“In Buddhism we have a great deal of etiquette. Etiquette is simply ways of living to conserve energy. Etiquette allows people to live in harmony with their environment.” PeopleWayEnergyDealsEnvironmentBuddhismHarmonyBuddhistEtiquette Author:Frederick Lenz
“Etiquette is an intelligent way to live. There are certain ways of living you will learn being around advanced students and mostly your teacher. These are methods that have been handed down for thousands of years.” WayYearsHas BeensCertainTeacherStudentsBuddhismIntelligentMethodBuddhistEtiquetteWay To Live Author:Frederick Lenz
“It's necessary to respect all other ways and other teachings on the subject because even though they may not make a lot of sense to us, they might to someone else. Who are we to say?” WayMayMightTeachingSubjectsBuddhismBuddhistEtiquette Author:Frederick Lenz
“If one thinks of an enlightened person in a negative way, as it hits their aura, it returns very strongly.” IfsThinkingWayPersonsBuddhismReturnNegativeBuddhistEnlightenedVery StrongEtiquetteAuras Author:Frederick Lenz
“We must control the tendencies within our being that are destructive, when we want to slam somebody else, hurt them, injure them, or push them out of the way. A reverence for life needs to be developed, in which all things are sacred.” WayWantNeedsHurtBuddhismAll ThingsSacredTendenciesBuddhistDestructiveReverenceEtiquetteSlamReverence For Life Author:Frederick Lenz
“It is very important to always hold the thought of an enlightened teacher in your mind in a very positive way. When you direct negative energy towards someone who is powerful, it has a terrible bounce-back effect.” WayMindImportantEnergyPowerfulTeacherEffectsBuddhismTerribleNegativeDirectBuddhistEnlightenedEtiquetteBounceVery PositiveNegative Energy Author:Frederick Lenz
“People over-focus on teachers as an excuse to avoid their own life, and that way they fail to take responsibility for themselves. They have this feeling that the teacher will just take care of them.” PeopleWayFeelingsCareResponsibilityFocusTeacherFailingBuddhismExcuseTake CareBuddhistTaking ResponsibilityEtiquette Author:Frederick Lenz
“Perhaps you're not the next Buddha. Perhaps you're not the Maitreya. Perhaps that's not your job in this incarnation. Perhaps you have to enjoy life and learn about life through whatever way that you find yourself going.” WayJobsNextEnjoyBuddhismBuddhistFinding YourselfEnjoy LifeEtiquetteIncarnation Author:Frederick Lenz
“Do not feel that you are destined not to make that final liberation in this life. This is egotism in a reverse form. Don't be concerned one way or the other.” WayFeelsFormBuddhismConcernedFinalsBuddhistOne WayThis LifeLiberationReverseDestinedEtiquetteEgotism Author:Frederick Lenz
“The way you succeed at all this stuff is by stopping trying to succeed and just working very hard without thinking about it, just trusting, completely. It's that faith that creates the bridge on which you walk across to eternity.” ThinkingWayTryingHardStuffWalksBuddhismSucceedEternityBuddhistBridgesStoppingEtiquetteTrying To SucceedWorking Very Hard Author:Frederick Lenz
“You've gained some powers by your entrance into other dimensions and you use them to attack others or to make others miserable, then power reverses on you and it pulls you apart because it's not supposed to be used that way.” WayUseUsedBuddhismBuddhistMiserableSupposed To BeDimensionsReverseEtiquetteEntrances 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
“There is a certain beauty and refinement that is often found in our world and it is expensive. It shouldn't necessarily be so. It is just the way our economic system is.” WorldWayCertainFoundEconomicBuddhismExpensiveOur WorldRefinementEconomic Systems Author:Frederick Lenz
“In the West people spend most of their time and energy working. The problem is you are so tired from work that you don't have much energy to meditate - unless you use work in a tantric way.” PeopleWayUseProblemSuccessEnergyCareersBuddhismTiredWestTime And EnergyTired Of Working Author:Frederick Lenz
“Material success is a way of tightening up your life so that you can move into higher planes of attention. You should try to do well in every aspect of your life, because each aspect of your life affects your total being.” WayShouldTryingWellsMovingAttentionMaterialsBuddhismHigherAspectPlanes Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you meditate you will be able to find new ways to utilize your career and the routines of daily life.” IfsWayAbleCareersBuddhismDaily LifeNew Ways Author:Frederick Lenz
“Changing the way you dress can make it easier to make deeper changes in the structure of your personality.” WayBuddhismPersonalityEasierDressesStructureDeeper Author:Frederick Lenz
“A categorization implies a hierarchical way of seeing things. Life is really relational, not hierarchical. Hierarchical is a human way of looking at things. Relational is much more the way things are. Everything is connected.” WayHumansScienceLife IsSeeingBuddhismConnectedCategorization Author:Frederick Lenz
“There's no way we can possibly understand anything. But we can see things, we can perceive things, and we can wonder. We can just be in a world of awe and wonder. That's the best we can do.” WorldWayScienceCan DoWonderBuddhismPerceiveAweAwe And Wonder Author:Frederick Lenz
