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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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“What they should really do, if they want supreme power, is develop the tonal to perfection.”

Ifs Want Should Buddhism Perfection Supreme Supreme Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We could take all the pleasures that have ever been and will ever be in all the universes and add them up into one experience. If you were absorbed in nirvana, it wouldn't be noticed.”

Ifs Suffering Universe Pleasure Buddhism Add

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you draw from the endless awareness of nirvana, you are no longer a slave to fortune. When pleasant experiences come your way, you can enjoy them. But if pain and misfortune befall you, you can rise above them and remain unaffected.”

Ifs Way Pain Suffering Enjoy Awareness Buddhism Draws Fortune Slave Endless Pleasant Misfortunes Rise Above

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Nirvana is not really a physical place, although sometimes I talk about it as if it were. It is not really an experience, although sometimes I mention it as if it was.”

Ifs Sometimes Suffering Buddhism

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

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

“For the first few years, it's most beneficial to meditate on the heart chakra. The heart chakra, called the anahata chakra in Sanskrit, is located in the center of the chest, dead center. If you focus there you will feel a warm and tingling sensation.”

Ifs Feels Years Firsts Heart Focus Meditation Buddhism Warm Sensations Chests Beneficial Chakra Sanskrit Chakra Meditation Heart Chakra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Ingnore your thoughts. As you focus more intensely, you may feel as if you are floating.”

Ifs Feels May Focus Meditation Buddhism Floating Chakra Meditation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are going to experience the ecstasy of enlightenment, it is not just going to be a phrase. You've got to work during meditation. So back to the navel center!”

Ifs Meditation Buddhism Enlightenment Phrases Ecstasy Chakra Meditation Navel

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enlightenment is to be outside the circle, the circle of death and rebirth. There is a circle inside you. If you meditate and focus on your third eye, you will see a circle of light.”

Ifs Light Eye Focus Meditation Buddhism Enlightenment Thirds Circles Rebirth Third Eye Chakra Meditation Death And Rebirth

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If meditate on the third eye and have headaches it means you are trying to pull in too much power from the occult chakra. The danger is obsession.”

Ifs Trying Mean Eye Too Much Meditation Danger Buddhism Thirds Obsession Occult Headache Chakra Third Eye Chakra Meditation Too Much Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Even if you are focusing on a chakra, you don't want to do that for the whole period of meditation. There should be a point where you let go. Settle down. Get off the train of thought for a while.”

Ifs Want Should Whole Meditation Buddhism Periods Letting Go Train Settling Settling Down Chakra Chakra Meditation Train Of Thought

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you're in the tantric sex state of mind, what someone else experiences when they have sex is not what you'll experience. You won't even notice what your body is doing, particularly.”

Ifs Mind States Body Sex Buddhism Your Body State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are in a state of mind in which all things are one, then you can spend your time in lingerie shops.”

Ifs Mind States Buddhism All Things Shops State Of Mind Lingerie

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The anti-pleasure movement in self-discovery is very strong. I have big news for them, if they ever get to enlightenment, which is unlikely the way they're approaching it, they're going to find that enlightenment is very pleasurable.”

Ifs Way Self Bigs Strong Pleasure Movement Buddhism News Enlightenment Discovery Self Discovery Very Strong Unlikely Big News

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantric Zen is all about the practice of zazen meditation. If you meditate well, you'll be in very powerful states of mind and then it really doesn't matter what you do.”

Ifs Mind Wells Matter States Powerful Practice Meditation Buddhism State Of Mind Very Powerful

Author:Frederick Lenz

“After the meditation session you have to be a little bit careful. If you start to think a lot of thoughts and become very active, you can prevent some of the meditative awareness from coming into your mind.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Littles Bits Meditation Awareness Buddhism Little Bit Careful Active Session

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Each time you meditate you have the possibility of completely changing your life in one meditation. If you meditate with your whole heart and your whole soul, you will become light itself.”

Ifs Heart Soul Whole Light Meditation Possibility Buddhism Changing Your Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you can bring earnestness to your meditation, you will find that happiness is something that will run through your life constantly.”

Ifs Running Meditation Buddhism Earnestness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The balance and patience factors are much more critical in surfing than they are in snowboarding ... if you're out surfing serious waves and you wipe out, you don't land on soft snow. It's usually either very sharp coral, or you get raked across the beach gravel and sand while you're tumbling underwater.”

Ifs Land Serious Balance Wave Critical Snow Factors Beach Sand Surfing Wipe Underwater Snowboarding Gravel Tumbling

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Wisdom is knowing that if you bend, you don't have to break. Sometimes it is necessary to go with the flow of life.”

Ifs Sometimes Break Knowing Flow Taoism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are interested in Taoism, I would suggest that you read the Way of Life by Lao Tsu, the founder of Taoism. I personally prefer the Witter Brynner translation.”

Ifs Way Taoism Founders Translations Laos

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Lao Tsu says the way of life is ancient, timeless. It is existence which he calls the Tao - a mysterious source, beyond understanding, and all of us are a reflection, if not that source of life ourselves.”

Ifs Way Life Is Understanding Existence Source Reflection Ancient Mysterious Taoism Timeless Tao Source Of Life Laos

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If there's no background, no foreground, no opposition, no complements, then there's no change becasue there's no subject and object.”

Ifs Subjects Objects Backgrounds Opposition Taoism Complement Foreground

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If we're distracted from the continual flow of perfect mind that we're in, suddenly everything configures, everything solidifies. Suddenly a shape appears out of flux, a world appears, karmas appear, pasts, futures, presents, time structures, ying and yang appear.”

Ifs World Mind Past Perfect Shapes Flow Structure Karma Taoism Distracted Flux Yang Ying And Yang

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The I Ching tells us that for every ending there is a new beginning. In other words, what appears like a transition isn't really a transition; it's a continuum of existence. If you close your eyes for a moment the room will appear to go away. But does it really? Open your eyes again and the room will still be there. That's all death is.”

Ifs Doe Stills Moments Eye Rooms Existence Taoism Going Away Transition New Beginnings Continuum

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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