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

• 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

• 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 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.

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  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.

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  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

• 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.

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  Teacher, America, Europe

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

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  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.

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  Teacher, Buddhist, Mean

• The purpose of enlightenment is certainly not the teacher, nor is it you. It doesn't have a purpose. Enlightenment simply exists.

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  Teacher, Buddhist, Buddhism

• I liked my teacher very much and after some years of mediation, I began to teach meditation, referring all things that I didn't know to my own teacher.

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  Teacher, Years, Meditation

• I am very interested in the enlightenment of women. Very few teachers of advanced self discovery work with women, and if they do it's usually in a very second handed way. They treat women as second class citizens.

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  Teacher, Buddhism, Class

• Many spiritual teachers have done this. They have disbanded their whole community because everyone got angry. The karma, at a certain point, has to go back to the person; it's intensified and hurts them spiritually.

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  Karma, Spiritual, Teacher

• I don't think of myself as a guru but as a teacher. If one means 'guru' in the original sense a 'dispeller of darkness' then that certainly is my purpose.

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  Teacher, Mean, Buddhism

• This study is not for the amateur. It's not for the dilettante. It's not for the cult follower. It's not for someone who wants everything done for them. It's not for the one who just wants to stare with that fixed dog-like devotion towards the teacher.

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  Dog, Teacher, Buddhist

• It is very important to always hold the thought of an enlightened teacher in your mind in a very positive way. When you direct negative energy towards someone who is powerful, it has a terrible bounce-back effect.

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  Teacher, Buddhist, Powerful

• It's considered very, very bad karma, if I can cut to the chase, to take power from a teacher and not use it for something very positive.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Teacher, Buddhist

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