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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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“It doesn't matter what your work really is. It is exciting to do well at something. It empowers you.”

Wells Matter Success Careers Buddhism Mindfulness Exciting Empowering

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Personal power, knowledge and fun come from how you approach something, not what you approach.”

Fun Buddhism Approach Mindfulness Personal Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sitting around idly contemplating doesn't produce much. In work you can discipline your attention, forget about your misery.”

Forget Attention Produce Buddhism Discipline Mindfulness Sitting Misery Contemplating Sitting Around

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If President Bush does a lousy job, then he'll lose power. If the guy at McDonalds who's selling burgers does a great job, then he'll be much more powerful than President Bush.”

Ifs Doe Jobs Guy President Loses Powerful Buddhism Mindfulness Selling President Bush Mcdonalds Great Job Burgers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There comes a time in life when you just buckle down and have a good time with what you're doing. It doesn't matter much what you're doing. What matters is how you do it.”

Matter Buddhism Mindfulness Down And Good Times What Matters Having A Good Time There Comes A Time Buckles

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What we do outwardly will only interrupt the flow of our perfect attention is it is not in harmony with the dharma.”

Perfect Attention Buddhism Mindfulness Flow Harmony Dharma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Stop trying to be different. Just do what you are good at, and work really hard. You have to work hard to be chaos.”

Trying Different Hard Hard Work Buddhism Mindfulness Chaos Stop Trying

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The best form of meditation is the sitting meditation. But work is next. Work is a great way to meditate.”

Way Form Next Meditation Buddhism Mindfulness Sitting

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are mindful in your work, if you put your best effort into it, then something comes back to you.”

Ifs Effort Buddhism Mindfulness Best Effort

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is necessary to have a strong focus. Work will give you that focus.”

Giving Strong Focus Buddhism Mindfulness

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“Thought control is the ability to direct mind and attention anywhere.”

Mind Ability Attention Buddhism Mindfulness Direct

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is no fanaticism in any of this. There is intensity. You have to make it happen. You have to put your will into perfecting your daily life, into monitoring your thoughts.”

Happens Buddhism Mindfulness Daily Life Intensity Fanaticism Make It Happen Monitoring

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You don't have to do anything to meditate. That's what makes it so difficult. Everybody wants to do something.”

Want Difficult Buddhism Mindfulness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Mindfulness is the ability to do physical things in a harmonious way; it is a way to remain centered in a physical world that is out of balance.”

World Way Ability Buddhism Balance Mindfulness Harmonious Physical Things

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“Begin to live in other levels of attention all the time whether you're at work, driving or running on the beach. When you begin to be in a more meditative state all the time you will find that it fits rather well with everything that you do.”

Wells States Running Levels Attention Buddhism Fit Mindfulness Driving Beach

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Mindfulness is the direct application of Buddhist teachings to a physical event, a way of doing or accomplishing something, or a way of thinking and viewing something.”

Thinking Way Teaching Events Buddhism Mindfulness Direct Buddhist Application Way Of Thinking Accomplishing Something

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

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

“We are so absorbed in our thoughts that every thought that comes through is a reality. We have to start to detach ourselves from thought and become aware that there are things beyond thought.”

Reality Buddhism Mindfulness Our Thoughts

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the state of emptiness, you are the action not the performer of the action. Allow an activity or event to take precedence over your own point of view.”

States Action Views Events Buddhism Activity Mindfulness Point Of View Emptiness Over You Performers Precedence

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“Thinking is usually a waste of time and energy, since thinking is essentially a rehashing of what we already know. As a matter of fact, thinking is an easy way to confuse yourself. The more you think, the less you know.”

Thinking Knows Way Matter Facts Energy Easy Buddhism Waste Mindfulness Wasting Time Matter Of Fact Easy Way Time And Energy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When we practice mindfulness, our nonphysical side merges with the nonphysical side of that which we are experiencing.”

Sides Practice Buddhism Mindfulness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Our actions and experiences will direct us. In other words, we will be guided by the inherent emptiness of the things we choose to interact with.”

Action Buddhism Mindfulness Direct Emptiness Inherent Our Actions

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

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

“The unlimited mind, the diamond mind of the Buddha, is your mind, if you can get in touch with it. Stop thinking so much and tap into that psychic part of your being.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Buddhism Mindfulness Diamond Unlimited Psychics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Think about what is in front of you, if you must think.”

Ifs Thinking Fronts Buddhism Mindfulness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Stop worrying about tomorrow. Stop thinking about yesterday. Mindfulness is to be here now, in the moment. Focus on this moment.”

Thinking Moments Worry Focus Buddhism Tomorrow Mindfulness Yesterday Stop Worrying Be Here Now

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Mindfulness is paying attention to what is going on. Just look at beauty. Not just the beauty of things you see with your eyes, but beautiful feelings, beautiful awareness. There is no such thing as reality. Reality is what you make it.”

Looks Feelings Reality Eye Beautiful Attention Awareness Buddhism Mindfulness Pay Attention Feeling Beautiful

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Look at how beautiful life is, and just keep looking until you see it. You don't see what is in front of you because you're so distracted by your thoughts.”

Looks Beautiful Life Is Fronts Buddhism Mindfulness Distracted Beautiful Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Just see beauty as you walk around through your day. Feel things. Unhook from your thoughts and all the busy things you are doing. Start to look at life. This is mindfulness.”

