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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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“There are millions of little opportunities out there to advance yourself. But you need the personal power to see how to do it.”

Needs Littles Opportunity Millions Buddhism Personal Power

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“You can live in the world and have friends, family and possessions. But don't take them all too seriously. Death removes everything. Feel death is every moment, as life is every moment.”

World Feels Moments Life Is Buddhism Possession Remove Family Friends

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Molecules are moving. Universes are colliding. Generations are being born and dying simultaneously, throughout eternity. As one of our great American poets, Walt Whitman, once said: "I contain multitudes."”

Said Moving Universe Born Generations Dying Poet Buddhism Eternity Multitudes Molecules Great American Walt

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“Life is not dependent upon our classifications and our categories, our science. But we are. We find it interesting and helpful.”

Science Life Is Interesting Buddhism Dependent Helpful Categories Classification

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“One function of the intellect is to catalog. But cataloging doesn't change anything. If we call it a rose, or by any other name, it still smells as sweet. The name doesn't really matter. It is convenient for us.”

Ifs Stills Matter Science Names Sweet Buddhism Function Rose Intellect Smell Convenient

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A categorization implies a hierarchical way of seeing things. Life is really relational, not hierarchical. Hierarchical is a human way of looking at things. Relational is much more the way things are. Everything is connected.”

Way Humans Science Life Is Seeing Buddhism Connected Categorization

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In reality, as any physicist will tell you, the physical world is made up of moving energy. All matter is energy.”

World Made Matter Reality Moving Science Energy Buddhism Physicist

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

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

“The world glows all the time. All of the things that you have come to understand aren't. The greatest thinkers in the world see very little compared to the enlightened.”

World Littles Science Buddhism Enlightened Thinker

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There's no way we can possibly understand anything. But we can see things, we can perceive things, and we can wonder. We can just be in a world of awe and wonder. That's the best we can do.”

World Way Science Can Do Wonder Buddhism Perceive Awe Awe And Wonder

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Things are not necessarily logical. Logic is a secondary source reference. Everything is what it is. We have decided to apply rationale to things. It makes us feel better.”

Feels Science Source Buddhism Decided Logic Logical Feel Better Rationale

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“The body is a very low level machine language. The language of the soul, of the mind, is much more evolved.”

Mind Soul Body Science Language Levels Buddhism Lows Machines Low Level

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“To think the universe is only composed of the physical universe is to be rather shortsighted.”

Thinking Science Universe Buddhism

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“The shortest distance between two points is your mind. It's not a straight line.”

Mind Two Science Lines Buddhism Distance Straight Lines

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“The world is the way the world is because we think that it is so.”

Thinking World Way Science Buddhism

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“There is only eternity. That's our real body. The stars are our blanket. Time doesn't even exist, except in our own minds.”

Mind Real Body Science Stars Buddhism Eternity Blanket

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“There is no time. There is no space. There is no condition. There is only awareness, awareness of these ideas.”

Ideas Science Space Conditions Awareness Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Time is a convenient filing system human beings have devised to segregate their experiences.”

Humans Science Human Beings Buddhism Convenient Filing

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A surfer is poised on a wave on his board, cutting quickly to the left. He'll always be there, in that moment. He's never left it. He had no birth, he didn't go to school, he didn't purchase the board; none of those things ever were.”

Moments School Science Left Cutting Buddhism Birth Wave Boards That Moment Surfer

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Time is not a movement in space. Space is a movement in time.”

Science Space Movement Buddhism

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“Time does not really exist as we know it; rather it's a transfiguration of a concept in which mortality, mutability, is conditioned.”

Knows Doe Science Buddhism Concepts Mortality Transfiguration Mutability

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“I would suggest to you that at this moment you are the only self that you have ever had; you've never had a childhood; there wasn't a five-minute-ago time.”

Self Moments Science Five Childhood Minutes Buddhism Five Minutes

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is no future. There is only now, a continuous now. We have become so wrapped up in the past and the future that we don't see the continuous now. There is no future. It is an idea that you have.”

Ideas Past Science Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“This moment there is all that will ever be or has ever been. All the events of all of our lives are going-on simultaneously. There is no beginning and there is no ending. There's only this moment.”

Moments Science Our Lives Events Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Nothing is distinct and separate.”

Science Buddhism

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“Chaos theory simply suggests that what appears to most people as chaos is not really chaotic, but a series of different types of orders with which the human mind has not yet become familiar.”

People Mind Humans Different Science Order Theory Buddhism Type Series Chaos Familiar Human Mind Chaotic Chaos Theory

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Words are inaccurate pointers to reality and should by no means be trusted.”

Should Mean Reality Science Buddhism Trusted Pointers

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“Thoughts can increase our understanding of a subject, or they can just as easily constrict or block our understanding of a subject. It very much depends upon the language we are thinking in.”

