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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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“The study of Zen is the study of energy, power, knowledge and balance. It is the science of energy conservation and control. We use energy to aid others, to see beauty, to discover love where we saw no love at all.”

Use Energy Study Saws Balance Aids Conservation Introduction No Love Energy Conservation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the psychic process we are trying to eliminate everyone else from our minds, their effects, their energies, their influences: "To thine own self be true and it must follow as the night the day, thou cans't be false to any man."”

Men Trying Mind Self Night Energy Process Seeing Influence Effects Being True Psychics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think that the world ended a long time ago and no one realizes it. We're in a dream somewhere in a vortex of energy that just hasn't realized its nonexistence yet.”

Thinking World Long Dream Energy Realizing Long Time Long Time Ago Vortex

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“A great deal of energy is lost in the study by people who interact with non-physical beings. They get into your mind and your body by approaching you in the dream plane, promising you powers, playing on your desires. They sap your life force.”

People Mind Dream Body Desire Energy Lost Force Deals Study Your Body Planes Mysticism Sap Losing Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Where you live is important. It is where you dream. You lose or gain a tremendous amount of energy there.”

Important Dream Energy Loses Amount Gains Where You Live

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“It's very important where you live. Because where you live, the energies make it easier or more difficult to dream. In certain places dreams are very manifest and very strong. So you should always pick a place to live that's good to dream in. One of the best places to dream is by the ocean.”

Should Important Dream Certain Energy Strong Difficult Easier Ocean Picks Manifest Very Strong Places To Live Best Place Where You Live

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Inspire people very selectively with sincerity and with respect. You want to increase your energy? Then want, inside your heart, to inspire others. It will lift you tremendously.”

People Want Heart Action Energy Inspire Increase Lifts Sincerity Inspire Others Right Action

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Work sustains us as bodies and it consumes a great deal of energy. The conservation of energy is the component theme of Buddhist practice and yoga. That is why people live in monasteries.”

People Body Success Energy Deals Careers Practice Buddhism Yoga Buddhist Theme Conservation Components Monasteries Energy Conservation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Energy is gained by giving energy. When we give energy, we gain energy. This is different than having someone manipulate you and take your energy.”

Giving Different Energy Compassion Gains Mysticism Manipulate Gaining Power

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“In my very early childhood, when I was only 3 or 4 or 5, I would enter for many hours into meditative states in which the world would become light and energy and I would transcend the boundaries of the senses.”

World States Light Energy Hours Childhood Senses Boundaries Rama Early Childhood

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The music is used as a backdrop. I take the kundalini and I play against the notes with it. I do a light show inwardly and outwardly with the vortexes of energy as you sit there. It's no big deal. It's just what I do.”

Play Shows Bigs Light Used Energy Deals Music Is Notes Big Deal Rama Backdrop Vortex

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meryl Streep is expert at only using the requisite amount of energy to express her character, not an ounce too little or too much. She's Zen and doesn't know she's Zen. That's very Zen!”

Knows Littles Character Energy Too Much Amount Experts Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Powerful people affect many others and if I can in some way contribute to their awareness, they will put out better energy to millions and millions of people.”

People Ifs Way I Can Energy Powerful Millions Awareness Rama

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“It is my experience that if a person practices self discovery with intent, they will be successful. Success is an outer sign that they are channeling energy correctly.”

Ifs Persons Self Energy Practice Successful Discovery Self Discovery Being Successful Rama Channeling

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I may discuss contemporary cinema, how to shop at a mall without losing energy, how to use the power of mind to increase career and academic success, the Zen of sports, reincarnation, karma, sex, the experience of "suchness" or a new book by Stephen King.”

Mind May Book Use Energy Sex Sports Careers Buddhism Kings Losing Increase Karma Contemporary Cinema Shops Academic Reincarnation Rama Malls New Books Power Of The Mind Academic Success

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I was a traditional teacher for a time, but my students would ride the energy. I wanted to free people not give them a placebo.”

People Giving Wanted Energy Teacher Students Buddhism Traditional Rama Placebo

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When I meditate, people see manifestations of light when I go into samadhi and through the samadhis. Sometimes the energy of enlightenment is so clear that people don't realize that their attention has been elevated.”

