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Frederick Lenz was an American author known for his profound understanding and unique insights into Zen Buddhism. His works blended Zen philosophy with modern life, resonating with readers worldwide.

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“Meditation is when we go beyond incarnation, beyond all cycles, to immortality, to something that is not transient.”

Meditation Buddhism Immortality Cycles Incarnation Transient

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“Some people are drawn to meditation without knowing why. Their inner being realizes that they've totally fouled up their life so far, and now it's just going to drag them to the local meditation hall.”

People Realizing Knowing Meditation Buddhism Locals Halls Being Real Drag

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Some people meditate because they want to get the larger picture on life. It could get kind of discouraging if this was all there was.”

People Ifs Want Kind Meditation Buddhism Discouraging

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“Some people meditate because they are sick and tired of their life, of the world, of the way people abuse each other and abrogate each other's freedoms.”

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“Some people meditate because they need more energy and when you meditate you get a tremendous amount of energy.”

People Needs Energy Meditation Buddhism Amount

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“The reason one enters into lower mental states is because you don't have the power or chi flowing through you.”

States Reason Meditation Buddhism Personal Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You are down in the valley and the valley is filled with smog. You can't see too well. When we meditate, we are going beyond the smog to the top of the mountain.”

Wells Meditation Buddhism Mountain Filled Valleys Smog

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The place that you gain the most power is within your own mind. Stopping thought generates power. That is why people meditate. The longer you can stop thought, the more power you gain.”

People Mind Meditation Buddhism Gains Stopping Gaining Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You need energy and life force to see and feel what you need to do. Otherwise you are in a dark room and you can't tell what's going on. You need to practice meditation.”

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“When you meditate properly you are able to take your mind and merge it with the cosmos. Essentially, this causes your IQ to increase.”

Mind Able Causes Meditation Buddhism Increase Cosmos

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you meditate you will be able to get in touch with that part of yourself which knows what it wants, as opposed to the levels and layers of conditioning in your mind.”

Knows Want Mind Able Levels Meditation Buddhism Layers Conditioning

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You start meditation as an average human being who is filled with vagueness and not much purpose or definition, who is controlled by their desires, your mind spins all over the place, your senses spin all over the place, out of control.”

Mind Humans Desire Purpose Human Beings Meditation Buddhism Filled Average Definitions Senses Controlled Vagueness

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“The mind is like a lake. It reflects eternity when it's very still. If ripples appear, lots of them, then the reflection is not clear. We lose the clarity of the perfect reflection.”

Ifs Mind Stills Loses Perfect Clear Meditation Buddhism Reflection Eternity Clarity Lakes Ripple

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Learn to meditate. It's fun. It will give you a strong, wonderful mind.”

Giving Mind Strong Fun Meditation Wonderful Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is a spirit that guides us, if we will listen. It speaks softly. In order to hear it we must still our thoughts and meditate.”

Ifs Stills Spirit Order Speak Meditation Buddhism Guides Our Thoughts Speak Softly

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Even after only several weeks of practicing meditation, you will begin to have more energy and be a little bit happier. Eventually, you will experience ecstasy and knowledge beyond the power of words to describe!”

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Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“You become someone else when you meditate. It isn't just a little technique. If you really pursue it, you change radically - you evolve.”

Ifs Littles Meditation Buddhism Technique Pursue Evolve

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you meditate you are accessing eternity. You are plugging yourself into that source which is all light and all beauty and all perfection.”

Light Meditation Source Buddhism Perfection Eternity

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“Beginning meditation is a process of unhooking ourselves from thought, being motivated to meditate. It is very exciting in the beginning because we see the tremendous jumps we make in awareness.”

Process Meditation Awareness Buddhism Exciting Motivated

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“As you do your daily meditations, your life will change. Most people change between the ages of zero to four. The older we get the less we change. When we meditate we become perpetually young.”

People Age Young Four Meditation Buddhism Zero Daily Meditation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation is a process of liquefying the self temporarily and then allowing the self to rebind. The ice melts and then it comes back again.”

Self Process Meditation Buddhism Ice Allowing Back Again

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If we are in the same state of mind, we just self-reflect, things are dull and gray and kind of boring.”

Ifs Mind Kind Self States Meditation Buddhism Boring Dull Gray State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you start to meditate, if you stick with it, you will see tremendous changes in your life and state of mind.”

Ifs Mind States Meditation Buddhism Sticks State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As your meditation practice improves from month to month, more and more light and ecstasy will spill over into the moments of your daily life. Eventually you will always exist in a state of continual light.”

States Moments Light Practice Meditation Buddhism Months Daily Life Ecstasy Spills Meditation Practice

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“For years we practice meditation, like any art, and we get better at it each day. In the beginning it's just enough for us to sit down and focus our attention.”

Years Art Enough Attention Practice Focus Meditation Buddhism Down And Get Better Each Day

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you meditate, then the real miracle is the transformation of your awareness field beyond the body. Beyond the body there are oceans of light, continents of light, universes of light. Meditation frees you from this world.”

Ifs World Real Body Light Universe Meditation Awareness Fields This World Buddhism Ocean Miracle Transformation Continents

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The good news is that you don't have to stop thoughts completely to meditate. It takes a long time to stop thought impeccably. What you need is to detach yourself from thought.”

