Frederick Lenz Quotes About Books

• Try to read books about meditation, but not so many different viewpoints that they get confusing. There is no best way. It's just what works for you at the time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Book, Buddhism, Meditation

• Some people, of course, say they're practicing tantra. There are a lot of books on tantric sexual practice in local bookstores. These are usually pretty silly books.

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  Silly, Book, Buddhism

• I have had several offers to make the book into a film. I don't know if the message could be accurately transmitted, and so I have been somewhat hesitant in granting film rights.

  Frederick Lenz

  Book, Rights, Messages

• In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from Shakespeare to science fiction ... sometimes a book a day.

  Frederick Lenz

  Book, Reading, Fiction

• I think perhaps the greatest book ever written was Ulysses by James Joyce.

  Frederick Lenz

  Book, Thinking, Rama

• With the use of psychedelics, it was all based around the Tibetan Book of the Dead, using them to experience enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Book, Enlightenment, Use

• I may discuss contemporary cinema, how to shop at a mall without losing energy, how to use the power of mind to increase career and academic success, the Zen of sports, reincarnation, karma, sex, the experience of "suchness" or a new book by Stephen King.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Sports, Sex

• I meditated on my own for some time, read spiritual books, became a vegetarian and had incredible experiences every day, every meditation, where I was just thrown into the infinite - never realizing that other people didn't necessarily have those experiences in meditation that quickly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Book, People

• The tantras are ancient sacred books of India and Tibet. The tantras detail specific means for attaining liberation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Book, Mean

• At the same time, I went through college, received a Ph.D. and started to teach. I wrote books.

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  Book, College, Rama

• 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

• Miramar, my recording company, has decided to offer a compilation of my music for snowboarding, which will have the same cover as the book does.

  Frederick Lenz

  Book, Snowboarding, Doe

• Interestingly enough, Aurthur C. Clarke once autographed a copy of his book "Rendezvous with Rama" for me.

  Frederick Lenz

  Book, Rama, Enough

• Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Book, Reading, Buddhism

• We see in meditation that our experiences are endless, that we are endless, eternal spirit, not as a thought or an idea you read in a book. You have the experience yourself, every day.

  Frederick Lenz

  Book, Buddhism, Experience Yourself

• What makes a difference is when we take our mind and put it into the scriptures, when we read the Buddhist Canon, the Pali Canon, when we read the Tibetan books, when we read anything inspiring - somebody else's journey into the world of enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Book, Journey

• They've got lots of theories, books, sciences - I've read a lot of those books. Most of them are pretty unhappy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Book, Buddhism, Humanity

• One of the wonderful things about the computer is that it allows us to sit at home and either write a book or a computer program. Then we can send that program or book to companies that specialize in reproducing them and distributing them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Book, Home, Writing

• A great deal has been written about personal power by Carlos Casteneda, and I find his first four books valuable. Of the experiences themselves, who knows? But the principles that are presented are quite valuable for one who seeks power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Book, Principles, Four

• Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting your awareness, your mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Book, Reading, Self

• Read books that expand you, that are bright. See films, plays, art forms that elevate your consciousness, that bring you into a sense of how beautiful this world is, how beautiful other worlds are, how beautiful nirvana, the transcendental is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Art, Book

• In the Bhagavad-Gita, a book that I revere and respect, it's indicated that even women, along with animals, are capable of attaining enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Book, Animal

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