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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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“If you keep focusing, gradually thoughts will become quieter and quieter, gradually the images will disappear from the mind. What is happening is the kundalini energy begins to radiate and rise, it causes the mind to be quiet.”

Ifs Mind Energy Causes Quiet Happenings Disappear Concentration

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It takes a number of years to learn to hold the mind perfectly in one place. But each day we do it a little better, and in the doing we're releasing energy that is taking our mind in higher diffuse planes of attention.”

Years Mind Littles Energy Numbers Attention Higher Planes Each Day Concentration

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“Visualize a sphere, a dome of red energy surrounding you. Feel that you are consciously directing energy from the center of your body, in the area of your naval.”

Feels Body Energy Red Areas Your Body Spheres Visualization Naval Domes

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Feel that the energy of your willpower can easily deflect tension-causing feelings and frustrations that are directed towards you from the outside world.”

World Feels Feelings Energy Tension Frustration Willpower Visualization Outside World

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“As long as you visualize this sphere of red energy surrounding you, negative thoughts, hostilities, anger, and aggressive feelings of other persons and situations cannot enter you.”

Persons Long Feelings Energy Situation Red Negative Aggressive Spheres Hostility Visualization Negative Thoughts

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“If you focus on another person you take their energy in your body completely.”

Ifs Persons Body Energy Focus Your Body

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“To stop thought, you have to go above it. We are collecting energy. When it is freed, it is like a flood and the water will rise and we are in altered states of attention.”

States Energy Water Attention Flood Collecting Altered Altered States

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is a large difference between spacing out in the lower occult astral planes, weird, junky, fuzzy energy, and meditation. Meditation is sharp, clear, precise, perfect, luminous, shiny, happy, etheric, cosmic, and dissolute.”

Energy Differences Perfect Clear Meditation Buddhism Planes Cosmic Precise Occult Luminous Fuzzy Spacing

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You will notice the phenomena of meditation. You may see dazzling lights, feel energy coursing through different parts of your body, feel as if you are floating, hear sounds, or smell fragrances.”

Ifs Feels May Different Body Light Energy Sound Meditation Smell Your Body Floating Fragrance Dazzling

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Mindfulness is passive meditation. It is passive because your energy and your attention are divided between your actions and your practice, your meditation.”

Action Energy Attention Practice Meditation Buddhism Mindfulness Divided Passive

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“Mindfulness means that as we go through the day we learn to gain control of our mind, our emotions. We learn to conserve energy in a variety of simple and complicated ways that we learned in Buddhist practice.”

Way Mind Mean Energy Simple Emotion Practice Buddhism Mindfulness Gains Complicated Buddhist Variety

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You have to look at your own thought forms. Are you sitting around and thinking a lot of negative thoughts? These injure the subtle body. When you hate, when you are angry, you bring that energy through you.”

Thinking Looks Body Form Hate Energy Buddhism Mindfulness Sitting Negative Angry Subtle Negative Thoughts Sitting Around

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“When you are just thinking a lot of silly thoughts and having a lot of worries, you waste a tremendous energy and power and you put yourself into very limited states of mind. You slow down your evolutionary process.”

Thinking Mind States Energy Process Worry Buddhism Waste Mindfulness Silly State Of Mind Slow Down

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you hold a negative thought, then it will become more powerful and not only will it send bad energy to the person, but it will crash your consciousness. All the hard work of meditating is sabotaged.”

Ifs Persons Hard Energy Powerful Consciousness Hard Work Buddhism Mindfulness Negative Crash Meditating Negative Thoughts Bad Energy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you think of others in a jealous way or if you become angry, immediately pause for a moment. It's going to pull you down and send negative energy. At that moment, pause and correct yourself.”

Ifs Thinking Way Moments Energy Buddhism Mindfulness Negative Down And Angry That Moment Jealous Pauses Negative Energy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Spend time all day and all night monitoring your thoughts, constantly keeping them in a high plateau. Avoid places and people that pull your energy down.”

People Night Energy Buddhism Mindfulness End Times Spend Time All Night Monitoring

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“Thinking is usually a waste of time and energy, since thinking is essentially a rehashing of what we already know. As a matter of fact, thinking is an easy way to confuse yourself. The more you think, the less you know.”

Thinking Knows Way Matter Facts Energy Easy Buddhism Waste Mindfulness Wasting Time Matter Of Fact Easy Way Time And Energy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is good not to think of karma as an alien force that is outside of yourself. You are the generator of karma. Karma is the energy patterns that emanate from your life.”

Thinking Energy Force Patterns Karma Aliens Emanate Generator

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Karma simply means that whatever type of energy you project, or you allow to pass through your being, you will become for a period of time.”

Mean Energy Type Periods Projects Karma Karma Yoga

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“It is best to think of karma, not so much in terms of physical action, but as waveforms of vibratory energy.”

Thinking Action Energy Term Karma

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“You did something noble. This will cause a release of energy. It causes a vibratory shift. It means you are moving into a different plateau of consciousness.”

Mean Different Moving Energy Causes Consciousness Noble Karma Release

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Life is forever. Death is only a temporary abridgment. It is just a state of transition where you will move from one world into another. You will move from the physical to the causal, from matter into pure energy.”

World Matter States Moving Life Is Death Energy Forever Pure Temporary Transition

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is vain to think that we choose, that our own energy, our own intellect will create the possibility of us experiencing a higher order of existence. Liberation is to know you are that.”

Thinking Knows Order Energy Existence Possibility Higher Enlightenment Intellect Liberation Vain

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“The teacher is not a person; they're a field of energy. They're a series of levels of attention. While they have a body and appear to be there, they're not.”

Persons Body Energy Levels Attention Teacher Fields Series Enlightened

Author:Frederick Lenz

“At times your entire body tingles with ecstasy as you feel the waves of psychic energy that emanate from the master's aura touching your own body.”

