Frederick Lenz Quotes About Teachers

• A lot of people who are involved in self-discovery lose energy to abusive teachers, to abusive friends and to entities, non-physical beings.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Discovery, Self

• The highest teaching is never written down. It's only communicated from teacher to student because it's a "transmission of the lamp." It's a transmission of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Teaching, Mind

• If you sit with an enlightened teacher and silent your mind as they go into nirvana, suchness, the pure power of their aura will bring you on a journey into the world of perfection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Journey, Perfection

• While people who are enlightened are worthy of respect, to put them on a pedestal is a mistake. To undervalue them is also a mistake.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Mistake, People

• You can focus on Jesus or Buddha or Krishna, Ramakrishna, Lao Tsu, Yukteswar, Yogananda, Vivekananda, any of the great spiritual teachers who have lived, or on a living teacher, and draw light from them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Jesus

• You see a very advanced master who's got a girlfriend, who listens to rock and roll, who thinks about things that are very earthly. The advanced course has to with coming back to everything that you had to reject in the beginning and seeing it as a far greater infiniteness than everything that you've attained.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Girlfriend, Thinking

• The abuse of power manifests with phony spiritual teachers and phony gurus who tell you how to run your life and what to wear and what to eat, all that sort of stuff. They abuse. People don't realize that, listen to them and ruin their lives.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Spiritual, Teacher

• In the training process, the teacher addresses two sides of your being. One is the tonal and one is the nagual.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Two Sides

• What the teacher does is sweep all of the logic, order and reason onto one side and make that side very strong.

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  Teacher, Strong, Buddhism

• What I do, the teacher of the nagual, is open up the bubble of your luminosity and allow the luminous being to take short excursions into the unknown.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Luminous

• I entered a spiritual community when I was 20, which I was in for 11 year, with very strict meditative practices, with an Eastern teacher. It was very much like a religious order.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Religious

• Throughout the course of my life, I have been very fortunate to have had excellent teachers - not just in meditation, but in martial arts, music, scuba diving, and in my academic education.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Art, Meditation

• It is the teacher's job to point out mistakes so that an individual doesn't continue to hurt themselves or others.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Hurt, Jobs

• As a dialectical teacher, I have had many lives where I have taught Zen and Tibetan Buddhism and mysticism. I teach in many different modalites. But the theme that unites them - is love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Different

• There is no best teacher. Life itself is the teacher. There is no best method. All that matters is that it works.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Matter

• It has been my experience as a teacher over the years and incarnations that what really counts are not techniques. What really counts is spirit, love. What really counts is a sense of propriety and dedication.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Buddhism

• How do you become enlightened? Have fun, meditate, don't take yourself too seriously, brush between incarnations and have a good teacher.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Fun

• An enlightened teacher simply expresses enlightenment in their life by living. It is the student's job to gain the teachings. The teacher's job is just to be perfectly enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Jobs

• I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my walks in nature, meditating, and of course with my teacher.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Book, Rama

• Every person I've known has had an effect on me, as have people whom I've not met in the physical in this life, but whom I've met inwardly, teachers from other eras - Sri Ramana Maharshi, Sri Ramakrishna and Lao Tse.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, People, Rama

• Unfortunately the student often feels guilt for not living the type of life that their Teacher suggested, or they feel that they are intrinsically bad and incapable of leading a higher life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Guilt

• A teacher had two types of students. One type of student is a close student. The other is also a close student, but not in the sense of physical proximity. The close students rotate a lot.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Two

• As an enlightened teacher of Buddhism, I'd like to welcome you to the pathway to enlightenment. I'd like to encourage you to be more positive, to engage in the practice meditation, to learn how to do this wonderful thing - make your mind still in a crazy world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Crazy, Buddhism

• Sometimes there are people who only meditate with a teacher. They ride the teacher's energy. They don't really learn how to meditate. They learn how to ride the energy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Buddhism

• Some people like a harsh teacher. They feel the demands make them learn more quickly. Some like a gentle teacher because they feel that makes them learn more quickly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Buddhism

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