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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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“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

“We get so involved with the latest craze or having the latest car or the most high-powered house that we lose touch with that which makes us happy - what makes us happy are quiet states of mind.”

Inspirational Mind States House Loses Car Buddhism Involved Quiet State Of Mind Craze

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Matter is fun for a while; but ultimately, it is the spiritual experience where we leap beyond what we know- that is the happiness.”

Knows Inspirational Matter Spiritual Fun Buddhism Leap Spiritual Experience

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What is perfection anyway in the physical? It is an idea we have. When it doesn't happen we get all bent out of shape and frustrated and angry and then unhappy, we take it out on everybody.”

Inspirational Ideas Happens Buddhism Shapes Perfection Angry Unhappy Frustrated Bent

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The spirit longs for the world of light from which it came. That longing causes something to happen. It causes the being to grow into light.”

World Inspirational Light Happens Spirit Grows Causes Buddhism Longing

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The way you increase your energy is by letting go, ultimately. There is something inside you that knows what it should do, and you fight it all the time.”

Knows Way Inspirational Should Fighting Energy Buddhism Letting Go Increase

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What you need to learn are basic types of concentration, bringing more energy into your life, plugging up the holes where you lose energy, the basics of self-discovery.”

Inspirational Needs Self Energy Loses Buddhism Type Discovery Holes Self Discovery Concentration Basics Gaining Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation essentially means having a great time. Some people have applied a sense or a feeling to the meditative experience, such that, meditation has become a quantifiable religious experience, which means it's not any fun!”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enlightenment is cumulative. You become a little more enlightened each day as you practice yoga and Buddhism.”

Inspirational Littles Practice Buddhism Enlightenment Yoga Each Day Enlightened Cumulative

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“Examine your experience of the incarnation so far and realistically add up the moments of happiness and unhappiness and you tell me, oh somewhat vaguely nobly born, you tell me, what has it been like for you?”

Inspirational Moments Born Buddhism Add Unhappiness Incarnation Moments Of Happiness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Grow up. Get a life. Life is pain. Anybody who tells you something other than that is trying to sell you something.”

Inspirational Trying Pain Life Is Grows Growing Up Buddhism Sells Life Is Pain

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Get real. Life is heavy. It's difficult. It's complex...even for the wise.”

Inspirational Real Life Is Difficult Wise Buddhism Complexes Heavy Real Life Get Real

Author:Frederick Lenz

“These truths may seem simple and self-apparent and the words easy to say, but the states of mind that you live in as you progress are beautiful beyond description.”

Inspirational Mind May Self States Seems Beautiful Easy Simple Progress Buddhism Description State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All I have to teach you are feelings, the words don't matter much. But as you listen, feel the stillness of my mind, not my mind but of mind...infinite mind.”

Inspirational Feels Mind Matter Feelings Teach Masters Buddhism Infinite Stillness Of My Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enter into the activities of the world, without getting overjoyed by success or totally put out by failure. Whether they love you or hate you, it doesn't much matter. What matters is stillness.”

World Inspirational Matter Hate Love You Buddhism Activity Stillness What Matters Hate You Overjoyed

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Anyone who meditates for a period of time will gradually become more sensitized to all of life.”

Inspirational Inspirational Life Buddhism Periods

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.”

Ifs Inspirational Looks Enough Situation Buddhism Painful Painful Situations

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Gain control of the emotions. Be the helmsperson and not blown around by the winds of emotion. While there will be winds, you can navigate them or even use them to expedite your journey.”

Inspirational Use Emotion Journey Wind Buddhism Gains Navigate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You need to feel good about your life. Winning is a great idea, but you can get stuck in it too. It's just another way of looking at life, an idea. You need to renew yourself and your spirit.”

Way Inspirational Needs Feels Ideas Spirit Winning Buddhism Stuck Feel Good Another Way Great Idea

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The world appears solid to most people. It is filled with their pain, their desires, their private ecstasies, their expectations. They are that world - nothing glows.”

People World Inspirational Pain Desire Buddhism Expectations Filled Ecstasy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You are not a body. You are not a mind. You are infinite light, infinite intelligence, the radiance of all beings, the dharmakaya - the endless light of creation.”

Inspirational Mind Body Light Creation Buddhism Infinite Endless Radiance Infinite Intelligence

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You are caught in an empty house, in a box, in a place that is not happy. You are trapped inside you and wherever you go, there you are.”

Inspirational House Buddhism Empty Caught Boxes Trapped Not Happy Empty Houses

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The magic of life, of course, is not something that can be explained. Structures can only take us to the point where they begin or end. Beyond structures is the white light.”

Inspirational Ends Light Courses White Magic Buddhism Structure White Light Magic Of Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is mental conditioning in your mind put in there during this life by your parents, teachers, the society. You've been told what is and what is not, what is right and what is wrong. This has to be pushed aside.”

