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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 have humility you are halfway to God-realization.”

Ifs Humility Buddhism Realization Halfway

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you seek eternity and light and luminosity, seek humility first ... first things first.”

Ifs Firsts Light Humility Buddhism Eternity First Things First

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We prefer humility in others - and if we prefer it in others - we can soon prefer it in ourselves.”

Ifs Humility Buddhism

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“Real humility is something that no one else will see. No one will know about your humility, if it's real.”

Ifs Knows Real Humility Buddhism

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“If you wish to cultivate humility, then you should associate with those who are humble.”

Ifs Should Wish Humility Buddhism Humble Associates

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“If you suffer in love, if you have problems in love, it's because you don't have enough humility.”

Ifs Enough Problem Suffering Humility Buddhism

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“If you really have humility when you love, there is only one thought: "What can I do for my beloved?"”

Ifs Humility Buddhism Beloved

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“Don't create a plastic image of what it is to be spiritual and try to become it. You won't be capable of it and that will frustrate you. Even if you could do it, if it's not really what you're like, you'll be miserable.”

Ifs Trying Spiritual Like You Capable Intention Miserable Plastic

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“You don't want to become so sensitive that you can't interact with people in the world. If you get to that point, you are not practicing psychic development. You are running away from the world, and you've made yourself weak.”

People Ifs World Want Made Running Success Development Weak Sensitive Running Away Psychics

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“If you are around a lot of human beings who are filled with jealousy and anger and rage and desire, it filters into the mind. Zen is writing a new program to run in the mind.”

Ifs Writing Mind Humans Running Desire Human Beings Program Filled Rage Introduction Filters

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“There is a beautiful flow to the study of Zen. If it is not making you happier, then you are not practicing correctly.”

Ifs Beautiful Study Flow Introduction

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“Zen has lost its zip, if you will, or its nothingness and has become ritualistic Its established in monastaries with strict codes of koan study.”

Ifs Lost Study Code Nothingness Strict Introduction Zips

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“If you're very, very conservative and you like that sort of practice, go find a very conservative Zen master and just do traditional Japanese practice, which is not that traditional actually.”

Ifs Practice Masters Conservative Traditional Introduction Zen Master

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“If you're very liberal, then you should go and find a very liberal Zen teacher, a liberal interpretation of the doctrines of the Soto or Rinzai schools.”

Ifs Should School Teacher Doctrine Interpretation Introduction

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“If you are psychic you will become much more aware of the beauty of life. If you are psychic, when you look at a rose, you will see and feel the essence of the rose.”

Ifs Feels Looks Seeing Essence Rose Psychics Beauty Of Life

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“If you are psychic, you can see into the minds of others. You can use that opening to aid somebody. Sometimes someone's trying to tell you something and they don't even know what it is.”

Ifs Knows Trying Mind Sometimes Use Seeing Aids Opening Psychics

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“If you are psychic you can perceive that someone may love you and they can't show it. Someone may seek to harm you and they mask it.”

Ifs May Shows Seeing Love You Harm Perceive Mask Psychics

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“If you have more personal power and you are in higher states of mind, then naturally you can see things and adhere to them or avoid them. Personal power is really the issue.”

Ifs Mind States Issues Seeing Higher State Of Mind Personal Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you could get angry with someone and separate yourself from them, don't do that. If you have people who are difficult to deal with, be neither attracted nor repulsed. Go a step higher.”

People Ifs Action Difficult Deals Steps Buddhism Higher Angry Right Action

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“Some people say that if you have sex you can't be enlightened. I think it isn't really so much whether you have sex or not, but it's what you're doing with your attention level during that time.”

People Ifs Thinking Action Sex Levels Attention Buddhism Enlightened Right Action

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“If you seek enlightenment, then career is a very important idea on your agenda.”

Ifs Important Ideas Careers Enlightenment Agendas

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“In Buddhism you study how to release the kundalini to the levels that would certainly afford career success. If we move it further, into the planes of knowledge and wisdom, it enables the practitioner to do just about anything.”

Ifs Moving Levels Careers Study Buddhism Release Planes Knowledge And Wisdom Career Success

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“If you want to become enlightened, you've got to get all the bullshit out of your life. You have to clear up your mind completely.”

Ifs Want Mind Effort Clear Enlightened Bullshit

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“When you could be sloppy, you're not. When you could be indulgent, you're not. When you could be sad, you laugh instead. If you fall down, you pick yourself up again and again and again.”

Ifs Fall Effort Laughing Buddhism Picks Again And Again Falling Down Sloppy Pick Yourself Up

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“If you're studying Buddhism you never really have enough time because you're going to die.”

Ifs Enough Dies Effort Study Buddhism Enough Time

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“Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it is shared, you are down in duality.”

Ifs Feels Light Effort Eternity Duality Transcendental Shared Experiences

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“In my estimation it's silly to go out and spend your time aiding people if you don't have your own act together yet. So I'd rather you spend the time, get it right, and it'll all work out a lot better.”

People Ifs Together Compassion Work Out Silly Estimation

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“The only reason you feel pain is because you're so busy looking at yourself instead of looking at the wonderful patterns of light. If you become absorbed in the wonderful patterns of light, then there's no pain.”

