Frederick Lenz Quotes About Philosophy

• The sensual experiences in life are not to be avoided. This is the philosophy of Tantric Buddhism - nor are they particularly to be sought after.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Buddhism, Sensual

• His second cycle of teachings discusses the cosmology of the universes. But in his later years, he wrote the tantric texts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Teaching, Years

• In Tantric Buddhism we call the inherent knowledge that all animate and inanimate objects possess of themselves - their emptiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Buddhism, Inanimate Objects

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

• Tantra works well for people who are engaged in relationships and sexuality. Sex itself is just an action. It's just part of the dream.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Sex, Philosophy

• It doesn't really matter what you do. It is your state of mind that matters.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Mind, Matter

• Tantra is for someone who practices all the paths because all the paths encompass tantra.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Practice, Path

• Tantra is for extremists, but balanced extremists.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Tantra, Balanced

• Tantra is for the person who has gone beyond the rules. They've learned the rules so well that now they can go beyond them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Gone, Tantra

• For the person who wants to get to the mystical experience directly, Tantric Buddhism is the path.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Buddhism, Mystical Experiences

• What we seek to do in Tantric Buddhism is to liquefy ourselves. Life will automatically bring us to the next stage. You don't really have to know where you're going - It's like breathing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Buddhism, Breathing

• Music is part of the tantra, the dance of life. Before your eyes, before your awareness, is the procession of eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Eye, Awareness

• The tantras can be very confusing for a person who is new to Buddhism, and for several thousand years the rule was not to expose a person or a new monk to the tantras until they had practiced for many, many years.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Buddhism, Years

• Our failure to see and access the pure joy and radiance of life is owning to a lack of awareness. In any situation there is beauty. Even at the moment of one's death there is beauty.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Joy, Radiance

• Tantra is not for a hedonist at all. It won't work. If you're heavily attracted to sensual experiences, tantra will definitely not be of any use to you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Sensual, Use

• Any avenue that you follow leads to light. All roads lead to Rome.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Light, Rome

• Practitioners of tantra don't decide to break the rules. They are not particularly hung up on having sex or eating meat or drinking alcohol. They don't strive to do these things, nor do they strive to avoid them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, Philosophy, Drinking

• Tantra is for the person who has self control but doesn't care anymore. It is for the person who is able to abandon self-control and its fixation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Self, Care

• Tantra won't work unless you've been trapped by spirituality. You have to be trapped by spirituality before you can be liberated from it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Spirituality, Tantra

• Zen is Tantric Buddhism, Vajrayana is tantric Buddhism - these are various forms of it. Tantric Buddhism simply means cutting to the chase.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Mean, Buddhism

• There's no right or wrong in the study of enlightenment. There's only experience.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Enlightenment, Study

• Be neither attracted nor repulsed is the message of Tantric Buddhism. Don't be drawn to something, don't run away from it. Just naturally accept whatever comes into life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Philosophy, Buddhism

• The tantras are ancient sacred books of India and Tibet. The tantras detail specific means for attaining liberation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Book, Mean

• If we are in a high enough state of consciousness we see that life is only a passing dream.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Philosophy, Consciousness

• Sex can never bring about enlightenment. Only enlightenment brings about enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, Philosophy, Enlightenment

• Tantra means the avoidance of a set or defined form of spirituality. Tantra is intuitive self-discovery.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Mean, Discovery

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