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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 Akashic Records are the impressions from all of our past lives that are available within our causal body.”

Body Past Records Buddhism Available Impression Our Past Past Life

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“Some people speak of the Akashic Records as if they were on an IBM mainframe that's out there somewhere near the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.”

People Ifs Ends Universe Speak Records Buddhism Restaurants Ibm Mainframe

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“All the records of your past lives are contained within your own mind, just as the records of your ancestors are contained within your DNA.”

Mind Past Records Buddhism Ancestor Our Past Dna Your Past Past Life

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“The energy strands and bands of our being are linked in a certain way and makes us what we are. It causes us to perceive a certain level of the dream of life. But you can reorder those. That's magic, you see.”

Way Dream Certain Energy Causes Levels Magic Buddhism Band Perceive Linked Strands

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“In meditation, as you go into the causal dimensions, the planes of light, you will be purified, energized and you will become wise.”

Light Wise Meditation Buddhism Planes Dimensions

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“The trick to being happy is getting beyond the body and the astral realms.”

Body Buddhism Tricks Realms

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“You're composed of an aggregate of different forms and energies, the samskaras. These are lines within your own being. When you go into samadhi, these lines dissolve gradually so you become less formed.”

Different Form Energy Lines Buddhism Samadhi Samskara

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When I talk about subtle bodies, causal bodies and things like that, it is a good idea not to take it all completely literally. It cannot be put into words.”

Ideas Body Buddhism Subtle Good Ideas

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Visualize a beautiful rose in the center of your chest. Imagine a soft reddish rose. Imagine that the rose is completely folded up. Visualize the first set of petals is gradually unfolding.”

Firsts Beautiful Imagine Buddhism Rose Chests Imagine That Unfolding Visualization Petals Chakra Meditation Beautiful Rose

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“There is no end to the petals of the inner rose. Continue to unfold set after set of petals until you have completed your meditation session.”

Ends Meditation Buddhism Rose Session Visualization Petals Chakra Meditation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is a large difference between spacing out in the lower occult astral planes, weird, junky, fuzzy energy, and meditation. Meditation is sharp, clear, precise, perfect, luminous, shiny, happy, etheric, cosmic, and dissolute.”

Energy Differences Perfect Clear Meditation Buddhism Planes Cosmic Precise Occult Luminous Fuzzy Spacing

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“Be neither attracted nor repulsed. You are watching a movie. If the visions are beautiful or horrible, Don't get caught up in them. Enjoy your popcorn.”

Ifs Beautiful Enjoy Vision Meditation Buddhism Caught Horrible Caught Up Popcorn

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The practice of mindfulness is monitoring your mind all day and all night. It's enjoyable to just remove things that make you unhappy from your mind, to clarify your emotions.”

Mind Night Emotion Practice Buddhism Mindfulness Unhappy Remove All Night Enjoyable Monitoring

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“Mindfulness is passive meditation. It is passive because your energy and your attention are divided between your actions and your practice, your meditation.”

Action Energy Attention Practice Meditation Buddhism Mindfulness Divided Passive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Mindfulness means that as we go through the day we learn to gain control of our mind, our emotions. We learn to conserve energy in a variety of simple and complicated ways that we learned in Buddhist practice.”

Way Mind Mean Energy Simple Emotion Practice Buddhism Mindfulness Gains Complicated Buddhist Variety

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Mindfulness is when you are engaged in activities but the mind is set into the meditative state all the time. Meditation is to be aware of many different levels. It's not just the absence of thought.”

Mind Different States Levels Meditation Buddhism Activity Mindfulness Absence Engaged Different Levels

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you want to experience the unalloyed ecstasy of life, you can accomplish this through the twin Buddhist practices of meditation and mindfulness.”

Ifs Want Practice Meditation Buddhism Mindfulness Accomplish Buddhist Ecstasy Twins

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

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

“Be mindful, which is more of a passive meditation practice. It is passive when you are active. Then there is active meditation, when you are passive, sitting still.”

Stills Practice Meditation Buddhism Mindfulness Sitting Active Passive Meditation Practice Sitting Still

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Practicing zazen and mindfulness constantly and correctly, over a period of time, can bring strength and clarity to your finite mind and eventually give you access to your infinite mind.”

Giving Mind Buddhism Periods Mindfulness Infinite Access Clarity Finite

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“It is as important to monitor your mind constantly as it is to sit down and practice meditation.”

Mind Important Practice Meditation Buddhism Mindfulness Down And

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“Our life interferes, our mind, our thoughts. Meditating is not just a practice of asserting will and learning to control the mind, it is also developing control of one's life and gaining wisdom.”

Mind Practice Our Lives Buddhism Mindfulness Developing Interfere Our Thoughts Meditating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To be in thousands of states of mind simultaneously as you perform simple physical tasks gives you a reverence for life. Each of these outer manifestations of life is God.”

Giving Mind States Life Is Simple Buddhism Mindfulness Tasks Manifestation State Of Mind Reverence Reverence For Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In your thoughts, you need to be selective. Thoughts are powerful vehicles of attention. Only think positive thoughts about yourself and your endeavors, and think well of the endeavors of others.”

Thinking Needs Wells Powerful Attention Buddhism Mindfulness Endeavor About Yourself Vehicle Positive Thoughts Selective Think Positive Thinking Positive Thoughts

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Gain control of the mind and make it still, initially just during periods of meditation, but then throughout the day and throughout the night.”

Mind Stills Night Meditation Buddhism Periods Mindfulness Gains

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“There are parts of us that are miserable, that hate, that love, that are cruel, are kind, are reasonable, are unreasonable. You know, you live inside your own mind. Who are you kidding?”