Thinking Science Language Understanding Subjects Buddhism Depends Increase Block

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

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

“Language is the medium of our thoughts.”

Science Language Buddhism Mediums Our Thoughts

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“Grammar has qualities, shapes and forms.”

Form Science Quality Buddhism Shapes Grammar

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect indicative - ridiculous. It has qualities, shadings, differentiations, rhythmic structures of symbolic meaning.”

I Can Past Science Language Quality Buddhism Structure Ridiculous Former Professors Grammar Symbolic Adjectives Differentiation Qualitative Pronouns Symbolic Meaning

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“Intelligence is something that is not just thinking, it's feeling. Ultimately, the highest reflection of intelligent life is cooperative life in which all benefit.”

Thinking Feelings Science Life Is Buddhism Benefits Highest Reflection Intelligent Cooperatives Intelligent Life

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“The mind is like a computer. It runs programs. Most of the software has been poorly written. It is written in the language of fear.”

Mind Has Beens Running Science Language Written Buddhism Computer Program Software

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“We are intelligent atoms. We are intelligent organic structures. We can change who we are. We can heal ourselves. With genetic engineering, we are considering changing the physiological structure of the body.”

Body Science Buddhism Intelligent Structure Heal Who We Are Atoms Engineering Considering Physiological Genetic Engineering

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“The universe is holding congress with itself.”

Science Universe Buddhism Congress

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“Our past affects us, our present affects us, and even our future can affect us. We live in the relative world of time and space.”

World Past Science Space Buddhism Our Future Relative Our Past Time And Space

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“Many aspects of life cannot be explained through logic or reason. The reasoning part of the mind simply doesn't have the capacity to understand the many whys and how's of being and non-being.”

Mind Reason Science Buddhism Capacity Aspect Logic Reasoning Aspects Of Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Psychic perception is a much more efficient and accurate method of seeing and knowing reality.”

Reality Science Knowing Seeing Buddhism Perception Method Efficient Accurate Psychics

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“Metaphysics is the study of how to shift the self. How to get outside the self-reflection and to just gaze with awe and wonder at the countless universes, the countless celestial radiances of mind, of life, of enlightenment, nirvana, or God, whatever you want to call it.”

Want Mind Self Science Universe Wonder Study Buddhism Enlightenment Reflection Awe Metaphysics Self Reflection Celestial Radiance Awe And Wonder

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“C. S. Lewis, Plato, Aristotle and many more names that I could add, including Einstein's, were individuals who were able to see the innate order in life, which others perceive as chaos.”

Able Science Order Names Individual Buddhism Add Chaos Including Perceive Plato Innate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Take chaotic mathematics, for instance. The universe is chaos. But chaos is whimping out. There is no chaos. There are just different levels of order in the universe.”

Different Science Order Universe Levels Buddhism Mathematics Chaos Instance Chaotic Different Levels Order In The Universe

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“Chaotic mathematics is essentially the study of chaos. It can't be chaos, if you can study it and it has an order.”

Ifs Science Order Study Buddhism Mathematics Chaos Chaotic

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“Do not be a sniveler. Do not say you can't be happy, you can't be enlightened. How do you know? It is all chaos.”

Knows Science Buddhism Chaos Enlightened Do You Know

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“Is there Chance? No. There is karma. Karma causes all things to happen. There is only one thing karma cannot decide, and that is how far you will evolve in this lifetime.”

Happens Science Causes Chance One Thing Buddhism All Things Lifetime Karma Evolve

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Next to meditation itself, I really can't think of anything more important than the development of your career.”

Thinking Important Success Next Careers Meditation Buddhism Development

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“If you seek enlightenment, then career is a very important idea on your agenda. Approach your career from this standpoint and you will have a very different career. You will be successful.”

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“It is necessary to be focused. This is the raison d'etre of career.”

Success Careers Buddhism Focused Raison D'etre

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“To assume that wealth or sexuality or the usage of power, any of these things are not void in nature, gives them a reality they don't actually have.”

Giving Reality Success Wealth Careers Buddhism Assuming Sexuality Void Usage

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“One of the greatest mistakes that people make who pursue self-discovery is they neglect to develop their careers. There is a popular notion that those who seek enlightenment should abandon the things of this world.”

People World Should Self Success Mistake Careers This World Buddhism Enlightenment Discovery Notion Self Discovery Pursue Abandon Neglect

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“I meet people who neglect career. Their lives aren't centered at all. They don't have much money. They have this spaced-out look in their eyes. Their chances for enlightenment are very small, unless they change the way they live.”

People Way Looks Eye Success Chance Careers Buddhism Enlightenment Neglect

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We live in a competitive society. To pretend that it is not there is ridiculous. That is how the whole planet is set up. If you are not competitive, you do not succeed, you do not survive.”

Ifs Whole Success Careers Planets Buddhism Succeed Ridiculous

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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