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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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“Anyone has the ability, if they choose, to move to the higher end of the state of mind they are in. From that higher end, they can generate another state of mind.”

Ifs Mind Ends States Moving Ability Awareness Buddhism Higher State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The reason a person is in a particular state of mind is primarily because of attraction and aversion. Attraction and aversion cause us to format a mental or intellectual program.”

Mind Persons States Reason Causes Awareness Particular Buddhism Intellectual Program Attraction State Of Mind Format Aversion

Author:Frederick Lenz

“W are all carrying the imprints of our most ancient ancestors. Not simply in the genetic code, but in the imprints of attention that are passed on.”

Science Attention Awareness Buddhism Ancient Code Ancestor

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A whole society imprints us. Language, television and culture imprints us Just living in a country is a vibratory imprint. All the collective attentions, of all the people who live there - imprint us.”

People Country Whole Culture Language Attention Awareness Television Buddhism Collectives

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We interact with others and we decide who we are. Are we reclusive? Are we outgoing? Are we successful? Are we going to be a failure? We cast a role for ourselves and we step into it.”

Steps Roles Successful Awareness Buddhism Casts Who We Are Outgoing

Author:Frederick Lenz

“One, who studies the ways of power, seeks to end the imprinting process because in imprinting we loser power, we lose attention; we are formatted to do certain things.”

Way Ends Certain Process Loses Attention Study Awareness Buddhism Loser Imprinting

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The people who imprinted us are not completely happy and they are not completely powerful. So naturally, we have to fight our whole life against that imprinting.”

People Whole Fighting Powerful Awareness Buddhism Whole Life Imprinting

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If your parents were strong in one way and weak in another, you will be strong in the same way and weak in the same way. Even though you detest the weakness in them, you will find that you will do exactly the same things because they imprinted you.”

Ifs Way Strong Parent Awareness Buddhism Weakness Weak One Way Detest

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A child is imprinted not by simply teaching. But their attention is like soft clay. The attention field of adults is stratified. They are like hard clay and we push them on each side of the child's attention field.”

Children Hard Sides Attention Teaching Awareness Fields Buddhism Adults Clay

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Just being around the awareness field of the male or female imprinter, the child is imprinted.”

Children Awareness Fields Buddhism Female Males Just Being

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The male or female that the child has the most exposure to in the first four to six years of its life is the primary imprinter of the child.”

Years Firsts Children Life Is Four Awareness Buddhism Six Female Males Primaries Exposure

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Learn to overcome the imprinting that you now have and gain a new and higher imprinting that will lead you into the luminous spheres of awareness.”

Awareness Buddhism Higher Gains Overcoming Spheres Luminous Imprinting

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We need a new imprinting. We need the imprinting of enlightenment, of freedom. That comes through our association with a higher being. So classically what occurs is that one meets a teacher.”

Needs Teacher Awareness Buddhism Higher Enlightenment Association Imprinting

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A teacher is not someone you need perpetually. You need them to show you how to get through the doorway; but once you get through the doorway, you are on your own.”

Needs Shows Teacher Awareness Buddhism Doorways

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Power will take us beyond the gravity field of the imprint.”

Awareness Fields Buddhism Gravity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In mysticism we have to take all the imprinting that has occurred to us and wash it. Then we need to be re-imprinted but in a different way. Without it, we don't survive.”

Way Needs Different Awareness Buddhism Different Ways Mysticism Imprinting

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The teacher will have a certain imprint, and each teacher imprints differently. Ultimately the imprint of the teacher is a limitation that you will have to overcome in your final stages of knowledge.”

Certain Teacher Stage Awareness Buddhism Overcoming Finals Limitation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The dream is so thick; the Maya is so thick. There's no magic as long as there's all this thought. So the first condition for the practice of higher magic is the stopping of thought.”

Firsts Long Dream Practice Magic Conditions Awareness Buddhism Higher Thick Stopping

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The universe is ecstasy. We have many other ways of perceiving infinity. And when you perceive life through these other modes, that's when you see that the universe is ecstasy, That's when you experience its ecstasy.”

Way Universe Awareness Buddhism Perceive Ecstasy Infinity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you line everything up, just right, you walk through a doorway where the world as you know it collapses.”

Ifs Knows World Lines Walks Awareness Buddhism Collapse Doorways

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You stand on the edge of eternity, with a vista that is so incredible, so powerful, so perfect that it's overwhelming. You are so overwhelmed - you no longer exist.”

Perfect Powerful Awareness Buddhism Eternity Incredibles Edges Overwhelming Overwhelmed Vistas

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is something to this fabric of life that is beautiful. If you find the world unpleasant, I don't think that is wisdom. That is a sign of a lack of wisdom.”

Ifs Thinking World Beautiful Humanity Buddhism Fabric Fabric Of Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“This world is not a middle point in evolution. It's one step down from the middle point in evolution. This is the world of desire and fulfillment, frustration, but at least once in a while you can go to Burger King.”

World Desire Humanity Steps Middle This World Buddhism Evolution Kings Fulfillment Frustration Burgers Burger King

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." Everything happens perfectly.”

Said Happens Humanity Fall Special Buddhism Things Happen Free Will Providence Readiness Sparrows Hamlet And Ophelia Hamlet 2 Hamlet Ophelia Mortality In Hamlet Hamlet Theme Hamlet Revenge Morality In Hamlet

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We live in a world where no one believes. Enlightenment and knowledge are laughed at. Those who seek and teach the mysteries are scorned and often persecuted. Welcome to the planet earth: environment hostile.”

