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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 are complete. Completion has taken place in you eons ago. Accept yourself. Enjoy yourself. This time will never be again, so fulfill the moment with your own self-joy.”

Self Moments Happiness Joy Enjoy Accepting Taken Buddhism Completion Accepting Yourself Enjoy Yourself

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Forget that you are anybody and just perform the activities around you. Look at them. Watch what you are doing, my God! Life is right in front of you, and it's great.”

Looks Happiness Life Is Forget Watches Fronts Buddhism Activity Mindfulness God Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Focus on beauty all day long. Realize how incredibly beautiful your life is. How incredibly beautiful it is to feel, to look around, to be, to experience all this wonder.”

Feels Looks Long Beautiful Happiness Life Is Realizing Wonder Focus Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You have to be courageous in life to allow a lightness to engage your being. It is easy to be a jerk. To be unhappy with all this weird stuff around us just seems to me to be such a waste. That's a jerk.”

Seems Happiness Easy Stuff Buddhism Waste Unhappy Courageous Jerk Be Courageous Lightness Weird Stuff

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Practice smiling for five minutes. Stop trying to meditate. Just smile. Let your smile get bigger and bigger. Oh, you're unhappy, you're miserable, nothing is working in life, it doesn't matter. Smile anyway.”

Trying Matter Happiness Practice Five Minutes Buddhism Bigger Unhappy Miserable Five Minutes Stop Trying Your Smile Just Smile

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you laugh at the world, the world dissolves.”

World Happiness Laughing Buddhism Nothingness

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“Smile sometimes when things aren't going well, and maybe realize when they aren't going well, they are.”

Wells Sometimes Happiness Realizing Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Pain and frustration vanish in the sunlight of your smile.”

Pain Happiness Buddhism Frustration Sunlight Your Smile

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“It is is easy to smile. It is an act of self-giving. When you smile you are at your best and you give that best to others.”

Giving Self Happiness Easy Buddhism Self Giving

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“Don't be discouraged. At times the path to truth is circuitous. The point is not to succeed, only to smile eternally.”

Happiness Path Buddhism Truth Is Succeed Discouraged

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“Put a smile on your face. Don't sit in the waiting room of life. Go do something, happily.”

Happiness Faces Waiting Rooms Buddhism Your Face Smile On Your Face Waiting Rooms

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“Practice being happy. Work at it. It's a new role, I realize, but you'll get it. The auditions will be coming up very soon. So get on top of it. I'm sure you will get the part.”

Happiness Realizing Roles Practice Buddhism Auditions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness.”

World Mind Stills Self Happiness Desire Loses Buddhism Involved Stillness Centering

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation simply means entering into states of mind which are happiness, profound happiness, simple happiness, beautiful happiness, complicated, uncomplicated - There are ten thousand states of mind.”

Mind Mean States Beautiful Happiness Simple Meditation Buddhism Thousand Ten Profound Complicated State Of Mind Entering Uncomplicated Simple Happiness

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“Everything you do in meditation is amplified. If you meditate for five minutes with your complete mind focused on happiness, that is like focusing on happiness for several hours as you are walking around.”

Ifs Mind Happiness Hours Five Meditation Minutes Buddhism Walking Focused Five Minutes

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What we focus on we become. If you are just focusing on unhappy things, you will become unhappy. If you focus on happy states of mind, then it will grow in you.”

Ifs Mind States Happiness Grows Focus Buddhism Unhappy State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most people think happiness comes from experiences in the world. The fulfillment of desire causes a type of happiness. But as soon as they experience passes, the happiness passes.”

People Thinking World Happiness Desire Causes Buddhism Type Fulfillment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The fulfillment of desire does not necessarily make you happy because there is a satiation factor. You can get some apple pie and eat it. If this is what makes you happy, why not eat ten?”

Ifs Doe Happiness Desire Buddhism Ten Factors Fulfillment Apples Why Not Pie Make You Happy Apple Pie Satiation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The rich aren't happy so they try and get richer thinking it will make a difference. The poor aren't happy. They try and get rich thinking that will make a difference.”

Thinking Trying Happiness Differences Poor Rich Buddhism Making A Difference Get Rich

Author:Frederick Lenz

“How can you possibly be happy if you think you're a person? Because we all know, just by definition, that people are definitely not happy because they take everything too seriously. They take themselves seriously.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Persons Happiness Buddhism Definitions Not Happy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness only comes when you let go of who you think you are. If you think you're wealthy and powerful and noble and truthful or horrible and demonic, whatever it may be, it's all a waste of time. Take it from the Zen Master. He knows.”

Ifs Thinking Knows May Happiness Powerful Masters Buddhism Letting Go Waste Noble Horrible Wealthy Wasting Time Truthful Demonic Zen Master

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Power doesn't make you happy. Actually, power without knowledge and balance is problematic. Power is something that will automatically follow when you have knowledge. The two are really the same, in a certain sense.”

Two Happiness Certain Buddhism Balance Make You Happy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You don't have to take drugs to be happy. You don't have to drink to be happy. You don't have to have people around you who love you to be happy. You don't need anything except the clarity of your own mind.”

People Needs Mind Happiness Love You Buddhism Drink Drug Clarity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are not as happy as you used to be, chances are you are not meditating properly. You may be trying to skip steps. You are using power incorrectly. Your motives are not pure. You don't vibrate quickly.”

Ifs Trying May Happiness Used Chance Steps Buddhism Pure Used To Be Motive Chances Are Meditating Skip Vibrate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you're a sniveler, a whiner, a complainer, you will never be happy. We all have that side. Get a little stoical and just take the pain.”

