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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 is my experience that people who don't participate in society, who don't have jobs, who don't have friends, are just very stuck in irresponsibility and cultism and all kinds of nonsense.”

People Kind Jobs Buddhism Balance Stuck All Kinds Nonsense Irresponsibility

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's necessary for you to work out a way of living that's very strong and very tight and very powerful, otherwise you will not be able to deal with the unknown.”

Way Able Strong Deals Powerful Buddhism Balance Work Out Very Strong Very Powerful

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The danger to power is obsession - power junkies. You need a very strong mind and humor to balance yourself. If you don't, you will get shredded.”

Ifs Needs Mind Strong Danger Buddhism Balance Obsession Very Strong Junkie Strong Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Some people just chase the glittery stuff and they have no substance to their life whatsoever. Actually all they really want is power. But they pretend they're interested in enlightenment.”

People Want Stuff Buddhism Balance Enlightenment Substance

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend to last.”

States Problem Lasts Certain Understanding Consciousness Buddhism Balance Drug Perception Altered States Of Consciousness Excursions Altered States Altered States Of Consciousness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Power plants break up the way you see the world; they can push you into the second attention; yet to continuously take them, weakens the subtle psychical body.”

World Way Body Attention Break Buddhism Balance Plant Subtle Power Plants

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A lot of people trash their subtle physical body with psychedelic drugs. While they do certainly give you experiences in altered levels of attention, you pay a price for it. They definitely screw up the subtle physical. Hatha Yoga can be good for that.”

People Giving Body Levels Pay Attention Buddhism Balance Drug Yoga Be Good Subtle Screws Trash Psychedelic Altered Screw Ups Physical Body Psychedelic Drugs Hatha Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Look for the things in your life that bring you stillness and happiness, not the things that make you crazy. Look inside yourself and look for that perfect stillness.”

Looks Perfect Crazy Buddhism Balance Stillness Look Inside Yourself

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can detach your attention from yourself and go anywhere. You can wander the universe. Big deal!”

Bigs Universe Deals Attention Buddhism Balance Wander Big Deal

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To go within doesn't mean to become enraptured with who you are, or to become enraptured with ideas of who you are.”

Mean Ideas Buddhism Balance Who You Are

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The sign of an advanced spiritual person is that they don't think they're an advanced spiritual person until after liberation.”

Thinking Persons Spiritual Buddhism Balance Liberation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In advanced practice there is a sense of commitment to the study. It is happy; it's never forced. It is a natural evolutionary process of an evolved being.”

Process Natural Practice Study Buddhism Balance Commitment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You don't force change; you just open yourself to its possibilities and let it work through you.”

Force Possibility Buddhism Balance

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is possible to exert a power over all things, all beings. But we must begin with intent always.”

Buddhism Balance All Things

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Trust that life is guiding you and showing you every step that is necessary to learn to be perfect. Have faith in yourself. You'll come through OK. Have faith in existence.”

Life Is Perfect Existence Steps Buddhism Balance Have Faith Every Step Faith In Yourself Have Faith In Yourself

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You don't choose because if you choose you might make the wrong choice, based upon ego or illusion. Instead, you let eternity make all the choices for you.”

Ifs Might Choices Buddhism Balance Ego Illusion Eternity You Choose Wrong Choices

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When the time comes for a change, you will find it occurring without having created it yourself. You may think that you are the doer and that you are creating the change. That's nonsense.”

Thinking May Buddhism Balance Creating Nonsense Doers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Whatever you need will be provided. Eternity takes care of everything perfectly. So never want for that which you do not have; you have exactly what you need.”

Want Needs Care Buddhism Balance Eternity Take Care

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Think about the flowers. Life is just a bunch of pretty pictures. All this is supposed to do is force you beyond the mind, when you realize that you can't figure it out.”

Thinking Mind Life Is Force Realizing Figures Flower Buddhism Balance Bunch Pretty Picture Flower Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Eventually you're supposed to get so confounded by this whole thing that you just give up completely, and that's when it starts to work. Not give up the practice, but give up trying to figure it out.”

Giving Trying Whole Practice Figures Buddhism Balance Giving Up Not Giving Up Just Give Up

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Trust yourself. Figure out everything you want, but then don't worry about it. It's all out of our hands. Just let life work through you .”

Want Hands Worry Figures Buddhism Balance Trust Yourself

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Use power carefully. Don't be afraid to have it. Learn balance and wisdom in addition to the unlocking of the kundalini, if you wish to have a happy and enlightened life.”

Ifs Use Wish Buddhism Balance Enlightened Life Balance Unlocking

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Use power wisely. If you search your heart, I think you will.”

Ifs Thinking Heart Use Buddhism Balance

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I learned from my own teachers, a long time ago in another universe, the quality of quiet fortitude that is renewed by a person's love of light.”

Persons Long Light Universe My Own Quality Teacher Buddhism Balance Quiet Long Time Fortitude Long Time Ago

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The greatest miracle is the miracle of wakefulness, to awaken from the dream of life and to see infinity everywhere, even in the finite, in the simple doings of life.”

