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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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“Life exists in countless forms in countless dimensions, in places that we simply cannot see. The essence of life - while it might not appear so when we watch television or watch our loved ones suffer - is good.”

Inspirational Might Form Suffering Watches Television Buddhism Essence Dimensions Loved Ones Essence Of Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Once you are enlightened, you can do whatever you want without fear or sorrow. You can go snowboarding, get married, stay single, be rich and famous, or live unknown in a high Himalayan cave. It is up to you.”

Want Inspirational Can Do Rich Buddhism Sorrow Married Enlightened Caves Up To You Do Whatever You Want Snowboarding Staying Single

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

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

“The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing great joy and happiness.”

People World Inspirational Humans Joy Human Beings This World Buddhism Capable Unhappy Spectrum Mundane Joy And Happiness Great Joy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The vast majority of the people who populate our planet live lives of quiet desperation that are all too often quite harsh and painful, lives in which events and circumstances usually don't turn out the way they had hoped or planned.”

People Way Inspirational Turns Events Planets Buddhism Circumstances Quiet Majority Painful Live Life Harsh Desperation Our Planet Quiet Desperation Painful Life

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

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

“Even the rich aren't often happy. Their wealth is at best only a temporary distraction. It doesn't make them immune to emotional and mental suffering, or to disease and death. They too must deal with loneliness, the deaths of loved ones and the frustrations and boredom of old age.”

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

“Fame does not make you happy. It just makes you look in the mirror a lot, worrying about how you look today for your audience.”

Inspirational Looks Doe Today Worry Audience Buddhism Fame Mirrors Make You Happy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical.”

Inspirational Desire Taken Buddhism Extremes Fulfillment Cynical

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you live for a very long while, you will have to watch your friends and loved ones die, your body age and lose its beauty and vigor, and your mental capacities fade.”

Ifs Inspirational Long Body Age Suffering Dies Loses Watches Buddhism Capacity Your Body Loved Ones Fades Vigor

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

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

“Time holds the final claim check for everything we gain or attain in this lifetime. All of our possessions, along with the people we love, are only loaned to us for a very short time by eternity.”

People Inspirational Buddhism Gains Eternity Claims Lifetime Finals Possession Checks Short Time

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

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

“Most successful people find out that the attainment of their goals doesn't necessarily bring them the happiness and joy they assumed; their happiness is short-lived.”

People Inspirational Joy Goal Successful Buddhism Successful People Attainment Joy And Happiness Short Lived

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Even the lucky ones, who do manage to become happy by attaining their goals, live each day in fear of losing whatever it is they may have gained.”

Inspirational May Goal Buddhism Lucky Losing Manage Each Day Live Each Day

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

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

“We see very few people who are satisfied. They say that the only ones who are really happy are the enlightened or the fools.”

People Inspirational Buddhism Fool Satisfied Enlightened Really Happy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The world you experience, every day and night of your life, is transient. They only last for the blink of an eye, and then they dissolve back into that unknowable and formless eternity.”

World Inspirational Eye Lasts Life Is Night Buddhism Eternity Day And Night Blink Transient Blink Of An Eye

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

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

“You've got to make a person aware of how miserable they really are and show them how happy they can be. Otherwise, why should they seek this nebulous goal called self-discovery.”

Inspirational Should Persons Self Shows Suffering Goal Buddhism Discovery Self Discovery Miserable

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is an all powerful force or energy that creates all and draws all back into it. This is God. It is beyond intelligence, beyond analysis.”

Inspirational Energy Force Powerful Buddhism Draws Analysis

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“You must have total and impeccable trust in eternity. Whether you like it or not, eternity's in charge, so you might as well trust. You will feel better.”

Inspirational Feels Wells Might Buddhism Eternity Feel Better You Like It Impeccable

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most human beings are completely out of touch with their spiritual nature and with the inner dimensions that exist within themselves. They don't realize each person has a soul, an inner core of light and intelligence as vast as the ten thousand worlds, whose inner nature is emptiness, ecstasy and happiness.”

World Inspirational Humans Persons Soul Light Spiritual Realizing Human Beings Buddhism Thousand Ten Core Dimensions Emptiness Ecstasy Spiritual Nature

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

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

“Your whole life is inside your mind. Your mind is the prism that refracts the entire universe. Everything around you and within you comes from your mind.”

Inspirational Mind Whole Life Is Universe Buddhism Whole Life Within You Prisms

Author:Frederick Lenz

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

Ifs Inspirational Awareness Inspirational Life Buddhism Fine Strive Happy Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You don't always have to be the winner, have everybody notice you. It's fun to dance alone sometimes.”

Inspirational Sometimes Fun Buddhism Winner

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As a human being you are capable of a higher level of perception than you may now be cognizant of. You are not really who you think you are. There are many selves inside you, not just one.”

Thinking Inspirational Humans May Self Human Beings Levels Buddhism Higher Perception Capable Just One Higher Level Cognizant

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You need something. Not just to get through the day, but to get through the incarnation. You need to find that power, that perfect unity.”

Inspirational Needs Perfect Buddhism Unity Incarnation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is a definite way to do this. There is a training program that you will go through and it's delightful. It's absolutely beautiful.”

Way Inspirational Beautiful Buddhism Training Program Definite Delightful Training Programs

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The world won't necessarily change but your understanding of it will, and therefore the world will change. Your attention will no longer be confined to the physical body and the physical world.”

