This talk transmits the feeling of enlightenment or the timeless void, nirvana, ecstasy. God is in all things. You are God, and once you accept that with humility, you can transform. Enlightenment is talk 6 of 27 in the Tantric Buddhism series. © ℗ 1990, The Frederick P. Lenz Foundation for American Buddhism. Download all…
“Why does a person experience stress? Stress occurs because that which is within you — which is light, intelligence, energy — wants to do certain things and doesn’t want to do other things. And that changes. Stress is a result of the fact that you’re out of tune with your life and your inner…
“Meditation is concentration in the beginning. It’s a focus. Then, in the intermediate stage, it’s an opening, a deepening of one’s awareness but with a focus towards the planes of light. In intermediate meditation, you’re touching light more deeply than in introductory meditation. In advanced meditation, you become light. You transcend self, ego, time, space,…
Everything is transient – meaning it does not last. We are transient in this life. Everything and everyone we know will change their current form. This knowledge gives us the freedom to go and do what we truly want to do. Transience is talk 22 of 27 in the Tantric Buddhism series. © ℗ 1990,…
“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…
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…
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…
If the ups and downs of the transitory are bothering you, why not make so much happiness that nothing can affect you? Buddhist yoga teaches us how to remove the focus of our mind from the world and place it in a realm of pure light and ecstasy. Buddhist Yoga is talk 26 of 27…
Buddhism involves bringing your mind into clearer states. We completely purify the mind and then we go beyond all states of mind. When there is no self and therefore no one to perceive states of mind, there is only enlightenment. “If you want to become Enlightened…you have to unhook from anything that’s impure and focus…
“We have lots of fears… We’re taught to fear. The operative condition on this particular planet, the central mode which human beings follow, is fear — not love, fear. The student of enlightenment, the student of life who wishes to be happy, has to take on their fears one by one and overcome all…
Tantric Buddhism is a pathway to Enlightenment. In Tantra, we do not avoid the world. We embrace it. We believe that God exists in everything. We focus on the clear light of reality in and through all experiences. Tantric Buddism is talk 1 of 27 in the Tantric Buddhism series. © ℗ 1990, The Frederick…
“What makes us happy is contact with Light. As you have experiences with the inner light, which are gained through the practice of meditation and Buddhism, it immediately delights you.” Rama – Dr. Frederick Lenz Personal Happiness is talk 7 of 12 in The Enlightenment Cycle series. © ℗ 1992, The Frederick P. Lenz Foundation…