Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 90

• If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism in America".

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  Teaching, Writing, Buddhism

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• It's very funny. People do not want to achieve liberation or be happy. This is the basic guideline they teach you in Spiritual Training School.

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  Spiritual, School, Buddhism

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• People love misery, they love to feel sorry for themselves, and they definitely don't want to be enlightened. That's the first thing they tell you at boot camp in the higher worlds.

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  Sorry, Buddhism, People

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• Don Juan, in the teacings of Carlos Castaneda, makes the same point. You have to fool people into seeking knowlege. People will not do it of their own volition.

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  Buddhism, People, Juan

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• There are some great stories in The Second Ring of Power about how Don Juan and Don Genaro found their apprentices and what they went through to fool their students into seeking light.

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  Buddhism, Light, Stories

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• I've never met anyone who's serious about enlightenment.

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  Buddhism, Enlightenment, Rama

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• The next best thing is to work with those who are not quite there yet to bring them up to that level.

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  Buddhism, Levels, Next

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• If you want to be liberated, if you choose to be what I am, then you've chosen freedom. You can do this.

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  Buddhism, Want, Rama

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• That's my sole purpose in life is to sit here today and tell you that you can do this, in any life. You can do this in one of your past lives, in a future life, or right now. I prefer now.

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  Buddhism, Past, Purpose

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• I select people to work more closely when they are prepared to and I see that. They don't have to tell me. I know. I will give them a task of some type, and that task becomes the koan between us.

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  Buddhism, People, Giving

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• 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.

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  Teacher, Buddhism, Two

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• Most of the teaching I do is not verbal. It's in every movement of my body. It's in my dance. It's in the way I lift a glass of water. It's in my voice tone. It's in every aspect of my life - because it isn't my life anymore.

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  Teaching, Buddhism, Glasses

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• When I sit with my students and meditate with them, I channel the kundalini directly into them. I bring them to plane after plane of consciousness. What they would do in 100 years of meditation, I can do in an hour with them.

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  Buddhism, Years, Meditation

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• Samadhi is the highest octave spiritual light. Not the best, but the highest octave.

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  Spiritual, Buddhism, Light

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• When I enter into nirvikalpa samadhi, most can see this light, or feel it. This light creates very powerful, steady spiritual transformation. The reason you are here is to sit in this light.

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  Spiritual, Powerful, Buddhism

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• Occasionally at a Center Meeting, not that often, every couple of months, I'll break down and demonstrate a little mystical kundalini; but not that often, simply because it wouldn't be that effective.

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  Couple, Buddhism, Down And

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• You can increase your capacity to absorb the mystical kundalini. I have 3 or 4 students who are on the path of mysticism, they can absorb more of it.

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  Buddhism, Path, Rama

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• You don't need to be able to absorb a tremendous amount of the mystical kundalini to realize God.

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  Buddhism, Needs, Able

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• Tonight I have inundated you with the mystical kundalini. Now, of course, I'm moving into the supra-conscious; it's kind of a doubleheader this evening.

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  Moving, Buddhism, Tonight

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• As you sit in this light from week to week, you will transform and grow and develop. It washes away the samskaras, the past-life tendencies. It washes away the karmic tendencies from this life.

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  Buddhism, Past, Light

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• When I meditate, people see manifestations of light when I go into samadhi and through the samadhis. Sometimes the energy of enlightenment is so clear that people don't realize that their attention has been elevated.

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  Buddhism, Light, People

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• It has been my exprience that repetitive nights of exposure to the kundalini energy followed by longer periods of reflection and pyschic networking create the fastest transitions in awareness.

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  Buddhism, Reflection, Night

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• It is important to have intensive blocks of time together. During our nights together there is a tremendous interchange of knowledge, power and awareness.

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  Block, Buddhism, Night

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• Our field trips are an opportunity for you to enter into the world of mystical power.

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  Buddhism, Opportunity, World

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• As far as miracles are concerned, I'm not aware that I perform miracles. After many years and lifetimes of meditation, I am able to use the kundalini energy to alter other people's awareness and aid them in their search for light and certainty.

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  Buddhism, Light, Years

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