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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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“At the end of each meditation session, bow your head toward the ground. Give away your meditation to the universe. Whether you feel you have done well or poorly, simply give your efforts to the universe.”

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Book:Snowboarding to Nirvana: A Novel

Source: Snowboarding to Nirvana: A Novel

“Bow and offer your meditation to Eternity, as you would offer a Flower to your lover.”

Meditation Flower Buddhism Lovers Offers Eternity Bows

Author:Frederick Lenz

“After the meditation session you have to be a little bit careful. If you start to think a lot of thoughts and become very active, you can prevent some of the meditative awareness from coming into your mind.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Learn not to judge your meditation. Just meditate, do your best, set a minimum period of time and meditate.”

Meditation Judging Buddhism Periods Minimum

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“How do you end a meditation session? It's nice to chant a mantra again. Maybe repeat it a few times. It seals the meditation. Do your best and then just give it to eternity.”

Giving Ends Nice Meditation Buddhism Eternity Repeats Session Seals Mantras

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Don't judge your meditations. Don't rate them. The physical mind cannot tell how well you did. As long as you are sitting there trying, something will happen.”

Trying Mind Wells Long Happens Meditation Judging Buddhism Sitting Rate Trying Something

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The force that drives the green fuse, as Dylan Thomas said, cannot be understood. So self-discovery is to accept your daily meditation, to observe yourself meditating and not be concerned with the results.”

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“The only bad meditation is when you don't meditate.”

Meditation Buddhism

Book:Snowboarding to Nirvana: A Novel

Source: Snowboarding to Nirvana: A Novel

“To meditate with full effort, produces infinity, freedom.”

Effort Meditation Produce Buddhism Infinity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Each time you meditate you have the possibility of completely changing your life in one meditation. If you meditate with your whole heart and your whole soul, you will become light itself.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment. Move the ego aside and be still, open, clear, bright and fully conscious.”

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“You should always feel, no matter how many times you've meditated before, that this is your first meditation. You have no idea what will happen or what won't happen.”

Feels Should Firsts Ideas Matter Happens Meditation Buddhism No Idea

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“There are many ways to meditate. When you meditate, you are learning how to feel again.”

Way Feels Meditation Buddhism

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“To meditate, you need to feel, and feeling is a lost art. You need to feel the stillness of existence and also the sound of existence. You need to feel that which lies beyond your awareness field, and that which is within it.”

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“Meditation is a process in which we're essentially, at first, breathing out. We're exhaling existence, taking it out of the mind, and the mind out of the mind.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you can bring earnestness to your meditation, you will find that happiness is something that will run through your life constantly.”

Ifs Running Meditation Buddhism Earnestness

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“There's no risk in doing a lousy meditation or not meditating at all. There's no risk in being convenient and comfortable. There's a lot of risk in the world of enlightenment.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Try to read books about meditation, but not so many different viewpoints that they get confusing. There is no best way. It's just what works for you at the time.”

Way Trying Book Different Meditation Buddhism Best Way Confusing Viewpoints

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“Sometimes you won't feel pleasant during a meditation session; it seems like an uphill run. But when you get to the top, the view is rather breathtaking.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sometimes people start to meditate and they get a headache. It's because they're trying too hard. You're pulling in too much energy.”

People Trying Sometimes Hard Energy Too Much Meditation Buddhism Pulling Headache Trying Too Hard

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“When you meditate, you focus to clear the mind and to bring the willpower together. But then, toward the end of the session let go, just become eternity.”

Mind Ends Together Clear Focus Meditation Buddhism Letting Go Eternity Willpower Session

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Real winning and losing all takes place at the meditation table. This is where the battles are. Winning is stopping thought. Losing is sitting there and being subjected to all kinds of ridiculous thoughts”

Kind Real Winning Meditation Buddhism Battle Losing Sitting Tables Ridiculous All Kinds Stopping Winning And Losing

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Every time you sit down to meditate, you have to sit down with a resolve to win. You are going to sit there and will your mind to be happy, quiet and still.”

Mind Stills Winning Meditation Buddhism Quiet Resolve

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In meditation what you are trying to do is simply get rid of your own junk. You are trying to move all the confusion out of your mind, all the heaviness, all the emotional upsets, all the impressions that you have picked up since your last meditation.”

Trying Mind Lasts Moving Meditation Emotional Buddhism Impression Confusion Upset Junk Heaviness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The trick to keeping your meditation practice alive, not simply consistent but wonderful, is you need to bring a certain will or force into every meditation.”

Needs Certain Force Practice Meditation Alive Wonderful Buddhism Tricks Consistent Meditation Practice

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“Pure and simple, balance is happiness.”

Simple Buddhism Balance Pure

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“Buddhism teaches us not to want things, not to avoid things, not to be upset by the loss. In the I Ching, there's a hexagram that says, "Be like the sun at midday". View all things as being equal.”

Want Loss Views Teach Sun Buddhism Equal All Things Upset Taoism Being Equal

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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