“Why aren’t you happy? Why aren’t you satisfied with your life? Deep down inside you know that you’re not really happy or satisfied or free. You’re entangled in a mass of emotions, you’re bombarded by thoughts and ideas that don’t make you happy, you live in a world gone mad, where people use technology to…
“Happy people, enlightened people, successful people, inspired people — they all share something in common — they’ve learned how to manage and increase their energy.” “There are two sides to increasing energy. One is learning how to gain energy; the other is avoiding its loss. My subject today is not so much how you increase…
What the teacher does is teach the spiritual aspirant to compact their life, strengthen it, get all the junk out of it, and learn to be happy, free, and strong. Gradually the metaphysical teacher guides the student to step into other dimensional realities to stand and gaze with awe and wonder at the universe. Metaphysics…
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…
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…
“So how can you possibly be happy? That’s why you’ve got to study Zen. Or something. I mean call it what you want to, but it has to be a way in which you can discover you, so you cannot distinguish yourself from anything or anyone else. Because you, as we both know, think you’re…
“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…
We do not need to shave our head and wear an ochre robe to meditate and progress on the path to enlightenment. No, we do not, and that is what is so exciting! We can meditate anywhere at any time. All we need to do is still our mind. Find out as a spiritual aspirant…
“A Buddhist monastery has a certain chemistry. There’s a certain laughter, a certain excitement, a certain brightness, and ebullience, and it’s hard to capture that here (in the West). I think that same brightness here is captured in another way, and that’s by living and working in the world.” Rama – Dr. Frederick Lenz Career…
“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…
“Spiritual balance is the ability to be happy in spite of circumstances — happiness in pleasure and in pain, in sickness and in health, in life and in death, in all circumstances. That’s balance. How do you do that? It’s a decision. It’s a decision that you make every day and that you renew, that…
“Buddhism is the enlightenment cycle — and there are different types of it. Principally there is short path and long path Buddhism. The long path is more of the religious aspect, that is to say, the church aspect: the practice of reading sutras, healthy ways of living, a certain amount of prayer, a little meditation….