Frederick Lenz Quotes About Students

• The highest teaching is never written down. It's only communicated from teacher to student because it's a "transmission of the lamp." It's a transmission of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Teaching, Mind

• Zen students see themselves as athletes. Their competitive sport is enlightenment; only with enlightenment do we compete.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Athlete, Buddhism

• The mantra is a very preliminary exercise for the student to begin to grasp a sense of focus. When they are used by persons who have reached very high levels of attention, they can open up doorways to other worlds.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Exercise, Other Worlds

• Initially the student, in some traditions, is given a mantra, a particular word of power to focus on. While thoughts are cascading through your mind during meditation, you should be absorbed in the repetition of a mantra.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Focus, Meditation

• I examine each student carefully: Is there a balance between their tonal and their nagual?

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Balance, Students

• Over a period of years he collected thousands of discples. Many became his students. Many didn't become his students but whenever he was in town they would go and see him.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Years, Towns

• I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get to watch this amazing thing happen.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Rama

• I deal with two types of students. Those who have a very deep-seated knowledge of love, which are few, or those in all their lives have ignored love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Two, Rama

• Every day I get letters from people thanking me for helping them to become successful, whether because of their personal growth or because of economic rewards. A few of my former students have even become millionaires.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Successful, People

• Emotional control is essential for attaining higher levels of mind. The thing that the teacher looks for in a student is the degree of self-control, not coldness that someone has.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Buddhism

• While I enjoy teaching people on the basic and intermediate levels to work them up to advanced levels, my real talent is for the advanced students. You could say that I'm like a ninth-degree black belt in martial arts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Real, Teaching

• I have graduate students who have developed this ability to love and want to perfect it. Those are the students I spend a lot of time with because at this time they need that.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perfect, Needs

• I feel a number of people who will never be students whom I'm corresponding with inwardly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Numbers, People

• As a student of enlightenment your attitude should not be to become enlightened. It should be to learn.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Attitude, Buddhism

• Transmission does not have to take place physically. The student doesn't have to be sitting across from you. But it's easier if they are because the vibration of the teacher is strongest in the physical proximity of the teacher.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Vibrations

• Then there are most of my students who don't know a whole lot about love. You don't know what fun love is. I will remain inaccessible to you until you learn how to love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fun, Love You, Buddhism

• An enlightened teacher simply expresses enlightenment in their life by living. It is the student's job to gain the teachings. The teacher's job is just to be perfectly enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Jobs

• Many of the people I work with I've worked with in other lifetimes. I moved to California because I knew that many of my students from past lives were in California.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Past, California

• There are some great stories in The Second Ring of Power about how Don Juan and Don Genaro found their apprentices and what they went through to fool their students into seeking light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Stories

• In the esoteric teachings, a transference process takes place between teacher and student where knowledge is actually transmitted from one to the other. This requires that the student be receptive.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Teaching

• I was a traditional teacher for a time, but my students would ride the energy. I wanted to free people not give them a placebo.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, People

• A teacher had two types of students. One type of student is a close student. The other is also a close student, but not in the sense of physical proximity. The close students rotate a lot.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Two

• Unfortunately the student often feels guilt for not living the type of life that their Teacher suggested, or they feel that they are intrinsically bad and incapable of leading a higher life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Guilt

• 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

• Zazen's music is composed in other dimensions and it is played by some of my students. I go through the music they have played with my aura and wash out anything impure.

  Frederick Lenz

  Auras, Rama, Dimensions

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