Feels Body Energy Teacher Masters Wave Enlightened Ecstasy Touching Psychics Auras Emanate

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

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

“If the teacher is truly enlightened, energy and light is always coming forth from them. To be in their physical presence is a great boon, not of the teacher but of that light which passes through them.”

Ifs Light Energy Teacher Enlightened Boon Energy And Light

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“When you find a teacher, you devote your time and energy to what they believe in. You surrender not them but to the infinite, which operates through them.”

Believe Energy Teacher Infinite Surrender Enlightened Believe In You Time And Energy

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“Enlightened teachers can do certain miracles, but they are not really miracles. They just know how to use energy on other levels of consciousness. A miracle is in the eye of the beholder, as is all of life.”

Knows Use Eye Certain Energy Can Do Levels Consciousness Know How Teacher Miracle Enlightened Beholder Eye Of The Beholder

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People come to a teacher to learn self-discovery. A teacher who just wants to keep you on a string forever, the god-guru concept, a teacher like that is very abusive. Those people are actually usually taking their students energy.”

People Want Self Energy Forever Teacher Students Concepts Discovery Self Discovery Enlightened Strings Guru Abusive

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“A teacher is really invaluable. A teacher will instruct you in how to stabilize your energy field, increase it, and decrease the loss of energy in your life and how to be balanced, wise, and funny.”

Energy Loss Power Teacher Wise Fields Increase Enlightened Balanced Decrease Invaluable Energy Fields

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“If you run into a Buddha, then that energy field, the "rad" level is so high, it's incalculable. Their effect on an individual is for many, many, many, many, many, many lifetimes.”

Ifs Running Individual Energy Levels Teacher Effects Fields Lifetime Enlightened Energy Fields Rad

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“What is male and female? Is it just a physical condition? No. The energy runs very, very differently in a woman than in a man.”

Men Running Energy Women Conditions Enlightenment Female Males

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“Women vibrate at a slightly different rate that passes kundalini very easily. It is problematic though, because a woman also picks up negative energy, it affects her more.”

Different Energy Women Enlightenment Picks Negative Rate Vibrate Negative Energy

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“They are denied access to the more advanced techniques of releasing the kundalini energy, which bring about quantum leaps in self-awareness.”

Self Energy Women Awareness Enlightenment Self Awareness Technique Access Leap Denied Quantum Quantum Leap

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's everyday for a woman to project a very strong wave of sexual energy through her second attention into a man, for him to assume that the energy he feels is his own.”

Men Feels Energy Strong Women Attention Projects Enlightenment Assuming Everyday Wave Very Strong

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The problem is in the type of energy that is directed, either in the act of sex or simply walking down the street or talking to someone.”

Problem Energy Sex Women Talking Streets Type Walking Enlightenment Talking To Someone

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“The sexual energies returned, when they're not evolved, are still linked with violence and the fear of power - the fear of women.”

Stills Energy Women Violence Enlightenment Linked Men Women

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“These energies when directed towards the subtle physical body cause the subtle physical body to break down, to lose its lumonisity.”

Body Energy Causes Women Loses Break Enlightenment Subtle Breaking Down Physical Body

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“If it's not true love, then that energy will gradually wear the subtle physical down.”

Ifs Energy Women Enlightenment Subtle

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“Women have very powerful second chakras, and the goal is to move that energy up and use it.”

Use Moving Energy Women Goal Powerful Enlightenment Very Powerful Chakra

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“Meditation erases conditioning. It allows a person to channel the kundalini energy through their subtle physical body and reach enlightened states of awareness.”

Persons States Body Energy Women Meditation Awareness Enlightenment Subtle Enlightened Conditioning Erase Physical Body

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“Everything is dependent upon energy. Energy is attention. Attention is awareness.”

Energy Attention Power Awareness Dependent

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“The universe is a matrix. It's a doorway into itself. But that doorway remains invisible if you don't have enough energy flowing through you.”

Ifs Enough Universe Energy Power Remains Invisible Doorways

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“Mystical powers develop primarily through the raising of the kundalini. The Kundalini is a type of energy that exists within all things. It's possible to pull that energy, to mass it, to transmit it.”

Energy Power Type Mass All Things Mystical Transmit

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There will be a perfect flow of energy in whatever you choose to do, and there will be a grace and power present in all of your movements.”

Energy Perfect Grace Movement Yoga Flow You Choose Bhakti Yoga

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

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

“We have two choices in life: One is to fulfill ourselves. The other is to take the time and energy that we would utilize in fulfilling ourselves and use it to make others happy.”

Two Use Choices Energy Yoga Karma Fulfilling Life Choices Karma Yoga Time And Energy Two Choices Make Others Happy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you're humble it's like wearing a beautiful flower. It inspires others. It generates energy and power.”

Beautiful Energy Humility Inspire Flower Buddhism Humble Inspire Others Beautiful Flower

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Greed, fear, lust, hate, jealousy, these are part of reality too ... bundles of consciousness wrapped tightly, barbs on which you can injure yourself, volatile energies that serve as separations between yourself and perfect stillness.”

Reality Hate Energy Perfect Consciousness Buddhism Greed Separation Lust Purity Stillness Bundles Barbs

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“Avoid the company of the wicked, those who would do injury to you or to others. Like a disease their energy is something you can catch.”

Energy Company Buddhism Disease Purity Wicked Injury

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“Gaining energy is accomplished by meditating, by right actions, right thoughts, right deeds, by studying with a real teacher or by just studying the teachings, by creating happiness in your life, and by never giving up.”

Giving Real Action Energy Study Teacher Teaching Giving Up Creating Intention Deeds Accomplished Never Giving Up Meditating Right Action

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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