Frederick Lenz Quotes About Teaching

• The secret teaching was the bodhisattva ideal, to live for others, for the welfare of all beings. That's enlightenment, not some flashy state of luminosity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teaching, Compassion, Secret

• 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

• When we talk, answer questions, I'm addressing your tonal. I'm teaching you a way or a series of ways of dealing with the world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teaching, Buddhism, Answers

• I love people who make mistakes. That's why I'm in the teaching business. I love people who make mistakes because I enjoy watching them learn and helping them, assisting them. I find it a beautiful process.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Mistake, Teaching

• 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

• 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

• If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism in America".

  Frederick Lenz

  Teaching, Writing, Buddhism

• 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

• Most of the teaching I do is not verbal. It's in every movement of my body. It's in my dance. It's in the way I lift a glass of water. It's in my voice tone. It's in every aspect of my life - because it isn't my life anymore.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teaching, Buddhism, Glasses

• I was very immersed in the world. I'm very worldly. I love world. I was immersed in my career, in school, in teaching.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teaching, School, Careers

• Some people harbor the idea or belief that all teachers should teach for free. Obviously these people have never been teachers, particularly in the twentieth century. Teaching meditation is a very expensive hobby.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Teaching, Buddhism

• So I went off on my own and started the process of spiritual teaching.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teaching, Rama

• My teaching - of what is perceived to be a complex and foreign sounding religious philosophy - has become the target for people's prejudice and religious intolerance.

  Frederick Lenz

  Religious, Philosophy, Teaching

• I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Teaching, Buddhism

• It is inevitable that, in the process of teaching an Asian religion in a Western country, many of the teachings will seem strange or unusual - in the same way that Christianity and Judaism may seem strange and unusual to people from the Far East.

  Frederick Lenz

  Country, Teaching, Buddhism

• I personally have fun with enlightenment, the study and the teaching of it. I get a kick out of doing it different ways because I don't think there is a "way".

  Frederick Lenz

  Fun, Teaching, Buddhism

• The teaching process becomes most interesting for spiritual seekers once they've managed to hit the lower samadhis. However at that point many seekers become very egotistical.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teaching, Interesting

• It's necessary to respect all other ways and other teachings on the subject because even though they may not make a lot of sense to us, they might to someone else. Who are we to say?

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Teaching, 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

• 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

• Can you control your anger, lust, frustrations, and jealousies? Those are the only people worthy of the higher teachings. By worthy, I mean that they are the only ones capable of it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Teaching, Mean

• The teaching process is lengthy because there are many, many states of mind to go through. And in each state of mind there is a different aggregate of self to be explored.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Teaching, Self

• You get to the point where you have to wash the dishes. That's the fun in life. Being behind the scenes and doing things for others; being an instrument of that cause. That is the secret teaching.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fun, Teaching, Secret

• In enlightenment you have to convince a teacher not only that you are worthy of teaching, but then that they should show you some of the secrets.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Teaching, Secret

• All of the exoteric teachings are only designed to give you the type of life that will allow you to practice the esoteric teachings.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teaching, Practice, Giving

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