Frederick Lenz Quotes About Consciousness

• Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack of self-consciousness, that is innocence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wise, Wisdom, Children

• Any individual is capable of realizing the truth at any time. No tradition is necessary, no chain, no lineage. Once you have realized the truth, once you have become consciousness itself, then you go beyond all such distinctions.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Lineage

• To have the detached eye of the occultist, to look outward, to not be so self-reflective and to learn to step through the various viewpoints of consciousness - that we call occultism - leads to freedom.

  Frederick Lenz

  Eye, Self, Looks

• Consciousness is the screen. The images on the screen are your perceptions, the illusion that life is solid, that there is a material universe.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Perception, Consciousness

• By fully focusing your mind on your chakras, stilling your thoughts, and increasing your kundalini flow, you can rise above your body consciousness and unite your mind with the clear light of nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Chakra Meditation

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

• Focus your awareness on the heart chakra. As you do, you will feel your consciousness shifting. You may feel different perceptions of energy in different parts of your body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Buddhism, Chakra Meditation

• It is not advisable for persons who are in the early stages of meditation to mediate on the two lower chakras. You will unleash powers and forces that will throw you into very powerful altered state of consciousness that might not be pleasant at all.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Buddhism, Chakra Meditation

• Beyond learning and unlearning is awareness, and beyond awareness is consciousness, and beyond consciousness is immortality, and beyond immortality is dharma and beyond dharma is nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Consciousness, Awareness

• Sring is the mantra of beauty. Traditionally it is connected with Lakshmi, the Indian goddess of beauty. Chant "Sring" slowly, elongating each sound. As you do, you will see the consciousness of beauty of everywhere.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Sound

• Lakshmi is a celestial being who lives in a higher plane of existence. Her mantra is "Sring." When you chant it, it brings beauty and light into your consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Meditation

• If the tonal predominates, which we see now more in the world, there's no mystery - understanding of consciousness or awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Understanding, World

• It is not a good idea to continually repeat a mantra during meditation. Repeating a mantra throughout your mediation causes you to fixate on a specific level of consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Ideas, Meditation

• As we slam you with more and more devastating blows of the nagual, at the same time, we strengthen and clear the tonal so that it can easily withstand them - so there is no loss in continuity of consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Loss, Blow

• I found that the breakthroughs for me, as I went through school, came through sexuality, explorations of consciousness, reading, loving, friends, time in nature, and through psychedelic experiences.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reading, School, Loving Friends

• If we are in a high enough state of consciousness we see that life is only a passing dream.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Philosophy, Consciousness

• I explored alternate states of consciousness at one period of my life through psychedelics, as was the fashion with all my friends.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fashion, Rama, Consciousness

• Success, failure, pain, small furry animals, household products, freeways, Star Wars systems - all are interlinked in the dance of tantra, the disco of the mind, the ballroom of cosmic consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Stars, Pain, Philosophy

• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Differences

• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Years, Meditation

• Samadhi is perfect absorption to the point where there is no sense of being absorbed, not the consciousness of knowing that you are having an experience.

  Frederick Lenz

  Knowing, Perfect, Consciousness

• People enter states of consciousness where they think they've become enlightened. The best thing to do, if you've gone through one of those phases, is to be sensible, laugh at yourself for how foolish you were.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Thinking

• When matter stops, self-consciousness stops.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Matter, Consciousness

• When self-consciousness stops, there is nothing -nothing left to stop, start, begin or end.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Consciousness, Samadhi

• At an early age I found the world a very natural place to be. I was always in a meditative consciousness as a child, which children are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Children, Age, World

• Salvakalpa samadhi is a tremendous acceptance and liberation, but it is not complete absorption in nirvana, in that consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Acceptance, Consciousness, Samadhi

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