Frederick Lenz
Stop trying to figure it all. Why worry about it all so much? Why not just live? And then you die. And then you live again, unless, of course, you follow me.Collection: Buddhism
Perfection is not a final state. It is a state of mind. There are ten thousand states of mind.Collection: Buddhism
The reason you see yourself as a creep is because you have an appreciation of what perfection is, whereas no one else conceives of themselves in that way, since they don't even strive.Collection: Appreciation
What is perfect? From the Zen mind, perfection is not being there.Collection: Buddhism
When you realize your own emptiness, that will be something, won't it?Collection: Buddhism
Discriminate between the transient and the eternal. Learn to move from complete control to complete abandon.Collection: Moving
The world that you see is like a motion picture. We are engrossed in a film and we have forgotten that we're sitting in a movie theatre.Collection: Buddhism
Zen students see themselves as athletes. Their competitive sport is enlightenment; only with enlightenment do we compete.Collection: Sports
There is competition in Zen. Let's not be ridiculous. There is competition in everything in life; being a winner in Zen means, competing and winning in the world of enlightenment.Collection: Mean
Thousands and thousands of incarnations and nothing to show for it. You must choose whether to follow the path of love or the path of attachment.Collection: Buddhism
When your Japanese lifetime is coming out, drink all the sake you want. Have a little bash.Collection: Buddhism
It is in Zen practice that you gain power, balance and wisdom. The battles that you fight are within your own mind. That is where the real victories and defeats are.Collection: Real
Eternity is everywhere, it stretches endlessly in all directions, never beginning and never ending. Merge with it. Embrace it. Be free and disciplined.Collection: Buddhism
There is no ultimate objective reality within the ten thousand states of mind. Most people don't like to hear this. But there are ten thousand realities, and each is definitely unifying.Collection: Buddhism
To look for truth in all the wrong and all the right places is the only excuse for living.Collection: Buddhism
The sensual experiences in life are not to be avoided. This is the philosophy of Tantric Buddhism - nor are they particularly to be sought after.Collection: Philosophy
Celibacy doesn't make you enlightened, otherwise every nun or priest in Buddhism or Christianity would be enlightened. People who don't date and can't get any action would be enlightened.Collection: Buddhism
If you're in the tantric sex state of mind, what someone else experiences when they have sex is not what you'll experience. You won't even notice what your body is doing, particularly.Collection: Sex
If you are in a state of mind in which all things are one, then you can spend your time in lingerie shops.Collection: Buddhism
Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it's connected with self.Collection: Buddhism
Sex is a highly personal matter, yet it seems to get more impersonal all the time. How do I feel about sex? I suppose it matters with whom.Collection: Sex
There are two choices available in duality - one side or the other side. Everyting is formed from that.Collection: Two
The mind of the child is not formed. We are shown that this is life, this is the world.Collection: Children
Our seeing is sexual initially.Collection: Taoism
Women vibrate at a slightly different rate that passes kundalini very easily. It is problematic though, because a woman also picks up negative energy, it affects her more.Collection: Women
When you do things in a selfish way, let alone a destructive way, then you are bound by that karma. Your state of mind will go down. You will find yourself becoming depressed, nervous, anxious and upset.Collection: Karma
Death is not the end of who we are. It is only a brief pause in the endless cycle of our lives. Each of us is a spirit that cannot die.Collection: Death
In the end we just realize there's no end. It just goes on forever, in countlessly new forms. That's what's wonderful about the universe there's no escape from living. Death doesn't even end it.Collection: Death
Where do these images comes from and where do they return? What is it that projects these images? How is it that we are the screen? How is it that we have forgotten that we are the Self and that nothing but the Self exists?Collection: Yoga
I first went into samadhi when I was 19. I was meditating in the mountains and had been meditating on a daily basis for several years. Suddenly there was no time or space or life or death or myself or the Universe. I was absorbed in light.Collection: Light
I have found that meditation has helped me with my academic career and has given me insights into musical composition and software design.Collection: Careers
If we are in a high enough state of consciousness we see that life is only a passing dream.Collection: Dream
Don't get involved with non-physical beings. This current pastime, this rage, is dangerous. Many of these people who are channeling entities are going to become very sick, physically and mentallyCollection: Buddhism
Anyone who seeks enlightenment is going to encounter opposition, whether it is from their society or from non-physical forces or friends or whatever it is. Be strong enough to go through that and win.Collection: Strong
Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is being moved to a new square on the board of life.Collection: Moving
Some people are drawn to meditation without knowing why. Their inner being realizes that they've totally fouled up their life so far, and now it's just going to drag them to the local meditation hall.Collection: Buddhism
The subtle physical body protects the body's physical health. It is the radiant life force that is you. When you get sick, it is because there is a problem with your subtle physical body.Collection: Sick
This particular world is not really a world, it's a perception that you are having at the moment.Collection: Buddhism
The universe is made up of vibrating, pulsing light. When our attention level drops, we don't see that. Instead we see what appears to be a solid material world.Collection: Buddhism
We perceive the solidification as the world around us, which appears to be relatively solid. But that solidification is just really a reflection of the solidification of one's sense of self.Collection: Buddhism
The universe is made up of an endless ocean of life itself. It is an endless ocean of itself. And for a time it binds itself together in particularized forms. Those forms have perception and they perceive themselves as being separate.Collection: Ocean
What we focus on we become. If you are just focusing on unhappy things, you will become unhappy. If you focus on happy states of mind, then it will grow in you.Collection: Happiness
It is quite possible to speed up the healing process to the part of the body that is injured. This all has to do with the release of chi.Collection: Healing
It is your causal body that is the real you. At the end of each incarnation, it carries the knowledge and karmic patterns of that lifetime, in addition to all of your other previous lifetimes, into your next lifetime.Collection: Real
If you do well within this life, that awareness will be held within the causal structure, the part of us that lives from one lifetime to another. It will be available to you in your next life and in future lives.Collection: Buddhism
Good karma leads to rebirth also. The desire for higher states of mind is a desire. When you are fixated on higher states of mind, you don't become enlightened.Collection: Karma
You must live the life of a saint. You have no choice because to do anything else is to enter into the human kingdom, which is a land of unfulfilled opportunity.Collection: Live Life
A saint is someone who has been very selfless and, over a period of lifetimes, generated a tremendous amount of good karma, which has caused them to enter into very lovely states of mind.Collection: Karma
Any of the exercises that you start out with will get the kundalini moving. You don't have to stay with them for the entire period of meditation.Collection: Moving