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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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“They say Casanova made love to over 10,000 women. Do you think it changed him? It probably aged him a little bit. But I doubt that it changed him. If it had changed him, he would have stopped somewhere along the line and done something a little different.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are interested in developing some of the higher range occult powers, then I would suggest you not engage in sex too frequently.”

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“Love is not reasonable. If we could assign it to the reasonable world, it would not be useful.”

Ifs World Love Is Buddhism Sexuality Reasonable

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“Love has its own independent form and formlessness. When someone loves you be gratiful for it. If they stop loving be grateful for that. If they love another, let them love!”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“If someone else is supposed to be in your life, they will be in your life - you can't stop them from coming if its the will of eternity.”

Ifs Buddhism Eternity Sexuality Supposed To Be

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“If you are having sex with someone who is not on the same frequency that you are on, it can be very problematic. The greatest karmic transfer occurs in having sex with someone.”

Ifs Sex Buddhism Sexuality Frequency Transfers Having Sex

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“Physical perfection, working out, adds to your spiritual perfection if that is your intent.”

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“It is easier to develop the mind through meditation than it is just through athletic practice. If you put the two together, it will be unbelievable.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions become meditation.”

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“If someone else runs faster than you or makes more money than you or is more adept at anything, that doesn't mean you have lost. You are measuring yourself only against yourself and your tendencies not to do all that you are capable of doing.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“If I have led my life totally deliberately, then when I come to the end of the diving board, I can just fall off the diving board and it will be perfect. I won't even remember what happened.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can hit a home run. If you are honest, you'll know when it's perfect because at that critical moment of connection, there was no sense of being there. That is perfect play. There is no self involved.”

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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

“If you are serious about sports and athletics then you need to begin the discipline of mind. With the power of mind, almost anything can be accomplished.”

Ifs Needs Mind Sports Serious Health Buddhism Discipline Accomplished Athletics Power Of The Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you have the sense of participation in sports or athletics, of being a player, then you are not really into the Zen mind. In Zen mind there is no sense of self in the play.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are afraid of other people take a martial arts class. The best way to overcome fear is learn to be proficient in martial arts.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The samurais lived with death constantly. They wore a short dagger to take their own life if need be. At any moment they might have to do that, it was a part of their code.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“If the chi is being wasted by useless activities, emotions and associations that drain us, then we don't have enough power when it comes time to perform.”

Ifs Enough Emotion Health Buddhism Activity Useless Association Drains Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Diet is a matter of personal preference, but if you're interested in the advanced states of meditation, eating mammals should be avoided. They have a more evolved consciousness and can affect your attention field greatly.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Eternity becomes more beautiful as we age, if we age well. If we age poorly, then we don't improve our minds; we don't refine all the aspects of our being.”

Ifs Mind Wells Age Beautiful Health Buddhism Aspect Eternity Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you were just you, you would be happy. But of course, you don't know who or what you are. So how can you possibly be happy? That is why you have got to study Zen...or something.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“We are alive for a certain period of time in any given lifetime. We are competing against time. It is a race to see if we can wake up before we go to sleep again. That is the challenge.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you live for a very long while, you will have to watch your friends and loved ones die, your body age and lose its beauty and vigor, and your mental capacities fade.”

Ifs Inspirational Long Body Age Suffering Dies Loses Watches Buddhism Capacity Your Body Loved Ones Fades Vigor

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

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

“You must constantly strive to enlarge your awareness. Naturally, if you do, you will have an uncommonly fine and happy life.”

Ifs Inspirational Awareness Inspirational Life Buddhism Fine Strive Happy Life

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“If you are able to stop feeling sorry for yourself, and to contribute to the betterment of this world and of those around us, you will experience a high that is beyond my ability to express.”

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“If you meditate deeply several times a day you will transform and change. You will find that you don't have to inspire yourself to do what is right because you have become what is right.”

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“If you learn to lead your life strategically and strongly, you can overcome the opposition. But running away, you never overcome anything. The pathway to enlightenment is for the warrior, the samurai.”

Ifs Inspirational Running Buddhism Enlightenment Overcoming Warrior Opposition Running Away Pathways Samurai

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“You might have a warrior spirit in there somewhere, and it's just waiting for the opportunity to come out. If you do, you might be a candidate for the pathway to enlightenment.”

Ifs Inspirational Might Spirit Opportunity Waiting Buddhism Enlightenment Warrior Candidates Pathways Warrior Spirit

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Never get so stuck in being responsible and mindful that you can't let it all go and run off chasing your private dream, if it leads to the shiny worlds, the worlds of beauty.”

Ifs World Inspirational Dream Running Buddhism Responsible Stuck Chasing Being Responsible

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“A life that most people will never even know about can be yours in this study, but only if you approach it with equanimity, poise, grace, balance, and professionalism.”

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“You can be locked away in prison and be free if your mind is not a prison. Or you can be walking around with lots of credit cards and be in a prison, the prison of your own mind, the prison of your illusions.”

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“If you are a person who wants an uncommonly fine life, if you're willing to put in some time each day to do that, then that will happen to you.”

Ifs Want Inspirational Persons Happens Willing Buddhism Fine Each Day

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“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

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“I've lived in worlds where there are three or four suns. We had incredible sunsets, beautiful. But they weren't more beautiful than here, if my mind is more beautiful in each life.”

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“Everything depends on your state of awareness. If your state of awareness is low, then all the material success in the world won't help.”

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“Physical circumstance will not cause happiness. Or if it does, there is the fear of loss. Now you are a slave to it. You have become bound to it.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you feel the purpose of life is struggle, Darwinian fitness, dog eat dog, then you will be eaten by a dog, or you will eat dog. You become what you focus on.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can just stay in oblivion, going through your days and your life and your experiences, staying with your friends, family. If that suits you, it's good. But for some people, it's not enough.”

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“You don't have to meditate. You don't have to practice self-discovery and Buddhism. You should only practice self-discovery if you really have had it with the human world.”

Ifs World Inspirational Should Humans Self Practice Buddhism Discovery Self Discovery

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Maybe you don't need to do this. Maybe this isn't your moment. But if you do feel the pull of the eternal, then you can't stay away from it.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you are in a painful situation, look at it. If you look deeply enough and you don't get freaked out, you will see that there is beauty in everything. You will see that there is beauty in you.”

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“Most individuals on earth are not drawn to the higher light at this time. That doesn't make you superior to anyone else. If you are in the eighth grade you're not better than someone who is in the fourth grade.”

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“No lifetime is a loss if you've leaned something, because that learning stays with you. There is no such thing as a wasted life, if you have learned.”

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“If this is the only life, then everything assumes too great an importance. We have to get everything out of life and we overdo it.”

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“If you know that you have had countless lives, then what happens in this life is not quite as traumatic.”

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“It's not logical, self-realization. If it was, everybody would be self-realized because everybody is logical.”

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“If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so many concepts that are contradictory, yet each make complete sense in its own right.”

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“Reason is a terrible trap because you will be satisfied with answers. And if you are satisfied with answers, you'll never come to know what life really is.”

Ifs Knows Inspirational Reason Answers Buddhism Terrible Satisfied Mysticism Traps

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you think you are a vile slime, that means that you aspire to something higher...It's because you have a sense of perfection, and you obviously want that, that you find something wrong.”

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“A part of us resists all of this and wants to make it sound as if it's much too religious, an arbitrary thing that we have to do with our life. This is nonsense. This is the real fun.”

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About the Author

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

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