Being a Buddhist monk means never losing one's optimism in spite of all difficulties. It also means being harder on yourself than any of your teachers ever were. Frederick Lenz More Quotes by Frederick Lenz More Quotes From Frederick Lenz The balance and patience factors are much more critical in surfing than they are in snowboarding ... if you're out surfing serious waves and you wipe out, you don't land on soft snow. It's usually either very sharp coral, or you get raked across the beach gravel and sand while you're tumbling underwater. Frederick Lenz snowboardinglandbeach The Winter Solstice is the time of ending and beginning, a powerful time -- a time to contemplate your immortality. A time to forgive, to be forgiven, and to make a fresh start. A time to awaken. Frederick Lenz forgivingpowerfulwinter Psychic development is a necessary skill in leading a successful and happy life. Your intellectual processes and your senses don't give you enough information to distinguish the real from the unreal. Frederick Lenz realsuccessfulhappy-life You are your state of mind. Your state of mind creates your view, or your window, on life. Frederick Lenz buddhismviewsinspirational A person of knowledge and power never goes out looking for battles. All their battles are within. Frederick Lenz knowledge-and-powerbuddhismwisdom Energy is gained by giving energy. When we give energy, we gain energy. This is different than having someone manipulate you and take your energy. Frederick Lenz energycompassiongiving Happiness comes from self-knowledge. Self-knowledge means that you have understood your mind. Your mind is the whole universe. Frederick Lenz buddhismhappinessmean The wisdom of samadhi is quite different. Higher level wisdom cannot be written down. It cannot be spoken. True wisdom is the knowledge of the universe that is beyond physical expression. Frederick Lenz levelsdifferentexpression If you are interested in developing some of the higher range occult powers, then I would suggest you not engage in sex too frequently. Frederick Lenz rangebuddhismsex Samadhi is not going to take away your humanity. It will give it to you. You will become more cosmopolitan, more conscious, and more infinite. Frederick Lenz infinitehumanitygiving You see a very advanced master who's got a girlfriend, who listens to rock and roll, who thinks about things that are very earthly. The advanced course has to with coming back to everything that you had to reject in the beginning and seeing it as a far greater infiniteness than everything that you've attained. Frederick Lenz girlfriendteacherthinking Just to exist, just to be, to take a breath, to feel that, whether its pleasure or pain, loss or gain, just your experience in life is unique to you. No one sees life like you do. Frederick Lenz buddhismpainhappiness The pathway to enlightenment leads to states of ecstasy, knowledge, and a pretty ironic sense of humor. Frederick Lenz ironicbuddhisminspirational Love is beginningless and endless ecstasy. It is an unfathomable mystery. It is the study of our lives. Frederick Lenz yogastudylove-is Some people say: "There is no God; because, if there was a God, God would stop all the suffering." Nonsense! God is oblivious to suffering. God is beyond suffering. That's what makes God, God, by definition. Frederick Lenz sufferinggodpeople There is no future. There is only now, a continuous now. We have become so wrapped up in the past and the future that we don't see the continuous now. There is no future. It is an idea that you have. Frederick Lenz buddhismsciencepast Angry people, unhappy people, people that seek to injure others, these people all have something in common. They waste energy. They don't conserve it and they don't know how to increase it. Frederick Lenz buddhismunhappypeople Chakras are mystical energy centers that exist within the human aura. Tremendous occult power resides in a person's chakras. Siddha masters draw upon that power during meditation, store it within themselves, and later use it to perform miracles. Frederick Lenz buddhismmiraclemeditation Opinions are secondary when dealing with reality. They're subjective reflections. Frederick Lenz buddhismreflectioninspirational Spiritual evolution is a movement from the states of mind that reflect life less accurately to the states of mind that reflect life more accurately. Frederick Lenz movementspiritualmind
