meditation Yoga Way Rama Awareness Self Teacher Thinking Light Energy Enlightened Inspirational States Karma

Famous Frederick Lenz Quotes

“If it's real enlightenment...you're dealing with someone who's broken through every rule, every barrier, every do and do not, and they've reached an apex of consciousness. They've broken through all the conditioning, all the timidity. They don't buy into any program.”

Ifs Real Consciousness Teacher Broken Enlightenment Program Enlightened Barriers Conditioning Timidity Apex

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A teacher is there to laugh at you because you have such a high opinion of yourself that you need to be laughed at. You need to sense how small we all are.”

Needs Opinion Laughing Teacher Enlightened Laughed

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

“I can go shopping and pick up some Bounty Towels, the three pack, I can go home and open those up and look at them and see more infinity than in the Buddha's best meditation. If I can't do that, that means I'm wrapped by the Buddha's best meditation.”

Ifs Looks Mean I Can Home Three Teacher Meditation Buddhism Picks Enlightened Infinity Shopping Packs Towels Bounty

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You see a very advanced master who's got a girlfriend, who listens to rock and roll, who thinks about things that are very earthly. The advanced course has to with coming back to everything that you had to reject in the beginning and seeing it as a far greater infiniteness than everything that you've attained.”

Thinking Courses Greater Teacher Seeing Rocks Masters Girlfriend Enlightened Rejects Rock And Roll Coming Back

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most people think that an enlightened Buddhist Teacher is a fireman; His job is to put the fire out so that you can live in your home safely. But seeker beware! A fully enlightened Buddhist teacher is an arsonist! His job is to set your spirit on fire...by feeding the flames of your soul with love.”

People Thinking Soul Home Jobs Spirit Fire Teacher Buddhist Your Soul Flames Enlightened Feeding Seekers Fireman Arsonists

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You may not need a teacher or you may be drawn to one - everything is individual. But the main thing you need to do is meditate and learn to stop your thoughts and enter into the ocean of infinite awareness. You will be directed from there.”

Needs May Individual Teacher Awareness Ocean Infinite Enlightened

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Christmas time - an Enlightened Teacher came into the world, taught, and died. His message was simple: Forgive. While the human beings of this planet have still not absorbed this simple Truth, it remains the Truth.”

World Humans Stills Human Beings Simple Christianity Teacher Taught Planets Messages Died Remains Forgiving Enlightened Simple Truths Christmas Time

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Your dharma is what kind of work you should be doing, what kind of people you should associate with, whether you should have a teacher or not. Dharma encompasses all things and it is specific to the individual.”

People Should Kind Individual Teacher Buddhism All Things Should Have Associates Dharma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the yoga of love, one has a teacher. It is the teacher whom one loves.”

Teacher Yoga One Love Bhakti Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If one has an enlighened teacher and you come to this person with love, they will show you the ways of love.”

Ifs Way Persons Shows Teacher Yoga Bhakti Yoga Way Of Love

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The relationship between the student and teacher is ultimately important. In higher spirituality we don't study a subject as much as a person.”

Persons Important Spirituality Study Teacher Subjects Students Higher Yoga Bhakti Yoga Teacher And Student

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The yoga of love is for those who want an all-consuming relationship with their teacher. They see the teacher as an extension of God, of eternity - which all of us are.”

Want Love Is Teacher Yoga Eternity Extensions Consuming Bhakti Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you've become strong enough and developed enough, the teacher will fall away.”

Enough Fall Strong Teacher Yoga Strong Enough Bhakti Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Love is a modest and immodest teacher who will bring you through the school of existence, which is the heart.”

Heart School Love Is Existence Teacher Yoga Modest Bhakti Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The true teacher of love is the heart. The heart is very, very wise. It makes mistakes from time to time, but it has a wisdom all of its own.”

Heart Love Is Mistake Teacher Wise Yoga Making Mistakes Bhakti Yoga Very Wise True Teacher

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We see that love manifested normally in the soldier, in the parent, in the lover, and in the spiritual teacher.”

Spiritual Parent Teacher Lovers Yoga Soldier Karma Karma Yoga Spiritual Teachers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You never devote yourself to a teacher. You devote yourself to the practice.”

Practice Teacher

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Selectively pick a teacher, one that you respect, not just someone who can talk with wonderful poetic figures about enlightenment, but someone who has the personal power to bring you into altered states of awareness.”

States Teacher Wonderful Awareness Figures Enlightenment Picks Poetic Altered Personal Power Altered States

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enlightenment is a journey. It is a journey that is made alone. It is a journey that is made with a teacher.”

Made Teacher Journey Enlightenment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditate on enlightenment. Read the exploits of the great teachers, the great saints. They'll inspire you. Their power is there.”

Teacher Inspire Enlightenment Saint Exploits Great Teacher

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In order not to lose your resolve and purpose, you need to unite with others of like mind and work with an advanced Teacher who is in touch with, and can transfer, knowledge and power.”

Needs Mind Purpose Order Loses Teacher Intention Resolve Transfers Knowledge And Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Gaining energy is accomplished by meditating, by right actions, right thoughts, right deeds, by studying with a real teacher or by just studying the teachings, by creating happiness in your life, and by never giving up.”

Giving Real Action Energy Study Teacher Teaching Giving Up Creating Intention Deeds Accomplished Never Giving Up Meditating Right Action

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think cosmopolitan spirituality is the best, where we go beyond "My teacher is better than yours" or "My meditation form is better than yours." It's not Ford versus Chevy. But it's rather the transition of our limited awareness into eternity.”

