Quotes from Frederick Lenz

Zen is about breaking out of your ideas and experiencing life and not ideas.

According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through.

In Zen we classify ten thousand different states of mind, different ways of seeing life. There is something beyond the ten thousand states of mind that we call nirvana.

Zen is meditation, the actual experience of life directly, immediately with no buffers.

Inner seeing has nothing to do with physical vision; it's the perception of life directly.

If you are psychic you will become much more aware of the beauty of life. If you are psychic, when you look at a rose, you will see and feel the essence of the rose.

Music is largely psychic. It is a feeling. It is not logical. It is a feeling - Art, life, why we live - feelings.

Psychic awareness leads to a true perception not only of events, but just of life itself. It is its own raison d'etre.

Emotions are there to enjoy life; but they are not used in self-reflection because they inhibit a proper reflection. They gunk us up.

Psychic development is not a fanatical, freaky study, predicting the future, talking to UFOs, and being able to find out curious facts that are basically irrelevant to one's time in life.

Will something else. Have dreams and believe in them. They don't have to come true. They are just as true as a dream is. Life itself is a dream.

The problem is with any practice is that it is a practice. That is why people don't win. The reason why people don't win is they get stuck in ideas, habits, and ways of seeing life.

Be concerned with the welfare of others without any sense of self-importance that one is better because one meditates or leads a certain type of life.

When you live a life devoid of ritual and convention, with honesty and self-effacement, then you are on the road to freedom.

The idea of the walls of monastery was to keep everybody else out because you wanted to develop a certain type of life. Most people in the world had different ideas on the subject.

If you want to become enlightened, you've got to get all the bullshit out of your life. You have to clear up your mind completely.

It's not what you do - it's the intensity of your feeling that determines how far you go in the spiritual life.

You only become funny when you have a complete reverence for life.

Life reorders you when you go into the clear light. Even the causal structure is liquefied. The clear light of reality, the dharmakaya, changes us into beings of light.

I realized after being married for some time that it wasn't enough. It wasn't enough to lead an individual life where I loved on person and we created a world together.

I explored alternate states of consciousness at one period of my life through psychedelics, as was the fashion with all my friends.

I seemed to be leading a very incongruous life from the point of view of the definition of the community I was in.

Over the years of much self-hate, I came to realize that whether sexuality was in my life or not, it didn't seem to matter. I just surrendered the whole thing to God.

During those years the past life recollections began. Psychic powers developed, my meditation increased and I found myself changing, over and over again, becoming someone new almost every day.