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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's degradation of the environment. But the real issue is the degradation of one's inner environment.”

Real Humanity Issues Environment Buddhism Degradation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“They've destroyed their environment, by and large. They've eliminated most other species on the planet, which is just an indication of their sloppiness and their deadness and their oblivion - but even more so, they've cut themselves off from happiness.”

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“This world we exist in is populated by people who have really shut themselves off from life.”

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“The level of evolution in this world is not exactly high.”

World Humanity Levels This World Buddhism Evolution

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“People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance with life.”

People Thinking Humans Earth Humanity Fun Wish Buddhism Endless Absurd Vanity

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“Its funny how human beings tend to think that they're the masters of the earth never realizing that the earth, for a time, simply tolerates its tenants and then, when the mood strikes, it shifts its continents around.”

Thinking Humans Earth Humanity Realizing Human Beings Masters Buddhism Strikes Mood Continents Tolerate Tenants

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Symbiosis is a much higher reflection of intelligent life.”

Humanity Buddhism Higher Reflection Intelligent Intelligent Life Symbiosis

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“In this world we see nothing but diversity. Everyone thinks separate ideas and wants to develop a separate identity. They fight wars with each other. They destroy each other's identities.”

Thinking World Want Ideas War Humanity Fighting Identity This World Buddhism Diversity

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“The strong conquer the weak. The weak serve the strong and hope to become strong so they can conquer others who are weaker.”

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“The vast majority of beings who incarnate on this planet are at the stage of their evolution where power is the dominant theme. They are learning about power. That is why we live in a world where there are so many wars and so much destruction.”

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“People on this planet are currently preparing to blow themselves up in ultimate thermonuclear wars. We are living among beings whose state of mind is destruction.”

People Mind War States Humanity Planets Buddhism Destruction Ultimate Blow State Of Mind Preparing Nuclear War

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“A realistic recognition of the human condition is that it is corrupt beyond belief. What do you suppose would happen if the police all took a week off?”

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“The operative condition on this particular planet, the central mode which human beings follow, is fear. We are taught to fear.”

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“Fear which has been embedded in your mind since you were a tot doesn't go away easily - it's conditioned in. And because we have fear, we fail to fulfill and realize our potential as human beings.”

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“Consider that we live in a world predicated upon fear. The underlying assumption is that human beings are innately evil and must be groomed and controlled. That is the dichotomy that is set up within the human mind, good and evil.”

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“Societies on this planet are based upon fear, not upon love. The strong dominate the weak.”

Humanity Strong Planets Buddhism Weak Fear Not

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“The most knowledgeable person is not necessarily the person who runs the government, nor the church, nor the business.”

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“People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being will follow their desires without mitigation.”

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“In this world we see more passion than dispassion. We see more fear than knowledge. Armies rule the world. Fear-net is happening. Consequently, everyone is raised with fear embedded in their consciousness.”

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“Overcoming fear is a critical factor for anyone who wishes to be really happy, or anyone who wishes to become enlightened”

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“Who's to say what's right or wrong? The courts and the society can be totally wrong. Nazi Germany, what did they say was the right thing to do? To destroy and burn Jews.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“This is a dark age. That's not news. It's a dark time when we have to be particularly aware of danger.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“While the comforts of modern civilization and technological success or economic success seem at the moment quite fulfilling, I can assure you that all of these things are transitory and will fall away.”

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“Just because you are innocent does not mean that others cannot harm you. History teaches us that lesson.”

Mean Doe Humanity Teach Buddhism Lessons Harm Innocent

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Human beings, when they encounter that which can't be understood, either run away from it, run towards it blindly, or just rationalize it out of existence.”

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“There are a lot of human beings out there who are very hostile towards anything that rocks their perceptual boat.”

Humans Humanity Human Beings Rocks Buddhism Boat Hostile

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“They'll kill you in a minute rather than deal with truth. It's more convenient because then they can forget about it and rationalize your death.”

