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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 stay in the attention you are in, then you can predict everything that will happen to you for the rest of your life.”

Ifs Happens Attention Awareness Buddhism Karma Rest Of Your Life

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“Your choices are really very limited. They are limited by your level of awareness. If you can change your level of awareness radically, then you can change your destiny.”

Ifs Choices Levels Destiny Awareness Buddhism Karma Our Destiny Your Destiny

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Each of is endlessly generating waves with our actions. If you could see the earth from a vibratory point of view, you would see something like radio waves billions of them, cascading constantly into very complex patterns all over the earth.”

Ifs Action Earth Views Awareness Buddhism Complexes Wave Patterns Radio Point Of View Billions Karma Our Actions Radio Waves

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“There comes a time when a race of beings makes a decision. When they chose to reject enlightenment, it's the end of their world because the karma is inevitable. They have to destroy themselves.”

World Ends Humanity Decision Race Buddhism Enlightenment Karma Inevitable Rejects There Comes A Time

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“There are different pathways - be it Zen, tantra, karma yoga, or jnana yoga. Different ways have been devised to do the same thing for different types of people according to their temperament.”

People Way Inspirational Has Beens Different Buddhism Type Yoga Karma Different Ways Temperament Pathways Karma Yoga Tantra

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“Meditate upon all the perfect light within your own mind! Do this repeatedly and the radiant Bodhisattvas of Wisdom and Laughter will visit you and change your karma forever!”

Mind Light Perfect Forever Laughter Karma Visualization Radiant Light Within Bodhisattva Visits You

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“For every action there is a reaction. Karma can be examined within the structure of an hour, a year, a lifetime, a thousand lifetimes.”

Years Action Hours Thousand Structure Lifetime Karma Reactions

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“What is gone before is gone. All you have now are the results of your actions.”

Action Results Gone Karma

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“Karma has always existed, as have you, I, and all things in this wonderful universe.”

Universe Wonderful All Things Karma

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

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

“Buddhists understand that today and all other days have turned out the way they have because of karma. The interconnection of one moment with another moment, of one action with another action, is karma.”

Way Moments Today Action Karma Buddhist Interconnection

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

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

“Everything that exists in this or any other world or dimension, does so because of the way that things were in the previous moment. I call this the karma of moment.”

World Way Doe Moments Karma Dimensions Other Worlds

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

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

“The karma of immediate availability is the condition of your awareness field. The karma of potentiality is what is stored inside you from your past lives.”

Past Conditions Awareness Fields Karma Our Past Your Past Past Life Availability

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“What you have done causes things to happen. Your situation in life now has been caused, is predicated upon, your previous actions. That is karma.”

Has Beens Done Happens Action Causes Situation Karma Situations In Life

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“Karma is simply the law of cause and effect in action. All moments and occurrences are caused by other moments and occurrences that preceded them in an endless, causal chain.”

Moments Action Law Causes Effects Karma Endless Chains Cause And Effect

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“There are physical karmas. They are reactions and results from actions. But those are bound to a particular lifetime.”

Action Results Particular Lifetime Bounds Karma Reactions

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“There are physical karmas that carry through death. Jesus Christ may no longer be with us but his effects continue on in the world. Those waves will be passed on from one person to another to another.”

World May Persons Jesus Christ Effects Jesus Christ Wave Karma

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“Karma doesn't mean that everything works out justly.”

Mean Work Out Karma Things Work Out Everything Works Out

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“Karma is not a cop-out. The esoteric meaning of karma is that you are who you are, because of what you have done and who you have been.”

Has Beens Done Who You Are Karma Cop Esoteric

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“Karma indicates action, but not necessarily physical action; nor is karma a result in the sense of a reward.”

Action Results Rewards Karma

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“It is good not to think of karma as an alien force that is outside of yourself. You are the generator of karma. Karma is the energy patterns that emanate from your life.”

Thinking Energy Force Patterns Karma Aliens Emanate Generator

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“Good and bad karma are just ways of evaluating causal experience. What you do affects your attention field.”

Way Attention Fields Karma Good And Bad Bad Karma

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“Karma means changing planes of reality or changing fields of attention. There will be perhaps a resulting physical action stemming from the change of these fields of attention.”

Mean Reality Action Attention Fields Karma Planes

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“Karma is not a receipt of a physical experience, because of what someone has done.”

Done Karma Receipts

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“There is a popular conception about karma, and that is that as you sow, so shall you reap. That's only true if you're a farmer.”

