A Quote by Frederick Lenz

Tantric Zen is more suited for this age that we live in. It give you rules, but in a gentle way. It's not as demanding.

Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz
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February 9, 1950 - April 12, 1998

Tantric Zen is the original Zen, Zen without rules, Zen without form. Zen can certainly take rules and form. So Tantric Zen might have some rules and form, but it would remain formless even though it had rules and form.

Frederick Lenz

What I term Zen, old Zen, the original face of Zen, new Zen, pure Zen, or Tantric Zen is - Zen in its essence.

Frederick Lenz

Tantric Zen is for someone who is really broad-minded. It is Bodhidharma's Zen, your Zen, my Zen. Which doesn't mean I have a problem with Japanese Zen. Most Japanese Zen is minding your p's and q's.

Frederick Lenz

Tantric Zen, at first, does not appear to have a method. In Tantric Zen, you could meditate on a Brillo box or you could meditate on the clear light of reality.

Frederick Lenz

What is Tantric Zen? Well, I don't think I can give you a straight answer, since I don't happen to be a very straight Zen master.

Frederick Lenz

Zen is Tantric Buddhism, Vajrayana is tantric Buddhism - these are various forms of it. Tantric Buddhism simply means cutting to the chase.

Frederick Lenz

There are monasteries in Japan where they teach Zen with rules, more rules than you can imagine, and you might feel comfortable with that. I don't teach that type of Zen.

Frederick Lenz

It is only in the last 800 years that the rules have come into being and conservative Zen has surfaced. It is not particularly popular in Japan at all. Hardly anybody practices Zen any more because it's just too strict; there are too many rules.

Frederick Lenz

Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us live.

D.T. Suzuki

In Tantric Zen it doesn't matter but it does ... .

Frederick Lenz

Tantric Zen is a state of mind

Frederick Lenz

Zen is the way of complete self-realization; a living human being who follows the way of Zen can attain satori and then live a new life as a Buddha.

Zenkei Shibayama

In Tantric Zen there is no rule. There is only your immediate experience.

Frederick Lenz

In Tantric Zen you can be humorous and make fun of anything or you can be very serious.

Frederick Lenz

The rules have changed so dramatically.They are not the Jeb Bush rules of the 90s, they are the reality television rules of this decade and he was not suited for it.

Chuck Todd

Tantric Zen leads to illumination and fun right here and now, which is why I like it.

Frederick Lenz

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