Thinking Form Spirituality Teacher Meditation Awareness Buddhism Eternity Transition Versus Chevy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you're very liberal, then you should go and find a very liberal Zen teacher, a liberal interpretation of the doctrines of the Soto or Rinzai schools.”

Ifs Should School Teacher Doctrine Interpretation Introduction

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The advanced student of meditation takes an active part in supporting the work of their teacher. They happily work more hours or do whatever is necessary to help out more.”

Helping Hours Teacher Meditation Students Active

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It takes quite a bit of time to become enlightened. But it really is not so different from learning any other art; all you need is time, a good teacher, and practice.”

Needs Art Different Bits Effort Practice Teacher Enlightened Good Teacher

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I've been very fortunate because many of the teachers I had were exceptional. But I didn't realize that at the time that all teachers were not alike.”

Realizing Teacher Fortunate Exceptional Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I entered a spiritual community when I was 20, which I was in for 11 year, with very strict meditative practices, with an Eastern teacher. It was very much like a religious order.”

Years Spiritual Order Community Religious Practice Teacher Strict Eastern Rama Spiritual Community

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my walks in nature, meditating, and of course with my teacher.”

Book Courses Walks Teacher Quiet Scholar Solitary Rama Meditating Aloof Quiet Life Walks In Nature

Author:Frederick Lenz

“My teacher knew that I always had a girlfriend. For some reason, he never said anything to me about it.”

Said Reason Teacher Girlfriend Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Some of the most exalted states of consciousness I experienced were in bed with someone, alone, or with my spiritual teacher. There was never a difference for me.”

States Spiritual Differences Consciousness Teacher Bed Rama Exalted States Of Consciousness Spiritual Teachers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“My teacher sent me all over the world to talk about meditation - Europe, all over America, Canada. I would drive thousands of miles, travel, all at my own expense, to do this.”

World America My Own Teacher Meditation Europe Miles Canada Expenses Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I liked my teacher very much and after some years of mediation, I began to teach meditation, referring all things that I didn't know to my own teacher.”

Knows Years My Own Teach Teacher Meditation All Things Rama Referring Mediation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“At a certain point I left my spiritual teacher because I began to see the limitations of my teacher, who was a very powerful occultist, but who I thought was, to some extent, limiting others in their spiritual growth.”

Spiritual Certain Left Growth Powerful Teacher Limitation Spiritual Growth Very Powerful Rama Spiritual Teachers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I studied with a number of different teachers. But really, I've never studied with teachers. To be honest, the only thing that's ever interested me in life is eternity. Nothing else makes any sense to me.”

Different Life Is Numbers Teacher Honest Eternity Being Honest Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Throughout the course of my life, I have been very fortunate to have had excellent teachers - not just in meditation, but in martial arts, music, scuba diving, and in my academic education.”

Has Beens Art Courses Teacher Meditation Excellent Fortunate Martial Arts Academic Rama Diving Art Music Scuba Academic Education Scuba Diving

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you think it makes a difference if I have ten thousand sports cars, ten million girlfriends and lead a very flashy life ... I don't think you should work with any teacher because you don't know what it is all about yet.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Should Sports Differences Millions Teacher Car Buddhism Thousand Ten Girlfriend Making A Difference Rama Flashy Sports Cars

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs.”

Moments Universe Teacher Teaching Buddhism That Moment Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I am very interested in the enlightenment of women. Very few teachers of advanced self discovery work with women, and if they do it's usually in a very second handed way. They treat women as second class citizens.”

Ifs Way Self Class Teacher Buddhism Citizens Enlightenment Discovery Treats Self Discovery Rama Second Class Citizens

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Transmission does not have to take place physically. The student doesn't have to be sitting across from you. But it's easier if they are because the vibration of the teacher is strongest in the physical proximity of the teacher.”

Ifs Doe Teacher Students Buddhism Easier Sitting Strongest Vibrations Rama Transmission Proximity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is the teacher's job to point out mistakes so that an individual doesn't continue to hurt themselves or others.”

Jobs Individual Hurt Mistake Teacher Buddhism Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Unfortunately the student often feels guilt for not living the type of life that their Teacher suggested, or they feel that they are intrinsically bad and incapable of leading a higher life.”

Feels Teacher Students Buddhism Type Higher Guilt Incapable Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Often, in the student's confusion, she or he directs anger at the teacher, blaming them for the pain they are experiencing, or for their own mistakes.”

Pain Mistake Teacher Students Buddhism Blame Confusion Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Some come to a teacher for power. They still have all the desires, angers and jealousies of an unevolved person. Consequently, they become destructive both to themselves and to others.”

Persons Stills Desire Teacher Buddhism Destructive Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

Related Topics

Buddhism Ifs People Mind World Enlightenment Meditation Yoga Way Rama Awareness Self Teacher Thinking Light Energy Enlightened Inspirational States Karma

Popular Topics

People Ifs Thinking Knows Men World Way Want Love Life Inspirational Needs Giving Feels Should Writing Trying Years Mind Firsts

Books & Sources

Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master FwapRelated source material

Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual AdventureRelated source material

Snowboarding to Nirvana: A NovelRelated source material

Similar Authors

Jetsunma Ahkon LhamoBrowse related quotes
Arnaud DesjardinsBrowse related quotes
Quentin S. CrispBrowse related quotes
Matthieu RicardBrowse related quotes
Ninian SmartBrowse related quotes
Taitetsu UnnoBrowse related quotes
Dhammananda BhikkhuniBrowse related quotes
Robert Baker AitkenBrowse related quotes
AtisaBrowse related quotes
Yuanwu KeqinBrowse related quotes