Frederick Lenz Quotes About Dharma

• Feel the wind. This wind blows from world to world and from life to death. This is the wind of dharma. Be in love with the wind. It is an intimate lover. It enraptures you. It blows you through eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Blow, Wind

• Souls have different journeys. The best thing to know is, not what everybody else does, but what you do. Self-discovery essentially is finding your own dharma, your own rhythm.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Journey, Discovery

• Beyond learning and unlearning is awareness, and beyond awareness is consciousness, and beyond consciousness is immortality, and beyond immortality is dharma and beyond dharma is nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Consciousness, Awareness

• If you have humility, you are willing to undertake anything to spread the dharma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Humility, Buddhism

• To increase the flow of kundalini that will alter our perception, it is necessary to clarify the purpose of one's being. This is to come to understand dharma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perception, Purpose

• Your dharma is what kind of work you should be doing, what kind of people you should associate with, whether you should have a teacher or not. Dharma encompasses all things and it is specific to the individual.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Should Have

• There is a dharma for yourself, for someone else, for a family, for a nation, for a universe. There are collective and individual dharmas.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Individual, Dharma

• Start simply everyday by asking yourself, "What is the dharma today? What should I do? What is right? What does the universe want from me?"

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Everyday, Doe

• Meditate well so you can be a good instrument of eternity. You could have a mediocre meditation today, but you're not going to. Today you might run into someone who you might talk to about the dharma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Buddhism, Meditation

• Don't worry about techniques. Don't worry about chakras. Instead, concern yourself with finding the dharma and meditate. Then the kundalini will release.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Worry, Technique

• What can be the dharma at one point in your life can totally reverse itself, and suddenly you might be doing something the opposite or something very new, something you never considered.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Opposites, Might

• The first task is to discover the dharma by introspection, by constantly questioning yourself and asking yourself, "What is right?"

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Tasks, Asking

• Very often, in order to bring about stillness we have to be tirelessly active in the outer world. You might suppose this would agitate the mind. It will not, if it is the dharma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Order, Mind

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Challenges, Trying

• If the kundalini is flowing through you at a very rapid rate, if you are not in harmony with the dharma, then you will have great problems with the study.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Study, Problem

• Dharma is an ancient word for truth.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Ancient, Dharma

• Naturally, to follow dharma, we have to find out what it is. You have to struggle with it. The answer will not come easily. You will be swayed by your desires, conditioning, and those around you who have ideas about what you should do, what is proper, what is improper.

  Frederick Lenz

  Struggle, Buddhism, Ideas

• When you understand dharma, when you see its perfect perfection, shining both in and beyond all things, you will be freed from all misunderstandings.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perfect, Shining

• To not follow the dharma, either intentionally or through lack of awareness, creates a very low level of attention. In this low level of attention we make all kinds of mistakes and we are unhappy no matter what good fortune befalls us.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mistake, Buddhism, Unhappy

• Beyond happiness and unhappiness is truth. Truth is not affected by anything in the relative world. Truth is the unifying aspect of existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, World, Truth Is

• Dharma is another name for existence. It is existence in its purest form.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Names, Form

• Following dharma puts you in a proper field of attention. In a proper field of attention, regardless of what your outer circumstances are, happiness will flow.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Fields, Attention

• When you meditate you can stand back from your desire. When you silence the mind and there is stillness, only then can you tell if a desire is dharma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Silence, Mind

• You can lie to yourself and fool yourself and rationalize that the choice you're making is what is right and what is true and what leads to liberation, when it's actually only the fulfillment of desire.

  Frederick Lenz

  Lying, Buddhism, Choices

• Success is not success in an individual endeavor. Success is simply to practice the dharma impeccably.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Practice, Individual

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