People Has Beens Sometimes Light Energy Realizing Attention Clear Buddhism Enlightenment Manifestation Rama Samadhi

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It has been my exprience that repetitive nights of exposure to the kundalini energy followed by longer periods of reflection and pyschic networking create the fastest transitions in awareness.”

Has Beens Night Energy Awareness Buddhism Periods Reflection Transition Exposure Networking Rama Repetitive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As far as miracles are concerned, I'm not aware that I perform miracles. After many years and lifetimes of meditation, I am able to use the kundalini energy to alter other people's awareness and aid them in their search for light and certainty.”

People Years Use Light Able Energy Meditation Awareness Buddhism Concerned Miracle Lifetime Aids Certainty Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What matters is that they are curious about life, energy, truth, and themselves and that they haven't sold out to the establishment powers that tell us what to think, what to wear, how to behave, what to believe in and what goes beyond the line of rational and irrational thought.”

Thinking Believe Matter Energy Lines Havens Buddhism Rational Curious Behave Establishment What Matters Irrational Rama Sold Out Rational Thought

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Unfortunately, in self-discovery, you get the culty types who want the father figure or mother figure to tell them everything to do. They don't want to do any work. They want to hang on your energy and try to drain it.”

Want Trying Self Mother Father Energy Figures Buddhism Type Discovery Self Discovery Rama Drains Father Figure

Author:Frederick Lenz

“My teenage freinds when I was growing up, they have no idea that I attained liberation but I help them. They don't need to know. I can send them energy and light and help them in their evolution.”

Knows Needs I Can Ideas Helping Light Energy Growing Up Growing Buddhism Evolution Liberation No Idea Teenage Rama Energy And Light

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The only problem that occurs in the practice of tantra is when you don't practice tantra and fool yourself. You get caught up in powerful vortexes of negative energy which pull you into the lower bardo regions ... into the mud.”

Philosophy Problem Energy Powerful Practice Fool Negative Caught Regions Caught Up Mud Tantra Vortex Negative Energy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In Buddhism we have a great deal of etiquette. Etiquette is simply ways of living to conserve energy. Etiquette allows people to live in harmony with their environment.”

People Way Energy Deals Environment Buddhism Harmony Buddhist Etiquette

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sometimes there are people who only meditate with a teacher. They ride the teacher's energy. They don't really learn how to meditate. They learn how to ride the energy.”

People Sometimes Energy Teacher Buddhism Buddhist Etiquette

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is very important to always hold the thought of an enlightened teacher in your mind in a very positive way. When you direct negative energy towards someone who is powerful, it has a terrible bounce-back effect.”

Way Mind Important Energy Powerful Teacher Effects Buddhism Terrible Negative Direct Buddhist Enlightened Etiquette Bounce Very Positive Negative Energy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the West people spend most of their time and energy working. The problem is you are so tired from work that you don't have much energy to meditate - unless you use work in a tantric way.”

People Way Use Problem Success Energy Careers Buddhism Tired West Time And Energy Tired Of Working

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Clothing has a great deal to do with the attitudes and energy that others direct towards you. I favor the chic, and tend to avoid the trendy. I think that it's good to be chic when possible because it is more inaccessible.”

Thinking Energy Deals Attitude Buddhism Direct Favors Clothings Chic Inaccessible Trendy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In reality, as any physicist will tell you, the physical world is made up of moving energy. All matter is energy.”

World Made Matter Reality Moving Science Energy Buddhism Physicist

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

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

“It's very important for the coming times to have a sound economic base and to be as mobile as possible. The energy lines will be shifting strongly as we enter into the end phase of the earth's cycle.”

Important Ends Earth Success Energy Sound Lines Careers Economic Buddhism Cycles Phases Shifting Mobile

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The work that most people do in the world tends to deaden them, deadens their mind, uses up their energy and they get a paycheck and old age and not much energy. You get the check and they get your energy. That energy is translated into corporate dollars.”

