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“Higher meditation is not taught through techniques or words. The real meditation experience is taught inwardly. You shift a person through different dimensional planes.”

Persons Different Real Wisdom Meditation Taught Buddhism Higher Technique Planes

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The way you learn is by sitting with the Master, as he moves into those states of attention, you feel that and follow him. He generates tremendous energy when he's doing anything. You are taught inwardly.”

Way Feels States Wisdom Moving Energy Attention Taught Masters Buddhism Sitting

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We are taught not to perceive but to avoid direct perceptions of reality and to substitute instead this kind of one-dimensional view of life.”

Kind Reality Views Awareness Taught Buddhism Perception Direct Perceive Substitutes Perception Reality

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The operative condition on this particular planet, the central mode which human beings follow, is fear. We are taught to fear.”

Humans Humanity Human Beings Conditions Taught Particular Planets Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness does not come from external things as we're really taught as children. It doesn't come from Santa Claus. Happiness is from within your mind. Just realizing that will change your whole life.”

Mind Children Doe Whole Happiness Realizing Taught Buddhism Whole Life Santa Life Happiness Santa Claus

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.”

Happiness Difficult Can Do Taught Buddhism Best Things Nun

Author:Frederick Lenz

“They get you when you're young. When you are a kid, you are conditioned. You are taught language, customs, and right and wrong. You are filled with fears. This conditioning interferes with your psychic perception.”

Inspirational Kids Young Language Seeing Taught Buddhism Perception Filled Customs Interfere Psychics Conditioning

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security. It teaches me to stop following every impulse and to learn restraint. Obviously I lost track of what I was taught.”

Lost Causes Teach Security Taught Buddhism Track Following Unhappy Impulse Restraint Craving Pointless

Author:Tiger Woods

“The most important things in life can't be seen with the eyes. Ideas can't be seen. Love can't be seen. Honor can't be seen. This isn't a new concept. Judaism and Christianity and Islam and Buddhism and Taoism have all taught for thousands of years that the highest forms of reality are invisible. God is invisible, and he created the universe. Our souls are invisible, and they give life to our bodies. Angels are invisible, and they're the most powerful of God's creatures.”

Source: Angels All Around Us: A Sightseeing Guide to the Invisible World

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As a dialectical teacher, I have had many lives where I have taught Zen and Tibetan Buddhism and mysticism. I teach in many different modalites. But the theme that unites them - is love.”

Different Teach Teacher Taught Buddhism Theme Mysticism Rama Tibetan Tibetan Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The vast majority of the students I have taught have become self-sufficient and confident individuals who enjoy their lives.”

Self Individual Enjoy Students Taught Buddhism Majority Sufficient Rama Self Sufficient

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I try to teach people to continually search and question the meaning of everything they are taught and everything they believe in. My job is not so much to impart a philosophy but to train people in the methods of self-discovery.”

People Trying Believe Self Philosophy Jobs Teach Taught Buddhism Discovery Method Train Self Discovery Rama Impart

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most people are taught from an early age on, to conceive of themselves as losers. They are taught that there are a very special few who are eminently successful in life.”

People Age Success Careers Successful Special Taught Buddhism Loser

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Each one of you has created a sense of self. That's what the tonal does. Each one of you is taught a system of maintenance that has been developed by humankind from your birth till your death.”

Doe Has Beens Self Taught Buddhism Birth Humankind Sense Of Self Maintenance

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The Buddha would never speak about enlightenment. The way he taught people about enlightenment was they meditated with him. He exposed them to countless views of the nagual.”

People Way Speak Views Taught Buddhism Enlightenment Exposed

Author:Frederick Lenz