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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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“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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“Meditation is wondering. It is both wondering and wonder.”

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“You might as well be perfect. There is really not all that much else to do here that is exciting.”

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“You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus to meditate.”

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“In meditation, when your mind becomes perfectly still and calm, you will experience the golden light of eternity.”

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“Meditation is existence. When we meditate, all we are simply doing is letting go and allowing ourselves to dissolve back into that which we really are. We are merging with life and light.”

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“Everyone meditates in their own way. Some people sit and practice formal mediation techniques for many hours a day while others spontaneously meditate while watching a sunset, listening to music, or participating in athletics.”

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“When you experience the light, voila, you're happy. The very nature of the light is happiness. You don't have to do anything or be anybody special.”

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“When you are in a condition of light everything is ecstatic, everything is joyous, everything is beautiful. Your attention field is subtle. The ego is quiet. The mind is still. Your heart is happy.”

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“When you meditate, you are shifting your state of mind to a higher vibratory level that will give you a much more expansive view.”

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“What makes us happy is to have a spiritual experience ... that experience of ecstasy in the deepest meditation; that's happiness.”

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“Meditation is the study of making the mind still. As your mind becomes still, a power enters you. This power transmogrifies your mind, it escalates your evolution and you begin to cycle through many incarnations in one lifetime.”

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“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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“There is no loneliness when you meditate, you feel eternity. How could you ever be lonely? You just feel God's love for you and that sustains you. It's totally clear; it's part of every aspect of your being.”

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“Meditation is something that is indigenous to the heart, which makes it hard to talk about. We don't necessarily need to talk about it too much other than to get a sense of the practice.”

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“Meditation essentially means having a great time.”

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“If we get too caught up in the rhetoric of meditation, we will miss the point. The point was to go beyond rhetoric.”

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“Through the practice of concentration and various techniques, we silence the mind and we enter into a flow of perfect light. We go outside of the parameters of mind and thought and experience nirvana.”

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“If you seek the realms of light, the best thing to do is to meditate with love and the gentle aliveness. Meditation should not be forced.”

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“People who meditate seek good moments forever. They know that there are other worlds beyond this world. They feel it. I experience those worlds when I meditate.”

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“Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself.”

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“Meditation is a violent act of separation from mass consciousness and direct access to power.”

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“We see in meditation that our experiences are endless, that we are endless, eternal spirit, not as a thought or an idea you read in a book. You have the experience yourself, every day.”

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“Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another.”

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“There are billions of people out there walking around and they don't meditate. You can tell. They are not having a good time with their lives. People are not happy.”

People Suffering Meditation Buddhism Walking Billions Good Times Having A Good Time Not Happy

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“This is a world of unhappy beings. They don't understand how simple it is to be happy. You just have to practice meditation. To meditate is to be happy.”

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“Each time you meditate, you create a stronger connection with the world of inner light and happiness that exists within you.”

World Light Meditation Buddhism Connections Stronger Within You Inner Light

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“Happiness is found principally in meditation.”

Found Meditation Buddhism

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“It is not simply a transient happiness that you experience in meditation that creates balance; it is a transformative light. Inner light is the most powerful thing there is.”

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“I'm not suggesting that everyone should meditate, far from it. Meditation is for very few individuals. I'm speaking of something that is a powerful experience.”

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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.”

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“In meditation all the fake dull thoughts that you think, all the ridiculous philosophies, the necessities, all the things that won't matter a bit when you are dead - fade away.”

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“Meditate and bath in the light of eternity. Nothing else is worthwhile.”

Light Meditation Buddhism Eternity Worthwhile Baths

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“Meditation is like taking a shower. You are going to wash all the dirt off that you have picked up since your last shower and be clean.”

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“The practice of meditation is an ancient practice. It's been practiced in many lands, for many lifetimes. You may have practiced it before.”

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“Meditation is when we go beyond incarnation, beyond all cycles, to immortality, to something that is not transient.”

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“Some people are drawn to meditation without knowing why. Their inner being realizes that they've totally fouled up their life so far, and now it's just going to drag them to the local meditation hall.”

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“Some people meditate because they want to get the larger picture on life. It could get kind of discouraging if this was all there was.”

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“Some people meditate because they are sick and tired of their life, of the world, of the way people abuse each other and abrogate each other's freedoms.”

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“Some people meditate because they need more energy and when you meditate you get a tremendous amount of energy.”

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“The reason one enters into lower mental states is because you don't have the power or chi flowing through you.”

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“You are down in the valley and the valley is filled with smog. You can't see too well. When we meditate, we are going beyond the smog to the top of the mountain.”

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“The place that you gain the most power is within your own mind. Stopping thought generates power. That is why people meditate. The longer you can stop thought, the more power you gain.”

People Mind Meditation Buddhism Gains Stopping Gaining Power

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“You need energy and life force to see and feel what you need to do. Otherwise you are in a dark room and you can't tell what's going on. You need to practice meditation.”

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“When you meditate properly you are able to take your mind and merge it with the cosmos. Essentially, this causes your IQ to increase.”

Mind Able Causes Meditation Buddhism Increase Cosmos

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“When you meditate you will be able to get in touch with that part of yourself which knows what it wants, as opposed to the levels and layers of conditioning in your mind.”

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“You start meditation as an average human being who is filled with vagueness and not much purpose or definition, who is controlled by their desires, your mind spins all over the place, your senses spin all over the place, out of control.”

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“The mind is like a lake. It reflects eternity when it's very still. If ripples appear, lots of them, then the reflection is not clear. We lose the clarity of the perfect reflection.”

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“Learn to meditate. It's fun. It will give you a strong, wonderful mind.”

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“There is a spirit that guides us, if we will listen. It speaks softly. In order to hear it we must still our thoughts and meditate.”

Ifs Stills Spirit Order Speak Meditation Buddhism Guides Our Thoughts Speak Softly

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About the Author

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

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