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Frederick Lenz Quotes about Teaching

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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.

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.

Teacher, Teaching, Secret

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.

Teaching, Compassion, Secret

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.

Beautiful, Mistake, Teaching

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.

Teacher, Teaching, Self

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

Teaching, Practice, Giving

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.

Teacher, Teaching, Mind

Feel the underlying meaning of the teachings that are espoused by me or anyone else. The word's don't mean much. Words are supposed to be catalysts for higher states of attention. That is where the action is.

Teaching, Mean, Attention

Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings.

Teaching, Enlightenment, Strings

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.

Fun, Teaching, Secret

The essence of the teachings is to lose self importance and to care more for the welfare of others and the magical world around us, than we do for ourselves and our own self images.

Teaching, Compassion, Self

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

Teacher, Teaching, Buddhism

Mindfulness is the direct application of Buddhist teachings to a physical event, a way of doing or accomplishing something, or a way of thinking and viewing something.

Buddhist, Teaching, Buddhism

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

Some teachers are extremely inaccessible. They feel their teachings are for very few so they make it intentionally hard to get to themselves.

Teacher, Teaching, Enlightened

You have to begin to develop a repertory of jokes, multi-plane spiritual jokes, the sort of things the Zen masters tell each other when they're asleep. These are the secret teachings.

Spiritual, Teacher, Teaching

Believe in yourself, step one. Believe in the order, step two. Believe in the teachings, step three.

Believe, Teaching, Order

Different schools of Zen have evolved, principally the Rinzai and Soto orders. A whole hierarchy has developed for the teaching and practice of Zen. Zen has become, to a certain degree, institutionalized.

Teaching, School, Order

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

Teaching, School, Careers

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

Spiritual, Teaching, Rama

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".

Fun, 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.

Art, Real, Teaching

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

Teaching, Writing, Buddhism

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.

Teaching, Buddhism, Glasses

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.

Teacher, Teaching, Buddhism

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.

Religious, Philosophy, Teaching

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.

Country, Teaching, Buddhism

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