Frederick Lenz Quotes About Philosophy

• The sensual experiences in life are not to be avoided. This is the philosophy of Tantric Buddhism - nor are they particularly to be sought after.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Buddhism, Sensual

• It is one thing to teach a dynamic Oriental philosophy and religious code; it is quite another to put such a discipline to the test by successfully living it in the face of ridicule.

  Frederick Lenz

  Religious, Philosophy, Buddhism

• Everything is subtle. Everything has a million sides. Everything is a manifestation of god. Everything is light. All beings are infinite. All things are perfect, in their own way.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Light, Perfect

• Tantra is not sexual yoga. When the word tantra is used in the West, very often people immediately associate it with some kind of sexual yoga in which you use sex as a vehicle for enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, Philosophy, Yoga

• In this world we see the pairs of opposites. Ultimately there are no oppositions. In the superconscious awareness there is no division.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Opposites, Division

• In Tantric Buddhism, we believe that Samsara is Nirvana. That is to say that everything in the universe is part of us. And we also are part of everything in the universe.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Believe, Buddhism

• In tantra one does not seek experiences that most people would consider unspiritual and try to see truth in them. In tantra we don't try to guide our life in a specific way. We let the winds of existence blow us where they will.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Blow, Wind

• The only problem that occurs in the practice of tantra is when you don't practice tantra and fool yourself. You get caught up in powerful vortexes of negative energy which pull you into the lower bardo regions ... into the mud.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Philosophy, Practice

• Tantric Buddhists don't believe in sin. Stupidity, yes, meaning we make ourselves or others suffer.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Philosophy, Believe

• Tantra is spiritual, not religious. It deals with the spirit. Religion is just an applied body of doctrines that's believed or not believed by one or more individuals. Spirituality is the science of metaphysics.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Religious, Philosophy

• Be radical! The reason you feel so miserable is because you put spirituality in a form. You boxed it, franchised it. You decided spirituality was a certain way but then you got stuck in the way.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Way, Spirituality

• The Buddha taught three cycles of teachings. His first cycle of teachings cover the basics, the prerequisites. This would include the Dharmapada.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Teaching, Three

• Everything aids everything, because all things are a reflection of the Buddha mind, of the mind of Enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Reflection, Mind

• Sexuality, for the person who practices tantra, is a marvelous way to experience illusion. Illusion is just another way of seeing things. There are no illusions because there is no self.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Self, Practice

• Avoidance of experiences is a fixation and it binds you to the world, it binds you to the personal self.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Self, World

• If you follow anything far enough in the universe, it will eventually lead to light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Light, Enough

• Tantra is for the desperate. Unless you've really experienced pain and suffering, tantra won't work. Unless you've really experienced exultation and ecstasy, tantra won't work.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Philosophy, Suffering

• Tantra is for the advanced spiritual practitioner who is ready to push aside spiritual practice in the name of spiritual practice.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Practice

• One person will eat meat and it will lower their attention field. Another person won't even be affected by it because they're not in the state of mind whereby they'll be affected by it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Mind, Meat

• Tantra is non-dogmatic, in the sense that we don't care about the sensual world; we don't care about other religious traditions. To not care doesn't mean that we don't learn.

  Frederick Lenz

  Religious, Philosophy, Mean

• Your soul wants experience. It wants the world. You're a human - and your eternal. The two are the same.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Two, Soul

• His second cycle of teachings discusses the cosmology of the universes. But in his later years, he wrote the tantric texts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Teaching, Years

• In Tantric Buddhism we call the inherent knowledge that all animate and inanimate objects possess of themselves - their emptiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Buddhism, Inanimate Objects

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

• Tantra works well for people who are engaged in relationships and sexuality. Sex itself is just an action. It's just part of the dream.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Sex, Philosophy

• It doesn't really matter what you do. It is your state of mind that matters.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Mind, Matter

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