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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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“The astral dimensions afford you opportunities to have experiences and gain insights into the structural nature of how dimensions are made up and phased together.”

Made Dream Together Opportunity Buddhism Gains Insight Dimensions

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

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“There's really no pain in the realm of the higher astral. A lot of spirits are playing mini-golf having a good time.”

Pain Spirit Buddhism Higher Golf Realms Good Times Having A Good Time No Pain

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The key to meditation is focusing on specific symbols. The symbols are the chakras.”

Meditation Buddhism Keys Symbols Chakra

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“The chakra is a doorway. These are doorways that lead you into other dimensions. But you have to focus on them to the exclusion of everything else.”

Focus Buddhism Dimensions Doorways Exclusion Chakra

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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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“The planes of consciousness are correlated to what we call the chakras, which are located along the shushumna.”

Consciousness Buddhism Planes Chakra

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“The shushumna is a tube. It is an astral tube, like a reed. It runs from the base of the spine to between the eyebrows and a little bit above.”

Littles Running Bits Buddhism Little Bit Eyebrows Spine Tubes Reeds Chakra

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“There are six chakras or energy vortexes that lie along that tube. There is a seventh chakra located several inches above the head, but it is not connected.”

Lying Energy Buddhism Six Connected Inches Tubes Chakra Vortex Seven Chakras

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are thousands of lesser chakras. Chakras are doorways to other worlds. When you focus on them, you step into something else.”

World Steps Focus Buddhism Other Worlds Doorways Chakra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are many other chakras, or nadis as they are also called. There are chakras in the hands, fingertips, feet and a number of other areas.”

Hands Numbers Feet Buddhism Areas Fingertips Chakra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are chakras in the hands; you've seen me use those quite frequently when I meditate. I project the shakti, the kundalini, through the chakras in the hands to people I meditate with.”

People Use Hands Buddhism Projects Chakra Shakti

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you focus on a chakra, it's very easy to bring subtle physical energies into your consciousness.”

Energy Easy Consciousness Focus Buddhism Subtle Chakra

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“Each of the seven chakras references different dimensional planes. It is a turnstile that leads us into different dimensions. As the kundalini rises, the knowledge and powers of those dimensions will begin to come to you.”

Different Buddhism Seven Planes Dimensions Chakra Knowledge And Power Different Dimensions Seven Chakras

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“Chakras are mystical energy centers that exist within the human aura. Tremendous occult power resides in a person's chakras. Siddha masters draw upon that power during meditation, store it within themselves, and later use it to perform miracles.”

Humans Persons Use Energy Meditation Masters Buddhism Draws Miracle Stores Mystical Occult Auras Chakra

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“Chakras really are dimensions. We think of them as objects, but they're not really. They're dimensional access points, whereby we can enter into different levels of mind, and that happens automatically.”

Thinking Mind Different Happens Levels Objects Buddhism Access Dimensions Different Levels Chakra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The power chakra is the navel center. The center of balance is the heart chakra; it's the center of our being. The third eye is the center of wisdom, the Agni chakra.”

Heart Eye Buddhism Balance Thirds Chakra Third Eye Navel Heart Chakra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The throat chakra is the center that is aesthetic. It gives an appreciation of beauty.”

Giving Buddhism Appreciation Throat Aesthetic Chakra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The third eye is located between the eyebrows and a little above. The heart center is located directly in the center of the chest. The naval center is about two inches below the navel.”

Heart Littles Two Eye Buddhism Thirds Chests Inches Eyebrows Chakra Naval Third Eye Navel

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When your mind is clear and your third eye is open, you can see and know things that are taking place thousands of miles away from you.”

Knows Mind Eye Clear Buddhism Thirds Miles Away From You Miles Away Chakra Third Eye

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

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

“The crown chakra is located several inches above the head, but it is not connected. The crown chakra, also known as the thousand-petal lotus of light, references the planes of light, of enlightenment.”

Light Known Buddhism Thousand Enlightenment Connected Planes Inches Crowns Petals Chakra Lotuses

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The thousand petal lotus of light, the crown center, really does not become operative until one is on the verge of enlightenment itself. Then you really don't have to meditate on it. The thousand petals gradually light up.”

Doe Light Buddhism Thousand Enlightenment Crowns Verge Petals Light Up Chakra Lotuses

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In Buddhism we meditate. We make our minds quiet by learning to focus on the chakras, release internal energy that we call kundalini, and bring ourselves into high states of consciousness.”

Mind States Energy Consciousness Focus Buddhism Quiet Release Internals Chakra States Of Consciousness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Beyond the astral dimensions are the causal dimensions. They are not spatial or time oriented. They are planes of light, and they make up the outer limits of nirvana.”

