Selfless giving is being nice and there are times we don't want to be. Frederick Lenz More Quotes by Frederick Lenz More Quotes From Frederick Lenz As you go into the light, you will gain a more profound happiness. That happiness will free you from the desire-aversion cycle. Frederick Lenz light desire profound Advanced practice is the entrance into the ten thousand states of mind. Most people exist in five or six of these states in their whole lifetime. Frederick Lenz practice mind people In advanced meditation there are methods and formations of joining the mind with the various aggregate aspects of the universe, fusing it, dissolving it, sometimes thousands of times in a microsecond or outside of time. Frederick Lenz joining meditation mind The advanced education in Tantra obviously has to do with the entrance into samadhi, the negation of the self. That is what the path of negation means, not the negation of life, but the negation of anything that is not enlightenment. Frederick Lenz enlightenment self mean There are two sides to self-discovery, as in most things, an outer more popular side and an inner side. The popular side presents more of a simplified form. Frederick Lenz two-sides self discovery The deeper inner teachings are presented to very few because few would understand them. The exoteric teachings are presented to many. Frederick Lenz concentration deeper teaching In the enlightenment cycle, attention is paid to bringing back the awareness field from other lives. This does not simply mean memory, but rather the internal power and intelligence that you have amassed in other lifetimes. Frederick Lenz enlightenment memories mean Meditation will bring back the powers and awareness from the past; more importantly, it will expand your consciousness today. Frederick Lenz meditation today past The Zen master walks in his garden, alone. There is no traffic there. There is no shopping there. There are only the flowers. Frederick Lenz shopping garden flower A master of an art is someone who's been mastered by the art. They've become so one with what they teach that you can't tell the teacher from the student. Frederick Lenz students teacher art A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They've been essentially mastered by Zen. Frederick Lenz enlightenment self discovery The way of Zen is to become independent and strong. Don't rely on others for perceptions of life and truth. Do it individually. Go to a teacher of Zen to learn how to do that, not to get answers for individual life situations. Frederick Lenz independent strong teacher The Zen master can see precisely what it will take to cause your awareness to become free. But the Zen master can't do it for you. Frederick Lenz causes awareness masters In Zen, and in other forms of self discovery, we do have a transference that occurs where psychically, information, blocks of attention, are transferred to the student. Frederick Lenz block self discovery The majority of the ten thousand states of mind cannot be discussed. It is rather a question of teaching a person to step outside the conceptual framework they have and transmitting blocks of awareness to an individual psychically. Frederick Lenz block teaching mind We throw you as many as you want, in this profession, and the more you want the more we'll give you, until you're so confused that you'll just beg for us to stop. Stop what? You're the one who started it - you're doing it anyway. Frederick Lenz confused want giving The teaching of the ten thousand states of mind, particularly as one advances further, is done through transmission. This is where we differ from teaching algebra or calculus. Frederick Lenz done teaching mind We call it the transmission of the lamp in Zen. That's when we take enlightened states of mind and literally, you can transfer them, just like you can hand somebody flowers. Frederick Lenz flower mind hands In Old Zen, the Zen Master would do literally anything to break down the concept of what the study was. He would present conflicting codes all the time, just to shake this fixation people had on how to attain liberation. Frederick Lenz breaking-down study people The Zen Master was constantly attempting to break up concepts that people had about what it was like to be a spiritual teacher. We have a traditional image. Each Zen master was a complete character. Frederick Lenz spiritual teacher character
