Frederick Lenz Quotes About Sexuality

• Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is being moved to a new square on the board of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Chess Pieces

• 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

• I found the experiences that I had with sexuality were wonderful, they were very uplifting - we had a good time - and they didn't seem to affect the level of my mediation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Uplifting, Rama, Levels

• Love was where I learned to go beyond myself, through the arts, through relationships, through sexuality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Rama, Sexuality

• I realized that my friends in the ashram needed to be celibate because, for them, sexuality was a very tacky issue.

  Frederick Lenz

  Issues, Tacky, Rama

• 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

• Over the years of much self-hate, I came to realize that whether sexuality was in my life or not, it didn't seem to matter. I just surrendered the whole thing to God.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Years, Self

• 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.

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  Philosophy, Self, Practice

• I found growing up that love and sexuality was a wonderful way to understand existence. When we love it takes us beyond ourselves, otherwise we're just absorbed with the preoccupations that we invent.

  Frederick Lenz

  Growing Up, Way, Rama

• Sexuality, I think, is a little bit different, for me, than it is for most people, in that there's almost no body awareness whatsoever. It's just light, but that's how everything is for me.

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  Thinking, Light, People

• Most people are terribly afraid of their own sexuality, and one has to respect another person's sadhana, another person's path.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Path

• Love has very little to do with a person. It comes from us. You can love a surprisingly great number of people.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Numbers, People

• It's necessary when you follow the path of love to love those around you first. Desire tells us that we should have someone else in our life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Should Have, Desire

• In terms of spiritual development, it's not a big deal whether you have sex or not, the question is more of who you have sex with and what their energy is doing to you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Sex, Buddhism

• It is most critical for a woman, or for a man who is very sensitive and opens up his heart, to be very selective about the people they have sex with.

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  Sex, Heart, Buddhism

• A number of Guru's feel that there is something wrong or sick about being gay. I think it really doesn't matter what your sexual preference is; what matters is the quality of your love.

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  Buddhism, Gay, Thinking

• Much of the time your attention is directed towards the world of sexuality, it's done through the second attention of a woman - not simply in your physical presence but from thousands of miles away.

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  Women, Enlightenment, Attention

• Sexuality is the primary focus of our culture, and almost no one has come to resolve it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Focus, Culture

• Relationships are a proving ground for love.

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  Buddhism, Sexuality, Prove

• The purpose of life is to love, not necessarily to be loved.

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  Buddhism, Purpose, Life Is

• You see two people together. They're in a relationship. It's really power that holds those people together. And when the designs of power change, those people will separate and there's nothing they can do in the meantime about it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Two, People

• Reciprocity, a symbiotic relationship, is a relationship in which two people have worked out certain terms. I am using you in certain ways; you are using me in certain ways. That is a balanced relationship.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Two, People

• I think I've learned more from women than anyone else, and perhaps from love - what a wonderful testing ground, what a wonderful place to see and sense our limitations, to know that the pain reflects your state of awareness and not being able to hide from it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Buddhism, Thinking

• Woman knowing this was not right but not knowing what else to do, developed the only means to fight for their survival that they had, since their survival was dependent upon men, and that was to use sexuality to survive.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Mean, Fighting

• When we love others we see our oneness with others.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Oneness, Sexuality

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