People World Mind Use Age Success Energy Careers Buddhism Dollars Checks Old Age Corporate Paychecks

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We've done this before in other worlds, in other lives. It is our strength, law, medicine, entertainment, and computers, the networking of energy. All of these are arts.”

World Art Done Success Law Energy Careers Buddhism Computer Medicine Entertainment Networking Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As an individual learns and practices higher meditation techniques, a tremendous volume of energy and creativity flows through them. If they direct some of that energy towards their career, then naturally they will become successful.”

Ifs Success Individual Energy Careers Creativity Practice Successful Meditation Buddhism Higher Flow Direct Technique Volume Becoming Successful Successful Career

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The way to win the race is not to trip somebody else. Simply have more energy. You will not only have a greater chance of winning; but whether you win or lose, you'll be happy.”

Way Success Winning Energy Loses Chance Race Careers Greater Buddhism Win Or Lose

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“When you hold positive thoughts and images in your mind, you raise your power level and you create a vibratory energy around those thoughts - those thoughts are more likely to manifest.”

Mind Success Energy Levels Careers Buddhism Raises Manifest Positive Thoughts

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You work many hours. It is the major activity of your life. You can lose a lot of energy or gain a lot of energy from it. Put your full attention into it and do a good job, because it is part of your impeccability.”

Jobs Success Energy Hours Loses Attention Careers Buddhism Activity Majors Gains Good Job

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Software is a reflection of our own mind. And as our software improves it will not only take on the patterns of our minds more closely, but it will also pick up the energy of our minds; in other words, I think that software is alive.”

Thinking Mind Science Energy Alive Computer Picks Reflection Patterns Software Computer Science

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Mysticism cuts through bullshit, and it takes you right there to the experience. Everything in your life is eventually set up as a pragmatic energy flow into the light.”

Light Life Is Energy Cutting Flow Mysticism Bullshit Pragmatic Energy Flow

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“All living things have an aura, a rapidly vibrating, invisible psychic energy field that protects them from toxic, non-physical energies that would otherwise be detrimental to them.”

Energy Fields Protect Invisible Mysticism Toxic Psychics Living Things Auras Personal Power Detrimental Energy Fields

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

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

“Life wears us down. We all die here. Depending upon the way you expose yourself to energies and powers and forces will determine whether you have a lot of energy or you lose energy.”

Way Dies Energy Force Loses Determine Mysticism Personal Power

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“Everything that we do involves energy, personal power. The more energy we have, the more we can accomplish.”

Energy Accomplish Mysticism Personal Power

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“No one's lazy. What we would call the laziest person on earth expends a tremendous amount of energy to not do things.”

Persons Earth Energy Amount Lazy Mysticism Personal Power

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“Happy people, enlightened people, successful people all share something in common. They have learned how to manage and increase their energy.”

People Energy Common Successful Share Increase Manage Enlightened Mysticism Successful People Happy People Gaining Power

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“There are two sides to increasing energy. One is avoiding loss. The other is learning how to gain energy.”

Two Energy Sides Loss Gains Mysticism Avoiding Two Sides Gaining Power

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“Turn your life into a field of power and energy to draw from.”

Turns Energy Fields Draws Mysticism Gaining Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Take your energy - instead of losing it in all the little hassles and all the little battles you could have fought with opponents who didn't matter.”

Littles Matter Energy Battle Losing Opponents Mysticism Gaining Power Hassle

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“Things that raise your energy usually don't involve humans; things that cause energy loss usually involve humans.”

Humans Energy Causes Loss Raises Mysticism Gaining Power

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“Your life either takes your energy or gives you energy. Set up your life so that it gives you energy.”

Giving Energy Mysticism Gaining Power

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“Be a perpetual beginner. Always be inspired. It is that attitude of inspiration and belief that creates energy.”

Inspiration Belief Energy Attitude Inspired Mysticism Perpetual Beginners Be Inspired Gaining Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You will gain energy by meditating deeply, by speaking the truth, by learning to be still and by avoiding the crowd, most of the time, not all of the time.”

Stills Energy Gains Crowds Mysticism Avoiding Speak The Truth Meditating Gaining Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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