Frederick Lenz Quotes About Understanding

• You can go to India and you can see gurus go into samadhi. But when they come out of samadhi, they're nasty. They're egocentric. They don't have a deep regard or understanding of what life is. It's just a little trick they can do, a one-trick pony.

  Frederick Lenz

  Understanding, India, Ponies

• 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

• In the chakras, it's the heart chakra, anahata, the central chakra, three above and three below, which symbolizes happiness and love, psychic oneness, spiritual understanding.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Heart, Buddhism

• The purpose of all our explanations is not to have you understand anything, but for you to snap from the understanding of the intellect to the understanding of pure spirit. All our explanations work backwards.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Understanding, Purpose

• As my meditative experiences grew, I had wonderful relationships. I met the most wonderful women, who meditated and shared certain understandings that I had.

  Frederick Lenz

  Understanding, Rama, Wonderful

• I have found in the world of film many movies including Beyond Rangoon, The Crow, Gandhi, Doctor Zhivago, and The Big Blue, a French film, convey similar understandings. I'm sure the list is endless. These are just a few of my favorites.

  Frederick Lenz

  Blue, Doctors, Understanding

• Spiritual Balance is the obvious answer to the obsession that sometimes accompanies religious practice, occult practice, philosophical understandings - the assertion that one is right - that something that you're doing is better than something somebody else is doing, the way you're doing it is better than the way someone else is doing it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Religious, Buddhist

• The world won't necessarily change but your understanding of it will, and therefore the world will change. Your attention will no longer be confined to the physical body and the physical world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Understanding

• You don't need anybody to tell you what is right or wrong. What you need, perhaps, is someone to show you how to come to those understandings.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Understanding

• When you go into the planes of light, all of the incorrect ways of seeing and understanding life that you pick up are washed away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Meditation

• Many practitioners think there is some giant balance scale, where someone is keeping track, like Santa Claus, and that will determine your allotment of presents. That's a very exoteric understanding of reincarnation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Track, Understanding

• It is always wise, particularly in the beginning, to balance your new intuitive and psychic understandings with good old common sense. A good psychic perception follows your common sense.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wise, Psychics, Common Sense

• Your understanding of the astral dimensions can help you alter structures in the physical dimensions. It is in and through the medium of the astral dimensions that all of the siddha powers function and work.

  Frederick Lenz

  Understanding, Gaining Power, Dimensions

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

• Reincarnation is a hopeful understanding of life. It is an accurate understanding of life. In each lifetime we grow, develop and evolve.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hopeful, Understanding, Lifetime

• Who is that is dreaming all of this? Ecstasy, pure ecstasy, joy beyond understanding, bliss beyond the dry dullness of the mind's philosophical ranging, light beyond any light in this world - The substance and the essence of all existence is this light, the transcendental light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Philosophical, Light

• Knowing about reincarnation helps us relax. It assists us with an understanding of death and dying. Death is not an end, quite the contrary.

  Frederick Lenz

  Death, Knowing, Understanding

• Lao Tsu says the way of life is ancient, timeless. It is existence which he calls the Tao - a mysterious source, beyond understanding, and all of us are a reflection, if not that source of life ourselves.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reflection, Understanding, Taoism

• If you'd like to have a better incarnation, then have one now. If that's your attitude, just let go and meditate and try to be as wise and compassionate, as understanding as you can.

  Frederick Lenz

  Letting Go, Wise, Attitude

• Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend to last.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Understanding, Drug

• Enlightenment occurs when your mind merges with nirvana, with what Tibetans call the Dharmakaya, the clear light of reality, which is the highest plane of transcendental wisdom and perfect understanding.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, Light

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

• While I may not be able to describe to you exactly what enlightenment is like, I can tell you that it is wonderful beyond understanding. The experience of enlightenment frees your mind from painful and limited states of awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Understanding, Mind, Enlightenment

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

• Spiritual knowledge is the experience of enlightenment, and requires an understanding of the inner-most workings of the enlightenment cycle.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Understanding, Enlightenment

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

• Thoughts can increase our understanding of a subject, or they can just as easily constrict or block our understanding of a subject. It very much depends upon the language we are thinking in.

  Frederick Lenz

  Block, Buddhism, Science

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

• When you are enlightened, your physical body will still feel pain if you get hurt, but you will not be overwhelmed even by extreme physical pain, because your mind is filled with light, love and understanding.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Hurt, Pain

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

• The meaning of life changes as you change dimensional planes. The way human beings perceive the world is only one simple method of seeing. There are many ways to see life. Life has many meanings, and self realization is the understanding of all this.

  Frederick Lenz

  Life Changing, Simple, Self

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