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

• My teaching - of what is perceived to be a complex and foreign sounding religious philosophy - has become the target for people's prejudice and religious intolerance.

  Frederick Lenz

  Religious, Philosophy, Teaching

• The human mind and the entire life process is chaotic. Chaos is not something that lacks order; chaos has varieties of order within it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Order, Mind

• Some people go into tantra with the idea, sort of an intellectual approach, that now they can just do everything and stay high. That doesn't work at all.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Ideas, People

• Tantra has to do with the reconciliation of opposites. All the yogas recommend that you avoid certain experiences. In tantra there is no avoidance.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Yoga, Opposites

• When I speak of tantric yoga, I'm speaking of a type of yoga that is best practiced by persons who live in society. It's a yoga for the last yuga.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Yoga, Lasts

• Tantra is for a person who has reached a point in their spiritual evolution where everything looks the same.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Looks

• You shouldn't run around killing people or eating meat. That's not what we mean by tantra. There's no need to break the rules.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Philosophy, Mean

• For most people the prohibitions are a good thing. But If you are able to maintain very powerful states of mind, then you'll find yourself in everything you see.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Philosophy, People

• If you find a Tantric master - he has you go and do all the things you hate to do.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Philosophy, Masters

• Tantra involves radical change, a change in states of awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Radical Change, Awareness

• It's not what you do that matters. It's not what you say. There's nothing that is not holy or spiritual. Be beyond definition, beyond categorization, be absorbed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Definitions

• It is one thing to teach a dynamic Oriental philosophy and religious code; it is quite another to put such a discipline to the test by successfully living it in the face of ridicule.

  Frederick Lenz

  Religious, Philosophy, Buddhism

• Everything is subtle. Everything has a million sides. Everything is a manifestation of god. Everything is light. All beings are infinite. All things are perfect, in their own way.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Light, Perfect

• Tantra is not sexual yoga. When the word tantra is used in the West, very often people immediately associate it with some kind of sexual yoga in which you use sex as a vehicle for enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, Philosophy, Yoga

• In this world we see the pairs of opposites. Ultimately there are no oppositions. In the superconscious awareness there is no division.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Opposites, Division

• In Tantric Buddhism, we believe that Samsara is Nirvana. That is to say that everything in the universe is part of us. And we also are part of everything in the universe.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Believe, Buddhism

• In tantra one does not seek experiences that most people would consider unspiritual and try to see truth in them. In tantra we don't try to guide our life in a specific way. We let the winds of existence blow us where they will.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Blow, Wind

• The only problem that occurs in the practice of tantra is when you don't practice tantra and fool yourself. You get caught up in powerful vortexes of negative energy which pull you into the lower bardo regions ... into the mud.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Philosophy, Practice

• Tantric Buddhists don't believe in sin. Stupidity, yes, meaning we make ourselves or others suffer.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Philosophy, Believe

• Tantra is spiritual, not religious. It deals with the spirit. Religion is just an applied body of doctrines that's believed or not believed by one or more individuals. Spirituality is the science of metaphysics.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Religious, Philosophy

• Be radical! The reason you feel so miserable is because you put spirituality in a form. You boxed it, franchised it. You decided spirituality was a certain way but then you got stuck in the way.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Way, Spirituality

• The Buddha taught three cycles of teachings. His first cycle of teachings cover the basics, the prerequisites. This would include the Dharmapada.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Teaching, Three

• Everything aids everything, because all things are a reflection of the Buddha mind, of the mind of Enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Reflection, Mind

• Sexuality, for the person who practices tantra, is a marvelous way to experience illusion. Illusion is just another way of seeing things. There are no illusions because there is no self.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Self, Practice

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