I don't think there is a right approach to teaching self discovery. Every situation is unique. Frederick Lenz More Quotes by Frederick Lenz More Quotes From Frederick Lenz It is possible with pure willpower to force the kundalini up the shushumna, through the chakras. You will develop visions of other worlds that will not necessarily stop when you want them to. This is a condition we call insanity. Frederick Lenz other-worldsbuddhisminsanity Prana is an element of energy. Energy is a manifestation of a certain principle which in Indian cosmology they call shakti, or spiritual power. Don't worry about the words too much. Frederick Lenz buddhismspiritualworry It is implicit in the self that the self will automatically evolve if you can dissolve it. It re-patterns itself after archetypal formations that exist deep within the mind. Frederick Lenz patternsselfmind Let us say your wife, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend makes you happy. If they leave, you're bound to be unhappy. You are the slave of the thing that makes you happy. You are a junkie and human relationships can be expensive habits. Frederick Lenz girlfriendhusbandhappiness To have the detached eye of the occultist, to look outward, to not be so self-reflective and to learn to step through the various viewpoints of consciousness - that we call occultism - leads to freedom. Frederick Lenz eyeselflooks The burden you are carrying around is the burden of self. You seek release from that. You want to let it all go. You want to forget who you are and what you are. You wish to be the whole universe, infinite, endless. Frederick Lenz ignoranceselfwish I examine each student carefully: Is there a balance between their tonal and their nagual? Frederick Lenz buddhismbalancestudents In meditation what you are trying to do is simply get rid of your own junk. You are trying to move all the confusion out of your mind, all the heaviness, all the emotional upsets, all the impressions that you have picked up since your last meditation. Frederick Lenz buddhismemotionalmoving The first stage of meditation is simply to ignore thought; to become conscious that there is something beyond thought. Frederick Lenz consciousmeditationfirsts Try and stop your thoughts. Be patient and then the kundalini will flow through you and bring about substantial changes in your awareness. Frederick Lenz buddhismflowtrying Ecstasy should not be viewed as an unusual experience, but rather a natural experience - feeling all of the living matrix of existence around us. Frederick Lenz buddhismfeelingshappiness One aspect of power is to bring our past-life awareness into this lifetime. The second aspect of power is to go into new fields of awareness that we have never experienced. Frederick Lenz fieldspowerpast You have to free yourself from your mental conditioning through association with the holy, through doing good works, through meditating, through laughter, through love and through solitude. Frederick Lenz laughtersolitudeassociation People who are advanced meditators don't worry about liberation and self-realization; they instead are interested in the welfare of others and aiding others in their liberation. Frederick Lenz buddhistbuddhismself There are many different places of power around the world. They're invisible openings to other worlds. We find a preponderance of these places in the Himalayas, in the western part of the United States; of course, in every country of the world there are some. Frederick Lenz other-worldsbuddhismcountry Have the right attitude in advanced practice. Feel that you are always a beginner in Zen. They refer to it as "beginners mind". I feel I am a beginner, always; because it's true. Frederick Lenz buddhismpracticeattitude Beyond this world, beyond other worlds, be they inter-dimensional worlds or physical worlds, there is something else, which is the vast unknown eternity. Frederick Lenz other-worldsbuddhismeternity Only until you rise above the use of the second attention for manipulation that you can enter into a consciousness in which there is enlightenment. Frederick Lenz enlightenmentwomenattention It is necessary to do a very thorough examination of your life and to discover whether the people in your life, no matter how much you love them, are using you or abusing you. Frederick Lenz examinationmatterpeople The chakra is a doorway. These are doorways that lead you into other dimensions. But you have to focus on them to the exclusion of everything else. Frederick Lenz buddhismfocusdoorways
