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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Teacher, Buddhism, Luminous

• Some of the most exalted states of consciousness I experienced were in bed with someone, alone, or with my spiritual teacher. There was never a difference for me.

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  Spiritual, Teacher, Differences

• I'm a Zen Master. I'm an occult teacher. I teach people how to become that, how to be perfect.

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  Teacher, Buddhism, People

• Some come to a teacher for power. They still have all the desires, angers and jealousies of an unevolved person. Consequently, they become destructive both to themselves and to others.

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  Teacher, Buddhism, Desire

• I like Miracles. They inspire me. Miracles are the fun of enlightenment. When a teacher does a miracle, and everyone sees it, they have faith in what the teacher has to say about self-discovery.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Fun, Buddhism

• I am a Teacher. I am the keeper of mysteries. You seek knowledge and power, Truth, Light, and happiness. I am happy to aid you in your search.

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  Teacher, Buddhism, Knowledge And Power

• One should never become devoted to a teacher, any more than one should become devoted to a statue of a god. There is only one thing to be devoted to, and that is your mind.

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  Teacher, Buddhist, Buddhism

• It takes tremendous self-restraint on the part of the student not to want to monopolize the teacher's attention, to live a very controlled life and a happy life, and of course, be dedicated to the cause.

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  Teacher, Buddhist, Buddhism

• You must be accommodating with your teacher. You must have a sense of humor about your teacher and the impossible things they ask you to do.

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  Teacher, Buddhist, Buddhism

• My teacher sent me all over the world to talk about meditation - Europe, all over America, Canada. I would drive thousands of miles, travel, all at my own expense, to do this.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, America, Europe

• I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Teaching, Buddhism

• To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake. You'll gain the power, but with the current mindset that you have you'll probably create more unhappiness for yourself than happiness.

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  Teacher, Mistake, Buddhism

• Of course, there are the old hardcore teacher types like me who sit around and tell jokes, realizing, what's the difference anyway - it's all timeless.

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  Teacher, Buddhism, Differences

• The Dali Lama and other notable Buddhist teachers have now indicated that since the world has plunged into a dark age, the information available in the tantras, which include the very, very powerful Kundalini release techniques, should be made available to the public.

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  Teacher, Buddhist, Powerful

• Once in a while, you will see someone really drippy. The person has to stare at the teacher all the time with that devoted and disgusting and sick look. It's boring, misplaced devotionalism.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Buddhism

• Studying with a teacher doesn't simply mean going to an occasional seminar or Zen retreat. It means fully applying yourself to what the teacher says, most of which is not verbal.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Mean

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