Humanity Forget Deals Minutes Buddhism Convenient Rationalize

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“Obstructions on the way to enlightenment, are you kidding? Hey, they crucify people here. You think this is an easy place?”

People Thinking Way Humanity Easy Buddhism Enlightenment Hey Obstruction

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“Whether it's a fully enlightened Christ or Buddha, or just a more aware Martin Luther King, Kennedy or Gandhi, what did they do with them here? They shoot them, crucify them, and get them out of the way because people are afraid of truth.”

People Way Humanity Christ Buddhism Kings Enlightened Luther

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“Spiritual people are often persecuted because of their beliefs. Christians were fed to the lions. Jews were slaughtered in concentration camps. Various forms of persecution still exist today throughout the world.”

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“In this prison camp, the Gestapo state brain-police planet Earth, what is normal is insane and what is insane is normal. But it doesn't pay to tell that to the local politicians or other organizational structures that run the place that. They didn't crucify Christ because they liked what he said.”

“There are those who want to revolutionize the world with meditation. I really don't think that is necessary. The world is already revolutionized.”

Thinking World Want Humanity Meditation Buddhism

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“Humanity actually has the gall to feel they are more advanced than they were; technology somehow defines intelligence. If technology enables you to kill more people, that doesn't define intelligence. An intelligent species survives.”

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“This is the age of electrical energy. The age of atomic energy hasn't really dawned yet, not in the way that atomic energy has evolved in other worlds.”

World Way Age Humanity Energy Buddhism Other Worlds Electrical Atomic Energy Electrical Energy

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“In our world, in our pre-World War III condition, meditation is considered a cult activity and people who practice self-discovery are actually persecuted and ridiculed.”

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“The 1990's will be a determining period of time for another cycle. If humanity during this time chooses to throw away a lot of the mirages and illusions it's fooled itself with, we will enter a very bright and golden age. It won't happen in one day.”

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“We live in the dark ages. If an intelligent society can destroy itself in large numbers and places the largest amount of revenues in instruments of destruction, it is certainly not an evolved society or an intelligent society.”

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“The teaching that we receive is not necessarily very accurate. The value systems that our cultures have developed are not every open. They are very restrictive. We live in an age that is not enlightened.”

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“This is still a very primitive age, and I'm afraid they may not get much further here.”

May Stills Age Humanity Buddhism Primitive

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“The imbalance I speak of in the world, which we see manifested in wars, violence, poverty and other depressed social conditions stems from a lack of knowledge.”

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“In a time of continued population growth the consequences are devastating, needless to say. The Earth is too crowded already in terms of aura, and it's growing at 20 percent a decade.”

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“There is a world of deaf, dumb and blind people out there, who are shuffling through their lives, not knowing how wonderful life can be. They have their moments, but they are very unconscious.”

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“Human beings going to their jobs and living their lives are unconscious. They don't know what's going on. They don't know why you are born or why you die.”

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“The human mind generates an auric field that covers up naturalness, innate divinity of life. That auric field is a field of doubt.”

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“That's why we call this a dark age. It's a dark age in the sense that there are so many people on the earth who are un-attuned that they create such a level of white noise, in a sense, that it drowns out things that we'd like to see.”

People Age Earth Humanity Dark White Levels Buddhism Noise Dark Ages White Noise

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“The condition of humankind is not good, in the sense that the illusory prisons we create for ourselves through our desires and our frustrations are unhappy.”

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“Very few people are happy in this world. Most are miserable. Even in their so-called happiness, they are unhappy; it is so short of ecstasy, of god-consciousness; it's almost pitiful.”

People World Humanity Consciousness This World Buddhism Unhappy Miserable Ecstasy Pitiful

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“What these people do here is obviously not working. They sit in their commuter traffic hour after hour. They make the earth a toxic waste dump.”

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“They've got lots of theories, books, sciences - I've read a lot of those books. Most of them are pretty unhappy.”

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“In the dead world of the Western mind all that is seen are shades of gray. There's a cloud over every experience. There's no possibility of divine incarnation, divine intervention, let alone that one's self in every moment is divine.”

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About the Author

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

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