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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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“Through the experience of memory, you recall what you have done, and you therefore attach yourself to it and perceive yourself through prior experience.”

Done Memories Awareness Buddhism Perceive Recalls

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You perceive yourself as being solid and physical, limited to a body. You are made up of light, endless mind. The way you see life is a limited state of mind.”

Way Mind Made States Body Light Life Is Awareness Buddhism Endless Perceive State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you think about something, you separate yourself from it.”

Thinking Science Awareness Buddhism

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“Your state of mind dominates your awareness to such an extent that you can't conceive of any other state of mind other than the state of mind that you're in.”

Mind States Awareness Buddhism State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Whenever you are in a perceptual field, it seems like it's ultimate. It's a self-wrapping consciousness. There doesn't seem or appear to be anything else other than the attention field that you're in.”

Self Seems Attention Consciousness Awareness Fields Ignorance Buddhism Ultimate Wrapping

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“It's important to remember that there are countless views in infinity.”

Important Remember Views Awareness Buddhism Infinity

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“When you change your state of mind, your whole life changes, nothing remains the same. Nothing looks the same, because you have changed.”

Mind Looks States Whole Awareness Changed Buddhism Remains Whole Life Life Changing State Of Mind You Have Changed

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The world has an ending and a beginning. It begins with you and it ends with you. The end of the world occurs when you make a major transition in attention.”

World Ends Attention Awareness Buddhism Majors Transition End Of The World

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Life is composed of lines of light, fibers of energy, pulsing, still, pure being.”

Stills Light Life Is Energy Lines Awareness Buddhism Pure Fiber

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“There are many great bands of perception in the universe. There are both organic and inorganic bands of perception.”

Universe Awareness Buddhism Band Perception

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is possible to modify your awareness to perceive what plants perceive, birds, beings in the astral, the causal.”

Awareness Buddhism Bird Plant Perceive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Dimensionality only exists because the mind can perceive life that way, but that's only one simple method that the mind has for perceiving itself, for perceiving life.”

Way Mind Simple Awareness Buddhism Method Perceive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Within silence all things are contained. What appears to our eyes to be life is but a thin curtain, a gauze penumbra, which stultifies our vision, which prevents us from seeing the truth.”

Eye Life Is Silence Vision Seeing Awareness Buddhism All Things Curtains Seeing The Truth

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When most people see a tree, they don't see a tree at all. They see an idea that they have developed of what a tree is.”

People Ideas Tree Awareness Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is the experience of enlightenment, to be very aware of what lies beyond the boundaries of cognitive perception, reflection and self-awareness as seen by the personality.”

Self Lying Awareness Buddhism Personality Perception Enlightenment Reflection Self Awareness Boundaries Cognitive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Life is invisible. The illusion is that what we perceive is in some way not a reflection of self. Life reflects the field of attention that we're in.”

Way Self Life Is Attention Awareness Fields Buddhism Illusion Reflection Invisible Perceive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Within the human frequency of perception, what you see is what you get. I would classify the bottom of the band as severe unhappiness, depression and alimentation.”

Humans Awareness Buddhism Band Perception Bottom Unhappiness Severe Frequency

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The top of the band would be happiness, contentment and peace of mind.”

Mind Would Be Awareness Buddhism Band Contentment Peace Of Mind Contentment And Peace Contentment Peace

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The bands of perception vary greatly. There is the human band of perception. There are lots of different bands of perception. Simply because we are in one band of perception, doesn't mean others are not there.”

Humans Mean Different Awareness Buddhism Band Perception Vary

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Within you there are thousands of rings of luminosity, bands, and each one is a universe of perception. In the average person's lifetime, they might just open up two or three, maybe four of those bands.”

Persons Two Might Universe Three Four Awareness Buddhism Band Perception Lifetime Average Rings Within You Average Person

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most people are not in the world of awe and wonder. They're in the world of deadness. Their perceptual fields and bodies are completely self-reflective, and all they see is themselves wherever they go.”

People World Self Body Wonder Awareness Fields Buddhism Awe Awe And Wonder

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We don't always walk from one state of mind into another. We might just oscillate back and forth for a whole lifetime within the polarities of a certain state of mind.”

Mind States Whole Might Certain Walks Awareness Buddhism Lifetime Whole Life State Of Mind Back And Forth Polarity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The mind is infinite. It is not relegated to the brain or to thought or to emotion. It is made up of an endless series of realities that stretch on into infinity.”

Mind Made Reality Emotion Brain Awareness Buddhism Infinite Series Endless Infinity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Your mind is your life. It's your essence and your substance. It's the part of you that has always been and will always be. Its formations change constantly, which is what makes you always new.”

Mind Awareness Buddhism Essence Substance Formation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The entire structure of the human mind blocks out most of infinity. To a certain extent it's necessary because otherwise one would be insane, unless you have a very developed mind to deal with the endless permutations of infinity simultaneously.”

Mind Humans Would Be Certain Deals Awareness Buddhism Structure Endless Block Insane Human Mind Infinity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's like looking at the sun, that's how infinity is. You can't look at it for too long or you dissolve. The bands of your attention break. But if you look at it in specific ways, you can become something or someone much more conscious.”

