“People who are involved in self-discovery lead different types of lives. The lives they lead are not necessarily the lives of renunciation. Rather, it is a structuring of the elements in your life in a particular way.” PeopleWayInspirationalDifferentSelfSuccessCareersParticularBuddhismTypeInvolvedElementsDiscoverySelf DiscoveryRenunciation Author:Frederick Lenz
“There are many paths that lead to enlightenment. There are lesser enlightenments along the way to a larger enlightenment, referred to sometimes as liberation.” WayInspirationalSometimesPathBuddhismEnlightenmentLiberationMany Paths Author:Frederick Lenz
“Trivial Pursuit means that you've got nothing going on in your life. Trivial Pursuit is more than a board game. It is the way most people live. Their lives are trivial pursuits.” PeopleWayInspirationalMeanGamesBuddhismPursuitBoardsBoard Games Author:Frederick Lenz
“You will have to put aside some things in your life, habits, ideas, ways of seeing life. You will have to learn new things, and then new things and then new things - forever.” WayInspirationalIdeasForeverSeeingBuddhismHabitNew Things Author:Frederick Lenz
“As you evolve and develop your psychic abilities, you will enter into perceptions of life, truth, beauty and you will gain a power to live your life in an intelligent, perceptive and strong way.” WayInspirationalSuccessStrongAbilityBuddhismTruth IsPerceptionGainsIntelligentEvolveTruth Of LifeLive Your LifePsychicsPsychic AbilitiesPerception Of Life Author:Frederick Lenz
“The way you increase your energy is by letting go, ultimately. There is something inside you that knows what it should do, and you fight it all the time.” KnowsWayInspirationalShouldFightingEnergyBuddhismLetting GoIncrease Author:Frederick Lenz
“You need to feel good about your life. Winning is a great idea, but you can get stuck in it too. It's just another way of looking at life, an idea. You need to renew yourself and your spirit.” WayInspirationalNeedsFeelsIdeasSpiritWinningBuddhismStuckFeel GoodAnother WayGreat Idea Author:Frederick Lenz
“We applaud the people who are film stars, who get elected to an office, who are very athletic, the small group who play with power in a very limited way. But we're completely oblivious to what can be done to the infinite realities that exist in front of us. We deny them.” PeopleWayInspirationalDonePlayRealityFilmStarsGroupsFrontsBuddhismOfficeInfiniteDenyAthleticSmall GroupsObliviousFilm Stars Author:Frederick Lenz
“On your journey, remember there is no end. That is true knowledge. There is no final knowledge. There is no final enlightenment, that is a very finite, human way of seeing things.” WayInspirationalHumansEndsRememberSeeingJourneyBuddhismEnlightenmentFinalsFiniteTrue Knowledge Author:Frederick Lenz
“Enlightenment is already there inside us and all things. All we have to do is get something out of the way that is causing us not to see that.” WayInspirationalBuddhismEnlightenmentAll Things Author:Frederick Lenz
“These are the mysterious ways of knowledge, power and enlightenment. I can only allude to them in words. I cannot possibly explain what this process is like.” WayInspirationalI CanProcessBuddhismEnlightenmentMysteriousMysterious WaysPower Of Knowledge Author:Frederick Lenz
“Most people are fragile. They're fragile in the sense that they're afraid of the unknown, so they cling to each other. They cling to families, traditions, ways of seeing life that protect them from the immensity of the unknown” PeopleWayInspirationalSeeingBuddhismProtectTraditionFragileImmensityFamily Tradition Author:Frederick Lenz
“Meditation is the art of life. Meditation is not simply a practice. It is an experience, awareness, and a way of perceiving life.” WayArtPracticeMeditationAwarenessBuddhism Author:Frederick Lenz
“Everyone meditates in their own way. Some people sit and practice formal mediation techniques for many hours a day while others spontaneously meditate while watching a sunset, listening to music, or participating in athletics.” PeopleWayHoursPracticeMeditationBuddhismListeningTechniqueSunsetFormalListening To MusicAthleticsParticipatingMediation Author:Frederick Lenz
“Some people meditate because they are sick and tired of their life, of the world, of the way people abuse each other and abrogate each other's freedoms.” PeopleWorldWayMeditationBuddhismSickAbuseTired Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you meditate you will change in ways that I cannot understand. But that is neither here nor there.” IfsWayMeditationBuddhism Author:Frederick Lenz
“Meditation is not emptiness. That is a way of trying to talk about something that is impossible to put into words. It is a world of fullness, if anything.” IfsWorldWayTryingMeditationImpossibleBuddhismEmptinessFullness Author:Frederick Lenz
