When I sit with my students and meditate with them, I channel the kundalini directly into them. I bring them to plane after plane of consciousness. What they would do in 100 years of meditation, I can do in an hour with them. Frederick Lenz More Quotes by Frederick Lenz More Quotes From Frederick Lenz You can judge a civilization by its level of agreement with the green world. When people respect nature, it's a sign of a healthy situation. When they denigrate nature, it's a sign of an unhealthy civilization that will soon perish. Frederick Lenz buddhism nature agreement You can be alone too in the city streets, among the crowds. We are all alone. Frederick Lenz buddhism nature cities Sex is life: The act of creation in pleasure, the loss of oneself in another, the coming together of opposites in a temporary union of yin and yang, that creates something other than either. What is life if not this? Frederick Lenz buddhism loss sex You'll notice all around the Hindu temples couples, statues and drawings, in various erotic forms of love-making. This used to give the British a lot of trouble because they were kind of white and uptight. It didn't quite fit. How could a temple of God be covered with pictures of people, in their term, fornicating? Frederick Lenz buddhism couple white How could sexuality be anything but God? It's the creation of life. Life is experiencing itself in endless forms. Frederick Lenz buddhism creation life-is The gopis seek Krishna, another part of themselves that create ecstasy. The man seeks the woman, the woman seeks the man. The Tantric Buddhist seeks annihilation of the ego. Frederick Lenz buddhist buddhism men Sexuality is the primary focus of our culture, and almost no one has come to resolve it. Frederick Lenz buddhism focus culture This culture seems to be so obsessed with sexuality, the good and the bad of it. Every advertisement, every preacher, everybody's concerned, one way or the other about sexuality. Frederick Lenz buddhism culture way I've never seen a society that thinks about sex so much and gets so little! Frederick Lenz buddhism sex thinking Most people are terribly afraid of their own sexuality, and one has to respect another person's sadhana, another person's path. Frederick Lenz buddhism path people Don't focus so much on your relationships. Have fun with them. Or if you don't have them, you don't want them, have fun with that. Frederick Lenz buddhism focus fun Men are terrified of their sexuality. They're all afraid of impotence. Frederick Lenz sexuality buddhism men Women are terrified of their sexuality because they've got so much of it, and we live in a society that says they don't. Frederick Lenz terrified sexuality buddhism They say Casanova made love to over 10,000 women. Do you think it changed him? It probably aged him a little bit. But I doubt that it changed him. If it had changed him, he would have stopped somewhere along the line and done something a little different. Frederick Lenz buddhism doubt thinking Sex does drain a certain amount of your occult energy. But that really has nothing to do with enlightenment. Frederick Lenz enlightenment buddhism sex Love is not reasonable. If we could assign it to the reasonable world, it would not be useful. Frederick Lenz buddhism love-is world Love is the chariot of emotion which takes us to our beloved. When we love we see beyond the prism of illusion. Frederick Lenz buddhism emotion love-is When we love others we see our oneness with others. Frederick Lenz sexuality oneness buddhism I love so and so, how can I let go of them? You don't have to. You do whatever you chose. What you think, you become. Your thoughts are strongly affected by those you are emotionally open to. Frederick Lenz buddhism letting-go thinking Tragedy is the violation of love. Frederick Lenz sexuality buddhism tragedy