Quote

You have to come to the world of enlightenment with open hands, not clinched fists, without an agenda.

Frederick Lenz

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Frederick Lenz
Age: 48 †
Born: 1950
Born: February 9
Died: 1998
Died: April 12
Author
Entrepreneur
San Diego
California
Enlightenment
Buddhism
Open
Hands
Etiquette
Come
Fists
Without
Agenda
World
Agendas
Buddhist

More quotes by Frederick Lenz

Image
It is much easier for a woman to meditate than it is for men, innately. Their subtle physical bodies pick up the kundalini much more quickly.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Work sustains us as bodies and it consumes a great deal of energy. The conservation of energy is the component theme of Buddhist practice and yoga. That is why people live in monasteries.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Very few people become enlightened in any given lifetime. On the planet earth their might be a dozen who are fully enlightened and several thousand who live in enlightened states of mind.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Search this world and find that being who you feel has the greatest light and become their apprentice.
Frederick Lenz
Image
The reason why there's such a rigid repression of the mentally ill is the psyche of humanity senses something. It senses that it doesn't want to deal with the unknown.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Until women assume their rightful place on earth there will never be an end to wars, cruelty and oppression.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Personal power is the ability to go into other planes, to cross that threshold from one dimension to another. Why do that? Because it is there to do knowledge, power, and beauty lie in those other worlds.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Those who are already adept at some disciplines of the body will find that the study of Zen and meditation will give you much more control than you now have.
Frederick Lenz
Image
The siddhas are developed through the tonal, not the nagual.
Frederick Lenz
Image
When you meditate you will be able to get in touch with that part of yourself which knows what it wants, as opposed to the levels and layers of conditioning in your mind.
Frederick Lenz
Image
We want to be all things, not just to gain power over things - how infantile!
Frederick Lenz
Image
Your very own sister may take your husband away and your husband may be the ticket for economic survival.
Frederick Lenz
Image
I don't dictate particular styles of dress. I do teach classes in self discovery.
Frederick Lenz
Image
Where is truth? Is there truth in what I am doing now?
Frederick Lenz
Image
You will always see, if this group is a highly evolved group or on the way up, a movement towards oneness.
Frederick Lenz
Image
If you have more personal power and you are in higher states of mind, then naturally you can see things and adhere to them or avoid them. Personal power is really the issue.
Frederick Lenz
Image
We see that love manifested normally in the soldier, in the parent, in the lover, and in the spiritual teacher.
Frederick Lenz
Image
We sit in meditation and cry to God, we cry to the light, as little children, knowing God will do everything for us.
Frederick Lenz
Image
I used to live in Buddhist monasteries and I finally had to leave them because they were just too cluttered for me. They were cluttered up with many thoughts about Buddhism.
Frederick Lenz
Image
The American Indians, the ancient Indians would say, the metaphysical ones would say: Power binds us together. Power, for a while, makes us what we are, perceivers, luminous perceivers of reality.
Frederick Lenz