Ifs Way Looks Long Attention Break Sun Awareness Buddhism Band Conscious Infinity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Mysticism is concerned primarily with moving our awareness field from the beginning of the band of perception, the human band, up to the enlightened bands of perception.”

Humans Moving Awareness Fields Buddhism Band Perception Concerned Enlightened Mysticism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There have been people who have categorized the bands of perception in different yogic systems. It gives them pleasure to create names and orders and to make catalogs. Human beings like that.”

People Giving Humans Has Beens Different Order Names Human Beings Pleasure Awareness Buddhism Band Perception

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All of us have an aura, a body of energy linked to different planes of awareness. Some have the ability to access more planes of awareness then others because of past lives, because of practice in this life.”

Different Body Past Energy Ability Practice Awareness Buddhism Access This Life Planes Linked Past Life Auras

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If your awareness was strong enough, you could change the fate of a whole world without ever leaving your room.”

Ifs World Enough Whole Strong Rooms Fate Awareness Buddhism Leaving Whole World Strong Enough Your Room

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Anyone has the ability, if they choose, to move to the higher end of the state of mind they are in. From that higher end, they can generate another state of mind.”

Ifs Mind Ends States Moving Ability Awareness Buddhism Higher State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The reason a person is in a particular state of mind is primarily because of attraction and aversion. Attraction and aversion cause us to format a mental or intellectual program.”

Mind Persons States Reason Causes Awareness Particular Buddhism Intellectual Program Attraction State Of Mind Format Aversion

Author:Frederick Lenz

“W are all carrying the imprints of our most ancient ancestors. Not simply in the genetic code, but in the imprints of attention that are passed on.”

Science Attention Awareness Buddhism Ancient Code Ancestor

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A whole society imprints us. Language, television and culture imprints us Just living in a country is a vibratory imprint. All the collective attentions, of all the people who live there - imprint us.”

People Country Whole Culture Language Attention Awareness Television Buddhism Collectives

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We interact with others and we decide who we are. Are we reclusive? Are we outgoing? Are we successful? Are we going to be a failure? We cast a role for ourselves and we step into it.”

Steps Roles Successful Awareness Buddhism Casts Who We Are Outgoing

Author:Frederick Lenz

“One, who studies the ways of power, seeks to end the imprinting process because in imprinting we loser power, we lose attention; we are formatted to do certain things.”

Way Ends Certain Process Loses Attention Study Awareness Buddhism Loser Imprinting

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The people who imprinted us are not completely happy and they are not completely powerful. So naturally, we have to fight our whole life against that imprinting.”

People Whole Fighting Powerful Awareness Buddhism Whole Life Imprinting

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If your parents were strong in one way and weak in another, you will be strong in the same way and weak in the same way. Even though you detest the weakness in them, you will find that you will do exactly the same things because they imprinted you.”

Ifs Way Strong Parent Awareness Buddhism Weakness Weak One Way Detest

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A child is imprinted not by simply teaching. But their attention is like soft clay. The attention field of adults is stratified. They are like hard clay and we push them on each side of the child's attention field.”

Children Hard Sides Attention Teaching Awareness Fields Buddhism Adults Clay

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“Just being around the awareness field of the male or female imprinter, the child is imprinted.”

Children Awareness Fields Buddhism Female Males Just Being

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“The male or female that the child has the most exposure to in the first four to six years of its life is the primary imprinter of the child.”

Years Firsts Children Life Is Four Awareness Buddhism Six Female Males Primaries Exposure

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Learn to overcome the imprinting that you now have and gain a new and higher imprinting that will lead you into the luminous spheres of awareness.”

Awareness Buddhism Higher Gains Overcoming Spheres Luminous Imprinting

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We need a new imprinting. We need the imprinting of enlightenment, of freedom. That comes through our association with a higher being. So classically what occurs is that one meets a teacher.”

Needs Teacher Awareness Buddhism Higher Enlightenment Association Imprinting

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A teacher is not someone you need perpetually. You need them to show you how to get through the doorway; but once you get through the doorway, you are on your own.”

Needs Shows Teacher Awareness Buddhism Doorways

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Power will take us beyond the gravity field of the imprint.”

Awareness Fields Buddhism Gravity

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“In mysticism we have to take all the imprinting that has occurred to us and wash it. Then we need to be re-imprinted but in a different way. Without it, we don't survive.”

Way Needs Different Awareness Buddhism Different Ways Mysticism Imprinting

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The teacher will have a certain imprint, and each teacher imprints differently. Ultimately the imprint of the teacher is a limitation that you will have to overcome in your final stages of knowledge.”

Certain Teacher Stage Awareness Buddhism Overcoming Finals Limitation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The dream is so thick; the Maya is so thick. There's no magic as long as there's all this thought. So the first condition for the practice of higher magic is the stopping of thought.”

Firsts Long Dream Practice Magic Conditions Awareness Buddhism Higher Thick Stopping

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The universe is ecstasy. We have many other ways of perceiving infinity. And when you perceive life through these other modes, that's when you see that the universe is ecstasy, That's when you experience its ecstasy.”

Way Universe Awareness Buddhism Perceive Ecstasy Infinity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you line everything up, just right, you walk through a doorway where the world as you know it collapses.”

Ifs Knows World Lines Walks Awareness Buddhism Collapse Doorways

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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