World Inspirational Body Understanding Attention Buddhism Confined Physical Body

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the beginning what is necessary is to feel that there is something worthwhile to be attained otherwise we won't do it.”

Inspirational Feels Buddhism Worthwhile

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are able to stop feeling sorry for yourself, and to contribute to the betterment of this world and of those around us, you will experience a high that is beyond my ability to express.”

Ifs World Inspirational Feelings Able Ability This World Buddhism Sorry Betterment Feeling Sorry Feeling Sorry For Yourself Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is no end and there is no beginning. There is only eternity. Eternity can be warm. eternity can be cold and ruthless.”

Inspirational Ends Buddhism Cold Eternity Warm Ruthless

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You have to become a master or mistress of your mind.”

Inspirational Mind Masters Buddhism Mistress

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can go through hundreds of lifetimes in one, and it all starts with daily meditation practice.”

Inspirational Practice Meditation Buddhism Lifetime Meditation Practice Daily Meditation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you meditate deeply several times a day you will transform and change. You will find that you don't have to inspire yourself to do what is right because you have become what is right.”

Ifs Inspirational Inspire Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Experience is a great teacher. You will have to go through the trials and tribulations and the ecstasies and abandoned moments of wonderfulness that all of us did on the way to enlightenment.”

Way Inspirational Moments Teacher Buddhism Enlightenment Trials Ecstasy Abandoned Great Teacher Tribulation Trials And Tribulations

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The pathway to enlightenment leads to states of ecstasy, knowledge, and a pretty ironic sense of humor.”

Inspirational States Buddhism Enlightenment Sense Of Humor Ecstasy Ironic Pathways

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“People on the pathway to enlightenment become very successful in whatever they approach, because they have learned to discipline the mind.”

People Inspirational Mind Successful Buddhism Discipline Approach Enlightenment Pathways

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are different pathways - be it Zen, tantra, karma yoga, or jnana yoga. Different ways have been devised to do the same thing for different types of people according to their temperament.”

People Way Inspirational Has Beens Different Buddhism Type Yoga Karma Different Ways Temperament Pathways Karma Yoga Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We live in a world that is dominated by war, hate, violence and suspicion. Those are the things that come naturally in this world. So you have to will something else.”

World Inspirational War Hate Violence This World Buddhism Suspicion

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Your life can be horrible or it can be incredibly beautiful. It can be boring or exciting. It's seldom in between. Your active use of will determines what will happen to you in this and other lives.”

Inspirational Use Happens Beautiful Inspirational Life Buddhism Exciting Determine Boring Active Horrible

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you learn to lead your life strategically and strongly, you can overcome the opposition. But running away, you never overcome anything. The pathway to enlightenment is for the warrior, the samurai.”

Ifs Inspirational Running Buddhism Enlightenment Overcoming Warrior Opposition Running Away Pathways Samurai

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You might have a warrior spirit in there somewhere, and it's just waiting for the opportunity to come out. If you do, you might be a candidate for the pathway to enlightenment.”

Ifs Inspirational Might Spirit Opportunity Waiting Buddhism Enlightenment Warrior Candidates Pathways Warrior Spirit

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All of the energy of existence is going to flow through you. You will be in thousands of planes of consciousness at once or beyond in nirvana or having a sandwich with a friend.”

Inspirational Energy Existence Consciousness Buddhism Flow Planes Sandwiches

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You are not a singular self. You are a corporation. Inside you is eternity. A human being is not so simple.”

Inspirational Humans Self Human Beings Simple Buddhism Eternity Corporations

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You have thousands of selves inside you. Meditation is a process of peeling back the layers of the self. We start with peeling back the personality from this lifetime.”

Inspirational Self Process Meditation Buddhism Personality Lifetime Layers Peeling

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are all these people running all over the planet who don't see what life is for, what their own lives are about, because they don't see psychically. Therefore, they miss most of the beauty of life.”

People Inspirational Running Life Is Missing Planets Inspirational Life Buddhism Beauty Of Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's not going to be easy. It's the earth. What creates power in your life is when you perfect your mind, your career, and your associations with others.”

Inspirational Mind Earth Life Is Easy Perfect Careers Buddhism Association

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Each time you dip into the well of existence it changes you. Rapid mental development is that process. It is a process of escalating your evolution.”

Inspirational Wells Process Existence Buddhism Development Evolution Rapids Dip Escalating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Redefine you. Oh God, life is so beautiful. Don't let it pass you by. Don't miss it. Don't miss it.”

Inspirational Beautiful Life Is Missing Buddhism God Life Life Is So Beautiful

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The real dance is within; it is within your mind. Everything is inside your mind. God is inside your mind.”

Inspirational Mind Real Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The immortal silence is there always waiting for you and that spirit is deathless and courageous. Remember, many have trod the path that you are walking on and they succeeded. They were no better than you, no wiser.”

Inspirational Remember Spirit Waiting Silence Path Buddhism Walking Immortal Courageous Wiser Silence Is Better Than You Waiting For You Deathless Always Waiting

Author:Frederick Lenz

“They had the same fears that you have, the same aggressive tendencies and the same attachments, but they were freed in time because they believed.”

Inspirational Buddhism Tendencies Attachment Aggressive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Never get so stuck in being responsible and mindful that you can't let it all go and run off chasing your private dream, if it leads to the shiny worlds, the worlds of beauty.”

Ifs World Inspirational Dream Running Buddhism Responsible Stuck Chasing Being Responsible

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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