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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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“You stand on the edge of eternity, with a vista that is so incredible, so powerful, so perfect that it's overwhelming. You are so overwhelmed - you no longer exist.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“You are awareness. You are mind. You are not from this world. I mean, think about it, could you really be from here?”

Thinking World Mind Mean Humanity Awareness This World Buddhism

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“Happiness has to do with how quickly you vibrate, how intelligent you are, how subtle your awareness field is, how deep you are, how aware of your eternal part you are.”

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“I think I've learned more from women than anyone else, and perhaps from love - what a wonderful testing ground, what a wonderful place to see and sense our limitations, to know that the pain reflects your state of awareness and not being able to hide from it.”

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“Use the practice of mind and body; in order to make those moves perfectly, you have to pull your mind out of its mundane thoughts and awarenesses and bring it into the body movement.”

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“You should be drawing awareness from a deeper part of your being. Your deeper mind has everything already. It knows everything already. It has all the answers.”

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“The final result of all life is your awareness. Your awareness is existence.”

Inspirational Life Is Results Existence Awareness Buddhism Finals

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“You must constantly strive to enlarge your awareness. Naturally, if you do, you will have an uncommonly fine and happy life.”

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“Take the level of dedication that anyone had to get to the top in any field, and apply it to self-discovery. Except that when you get to the top of anything else, it washes away. You will die. The only thing that stays with you forever is your awareness.”

Inspirational Self Dies Levels Forever Awareness Fields Buddhism Discovery Self Discovery Dedication

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“Everything depends on your state of awareness. If your state of awareness is low, then all the material success in the world won't help.”

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“You have been programmed, brainwashed to see life in very specific forms. Life is endless and we are a body of perception. We are an awareness that is endless. The universe is only perception.”

Inspirational Has Beens Body Form Life Is Universe Awareness Buddhism Perception Endless Brainwashed

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“Knowledge comes from personal experience of truth and awareness, not from conversation.”

Inspirational Awareness Buddhism Conversation Personal Experiences

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“One day you will arrive at a station on the train of existence that you've always known has been there. You'll find there will be no train in sight, with no sense of arrival. There is only a perpetual arrival, a timeless condition of infinite awareness.”

Inspirational Has Beens Existence Known Conditions Awareness Buddhism One Day Sight Infinite Train Stations Perpetual Timeless Arrivals

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“Meditation is the art of life. Meditation is not simply a practice. It is an experience, awareness, and a way of perceiving life.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you meditate you feel joy, harmony, peace, stillness, ecstasy, laughter, certainty, courage, strength, awareness and immortality. In the beginning you will feel these things vaguely, a distant knocking at your castle door.”

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“Meditation is not for everybody. When you meditate you become conscious. Most people don't want to be too conscious because they are afraid of awareness, of death, and of being happy.”

People Want Meditation Awareness Buddhism Conscious Awareness Of Death

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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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“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.”

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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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“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

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“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

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“We are not really separate beings of light. That's a dream we are having, the dream of multiplicity. Meditation takes us beyond the moment to eternal awareness.”

Moments Dream Light Meditation Awareness Buddhism Eternal Multiplicity

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“As you meditate, you will find that consciousness itself will move you beyond time and space and condition into a larger, vaster, more beautiful state of awareness.”

States Beautiful Moving Space Consciousness Meditation Conditions Awareness Buddhism Time And Space

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“Power is the active force in life. It is the force that makes awareness. The general term for spiritual power is kundalini. Kundalini is the energy of life that creates awareness.”

Spiritual Energy Force Term Awareness Buddhism Active Spiritual Power Energy Of Life

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“The primary energy that is active in all things is kundalini. Kundalini energy is the energy of awareness. It can be used to modify awareness.”

Used Energy Awareness Buddhism All Things Active Primaries

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“The power that enables us to transform our awareness is the release of kundalini. All yoga, either directly or indirectly, all Buddhism, relates to the release of the kundalini energy.”

Energy Awareness Buddhism Yoga Release Relate

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“Kundalini is seen as a serpent that can shoot up the shushumna, past the chakras, opening them all and bringing you into different states of awareness.”