Ifs Karma Conception Farmers Reap

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“Karma simply means that whatever type of energy you project, or you allow to pass through your being, you will become for a period of time.”

Mean Energy Type Periods Projects Karma Karma Yoga

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“So, those who hate, those who are violent in nature, live in a world of hate and fear and violence inside themselves, inside their minds, inside their awareness.”

World Mind Hate Violence Awareness Karma Violent Karma Yoga Hate And Fear

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“Those who love and who have a sense of purity live in a very luminous band of awareness.”

Awareness Band Karma Purity Luminous Karma Yoga

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“Your karma is the sum total of your awareness field. Your awareness field is comprised of all the experiences that you've had in this life and all other lives.”

Awareness Fields Karma This Life

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“You are new at every moment. You are an extension of the previous moment of your awareness. You can radically change, if you unhook yourself from what you have been.”

Ifs Has Beens Moments Awareness Karma Extensions

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“Karma means who you are and where your awareness field is on the band of perception.”

Mean Awareness Fields Band Perception Who You Are Karma

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“Your states of mind do not occur randomly. They occur because of vibratory and karmic patterns.”

Mind States Patterns Karma State Of Mind

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“Everything that you have done has led up to what you are now. Everything you do now will lead up to what you will be.”

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“Karma is the sum total of who you are, everything you've been. The mind state you are in is karmic. Meaning, it's related by a causal chain of existences, of moments, of particles of timelessness.”

Mind States Moments Existence Who You Are Karma Chains Related Particles Timelessness

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“I would suggest your awareness is your karma. How you feel generates your level of attention.”

Feels Levels Attention Awareness Karma How You Feel

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“The karma that is most interesting is the mental karma because ultimately it generates physical action.”

Action Interesting Karma Most Interesting

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“When you cause something to happen it causes a shift in your awareness. Shifts in your awareness ultimately will result in a pattern shift in your life.”

Happens Causes Results Awareness Patterns Karma

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“All states of mind have different views. On the higher plateau, opportunities will open to you because you can see them.”

Mind Different States Opportunity Views Higher Karma State Of Mind Different Views All State

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“Karma will lead you to a larger more expansive happier view or a dinger darker view. That view will enable you to make choices and have experiences.”

Choices Views Karma

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“Karma is engendered by states of mind. If you are in a happy state of mind, that will engender one kind of karma. If you are in an unhappy state of mind, that will engender another kind of karma.”

Ifs Mind Kind States Karma Unhappy State Of Mind Karma Yoga

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“The state of mind that you are in causes you to act in a certain way. Your actions will bear results. The ultimate result of all karmas and actions is state of mind. You are your state of mind.”

Way Mind States Action Certain Causes Results Bears Ultimate Karma State Of Mind

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“Karma means that through your thoughts and feelings and actions, you are generating a state of mind. That state of mind has a view. That view will cause things to happen to you or not happen to you.”

Mind Mean States Feelings Happens Action Causes Views Karma State Of Mind Thoughts And Feelings

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“It is best to think of karma, not so much in terms of physical action, but as waveforms of vibratory energy.”

Thinking Action Energy Term Karma

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“This lifetime right now you have a specific destiny. You are destined to die at a certain time, to make a certain amount of money, to have certain associations and friendships.”

Certain Dies Destiny Amount Right Now Lifetime Karma Association Destined

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The experiences you'll have, the people you'll love, the jobs, the joys, the sorrows, the way you'll die. It is all predestined, unless you will a change.”

People Way Jobs Joy Dies Sorrow Karma Predestined

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“Karma exists within causality. It is three-dimensional. Free will exists outside of causality; it is not bound by karma.”

Three Bounds Karma Free Will Causality

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

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

“If there wasn't a way around the samskaras, no one would ever become enlightened.”

Ifs Way Karma Enlightened Samskara

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“Free will exists and operates outside causality. It is not hooked to karma. Free will is like a well that is on your property. You can choose to draw water from the well or not.”

Wells Water Draws Property Karma Free Will Hooked Causality

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

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

“If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns.”

Ifs Wells Choices Draws Patterns Currents Karma Free Will You Choose

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

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

“Free will exists within each of us. Most people choose not to use their free will, so consequently they rarely alter their karmic patterns.”

People Use Patterns Karma Free Will

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“With free will, we can modify, to a certain extent the chain of karma that has been set in motion by the karma of the previous moment. That is what free will really is, the ability to alter the sequence of karmic fate.”

Has Beens Moments Certain Ability Fate Karma Chains Free Will Sequence

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

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

About the Author

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

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