Frederick Lenz - Basic Teachings

Basic Teachings

His core teachings were related to the practice of meditation. He taught a form of chakra meditation created to help people gain greater happiness, achieve success in life, and attain Enlightenment. He recommended the use of music to assist in meditation, especially the bands Tangerine Dream, Vangelis, and, later, Zazen (a group whose records he produced). He once said of meditation,

• "Meditation is a journey, a journey to the other side. The other side can't be explained - the mystical worlds, the timeless, miraculous worlds of light. But they can be certainly, most certainly, experienced by you."

Beyond the core practice of meditation, he was said to place a great deal of emphasis on career, selfless giving, and martial arts or other athletic endeavors. He felt that being financially successful allowed students to build a buffer around themselves to protect them from what he termed the abrasive energies of the world, and hence to meditate more effectively. He recommended martial arts because of its strengthening effect on the body. He also placed focused on the enlightenment of women, saying that many spiritual faiths have traditionally discriminated against women, in many cases even denying the possibility of enlightenment for them.

The following quotes are taken from public talks he gave in the 80s and 90s:

• "Enlightenment is a timeless void. It’s an emptiness that’s filled with the most excellent light. That light is suffused through every part of your being. It is your being. There’s no sense of separation between yourself and the light. There’s no self but the light. That’s enlightenment – timeless, stillness, perfection".

• "Only a pure heart, a completely pure heart can house eternity. Your heart has to be absolutely pure. You can only want that which is absolutely good. You have to live in goodness all the time, and nothing else can matter. There can be no thought of self, no apartheid in the inner world. No discrimination. It’s only with that absolute humility and purity that you can make friends with God because otherwise you’re just too busy with all your desires".

• "What is self? What lies beyond self? Self is the perception of perception. Beyond self there’s no perception of perception. That’s the riddle. The only way to answer the riddle is to go beyond perception and, of course, then there’s no answer because there’s no perception, there’s only silence".

• "In meditation, in selfless giving, in anything that lends nobility to the soul, we rise beyond the limitations of our self-created illusions and we become perfectly what we are".