Inspirational Mind Parent Teacher Buddhism This Life Conditioning

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All the past has done is generated the you that you are now. Dwelling on the past isn't going to change anything.”

Inspirational Done Past Buddhism Dwelling Dwelling On The Past

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“All happiness is inside your own mind. Chances are, you have not discovered that. Meditation is about experiencing the happiness inside your mind.”

Inspirational Mind Chance Meditation Buddhism Chances Are

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In this world people are at different levels of evolution. The more advanced soul has learned that fulfillment does not come from simply leading a physical life.”

People World Inspirational Doe Different Soul Levels This World Inspirational Life Buddhism Evolution Fulfillment Different Levels

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Ifs Inspirational Light Earth Individual Buddhism Higher Superiors Grades Fourth Fourth Grade Eighth Grade

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We applaud the people who are film stars, who get elected to an office, who are very athletic, the small group who play with power in a very limited way. But we're completely oblivious to what can be done to the infinite realities that exist in front of us. We deny them.”

People Way Inspirational Done Play Reality Film Stars Groups Fronts Buddhism Office Infinite Deny Athletic Small Groups Oblivious Film Stars

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in creation are slaves to.”

Inspirational Pain Pleasure Conditions Creation Buddhism Sorrow Slave Rise Above Success And Failure Pain And Pleasure

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“As you gain control of the mind, you gain control of life and you gain control of your time. It all works together.”

Inspirational Mind Together Buddhism Gains Working Together

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are certain protective forces in the universe that do watch over us, but the innocent die too.”

Inspirational Certain Dies Universe Force Watches Buddhism Innocent Protective

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Why become enlightened? Why join the military? Why get married? Why cross the ocean? It is a personal choice. There is something in a person that draws them to the light.”

Inspirational Persons Light Choices Military Buddhism Ocean Married Draws Crosses Enlightened Personal Choice

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Life hurts at times. It hurts to have a body at times, hurts to be born, hurts to live, hurts to die, but it can be ecstasy beyond comprehension. You can know that ecstasy. It is inside of you.”

Knows Inspirational Body Dies Born Hurt Buddhism Ecstasy It Hurts Comprehension Life Hurts

Author:Frederick Lenz

“On your journey, remember there is no end. That is true knowledge. There is no final knowledge. There is no final enlightenment, that is a very finite, human way of seeing things.”

Way Inspirational Humans Ends Remember Seeing Journey Buddhism Enlightenment Finals Finite True Knowledge

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You are sitting on this little planet, spaceship earth. The universe is very accessible to you. You don't need a spaceship to travel there. Most of the worlds are non-physical. And it's all God; it's all eternity”

World Inspirational Needs Littles Earth Universe Planets Buddhism Sitting Eternity Spaceships

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Ifs Inspirational Loss Buddhism Lifetime Wasted Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Ifs Inspirational Buddhism Importance Assuming

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“The trap of the self is the trap that causes unhappiness. We define ourselves too much; whereas the infinite, the pure radiant spirit, is not so definable.”

Inspirational Self Spirit Causes Too Much Buddhism Pure Infinite Unhappiness Traps Radiant

Author:Frederick Lenz

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

Ifs Knows Inspirational Happens Life Is Buddhism This Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The essence of all reincarnation is to have the best lifetime now that you've ever had, no matter what's going on.”

Inspirational Matter Buddhism Essence No Matter What Lifetime Reincarnation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When your consciousness expands you are in a world, literally, of light. You live in a world of light where nothing is solid. You don't have to be enlightened to have this experience. You just have to start the inner journey.”

World Inspirational Light Consciousness Journey Buddhism Enlightened Inner Journey

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When your life becomes clear and pure, when your mind is clear and your view of life is unobstructed, then you'll be at peace with yourself. Then you will be happy.”

Inspirational Mind Life Is Views Clear Buddhism Pure

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Knowledge comes from personal experience of truth and awareness, not from conversation.”

Inspirational Awareness Buddhism Conversation Personal Experiences

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We sit here on the oasis of human consciousness and the verbal plane trying to talk about something that we just have to go and see and do and feel.”

Inspirational Feels Trying Humans Consciousness Buddhism Planes Human Consciousness Oasis

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“Only when you are by yourself can you realize how wonderful you are.”

Inspirational Realizing Wonderful Buddhism

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“Your inner being already knows. It's trying to communicate with you. But it needs to shift you into a different state of mind.”

Knows Inspirational Needs Trying Mind Different States Buddhism Communicate State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is an alternative. It's an old alternative. It's not for everybody. It's only for people who are smart, limited market. It's enlightenment.”

People Inspirational Buddhism Smart Enlightenment Alternatives

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“Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment, and I would encourage you to follow that pathway as far as you can, into ecstasy.”

Inspirational Meditation Buddhism Enlightenment Ecstasy Pathways

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enlightenment is already there inside us and all things. All we have to do is get something out of the way that is causing us not to see that.”

Way Inspirational Buddhism Enlightenment All Things

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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