Dream Simple Buddhism Balance Miracle Infinity Finite Life Balance Doings

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enlightenment requires discipline, balance, knowledge, power, happiness and a sense of responsibility and sacrifice, being able to do things with your life that you would not have done otherwise.”

Done Able Responsibility Sacrifice Buddhism Balance Discipline Enlightenment Sense Of Responsibility Power Of Knowledge

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Keep a sense of humor, that keeps you balanced, and you'll do quite well with it all, I'm sure.”

Wells Buddhism Balance Sense Of Humor Balanced

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Words are worthless. How can you describe the other worlds?”

World Buddhism Worthless Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All the creations of God stretch out infinitely. All times, past, present and future for all beings, worlds unimagined”

World Past Creation Buddhism All Time Other Worlds Past Present Past Present And Future Times Past

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everything that can be and everything that cannot be exists somewhere.”

World Buddhism Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are many, many different worlds. Just as there are different continents on earth, there are different dimensional planes.”

World Different Earth Buddhism Planes Continents Other Worlds Different Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Beyond this world are countless dimensions. They stretch on forever. You can travel to them and have experiences in them.”

World Forever This World Buddhism Dimensions Other Worlds

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

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

“To think that this is the only universe, that the physical creation is all there is, these are the dogmas of our times.”

Thinking World Science Universe Creation Buddhism Our Time Dogma Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Begin to see that life is very, very complex. It is made up of thousands of dimensions of wonder.”

World Made Life Is Wonder Buddhism Complexes Dimensions Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are many universes, countless universes, and many of them are invisible. We call these the astral planes, but they are as real as this world is and they're filled with beings that have life spans.”

World Real Universe This World Buddhism Filled Invisible Planes Other Worlds Life Span

Author:Frederick Lenz

“They too wonder about the nature of existence, where they've come from and where they're going to and how much time they have.”

World Existence Wonder Buddhism Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is the mind that weaves the dream of life, it convinces us that what we see is what is apparent and what is real, and that there's nothing else outside of our perception.”

World Mind Real Dream Buddhism Perception Convince Other Worlds Convince Us

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Within an atom there can be a billion kingdoms, endless. But all of them are bound by the cycle of birth and death. They all come into being for a while and then vanish.”

World Science Buddhism Birth Bounds Billions Endless Kingdoms Cycles Atoms Other Worlds Birth And Death

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Life is endless reality. There is reality after reality, spinning on endlessly into the cosmos, billions and billions of manifest universes. Underlying all of this is the unmanifest, the absolute reality.”

World Reality Life Is Universe Buddhism Absolutes Billions Endless Cosmos Manifest Spinning Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In different lifetimes, you incarnate in different dimensional planes, let alone in different universes in the physical universe.”

World Different Universe Buddhism Lifetime Planes Reincarnation Other Worlds Different Universes

Author:Frederick Lenz

“This is only a small part of the totality. From this island earth we see only a fragment of creation and its knowledge.”

World Earth Creation Buddhism Islands Fragments Other Worlds Totality Small Parts

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Beyond this world there are myriad worlds, thousands of inter-dimensional planes with different types of beings going through other cycles of existence. Beyond all beings is something that is eternal.”

World Different Existence This World Buddhism Type Eternal Planes Cycles Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is the physical world that we live in, which we perceive through the senses, but there are other worlds. Right in front of you there are other worlds, right now. Those worlds are as real, if you will, as the physical world.”

Ifs World Real Fronts Buddhism Right Now Senses Perceive Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The quality of time actually changes throughout the day and night. Some dimensions are more time-specific, in that they only interact with the physical dimension they touch during specific times of the night or day.”

World Night Quality Buddhism Dimensions More Time Day And Night Other Worlds

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

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

“During the late afternoon and early evening there is a specific dimension that interconnects with our physical world. This particular dimension can be visualized as series of horizontally shaped geometric planes that extent out into infinity.”

World Particular Buddhism Late Series Evening Planes Dimensions Infinity Afternoon Other Worlds Geometric Late Afternoon

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Eternity manifests itself in endless ways on endless planes of existence that they call lokas, other dimensions...worlds within worlds.”

World Way Existence Buddhism Eternity Endless Planes Dimensions Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All of the physical universes put together, stretching out endlessly, are only a fraction of the totality of reality. In other words, all of the physical universes are only part of the physical dimensional plane, and there are thousands of dimensional planes.”

World Reality Together Science Universe Buddhism Planes Other Worlds Stretching Fractions Totality

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are billions of people on the earth and there are billions of earths, billions of universes. It is endless.”

People World Earth Universe Buddhism Billions Endless Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are dimensions of power, there are dimensions of knowledge, and there are dimensions of confusion. The universe is a very, very big place. To think the universe is only composed of the physical universe is to be rather shortsighted.”

Thinking World Bigs Universe Buddhism Confusion Dimensions Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most people are completely oblivious to eternity. They look at the sky at night and they think that's eternity; it is just the senses having contact in the sense world. There are other dimensions.”

People Thinking World Looks Night Sky Buddhism Eternity Senses Contact Dimensions Other Worlds Oblivious

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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