“When you go into the planes of light, all of the incorrect ways of seeing and understanding life that you pick up are washed away.” WayLightUnderstandingMeditationSeeingBuddhismPicksPlanesUnderstanding Life Author:Frederick Lenz
“With the practice of meditation you can move into other states of mind, sort of ungluing the glue that binds you to a particular perceptual mode, a way of seeing life which is an illusory one.” WayMindStatesMovingPracticeMeditationSeeingParticularBuddhismState Of MindGlueIllusory Author:Frederick Lenz
“The way to meditate is by not trying to be too good at it too quickly. This is essential, because otherwise you won't have any fun with it.” WayTryingFunMeditationBuddhismEssentials Author:Frederick Lenz
“Unfortunately we've seen meditation insulted in a sense with the image of ritual. You have to dress a certain way, follow a certain type of lifestyle, all that sort of thing, very culty - and that, of course, has nothing to do with the practice whatsoever.” WayCertainCoursesPracticeMeditationBuddhismTypeDressesLifestyleRitualInsulted Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you take the time to bring the light of the supra-conscious into your being, then automatically all blockages will go away. These are just ways of talking, there are no blockages, schematically I mean.” IfsWayMeanLightTalkingBuddhismConsciousGoing AwayWay Of TalkingBlockage Author:Frederick Lenz
“The kundalini flows upward. It also flows downward in different ways. It is quite complex, actually.” WayDifferentBuddhismFlowComplexesDifferent Ways Author:Frederick Lenz
“Kundalini can be transmitted. A person who is very adept at the enlightenment process can transmit it. Whether you feel it or not, it's affecting you in a very positive way.” WayFeelsPersonsProcessBuddhismEnlightenmentTransmitVery PositiveAdept Author:Frederick Lenz
“People who tap the kundalini and are able to release it are more successful. Anyone who is really on top has some access to the kundalini. They have learned somewhere down the line, in this or other lives, ways of releasing power.” PeopleWayAbleSuccessLinesCareersSuccessfulBuddhismAccessRelease Author:Frederick Lenz
“There is a way to open up the chakras, there is a mystical way. But if you do that, you'll get yourself into very hot water, and it's ultimately slower.” IfsWayWaterBuddhismHotMysticalChakraHot Water Author:Frederick Lenz
“The energy strands and bands of our being are linked in a certain way and makes us what we are. It causes us to perceive a certain level of the dream of life. But you can reorder those. That's magic, you see.” WayDreamCertainEnergyCausesLevelsMagicBuddhismBandPerceiveLinkedStrands Author:Frederick Lenz
“All know the way, but few actually walk it.” KnowsWayActionWalksInspireBuddhismLiftsSelf Mastery Author:Bodhidharma
“Mindfulness means that as we go through the day we learn to gain control of our mind, our emotions. We learn to conserve energy in a variety of simple and complicated ways that we learned in Buddhist practice.” WayMindMeanEnergySimpleEmotionPracticeBuddhismMindfulnessGainsComplicatedBuddhistVariety Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you think of others in a jealous way or if you become angry, immediately pause for a moment. It's going to pull you down and send negative energy. At that moment, pause and correct yourself.” IfsThinkingWayMomentsEnergyBuddhismMindfulnessNegativeDown AndAngryThat MomentJealousPausesNegative Energy Author:Frederick Lenz
“You can just sweep the floor generally and gain nothing from it. Or you can figure out the best way to sweep the floor, put your power into it, use it as a concentration exercise, and be meditative.” WayUseFiguresBuddhismExerciseMindfulnessGainsBest WayConcentration Author:Frederick Lenz
“The best form of meditation is the sitting meditation. But work is next. Work is a great way to meditate.” WayFormNextMeditationBuddhismMindfulnessSitting Author:Frederick Lenz
“Mindfulness is the ability to do physical things in a harmonious way; it is a way to remain centered in a physical world that is out of balance.” WorldWayAbilityBuddhismBalanceMindfulnessHarmoniousPhysical Things Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure
“Mindfulness is the direct application of Buddhist teachings to a physical event, a way of doing or accomplishing something, or a way of thinking and viewing something.” ThinkingWayTeachingEventsBuddhismMindfulnessDirectBuddhistApplicationWay Of ThinkingAccomplishing Something Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“Thinking is usually a waste of time and energy, since thinking is essentially a rehashing of what we already know. As a matter of fact, thinking is an easy way to confuse yourself. The more you think, the less you know.” ThinkingKnowsWayMatterFactsEnergyEasyBuddhismWasteMindfulnessWasting TimeMatter Of FactEasy WayTime And Energy Author:Frederick Lenz