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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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“Be a perfect flow of energy in whatever you chose to do. This is perfect action.”

Action Energy Perfect Health Buddhism Flow Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If all the members of a team have synchronized their energy and they have all subordinated their egos to success of the team, then we have a functioning unit. If we have a lot of hotshots who want attention, you won't really play that well.”

Ifs Want Wells Play Energy Attention Team Health Buddhism Members Ego Units Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The more perfectly you can refine the process of Frisbee, the tighter your energy is and the more you become one with the nothingness of the Frisbee, the nothingness of the play.”

Play Energy Process Health Buddhism Nothingness Athletics Frisbee

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The chi is the central energy or power that we use in physical expression. When the chi is flowing properly in our lives, we can be very adept athletically.”

Use Energy Our Lives Expression Health Buddhism Athletics Adept

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is an all powerful force or energy that creates all and draws all back into it. This is God. It is beyond intelligence, beyond analysis.”

Inspirational Energy Force Powerful Buddhism Draws Analysis

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All of the energy of existence is going to flow through you. You will be in thousands of planes of consciousness at once or beyond in nirvana or having a sandwich with a friend.”

Inspirational Energy Existence Consciousness Buddhism Flow Planes Sandwiches

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When we open our heart up to someone, that energy, of course, comes into us.”

Inspirational Heart Courses Energy Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Life is wonder, endless, ceaseless wonder. If your energy level is low, then everything is gray, two-dimensional, boring, frustrating, and unhappy.”

Ifs Inspirational Two Life Is Energy Levels Wonder Buddhism Lows Boring Endless Unhappy Gray Frustrating Energy Levels

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We don't live forever. We have a limited energy. You have to determine those things that you direct your energy towards, otherwise you get yourself in too many places and nothing succeeds.”

Inspirational Energy Forever Buddhism Succeed Direct Determine Live Forever

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The way you increase your energy is by letting go, ultimately. There is something inside you that knows what it should do, and you fight it all the time.”

Knows Way Inspirational Should Fighting Energy Buddhism Letting Go Increase

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What you need to learn are basic types of concentration, bringing more energy into your life, plugging up the holes where you lose energy, the basics of self-discovery.”

Inspirational Needs Self Energy Loses Buddhism Type Discovery Holes Self Discovery Concentration Basics Gaining Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Some people meditate because they need more energy and when you meditate you get a tremendous amount of energy.”

People Needs Energy Meditation Buddhism Amount

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You need energy and life force to see and feel what you need to do. Otherwise you are in a dark room and you can't tell what's going on. You need to practice meditation.”

Needs Feels Energy Force Dark Rooms Practice Meditation Buddhism Dark Room Energy And Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Even after only several weeks of practicing meditation, you will begin to have more energy and be a little bit happier. Eventually, you will experience ecstasy and knowledge beyond the power of words to describe!”

Littles Energy Bits Meditation Week Buddhism Little Bit Ecstasy Power Of Words Describe Me

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

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

“When you meditate, you will care more for those around you and you will be able to do more for them, as your own awareness advances. Everyone who comes into your field of energy is positively influenced.”

Care Able Energy Meditation Awareness Fields Buddhism Positively

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation will give you the power to overcome fear. As you sit and meditate each day, it makes you stronger. The energy of the universe flows through your mind, your body, and your life.”

Giving Mind Body Universe Energy Meditation Buddhism Flow Overcoming Stronger Your Body Each Day Overcoming Fear Makes You Stronger Energy Of The Universe

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The kundalini is the life force; it is the essential energy of existence. It is the hidden ingredient in life. It is what makes it all work.”

Energy Force Existence Buddhism Essentials Ingredients

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Power is the active force in life. It is the force that makes awareness. The general term for spiritual power is kundalini. Kundalini is the energy of life that creates awareness.”

Spiritual Energy Force Term Awareness Buddhism Active Spiritual Power Energy Of Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The primary energy that is active in all things is kundalini. Kundalini energy is the energy of awareness. It can be used to modify awareness.”

Used Energy Awareness Buddhism All Things Active Primaries

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The kundalini is the energy that opens up the bands of perception. It is also the power that allows us to travel mentally from one dimension to another, from one experience to another.”

Energy Buddhism Band Perception Dimensions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The power that enables us to transform our awareness is the release of kundalini. All yoga, either directly or indirectly, all Buddhism, relates to the release of the kundalini energy.”

Energy Awareness Buddhism Yoga Release Relate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Kundalini is the life force. It is given different names. They call it prana. They divide it into different segments, the apana and the samana; sometimes it's called shakti. Nice names, it is energy.”

Different Sometimes Names Energy Given Force Nice Buddhism Divides Different Names Prana Shakti

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Prana is an element of energy. Energy is a manifestation of a certain principle which in Indian cosmology they call shakti, or spiritual power. Don't worry about the words too much.”

Spiritual Certain Energy Principles Worry Too Much Buddhism Elements Indian Manifestation Cosmology Spiritual Power Prana Shakti

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The Kundalini resides in the base of the spine. It's a bit of a misnomer because the kundalini really is not so much in the physical body, as in what we call the subtle physical body, the body of energy.”

Body Energy Bits Buddhism Subtle Spine Physical Body

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The kundalini energy rests in potential at the base of the spine. It is possible to take that energy and allow it to move, to unleash it, from the base of the spine up to the third eye.”

Eye Moving Energy Buddhism Thirds Spine Third Eye

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Kundalini energy passes through the shushumna, which is a Sanskrit name for an astral nerve channel that runs along the spinal column.”