Different States Past Awareness Buddhism Opening Serpent Chakra

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“Try and stop your thoughts. Be patient and then the kundalini will flow through you and bring about substantial changes in your awareness.”

Trying Awareness Buddhism Flow Patient Be Patient

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“There are seven primary chakras located in the subtle physical body, the body of light and energy that is our awareness and that surrounds the physical.”

Body Light Energy Awareness Buddhism Seven Primaries Subtle Surround Physical Body Chakra Seven Chakras

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“Just as the subtle physical body holds together the physical body, the causal body holds together the body of awareness.”

Body Together Awareness Buddhism Subtle Physical Body

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“Just as the DNA is a structure of double helical bonds, so your being is a structure of elements, not physical elements, but awarenesses that have come together in a ring of power.”

Together Awareness Buddhism Elements Structure Rings Dna

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“Beyond the subtle body we have something called the causal body; that's more what we are. We are a series of interconnecting awarenesses. It's like a molecular bond, DNA, a double-helix, and we can change that.”

Body Awareness Buddhism Series Subtle Dna

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“The causal structure determines the rate and method of evolution, your awareness of the universe.”

Universe Awareness Buddhism Evolution Method Structure Rate Determine

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“If you do well within this life, that awareness will be held within the causal structure, the part of us that lives from one lifetime to another. It will be available to you in your next life and in future lives.”

Ifs Wells Next Awareness Buddhism Structure Lifetime Available This Life Future Life Next Life

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“In the Far East, a peasant has no problem that someone can be born from another universe into a human body, walk up to their hut one day and ask for something to eat and transport them into infinite galaxies of awareness.”

Humans Problem Body Universe Asks Born Walks Awareness One Day Infinite East Hinduism Galaxy No Problem Human Body Peasants Transport Huts

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“In sanskrit they say: "Tat twam asi" - thou art that. You are God. The bubble of your awareness bursts and you're flooded with immortality.”

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“Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization.”

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“The awareness of liberation is not liberation. The awareness of time is not liberation.”

Awareness Liberation Hinduism

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“The awareness of place, space, or condition is not liberation. You can't say what it is, but you can sure say what it isn't.”

Space Conditions Awareness Liberation Hinduism

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“Yoga is a removal of the conscious awareness from the world as you know it - the world that you've constructed - through your focus within your mind, to something else.”

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“Beyond mind, beyond time, beyond space there is immortal awareness.”

Mind Space Awareness Immortal Hinduism

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“When all of the selves have been dissolved, you will enter into the super-conscious awareness. Then, you are free. Then, there is no suffering. Then, there is no attachment.”

Has Beens Self Suffering Awareness Conscious Attachment Hinduism Conscious Awareness

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“The second stage of meditation begins when you can successfully stop thought for long periods of time. At this point you move beyond the awareness of this world.”

World Long Moving Meditation Stage Awareness This World Periods Long Periods Of Time

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“Mindfulness is paying attention to what is going on. Just look at beauty. Not just the beauty of things you see with your eyes, but beautiful feelings, beautiful awareness. There is no such thing as reality. Reality is what you make it.”

Looks Feelings Reality Eye Beautiful Attention Awareness Buddhism Mindfulness Pay Attention Feeling Beautiful

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“Reincarnation is simply changing awareness. What you are reincarnating into are different states of mind. The whole show is on the inside.”

Mind Different States Whole Shows Awareness State Of Mind Reincarnation

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“The karma of immediate availability is the condition of your awareness field. The karma of potentiality is what is stored inside you from your past lives.”

Past Conditions Awareness Fields Karma Our Past Your Past Past Life Availability

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“So, those who hate, those who are violent in nature, live in a world of hate and fear and violence inside themselves, inside their minds, inside their awareness.”

World Mind Hate Violence Awareness Karma Violent Karma Yoga Hate And Fear

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“Those who love and who have a sense of purity live in a very luminous band of awareness.”

Awareness Band Karma Purity Luminous Karma Yoga

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“Your karma is the sum total of your awareness field. Your awareness field is comprised of all the experiences that you've had in this life and all other lives.”

Awareness Fields Karma This Life

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“You are new at every moment. You are an extension of the previous moment of your awareness. You can radically change, if you unhook yourself from what you have been.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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