Quotes from Frederick Lenz

Men fearing their innate power, pushed woman back into slavery.

I'm not blaming men, I'm not blaming women. What's gone by has already gone by. It's history. It's done. There is no right or wrong in higher spirituality.

How can you give something to someone who has everything? If you think men are tough to shop for at Christmas, try God. God has everything except one thing, friends. God doesn't have friends.

They might see that you are going to meet a beautiful woman or a beautiful man. They will come to you in dreams and tell you this is going to happen because of them.

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.

Men are terrified of their sexuality. They're all afraid of impotence.

Imagine for a moment that you were God. Not God as a man or woman, but God as the awareness of all life. To be that in physical form is to be an enlightened person.

The most important problem for our world to solve is the inequality of men and women.

Humility accepts that God places us in the right place at every single moment, not a moment to soon and not a moment too late.

Career success means making enough money to lead the kind of life you would like to lead as a practicing Buddhist.

My favorite cause is the enlightenment of others. I think that is the best place to put money. You get the highest yield in terms of karma on your money.

I was very drawn to music of all types, from Beethoven to Jimi Hendrix. There were musicians and composers who obviously were expressing a vision that was beyond the mundane.

Zazen's music is composed in other dimensions and it is played by some of my students. I go through the music they have played with my aura and wash out anything impure.

Take a couple of days by yourself and rent a nice cabin in some nice, happy place. Stay a day or two and meditate and take walks in areas that feel good to you. Find out who you are again. Remember.

Learn from the purity of nature.

Your own nature is pure, spotless, and pristine. Through association we drag ourselves down or we can raise ourselves up.

Nature soothes us. Nature heals us, and something more, the woods are a place of power.

Humility accepts the very nature of a human being is complete, unadulterated, ecstatic joy.

I was drawn to the arts because I sensed that I was by nature Bohemian, and yet very conservative.

Happiness is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is an immediate experience, very transient in nature, that's enjoyable, and if we experience a great deal of it - there's a sense of satiation.

Self-giving means that we have to understand the nature of giving. When most people give, they give expecting a return on their investment.

If your nature is infinite awareness trapped in a body, suddenly there's a lack of happiness, a lack of freedom. No matter what you get you'll never be happy, because these are all trinkets.

So, those who hate, those who are violent in nature, live in a world of hate and fear and violence inside themselves, inside their minds, inside their awareness.

If you thrive on the city energy it is necessary to leave the city frequently and to walk in parks, to get away from people. You are more sensitive than you realize. Find a spot that makes you happy.