Light Buddhism Limits Planes Dimensions Spatial Outer Limits

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“We are like an atomic structure. We've got a causal body that's linked together.”

Body Together Buddhism Structure Linked Atomic Structure

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The causal body is the most ancient and timeless part of a person. It has the capacity to know and do things that the physical mind and body cannot.”

Knows Mind Persons Body Buddhism Capacity Ancient Timeless Mind And Body

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

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

“The causal dimensions, the planes of light, are happiness. They are all different and are all endless. They border the shores of nirvana, which is beyond discussion - a condition of perfection that cannot be expressed.”

Different Light Conditions Buddhism Perfection Endless Planes Discussion Borders Dimensions Shore

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“Beyond the subtle physical body, is the causal body, the part of your being that lives from one lifetime to another.”

Body Buddhism Lifetime Subtle Physical Body

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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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“The causal body is like DNA or RNA in that it is the coding that determines your level of evolution.”

Body Levels Buddhism Evolution Determine Dna Rna

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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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“The causal body holds the structure. The causal body is the coding. So you are not just scattered all over the ten thousand states of mind.”

Mind States Body Buddhism Thousand Ten Structure State Of Mind

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“The causal body is the part of a person that lives forever. It is what you would call the soul. It doesn't dissolve along with the physical and astral bodies at the end of an incarnation.”

Persons Soul Ends Body Forever Buddhism Incarnation

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

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

“The causal body is the part of you that lives forever. It is ancient and complicated. It has lived through countless lives in both this and in other worlds.”

World Body Forever Buddhism Ancient Complicated Other Worlds

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“The eternal part of our being is perfect, free, always changing, always new, and completely conscious of all things.”

Perfect Buddhism Eternal Conscious All Things

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“Beneath our transient physical bodies, we are made up of intelligent light. One's own body of light, the soul, is the most real part of oneself because it lives forever, it doesn't decay and die.”

Made Real Soul Body Light Dies Forever Buddhism Intelligent Oneself Decay Transient Physical Body

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

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

“The causal body is the determining factor in the changes that occur within your structure or growth rate.”

Body Growth Buddhism Structure Rate Factors

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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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“It is your causal body that is the real you. At the end of each incarnation, it carries the knowledge and karmic patterns of that lifetime, in addition to all of your other previous lifetimes, into your next lifetime.”

Real Ends Body Next Buddhism Lifetime Patterns Carrie Incarnation Real You Next Lifetime

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

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

“The intuitive mind is nonphysical. It is not part of the brain or any other cellular structure in the physical body. It is part of the causal body.”

Mind Body Brain Buddhism Structure Intuitive Physical Body Cellular

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

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

“Your experiences in the causal dimensions will give you knowledge of time, space, dimensionality and what lies beyond all these things.”

Giving Lying Space Buddhism Dimensions

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“When you go into the causal realms you become someone else. The light vibrates very quickly. You will see that you are a concurrence of light - taken shape and form in the body you now occupy.”

Body Light Form Taken Buddhism Shapes Realms Vibrate Concurrence

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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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“As we go within the self, we discover that all the voices of our past lives are still there. As we peel ourselves, which is a process very much like peeling an onion, we discover that there are many selves within the self.”

Stills Self Past Process Voice Buddhism Reincarnation Our Past Onions Past Life Peeling Peeling An Onion

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“If you dig deeply, you will find that you are not a singular self but that there are many selves, many voices within you. The more conscious you are of those selves and the more you let them find expression through you, the more complete you will be.”

Ifs Self Voice Expression Buddhism Conscious Within You Dig Deep

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As incarnations go by, the atom gets more complex. That is, your being, the part of you that reincarnates from lifetime to lifetime, the aggregate, grows thicker and denser.”

Grows Buddhism Lifetime Complexes Atoms Incarnation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Whatever you have learned in your previous incarnations is retained within your causal body, your multi-lifetime body of energy that lives from one incarnation to another.”

Body Energy Buddhism Lifetime Incarnation

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

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

“While this is good and it stores up knowledge and power, at the same time there's a problem with it because it means that a person becomes more fixed.”

Mean Persons Problem Buddhism Stores Fixed Knowledge And Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The more lives you have, the harder it is to change, yet the stronger you are. It's a kind of funny dichotomy.”

Kind Buddhism Harder Stronger Dichotomy

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“When you go into samadhi, either salvikalpa or nirvikalpa, what happens is you erase, you loosen, the aggregates. You simplify them.”

Happens Buddhism Erase Simplify Samadhi

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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