Knows Mind Kind Hate Buddhism Mindfulness Miserable Reasonable Unreasonable

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you are not meditating, eliminate hate, doubt, fear, anxiety, negative thoughts and emotions that limit your consciousness, that bind you to a sense of self, of ego.”

Self Hate Emotion Consciousness Doubt Buddhism Limits Ego Anxiety Mindfulness Negative Sense Of Self Meditating Negative Thoughts Thoughts And Emotions

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“You have to look at your own thought forms. Are you sitting around and thinking a lot of negative thoughts? These injure the subtle body. When you hate, when you are angry, you bring that energy through you.”

Thinking Looks Body Form Hate Energy Buddhism Mindfulness Sitting Negative Angry Subtle Negative Thoughts Sitting Around

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“Every time you find yourself becoming angry, jealous or frustrated, stop and think the opposite thought.”

Thinking Buddhism Becoming Mindfulness Opposites Angry Finding Yourself Jealous Frustrated

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“If you can't hold a person in your mind with a good thought, it is better not to think about them at all.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Persons Buddhism Mindfulness Good Thoughts

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“When you find yourself dwelling on something negative, consciously use your willpower to remove your mind from that which is negative. Move your mind into the flow of something positive.”

Mind Use Moving Buddhism Mindfulness Negative Flow Remove Finding Yourself Willpower Dwelling

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you are just thinking a lot of silly thoughts and having a lot of worries, you waste a tremendous energy and power and you put yourself into very limited states of mind. You slow down your evolutionary process.”

Thinking Mind States Energy Process Worry Buddhism Waste Mindfulness Silly State Of Mind Slow Down

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Power either goes up or down. Your thoughts are the harness of power. It is necessary to think positive thoughts, not just wait for them to occur, but to introduce them.”

Thinking Waiting Buddhism Mindfulness Introducing Positive Thoughts Harness Think Positive Thinking Positive Thoughts

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you hold a negative thought, then it will become more powerful and not only will it send bad energy to the person, but it will crash your consciousness. All the hard work of meditating is sabotaged.”

Ifs Persons Hard Energy Powerful Consciousness Hard Work Buddhism Mindfulness Negative Crash Meditating Negative Thoughts Bad Energy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you think of others in a jealous way or if you become angry, immediately pause for a moment. It's going to pull you down and send negative energy. At that moment, pause and correct yourself.”

Ifs Thinking Way Moments Energy Buddhism Mindfulness Negative Down And Angry That Moment Jealous Pauses Negative Energy

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“In every situation, feel before acting, just for a second. Look for a feeling.”

Feels Looks Feelings Acting Situation Buddhism Mindfulness

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“Whenever you find yourself becoming angry or jealous, try to see good quality in the person. You will suddenly be thinking a higher thought and that will elevate you.”

Thinking Trying Persons Quality Buddhism Becoming Higher Mindfulness Angry Finding Yourself Jealous Good Quality

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“This is the process of mental analysis, sifting through the selves, sifting through your thoughts, practicing mindfulness, learning to control thought.”

Self Process Buddhism Mindfulness Analysis Sifting

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“Spend time all day and all night monitoring your thoughts, constantly keeping them in a high plateau. Avoid places and people that pull your energy down.”

People Night Energy Buddhism Mindfulness End Times Spend Time All Night Monitoring

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“It is necessary to learn how to do a systems analysis of your life, to learn about the effects of places, people, jobs. There are millions of things that go into the study of meditation.”

People Jobs Millions Study Meditation Effects Buddhism Mindfulness Analysis Systems Analysis

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Your ability to still your mind through the process of meditation and inner reflection and outer change brings a stillness to the mind all the time, even in the midst of the busiest activities.”

Mind Stills Process Ability Meditation Buddhism Activity Mindfulness Reflection Midst Stillness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If we try and direct our lives with only our limited rationalistic thoughts and our sense perceptions, then our actions and our activities will not be prefect.”

Ifs Trying Action Our Lives Buddhism Activity Perception Mindfulness Direct Our Actions Sense Perception

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

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

“In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it mindfulness.”

Feels States Action Buddhism Mindfulness Reflection

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is necessary to go through all the daily tasks and bring perfection to them.”

Buddhism Mindfulness Perfection Tasks Daily Tasks

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“When you do something half-heartedly, you don't get much of a result. When you do it fully, you get a great result.”

Results Half Buddhism Mindfulness Great Results

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“You are moving in and out of different advanced states of mind through your practice of meditation and mindfulness. It's that level of excellence that gives you joy in life, not the fact that you won or lost.”

Giving Mind Different States Facts Moving Joy Lost Levels Practice Meditation Buddhism Mindfulness Excellence State Of Mind Moving In

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Any area you slough off in your life will reflect in your meditation. Be happy when you could be depressed. Push jealous, fear, and anger out of your mind. Don't feel sorry for yourself.”

Feels Mind Meditation Buddhism Mindfulness Areas Sorry Jealous Feel Sorry For You Slough

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We are trying to do our best to bring perfection into whatever we turn our attention to.”

Trying Turns Attention Buddhism Mindfulness Perfection

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Why do everything perfectly? Isn't perfection just an illusion? Tell me if it's an illusion if they don't fix your car perfectly next time you bring it in.”

Ifs Next Car Buddhism Mindfulness Illusion Perfection Next Time

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can just sweep the floor generally and gain nothing from it. Or you can figure out the best way to sweep the floor, put your power into it, use it as a concentration exercise, and be meditative.”

Way Use Figures Buddhism Exercise Mindfulness Gains Best Way Concentration

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are just spaced out and you have no purpose in life, you pick everything up. Everybody else's thoughts will come into your mind, everyone else's desires.”

Ifs Mind Desire Purpose Buddhism Mindfulness Picks Purpose Of Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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