Ifs Littles Pain Happiness Sides Buddhism Complainers Whiners

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Learn to be happy in any and all circumstances, whether you're experiencing pleasure or pain, whether there's loss or gain, whether the world loves you or hates you. Learn to be happy.”

World Pain Happiness Hate Loss Pleasure Love You Buddhism Circumstances Gains Happy Being Happy Hate You Love Hate World Love Happiness Is A Choice

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Even sickness becomes an experience that we pass through in happiness because our happiness is not dependent upon how our body feels, but how our spirit feels.”

Feels Body Happiness Spirit Buddhism Sickness Dependent

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Life should be continually brighter. We are continually seeking our own innocence. We want to recapture it for eternity. It's in there, but we lose touch with it.”

Want Should Happiness Loses Buddhism Eternity Seeking Innocence Brighter

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If we immerse ourselves in the ultimate good, we will have this silly smile on our face or perhaps just inside our hearts. That is what illumination is.”

Ifs Heart Happiness Faces Buddhism Ultimate Silly Illumination

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“Nature is not something to conquer, but something to learn from or to merge with and be part of - to dance with, celebrate.”

Nature Buddhism Celebrate Conquer

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Nature is the endless reflective pattern of existence in eternity. As I sit here watching the leaves and watching their patterns, I'm reminded of so many things I've seen in other planes and in other worlds.”

World Nature Existence Buddhism Eternity Patterns Endless Planes Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The natural elements in the forests, mountains, deserts and large bodies of water, help shield you from the thought forms and auras of other human beings.”

Humans Helping Body Form Water Nature Natural Human Beings Buddhism Mountain Elements Forests Desert Shields Auras Bodies Of Water Natural Elements

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

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

“Nature is our friend - trees, squirrels, grass, fields, meadows, oceans - without people. Hike. Walk. Stroll. Bike. Swim. Be in a still place and feel eternity. Have a great time. Just feel it.”

People Feels Stills Nature Walks Tree Fields Buddhism Ocean Eternity Grass Swim Bike Great Times Meadows Squirrels

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Spend time alone in areas of low population density, where you can feel the stillness. Go out into the desert or up into the mountains or to the ocean where there aren't too many people.”

People Feels Nature Buddhism Mountain Ocean Lows Areas Population Desert Stillness End Times Spend Time Me Alone Alone Time Density Population Density

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“Take short walks in the park down a happy trail.”

Nature Walks Buddhism Parks Trails Walks In The Park

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“It is always easier to capture eternity in the falling snow or along the coast where the waves crash and in solitary and lonely places. It is the quiet places where it is easiest to feel eternity.”

Feels Fall Nature Buddhism Easier Quiet Lonely Eternity Wave Snow Capture Solitary Crash Coast Quiet Place Lonely Places

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“Take a couple of days by yourself and rent a nice cabin in some nice, happy place. Stay a day or two and meditate and take walks in areas that feel good to you. Find out who you are again. Remember.”

Feels Two Remember Nature Walks Nice Buddhism Couple Areas Who You Are Feel Good Cabins Happy Place Some Nice

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“We hide from ourselves by being with others.”

Nature Buddhism

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“Get in touch with nature. The stillness of nature is profound and yet subtle.”

Nature Buddhism Profound Subtle Stillness

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“Have lots of plants in your house. Nature and plants understand something about stillness and silence. As you interact with the green world, you will find a peace will enter your life.”

World House Nature Silence Buddhism Green Plant Stillness Green World

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“Plants can help you they have a very strong vibrational force. If you've made friends with several of them, they will come and aid you when you've reached that critical moment and you're at a crossroads of knowledge.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“I'm not speaking metaphorically, plants that you have in your house, or if you've ever made friends with a tree somewhere, there is a moment that these beings can aid you.”

Ifs Made Moments House Nature Tree Buddhism Plant Aids

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You don't need to be recluse and stay away from people. But you have to set aside a lot of time for stillness. That is the only place there is real fulfillment. You need to slow it down.”

People Needs Real Nature Buddhism Fulfillment Stillness Recluse

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you thrive on the city energy it is necessary to leave the city frequently and to walk in parks, to get away from people. You are more sensitive than you realize. Find a spot that makes you happy.”

People Ifs Energy Nature Realizing Walks Cities Buddhism Spots Sensitive Parks Thrive Get Away Make You Happy Walks In The Park

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is important to have a certain amount of solitude just to clear your circuits. You will find that you can be very happy just being by yourself. Go to new places. It will cleanse your spirit.”

Important Spirit Certain Nature Clear Buddhism Amount Solitude Being Yourself Just Being Very Happy Circuits New Places

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is most important to have time alone. To be alone is not to be alone. It is only possible to truly feel immortality when we are by ourselves.”

Feels Important Nature Buddhism Immortality Me Alone Alone Time

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“It is only when we are by ourselves that we can know others. When we are with other human beings we are distracted. People try and dream us into their dreams.”

People Knows Trying Humans Dream Nature Human Beings Buddhism Distracted

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As you become a powerful person, it becomes increasingly important to have periods of solitude. Take a weekend by yourself. Go up into the mountains or desert and check into a little cabin. Go by yourself.”

Littles Persons Important Nature Powerful Buddhism Periods Solitude Mountain Checks Desert Weekend Cabins Powerful Person

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“Nature soothes us. Nature heals us, and something more, the woods are a place of power.”

Nature Buddhism Woods Heal

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“We need to preserve these sacred locations for ourselves, for the species of plants and animals that coexist in harmony there, and for the future generations of humankind that will need to be refreshed, renewed and healed by them.”

Needs Nature Animal Generations Buddhism Harmony Sacred Plant Species Preserves Humankind Location Future Generation Healed Coexist Plants And Animals

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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