Seeing (PD6) What is seeing? Well, seeing is a direct, immediate knowledge of something. It does not imply any kind of judgment or moral system or philosophical outlook or religious viewpoint. Seeing is seeing. Download all talks in this series (Free MP3 audio)
In Buddhism, we seek that which is ineffable – that which cannot be seen with the eyes or felt with the hands. We seek to find the still center in the middle of all the turning worlds, simply because we like that, we know that’s where we belong. Buddhism is talk 11 of 27 in…
“In Zen, we study the will. We learn how to cultivate it and we learn to use it in specific ways — to accumulate will. It is something that you can accumulate, just like money…” “Will is assertion and you begin by learning to will small things. The first thing to will is meditation….
Beyond duality, there is no darkness, no evil. There is only light: white light and black light (like the light between the stars). If you focus on light exclusively, then you will experience ecstasy! Light is talk 27 of 27 in the Tantric Buddhism series. © ℗ 1990, The Frederick P. Lenz Foundation for American…
“In a Zen state of mind, you do not worry … you don’t give your thoughts to your opponent, you don’t give your power or thoughts to success or failure, you don’t care about the crowd that’s watching you or the fact that no one is watching you. There is only one thought — one…
“So my recommendation is — if you seek to practice kundalini yoga — to meditate, of course, and you can meditate on the different chakras and feel what that’s like. But what will really release the kundalini is something much simpler and more effective, in addition to meditation techniques, breathing techniques, and so on. And…
In advanced practice, we come back to all those things we set aside in earlier religious / spiritual lifetimes – careers, relationships, etc. – to experience/know that God exists in all things. The Best Meditation I Ever Had is talk 16 of 27 in the Tantric Buddhism series. © ℗ 1990, The Frederick P. Lenz…
“It’s not special to be enlightened. It’s just different. An enlightened person is someone who has dedicated not just this lifetime, but thousands of lifetimes to becoming awareness. They see through the mysteries of life and understand them — and what the enlightened person sees, no one could ever tell or describe. Wonder beyond belief.”…
In the path of affirmation (religion), we improve our lives. But after many lifetimes of religious practices, what’s next? The path of negation (Tantra) is a path where we go back through all the experiences we avoided in our religious lifetimes and in the process we negate the self. We come to see and experience…
Places of Power (PD5) What makes a place of power a place of power? No one really knows, it just is. Yet places of power attract powerful beings who live there, visit there, meditate there, gaze, jump into other worlds from that spot, and that increases the velocity of the place of power. Download all…
Tantric Buddhism teaches us how to use the things that we must do in life to empower us rather than drain us. Tantra is a collection of things that work by doing them. It is a pathway of adventure and transformation that leads to Enlightenment. Path of Affirmation is talk 10 of 27 in the…
“In Tantric Zen the thought is — “It doesn’t matter, but it does.” It doesn’t really matter what you do — it is your state of mind that matters … Everything is dependent upon your state of mind. If you’re in a very tantric state of mind, then your experiences will be quite different…”…