Feels Looks Walks Buddhism Mindfulness Busy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Focus on this moment. Hold your hand and see what it feels like. Go look at some grass. Talk to a palm tree. Outrun a Ferrari. Experience life.”

Feels Looks Moments Hands Focus Tree Buddhism Mindfulness Grass Palms Ferrari Outrun Palm Trees

Author:Frederick Lenz

“No matter how many times you have failed you must keep going forward. Only when you have become humble will you begin to grasp the meaning of life.”

Matter Buddhism Mindfulness Humble Meaning Of Life Keep Going

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“None of this matters a bit. Yet, of course, it matters at that moment. So we try to be mindful of the moment; but it's fleeting.”

Trying Matter Moments Courses Bits Buddhism Mindfulness That Moment Fleeting

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditate on your own and refine your consciousness. Tighten up your life. Constantly examine your life and look for weak points. You know what's going on in your life.”

Knows Looks Consciousness Buddhism Mindfulness Weak Weak Points

Author:Frederick Lenz

“See your life as not just your life but as eternity. Be so completely integrated in the experience of perception that there's no sense of a perceiver but just the fluid moment of ecstasy that is reality unfolding itself to itself.”

Moments Reality Buddhism Perception Mindfulness Eternity Ecstasy Fluid Unfolding Integrated

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Life isn't complicated. The reason it appears complicated to you is because you are in a very distorted state of mind. That's the basic premise of Buddhism - that you're in a very distorted state of mind.”

Mind States Reason Ignorance Buddhism Complicated State Of Mind Premises

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Mind is not simply the collection of aggregate cells inside your brain. If you are only the grey matter, then when that dies, you won't exist any more. It's not that easy. You exist forever.”

Ifs Mind Matter Science Dies Easy Brain Forever Buddhism Cells Collections Reincarnation Grey Grey Matter

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The essence of Buddhism is simply that the mind is forever. We are always experiencing different states of mind in one form or another, in one body or another, in one life or another, forever.”

Mind Different States Body Form Forever Buddhism Essence State Of Mind Reincarnation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Intent is all-important. Your intent determines what happens to you inwardly, in a karmic sense.”

Important Happens Buddhism Determine Karma Dharma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are not happier every day, if you don't see a progression of development, then you are certainly not practicing yoga or Buddhism and therefore you cannot be amassing any positive karma.”

Ifs Buddhism Development Yoga Karma Progression

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Many people excuse themselves by claiming that they don't have to do work anymore because they are beyond it. They are simply afraid of getting their hands dirty. Getting your hands dirty washes your being.”

People Hands Success Careers Buddhism Excuse Karma Dirty

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you meditate and continue to have fun with yoga and Buddhism, you will amass knowledge and will move to a higher incarnation. In your next lifetime you will be much wiser, much happier.”

Ifs Moving Next Fun Buddhism Higher Yoga Lifetime Having Fun Wiser Rebirth Incarnation Next Lifetime

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“Enlightenment occurs when your mind merges with nirvana, with what Tibetans call the Dharmakaya, the clear light of reality, which is the highest plane of transcendental wisdom and perfect understanding.”

Mind Reality Light Understanding Perfect Clear Buddhism Highest Enlightenment Planes Transcendental Tibetan

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“How could being the entire cosmos and all of its wonder and all of its stages and cycles, and yet being that which is beyond them all, the invisible, be extinction? Extinction? The extinction of what, of whom? How can that which has never been be extinguished?”

Suffering Wonder Stage Buddhism Enlightenment Invisible Cosmos Cycles Extinction

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is no movement in Nirvana. There is no sameness. And one does not consider it to be timeless because one is not one. It is you, my friend, who go away.”

Doe Suffering Movement Buddhism Enlightenment My Friends Going Away Timeless Sameness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You see, that's the fun of Buddhism. We do have a wild card in the deck that can't be explained, that changes value continuously, and that's enlightenment.”

Values Fun Buddhism Enlightenment Cards Deck

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“An enlightened teacher has personal power. Sitting and meditating with an enlightened teacher in a meditation hall or at a power spot can change you forever.”

Forever Teacher Meditation Buddhism Sitting Spots Enlightened Halls Meditating Personal Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“An esoteric or enlightened teacher of Buddhism is someone who has the ability to transfer power to another individual. A real empowerment is not just a ceremony.”

Real Individual Ability Teacher Buddhism Empowerment Enlightened Ceremony Transfers Esoteric

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is no such thing as a miracle. A miracle is just what somebody else doesn't understand. If we went back into the Stone Age and we lit a match, they'd say, "Ahh miracla, miracla!"”

Ifs Age Teacher Buddhism Stones Miracle Enlightened Lit Rama Stone Age

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Buddhism is all about secrets.”

Secret Teacher Buddhism Enlightened

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I can go shopping and pick up some Bounty Towels, the three pack, I can go home and open those up and look at them and see more infinity than in the Buddha's best meditation. If I can't do that, that means I'm wrapped by the Buddha's best meditation.”

Ifs Looks Mean I Can Home Three Teacher Meditation Buddhism Picks Enlightened Infinity Shopping Packs Towels Bounty

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“Dharma is an ancient word for truth.”

Buddhism Ancient Dharma

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“Dharma is another name for existence. It is existence in its purest form.”

Form Names Existence Buddhism Dharma

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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