Quotes from Frederick Lenz

You may feel a sensation of floating. You may see colors, maybe no phenomena, it doesn't matter. You are absorbing power.

The planes of light give you the power to rise above circumstance, the power to rise above your desires and your aversions.

When we go to the desert, it's pure nagual. There you witness stupendous and incredible acts of power that your reason cannot possibly deal with.

Get some distance on yourself and undertand the multilevel structure that's operating. There's a power structure within you. You're a very political creature.

Meditation is a violent act of separation from mass consciousness and direct access to power.

The reason one enters into lower mental states is because you don't have the power or chi flowing through you.

The place that you gain the most power is within your own mind. Stopping thought generates power. That is why people meditate. The longer you can stop thought, the more power you gain.

The next step in meditation is not just to focus, but to stop thought completely without having to focus; you gain a tremendous amount of personal power.

Consciously join with and become part of the power that is in everything around you.

We experimented and we experienced many altered states of awareness. We used the power plants. I did that for a year or two.

Mysticism is the study of power, its use, and its abuse. At every moment you are getting stronger or you are growing weaker. At every moment your attention field is increasing or decreasing.

The path is focus. The power of focus is absolutely essential. To stop all thoughts, you have to have tremendous power of focus.

Mystical power, as you know, has a whole different flavor to it. It's much more raucous at times; it's much more poignant at times. It involves more of the emotional body.

The Romans had to kill him because he was threatening the order because he had a great deal of personal power.

What they should really do, if they want supreme power, is develop the tonal to perfection.

There is only one prayer and that is prayer for light, for purity, for perfection.

You are not a body. You are not a mind. You are infinite light, infinite intelligence, the radiance of all beings, the dharmakaya - the endless light of creation.

As you study computer science you develop this wonderful mental acumen, particularly with relational databases, systems analysis, and artificial intelligence.

Computer science really involves the same mindset, particularly artificial intelligence.

I design genetic algorithms, neural network and artificial intelligence systems.

Practice mediation and concentration exercises, and begin to think more about regaining your sensitivity by avoiding draining situations. Not because of fear but because of intelligence.

Without that poise and balance and gentle humor and caring sense, nothing happens at all. It's just egotism and vanity and jealousy and possessiveness.

Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness.

If you are around a lot of human beings who are filled with jealousy and anger and rage and desire, it filters into the mind. Zen is writing a new program to run in the mind.