Running Names Energy Buddhism Nerves Columns Sanskrit

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As the kundalini energy increases, as the energy of the psyche becomes more pronounced, which it does as thought becomes eclipsed by silence, all the variant mind states burn away.”

Mind Doe States Energy Silence Buddhism Increase

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The kundalini energy is often compared to a snake that is coiled up. Because it is coiled up it can spring very quickly. It can jump and extend itself very far.”

Energy Buddhism Spring Snakes

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“The kundalini energy enables us to do things that would not happen otherwise, to apply an occult pressure, to use energy to create effects perhaps thousands of miles away.”

Use Happens Energy Effects Buddhism Pressure Miles Occult Miles Away

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“You can transmit the kundalini physically when people are there, and of course, long distance. It is energy, inter-dimensional energy.”

People Long Courses Energy Buddhism Distance Long Distance Transmit

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The kundalini rises and the kundalini is hot, it's a hot energy. Sometimes you feel it cascading up your spine, and it's kind of searing or it's tingling, it almost feels sexual.”

Feels Kind Sometimes Energy Buddhism Hot Spine

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's funny, people who have a lot of sexual energy think of themselves as being not spiritual. They are probably more spiritually inclined. All that sexual energy is kundalini.”

People Thinking Spiritual Energy Buddhism Funny People

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The mystical kundalini is very different. It is a much more intense transformative energy which, when used, allows a person to make tremendous spiritual leaps in a short period of time.”

Persons Different Spiritual Used Energy Buddhism Periods Intense Leap Mystical

Author:Frederick Lenz

“For most persons, the mystical kundalini energy is easier to initially perceive, unless you're extremely sensitive. It's more of a rush, a flash. There's an electric quality to it, a burning heat.”

Persons Energy Quality Buddhism Easier Burning Perceive Sensitive Heat Electric Flash Mystical

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The mystical kundalini energy has some, I don't know if you'd call them limitations, but there are certain operational factors which you should understand about it.”

Ifs Knows Should Certain Energy Buddhism Factors Limitation Mystical

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We have a body, but we also have a subtle body, a body of energy that looks like our physical body. The subtle physical body is made up of energy, of light that vibrates at a very high rate so the human physical eyes can't see it.”

Humans Looks Made Body Light Eye Energy Buddhism Rate Subtle Physical Body Vibrate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Inwardly the sun also has an energy field, it has an aura, so does the earth, so does the moon, and so do all the planets. We're affected by those auras. It's not something that you really want to reason out.”

Want Doe Reason Earth Energy Sun Fields Planets Buddhism Moon Affected Auras Energy Fields

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Just as we have a physical body, so we have an etheric body and the etheric body is made up of energy, of light.”

Made Body Light Energy Buddhism Physical Body

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The subtle physical body is made up of strands of luminous energy, and the energies are flowing through them constantly in the etheric plane. Above the subtle body is the causal body.”

Made Body Energy Buddhism Planes Subtle Luminous Strands Physical Body

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Just as there are primary colors from which all of the others come forth when they're combined, so there are primary vibratory qualities of energy and light within us.”

Light Energy Quality Color Buddhism Primaries Light Within Primary Colors Energy And Light

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Our physical health is dependent upon energy. We have a short lifespan compared with past Yuga's.”

Past Energy Buddhism Dependent Short Life Physical Health

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are seven primary chakras located in the subtle physical body, the body of light and energy that is our awareness and that surrounds the physical.”

Body Light Energy Awareness Buddhism Seven Primaries Subtle Surround Physical Body Chakra Seven Chakras

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are six chakras or energy vortexes that lie along that tube. There is a seventh chakra located several inches above the head, but it is not connected.”

Lying Energy Buddhism Six Connected Inches Tubes Chakra Vortex Seven Chakras

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you focus on a chakra, it's very easy to bring subtle physical energies into your consciousness.”

Energy Easy Consciousness Focus Buddhism Subtle Chakra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Chakras are mystical energy centers that exist within the human aura. Tremendous occult power resides in a person's chakras. Siddha masters draw upon that power during meditation, store it within themselves, and later use it to perform miracles.”

Humans Persons Use Energy Meditation Masters Buddhism Draws Miracle Stores Mystical Occult Auras Chakra

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“In Buddhism we meditate. We make our minds quiet by learning to focus on the chakras, release internal energy that we call kundalini, and bring ourselves into high states of consciousness.”

Mind States Energy Consciousness Focus Buddhism Quiet Release Internals Chakra States Of Consciousness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Whatever you have learned in your previous incarnations is retained within your causal body, your multi-lifetime body of energy that lives from one incarnation to another.”

Body Energy Buddhism Lifetime Incarnation

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

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

“The energy strands and bands of our being are linked in a certain way and makes us what we are. It causes us to perceive a certain level of the dream of life. But you can reorder those. That's magic, you see.”

Way Dream Certain Energy Causes Levels Magic Buddhism Band Perceive Linked Strands

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You're composed of an aggregate of different forms and energies, the samskaras. These are lines within your own being. When you go into samadhi, these lines dissolve gradually so you become less formed.”

Different Form Energy Lines Buddhism Samadhi Samskara

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The planes of light exist. Yoga is a method of unifying the energies of the body, the mind, and the spirit and directing them towards infinity, the planes of light.”

Mind Body Light Spirit Energy Yoga Method Planes Infinity Hinduism Unifying

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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