“The world is the way the world is because we think that it is so.” ThinkingWorldWayScienceBuddhism Author:Frederick Lenz
“I meet people who neglect career. Their lives aren't centered at all. They don't have much money. They have this spaced-out look in their eyes. Their chances for enlightenment are very small, unless they change the way they live.” PeopleWayLooksEyeSuccessChanceCareersBuddhismEnlightenmentNeglect Author:Frederick Lenz
“The way our world is set up, a higher economic priority is given to things that bespeak a greater refinement. It is just a determination that was made, to make money.” WorldWayMadeSuccessGivenCareersGreaterEconomicBuddhismHigherDeterminationPrioritiesMaking MoneyOur WorldRefinement Author:Frederick Lenz
“Pick a profession that will give you enough money to give you economic freedom. It is nice to pick a career that really taxes your mind. Use your mind in new and creative ways. You will find that your mind will develop and become stronger.” WayGivingMindEnoughUseSuccessCareersCreativeNiceEconomicBuddhismTaxesPicksStrongerProfessionEconomic Freedom Author:Frederick Lenz
“Career success is using your daily work, schoolwork, work in the world, work at home, as a way of advancing your mental state.” WorldWayStatesHomeSuccessCareersBuddhismAdvancingCareer SuccessDaily WorkSchoolwork Author:Frederick Lenz
“A student of mine is an actor, he used to go into these interviews and sometimes not get the part. He was "taken out". Someone would use power in a way that would cause him not to succeed” WaySometimesUseSuccessUsedActorsCausesCareersTakenStudentsMinesBuddhismSucceedInterviews Author:Frederick Lenz
“The way to win the race is not to trip somebody else. Simply have more energy. You will not only have a greater chance of winning; but whether you win or lose, you'll be happy.” WaySuccessWinningEnergyLosesChanceRaceCareersGreaterBuddhismWin Or Lose Author:Frederick Lenz
“Power, people are obsessed with it. You can take a nice person and turn them into a slob, into an insane being, craving power, destroying anything that stands in their way.” PeopleWayPersonsTurnsNiceBuddhismInsaneObsessedDestroyingCravingNice Person Author:Frederick Lenz
“There is a difference between willing and forcing. Willing something simply means you are not being lazy. Forcing something means you are trying to do something inappropriate or in an inappropriate way.” WayTryingMeanDifferencesWillingBuddhismLazyInappropriateBeing Lazy Author:Frederick Lenz
“When you become angry at someone, your anger will actually have a power. You can hit somebody in a non-physical way and it can injure that being.” WayBuddhismAngryAngry At Someone Author:Frederick Lenz
“There are many ways to store power. You can visit places of power, special locations on the earth that are charged with power.” WayEarthSpecialBuddhismStoresLocation Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you go to a higher place of power, you can gain power there and you might even encounter some beings of knowledge and light that might aid you in some way.” IfsWayLightMightBuddhismHigherGainsAidsEncounters Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you must go to a negative place of power, go to them in a very conservative way. You must go to them when your power is up. It is like going to war. You have got to be ready if you are going to survive.” IfsWayWarReadyBuddhismNegativeConservativeGoing To War Author:Frederick Lenz
“There are spirits in Hawaii. They're very protective and very good and they watch over these islands. I must confess, they're not entirely happy with what they see, with the way the civilization is moving. But they're patient. They've been here for a long time, and they'll be here long after the human beings have ceased to inhabit the islands.” WayHumansLongMovingSpiritHuman BeingsWatchesBuddhismCivilizationLong TimePatientVery GoodIslandsHawaiiProtective Author:Frederick Lenz
“In no way can words convey the nagual. But they open up the possibility. They allow an admission on the island of the tonal.” WayPossibilityBuddhismIslandsAdmission Author:Frederick Lenz
“The island of the tonal, the way we see life, is there so we can get through our life. It was never intended to become a dictator that would usurp all other views of the world and banish them.” WorldWayLife IsViewsOur LivesBuddhismIslandsDictator Author:Frederick Lenz
“The tonal leads the way. You have to have a methodology.” WayBuddhismMethodology Author:Frederick Lenz
“When we talk, answer questions, I'm addressing your tonal. I'm teaching you a way or a series of ways of dealing with the world.” WorldWayAnswersTeachingBuddhismSeries 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.” PeopleWaySpeakViewsTaughtBuddhismEnlightenmentExposed Author:Frederick Lenz
“The way you dress is extremely important. It demonstrates your spirit. It's the guise through which the world evaluates and views you.” WorldWayImportantSpiritViewsBuddhismDressesEvaluateGuise Author:Frederick Lenz
“Every person who sees you physically evaluates you and projects energy towards you based upon the way you've dressed.” WayPersonsEnergyBuddhismProjectsEvaluate Author:Frederick Lenz
“Consider the way you speak and your use of language; it's a reflection of your warrior spirit.” WayUseSpiritSpeakLanguageBuddhismReflectionWarriorUse Of LanguageWarrior Spirit Author:Frederick Lenz