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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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“If you are afraid of other people take a martial arts class. The best way to overcome fear is learn to be proficient in martial arts.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations.”

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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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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The very advanced practitioners of martial arts never had to raise a hand. They could knock an opponent down without physically touching them, just with chi, pure power. We don't see too many of them anymore.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The samurais lived with death constantly. They wore a short dagger to take their own life if need be. At any moment they might have to do that, it was a part of their code.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The samurais were very interested in Zen because they admired the tremendous precision that the Zen Masters had, their lack of fear and pain and their absolute lack of fear of death.”

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“The chi is the central energy or power that we use in physical expression. When the chi is flowing properly in our lives, we can be very adept athletically.”

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“If the chi is being wasted by useless activities, emotions and associations that drain us, then we don't have enough power when it comes time to perform.”

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“It is quite possible to speed up the healing process to the part of the body that is injured. This all has to do with the release of chi.”

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“I think the very best thing you can do is observe what makes you stronger and what makes you weaker.”

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“Linus Pauling would have us believe and perhaps correctly, that enough vitamin C will have us live another 20 or 30 years, I think the strongest power in the world is not vitamin C but the power of our own thoughts.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The most powerful force to maintaining a good immune system is the power of positive thinking and not allowing yourself to be unnecessarily drained emotionally by worries and fears.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the Orient we have known for thousands of years that the most powerful tonic for ill health is a happy and clear mind.”

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“When you're happy, your immune system is at its strongest point. And when you think negatively, or when you hate, or allow yourself to grow emotionally out of control, you are weakening your immune system.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Several very good friends of mine have died of AIDS. I spent a great deal of time with them when they went through that process.”

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“One or two of my friends set longevity records for people who had AIDS. What they did, incredibly hard though it was, was to practice meditation, positive thinking and they worked out physically quite a bit.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Diet is highly individual. You have to see what your body wants and what is healthy for it.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Diet is a matter of personal preference, but if you're interested in the advanced states of meditation, eating mammals should be avoided. They have a more evolved consciousness and can affect your attention field greatly.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Eternity becomes more beautiful as we age, if we age well. If we age poorly, then we don't improve our minds; we don't refine all the aspects of our being.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The possibilities for immortality are endless. Here you sit reading these words, a butterfly resting on a flower!”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Life is perfect, it glows.”

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“Life is beautiful all of the time. Just to be alive and perceive that beauty of life all around you and within you is the best that there is.”

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“Life has no meaning. It doesn't need a meaning. A meaning is an arbitrary thought formulation that we affix to it because we are in the mood. Life is its own raison d'etre.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“OK, you're alive. How aware are you, of anything? Can you see eternity? Do you live in the land of the perpetually happy?”

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“A long time ago individuals looked at life and saw that most people aren't happy. They saw this was obviously an inefficient system. So they combed the universe and found immeasurable happiness inside of us, our spirits.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“We are luminous beings. Beneath our transient physical bodies we are made of intelligent light.”

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“Self-realization is the last game on earth worth playing.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The last game on earth is in progress. And when you lose, you win. And when you win, you can't lose.”

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“Wisdom is something that seeks itself. The wiser you become the more you'd like to know.”

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“We live in a world of wars and wars alarms, of famines, of oppression. While there are many wonderful people in this world, you'll notice one curious fact about them, they all suffer, they all die, and sometimes those who are the nicest seem to suffer the most.”

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“How can you possibly overcome your fears, doubts, worries and other problems? You can't. You simply don't have the capacity. Fortunately, the infinite can do all of these things for you. How? Because it is lacking in nothing.”

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“You have elected to follow this path you do not know. You have elected to follow the path because eternity has elected you. You will follow it is as long as eternity holds you to it.”

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“The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth and knowledge, to be God.”

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“It's fun to go to a supermarket or a park or a shopping mall where human beings convene. They're so caught up in their own personal reality as to not see life, except in terms that add to or detract from their movie.”

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“There's a different film being made in every mind. And of course, the star of the film is the mind, the personality, the self.”

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“You're bound by the frame. You've become so engrossed in the movie of your life that you have forgotten that you're sitting there watching.”

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“Pass the popcorn, please. Life is a film, theatre, a theatre of the soul. We play different roles on different stages. At death, we walk offstage. At birth, we walk onstage.”

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“Your existence is passing before you. Grains of sand in the hourglass. The Wicked Witch of the West has you in her castle and she's turned the hourglass over and the sand is running through. Will you be liberated or will you die? The only way you can beat death is liberation.”

“Things don't make you unhappy. People don't make you unhappy. You make yourself unhappy. Because you are in the cycle. You're stuck. You're stuck in time.”

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“You see, I'm a believer in the rhapsodic. I like things that are happy. For no particular reason, I just like them. Most people don't seem to be like that in this particular place, in this world. You can tell by what they focus on. Read a newspaper, watch a TV show, go to a movie, look at a life.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Well, what is God, then? God is that which watches. God is neither masculine nor feminine, although God can assume any form. God is that eternal reality that is in everything.”

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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.”

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“The trick in life is to find out where you belong. Once you find out where you belong, you will be happy there.”

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“The ghetto is not where you live. The ghetto is inside your mind. And anyone who tells you that you can't get out of the ghettos of your own mind has no idea what they're talking about.”

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“The key to happiness, in my opinion, is taking the time to find out what your spirit wants you to do, and doing it.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“To overcome stress you have to find out something. You've got to do some research and homework. You need to find out who you are today.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you were just you, you would be happy. But of course, you don't know who or what you are. So how can you possibly be happy? That is why you have got to study Zen...or something.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“We are alive for a certain period of time in any given lifetime. We are competing against time. It is a race to see if we can wake up before we go to sleep again. That is the challenge.”

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“Life is an endless matrix of existence. And as you experience it in that pure form, that's what we call enlightenment.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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