Needs Long Meditation Buddhism News Long Time Good News

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“When there is no thought in the mind, no thought of thought, when the mind is quiet but fully alert, we experience a little bit of enlightenment.”

Mind Littles Bits Meditation Buddhism Quiet Little Bit Enlightenment

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“Through the practice of meditation and Buddhism, as you experience light, it immediately delights you.”

Light Practice Meditation Buddhism Delight

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“If you meditate you will change in ways that I cannot understand. But that is neither here nor there.”

Ifs Way Meditation Buddhism

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“Learn to meditate, practice and don't get frustrated. It will take you years to learn to meditate perfectly. Every time you try, you are growing. It's not as if you have to meditate perfectly to make progress.”

Ifs Trying Years Practice Meditation Growing Progress Buddhism Frustrated

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“There are those who feel that meditation is unrealistic or takes them out of the world, and if that was your experience with mediation, you weren't meditating.”

Ifs World Feels Meditation Buddhism Meditating Mediation

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“Meditation is not impractical or unrealistic, nor is it difficult to integrate with any lifestyle or age, in that it's timeless, although it occurs in time.”

Age Difficult Meditation Buddhism Lifestyle Timeless Integrating

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“If you meditate your mind will become razor sharp. Your memory and retention will be superb. New talents and abilities will begin to unfold. You will become younger each day, yet wiser.”

Ifs Mind Memories Ability Meditation Talent Buddhism Each Day Wiser Our Memories Razors Superb Retention Talents And Abilities New Talent

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“Think of your mind as a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it will become.”

Thinking Mind Use Meditation Buddhism Stronger Muscles Think Of You

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“People who meditate deeply find wonderful things happening in their life all the time.”

People Meditation Wonderful Buddhism Happenings Things Happen Wonderful Things Wonderful Things Happening

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“The study of meditation is the entrance into the world of Wonderland. It has nothing to do with how you'd like it. You want a nice neat little study that's easily understandable.”

World Want Littles Study Nice Meditation Buddhism Neat Entrances Wonderland

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“When you meditate, you take charge of your life. You bring your conscious awareness to a new high point, where the vista is beyond any horizon.”

Meditation Awareness Buddhism Conscious Horizon Vistas Conscious Awareness High Points

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“Meditation gives you personal power. You will notice that people will treat you differently as you progress because they can feel that power. Use that power wisely. If you search your heart, I think you will.”

People Ifs Thinking Giving Feels Heart Use Meditation Progress Buddhism Treats Personal Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you pursue meditation with a non-competitive attitude, with a hopeful and helpful attitude, without violence, then you will find that you will become a very benign and powerful being, one who is at peace with himself and the universe.”

Ifs Universe Powerful Attitude Meditation Violence Buddhism Pursue Hopeful Helpful Benign

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“When you meditate, you will care more for those around you and you will be able to do more for them, as your own awareness advances. Everyone who comes into your field of energy is positively influenced.”

Care Able Energy Meditation Awareness Fields Buddhism Positively

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As you meditate, you'll develop a sense of humor so that you can laugh at yourself, which you need to do in this world.”

World Needs Laughing Meditation This World Buddhism Sense Of Humor Laugh At Yourself

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Learn to control your emotions. Be able to glide through them. By practicing concentration exercises and meditation, you will find that when strong emotions strike, you will gain the ability to not be swayed by them.”

Able Strong Ability Emotion Meditation Buddhism Exercise Gains Strikes Concentration Strong Emotions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As you meditate, you will be able to look at the beauties and horrors of life and accept them with an equal mind. You will love more and be kinder to those around you.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Stress is a state of mind and if you realize that you will find that it's something you can deal with. It is my belief that stress occurs not because of the conditions of the world.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation will give you the power to overcome fear. As you sit and meditate each day, it makes you stronger. The energy of the universe flows through your mind, your body, and your life.”

Giving Mind Body Universe Energy Meditation Buddhism Flow Overcoming Stronger Your Body Each Day Overcoming Fear Makes You Stronger Energy Of The Universe

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Will is developed in meditation. It is refined. It is within you, but you don't know how to get to it.”

Knows Know How Meditation Buddhism Within You Refined

Author:Frederick Lenz

“With the power of one's will we stop thought and move into alternate forms of perception. We gain that power through practicing very, very, very hard each day when we meditate to stop our thoughts.”

Hard Moving Form Meditation Buddhism Perception Gains Each Day Our Thoughts Power Of One

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When we meditate and we are able to stop thought, we get a sense of being beyond the body. Our consciousness expands and we see ourselves as beings of light.”

Body Light Able Consciousness Meditation Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation is a practice of detaching and then stopping ourselves from thinking; our thoughts are interruptions in the flow of awareness. Consciousness, in its highest aspect, is perfect and formless.”

Thinking Perfect Consciousness Practice Meditation Awareness Buddhism Highest Aspect Flow Our Thoughts Stopping Interruptions

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

Born: February 9, 1950
Died: April 12, 1998
Known for: Author
Quotes: 4397

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