World Believe Earth Humanity Teach Environment Mystery Planets Buddhism Enlightenment Welcome Laughed Hostile Planet Earth Persecuted Scorned

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We live in a world filled with automobiles, highways of the mind, urban disasters, billions of people living on a tiny planet, sharing the diminishing natural resources of the earth.”

People World Mind Earth Humanity Natural Planets Buddhism Resources Filled Billions Tiny Disaster Urban Highways Automobile Living On Natural Resources

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You are awareness. You are mind. You are not from this world. I mean, think about it, could you really be from here?”

Thinking World Mind Mean Humanity Awareness This World Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We are in the twilight of this earth. The societies and civilizations of human beings will not endure much longer because of their abuses of power.”

Humans Earth Humanity Human Beings Buddhism Civilization Abuse Endure Twilight Abuse Of Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Human beings go to church. The guy in the front dressed in black is the guy you defer to. He is in charge of the mysteries of universe, which ordinary human beings don't seem to have the inclination to understand.”

Humans Seems Guy Humanity Universe Black Church Human Beings Mystery Fronts Buddhism Ordinary Inclination

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We remember a few people who've been enlightened. We build churches and edifices in their name. But few people, if any, feel that they could ever be like that; and if that's how they feel - that's how it will be.”

People Ifs Feels Remember Humanity Names Church Buddhism Enlightened Edifice

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the western philosophy you can't perceive infinities at every moment. It's not there to do.”

Philosophy Moments Humanity Buddhism Western Perceive Infinity Western Philosophy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Religion is either something we scorn because we are too rational or it's the realm of the fanatic who insists that their God and their religion is the only way and everyone else is dammed.”

Way Humanity Buddhism Rational Realms Scorn Fanatics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the West people are basically oblivious to power, solstices, enlightenment and everything that matters.”

People Matter Humanity Buddhism Enlightenment West Oblivious Solstice

Author:Frederick Lenz

“They don't understand the multi-life sequences. Anything they can't see in a laboratory, they think is nonsense.”

Thinking Humanity Buddhism Nonsense Sequence Laboratory

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We live inside too much. We live inside and we have square thoughts and square ideas because we live in square houses. Our lives are colored by our environments. Our attention fields are colored by it.”

Ideas Humanity House Attention Environment Too Much Our Lives Fields Buddhism Squares Our Environment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the Far East, we look at life in terms of circles. In the West, they look at life more in terms of squares and rectangles.”

Looks Humanity Term Buddhism West East Circles Squares Rectangles

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The constraints that humankind has set upon itself are so narrow, so rigid. If you don't wear your clothes one day, they'll lock you up. That's a pretty simple action.”

Ifs Action Humanity Simple Buddhism One Day Clothes Humankind Locks Constraints

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We've developed a very complex filing system for existence. We see things in terms of good or bad. We feel happiness, joy, pain, loss, guilt and remorse.”

Feels Pain Joy Humanity Term Loss Existence Buddhism Guilt Complexes Remorse Filing

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Human beings are not so in harmony with the dharma. That is why they suffer so much. But you as an individual can reach a plane of attention and can become attention itself.”

Humans Suffering Humanity Individual Human Beings Attention Buddhism Harmony Planes Dharma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“This is a world that defines everything backwards, a world in which good is called bad, brightness is called darkness, up is called down, enlightenment is called abnormal behavior and abnormal behavior is applauded as reason.”

World Reason Humanity Darkness Buddhism Behavior Enlightenment Backwards Brightness Abnormal

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Who are these human beings anyway? They walk around, strut, fret, as if they owned the planet, or the goddamned universe. I mean, who do they really think they are?”

Ifs Thinking Humans Mean Humanity Universe Human Beings Walks Planets Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everything is stuck together. People are stuck together. They can't change. Ideas are stuck together - they're irrevocable. We think that the end of the universe is as far as the telescope can see.”

People Thinking Ideas Ends Together Humanity Universe Buddhism Stuck Can't Change Telescopes Irrevocable

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everyone has sunk on this plane to such a low state of consciousness, it is the natural state. We have deviated so far from the norm in this age of darkness.”

States Age Humanity Natural Consciousness Darkness Buddhism Lows Planes Norm States Of Consciousness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's easy to tell the evolutionary level of a group of beings, or an individual being, simply by examining their behavior, their art, their psychology, their thought forms, their lingual structures, their history, their present moment, their future ideas, and the quality of their emotions.”

Art Ideas Moments Form Humanity Individual Easy Levels Emotion Quality Psychology Groups Buddhism Behavior Structure Present Moment Examining

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You will always see, if this group is a highly evolved group or on the way up, a movement towards oneness.”

Ifs Way Humanity Groups Movement Buddhism Oneness

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“This is a place where the strong often victimize the weak.”

Humanity Strong Buddhism Weak

Author:Frederick Lenz

“One nationality supresses another. One religion claimsto be the exclusive way to truth or god.”

Way Humanity Buddhism Exclusive Nationality

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The population of the planet is increasing at an alarming rate, and yet each day human beings manage to destroy ten species.”

Humans Humanity Human Beings Planets Buddhism Ten Species Rate Population Manage Each Day

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A society that destroys the environment that supports it, I would not consider to be intelligent life. It's like the cancer that ultimately kills itself by destroying the host it feeds on.”

Humanity Support Environment Buddhism Intelligent Cancer Destroying Host Intelligent Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The rhythm of life is give and take. It is necessary to put things back into the system. To not do that is to foul your own nest - to use up all the natural resources greedily.”

Giving Use Life Is Humanity Natural Buddhism Resources Rhythm Nests Foul Natural Resources Give And Take Rhythm 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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