Quotes from Frederick Lenz

Look at the big picture of the wheel of life. Above it, there is a Buddha. He is pointing, not towards the wheel, but away from it. He is indicating that there is something else - nirvana.

Begin to see that life is very, very complex. It is made up of thousands of dimensions of wonder.

There is something to this fabric of life that is beautiful. If you find the world unpleasant, I don't think that is wisdom. That is a sign of a lack of wisdom.

Selfless giving is friendliness. An attitude towards life, a reverence for life. It is one of the highest of all ways.

Intelligence is something that is not just thinking, it's feeling. Ultimately, the highest reflection of intelligent life is cooperative life in which all benefit.

Life is beautiful all of the time. Just to be alive and perceive that beauty of life all around you and within you is the best that there is.

Grow up. Get a life. Life is pain. Anybody who tells you something other than that is trying to sell you something.

Meditation will give you the power to overcome fear. As you sit and meditate each day, it makes you stronger. The energy of the universe flows through your mind, your body, and your life.

Our life interferes, our mind, our thoughts. Meditating is not just a practice of asserting will and learning to control the mind, it is also developing control of one's life and gaining wisdom.

There comes a time in life when you just buckle down and have a good time with what you're doing. It doesn't matter much what you're doing. What matters is how you do it.

Life is eternal and it's worth living. What we do in this life is not futile. Death is not the end. Our practice in this life will assist us in our next life.

Life is the power to perceive. Without perception there is no life, and what is most endemic to perception is power.

If you have a boring, insipid, mouse-like life where you're just afraid to be or do anything, then you don't bring much into your next life. You don't bring much power.

Dharma doesn't necessarily mean following a mundane and boring life. It means a life of high adventure, not a life of endless, boring repetition.

Begin with your daily life. Take your life as a challenge and try to bring yourself into harmony with each thing in your life.

Sometimes, as we practice jnana yoga, we feel that life has no meaning, no purpose. We feel that there is no reason to try, that life is empty. This is another illusion.

Life itself is selfless giving. We're not given this life just for own amusement and pleasures.

Zen is discipline - the discipline of living life, the discipline of taking a breath, the discipline of not knowing and not trying to know.

The idea is easy to understand. All of life is a dream. You have dreamed everything that you are and everything you are aware of.

You have dreamed me into your dream to awaken you from the dreams of life, death and separativity.

Even a good self will create another good self in the next life, and another one, and that good self will never be enlightened. You'll be bound, life after life, by good karma.

The Buddhists believe that everything in life is random. There are patterns that are intrinsic to life. We don't know why, we just know they're there like the DNA. We have no idea.

Power comes from leading a controlled life, a happy life, a perky life.

Self discovery doesn't not seek to bring you answers about your personal life or philosophically comfort you about life and death. What it does is bring you into reality as perception itself.