“Philosophers are all caught up in their philosophies. That's their house of cards. Religious leaders are caught up in their religious movements to the point where they forget about freedom. Everybody's got their drama going.” PhilosophyHumanityHouseReligiousForgetLeaderMovementBuddhismDramaCaughtPhilosopherCardsCaught UpReligious LeadersHouse Of Cards Author:Frederick Lenz
“Meditation essentially means having a great time. Some people have applied a sense or a feeling to the meditative experience, such that, meditation has become a quantifiable religious experience, which means it's not any fun!” PeopleInspirationalMeanFeelingsFunReligiousMeditationBuddhismGreat TimesReligious Experience Author:Frederick Lenz
“A part of us resists all of this and wants to make it sound as if it's much too religious, an arbitrary thing that we have to do with our life. This is nonsense. This is the real fun.” IfsWantInspirationalRealFunSoundReligiousOur LivesBuddhismNonsenseArbitrary Author:Frederick Lenz
“A Buddhist is working not just to get paid, but working to advance spiritually. You shouldn't create a syntactical break in your mind between your career and your religious practice.” MindSuccessReligiousCareersBreakPracticeBuddhismPaidBuddhistReligious Practices Author:Frederick Lenz
“My teaching - of what is perceived to be a complex and foreign sounding religious philosophy - has become the target for people's prejudice and religious intolerance.” PeoplePhilosophyReligiousTeachingBuddhismPrejudiceComplexesTargetIntoleranceRamaReligious PhilosophyReligious Intolerance Author:Frederick Lenz
“Every new movement or group of people who seek to explore awareness is considered a cult. The United States was founded by several cults. They felt that Protestantism had become much too lax, so they came to America and set up a hard line religious cult.” PeopleHardStatesAmericaFeltReligiousLinesUnitedUnited StatesGroupsAwarenessMovementBuddhismCultRamaProtestantismLaxReligious Cults Author:Frederick Lenz
“It is one thing to teach a dynamic Oriental philosophy and religious code; it is quite another to put such a discipline to the test by successfully living it in the face of ridicule.” PhilosophyFacesReligiousTeachOne ThingBuddhismDisciplineTestsCodeRidiculeRama Author:Frederick Lenz
“Spiritual Balance is the obvious answer to the obsession that sometimes accompanies religious practice, occult practice, philosophical understandings - the assertion that one is right - that something that you're doing is better than something somebody else is doing, the way you're doing it is better than the way someone else is doing it.” WaySometimesSpiritualUnderstandingReligiousAnswersPracticeBuddhismBalancePhilosophicalObviousObsessionBuddhistEtiquetteAssertionOccultAccompanyReligious PracticesSpiritual Balance Author:Frederick Lenz