Ifs Feels Reason Light Pain Wonderful Buddhism Busy Patterns No Pain

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“I never considered myself to be special. If anything, I considered myself to be awkward, and still do sometimes.”

Ifs Stills Sometimes Special Awkward Rama

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“I like extreme athletics, extreme meditation and extremely beautiful women. Perhaps I'm an extreme person, or it's simply my Karma. But I must tell you, as if you hadn't read about me in a newspaper or seen me on a magazine format television show, there are extreme risks involved with all three.”

Ifs Persons Shows Beautiful Three Meditation Risk Television Involved Extremes Karma Newspapers Magazines Beautiful Women Rama Athletics Format Television Shows

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“If you're interested in matching your mind with the most intelligent kind of beast I have ever encountered, get yourself a Scotty dog. He'll get bored very fast, and it will require all of your personal power and intelligence to keep up with him. You might find a good friend.”

Ifs Mind Kind Might Dog Intelligent Bored Beast Good Friend Rama Personal Power Matching Scotty

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“There have been times when I've made special arrangements to meet people in music, film, business or politics, and I'll continue to do so if the people are sincere.”

People Ifs Has Beens Made Film Special Sincere Arrangements Rama

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“If they're not sincere, then naturally I'll turn them down. But if what they want is to gain power and use it for a higher good, I'll help them. Then they merit some special consideration.”

Ifs Want Helping Use Turns Special Higher Gains Merit Consideration Sincere Rama

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“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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“If I can have an effect on influential women and men, if they seek me out because they are interested in self-knowledge and the fun of meditating, then I'm glad to help. That's why I'm here.”

Ifs Men I Can Self Helping Fun Effects Men And Women Glad Self Knowledge Influential Rama Meditating

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“I have had several offers to make the book into a film. I don't know if the message could be accurately transmitted, and so I have been somewhat hesitant in granting film rights.”

Ifs Knows Has Beens Book Film Rights Offers Messages Rama Hesitant

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you ever come to one of my seminars, you will notice I have volunteer workers. When I work with individuals like that, I expect a level of excellence displayed. Everything has to be done perfectly.”

Ifs Done Individual Levels Excellence Workers Volunteer Rama Seminars

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“Most of the software I sell runs on mainframes and supercomputers, and is used by multinational corporations and governments. You may not get to see that, but if I have done it properly, hopefully it will make the events in your life transpire more smoothly.”

Ifs May Done Government Running Used Events Sells Hopefully Corporations Software Rama Multinationals Multinational Corporations Supercomputers Mainframe

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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

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“If I had my choice I'd hang out anywhere. I mean, it doesn't matter. It's all God; it's all the same. There's only nirvana for the enlightened.”

Ifs Mean Matter Choices Enlightened Hanging Out Rama

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“If you think it makes a difference if I have ten thousand sports cars, ten million girlfriends and lead a very flashy life ... I don't think you should work with any teacher because you don't know what it is all about yet.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Should Sports Differences Millions Teacher Car Buddhism Thousand Ten Girlfriend Making A Difference Rama Flashy Sports Cars

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“I am very interested in the enlightenment of women. Very few teachers of advanced self discovery work with women, and if they do it's usually in a very second handed way. They treat women as second class citizens.”

Ifs Way Self Class Teacher Buddhism Citizens Enlightenment Discovery Treats Self Discovery Rama Second Class Citizens

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“Transmission does not have to take place physically. The student doesn't have to be sitting across from you. But it's easier if they are because the vibration of the teacher is strongest in the physical proximity of the teacher.”

Ifs Doe Teacher Students Buddhism Easier Sitting Strongest Vibrations Rama Transmission Proximity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If I used justice, you'd all be dead. The karma that you throw at me when you don't like me - if I just let it come back, you'd all be destroyed in no time.”

Ifs Used Justice Buddhism Karma Like Me Destroyed Rama Don't Like Me You Don't Like Me

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“If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism in America".”

Ifs Writing America Meditation Teaching Wind Buddhism West Autobiography Rama

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“If you want to be liberated, if you choose to be what I am, then you've chosen freedom. You can do this.”

Ifs Want Can Do Buddhism Chosen You Choose Liberated Rama

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“I don't think of myself as a guru but as a teacher. If one means 'guru' in the original sense a 'dispeller of darkness' then that certainly is my purpose.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Purpose Darkness Teacher Buddhism Originals Guru Rama

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“The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically 'in'. But if we were to apply for a financial aid grant as a cult, I'm afraid we would be turned down for lack of proper qualifications.”

Ifs Would Be Buddhism Financial Aids Grants Phenomenon Cult Rama Qualifications Turned Down Financial Aid

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“When I leave the body someday, I can help people just as effectively if they focus upon me.”

People Ifs I Can Helping Body Focus Buddhism Someday Rama

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“It's as if all your past is written on the blackboard, and if we could erase it, your past would no longer exist. The way you do that - the only way you do that - is in samadhi.”

Ifs Way Past Written Our Past Your Past Erase Samadhi Blackboard

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About the Author

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

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