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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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“It is always possible to get into a higher state of mind. The way you get into a higher state of mind is by generating good karma.”

Way Mind States Higher Karma State Of Mind Good Karma

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“The person who gives selflessly in this lifetime immediately goes into a better state of mind. That is instant karma.”

Giving Mind Persons States Lifetime Karma Instant State Of Mind

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“Intent is all-important. Your intent determines what happens to you inwardly, in a karmic sense.”

Important Happens Buddhism Determine Karma Dharma

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“Everyone experiences desire. Desire is not bad. There is no good or bad from the point of view of karma. There is only structured reaction.”

Desire Views Point Of View Karma Reactions

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“When you do things in a selfish way, let alone a destructive way, then you are bound by that karma. Your state of mind will go down. You will find yourself becoming depressed, nervous, anxious and upset.”

Way Mind States Becoming Bounds Selfish Karma Nervous Upset Destructive Finding Yourself State Of Mind Anxious

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“Those whose primary concern is to destroy others are at the lowest level of development. Those who are only interested in their own satisfaction are farther along. Those who both do things for their own satisfaction and the satisfaction of others are even father along. Then there are saints who just constantly live for the welfare of others.”

Father Levels Development Concern Saint Satisfaction Karma Primaries Welfare Lowest

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“Selfless actions create a higher karma, which brings you into higher states of mind. When you are in higher states of mind you will see things that you never saw before.”

Mind States Action Saws Higher Karma State Of Mind Selfless Karma Yoga

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“You did something noble. This will cause a release of energy. It causes a vibratory shift. It means you are moving into a different plateau of consciousness.”

Mean Different Moving Energy Causes Consciousness Noble Karma Release

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“If your motives are high and noble and your work is hard and you do a good job, then whatever the task is in your life, it will benefit you.”

Ifs Hard Jobs Benefits Tasks Noble Karma Motive Good Job

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“By practicing Buddhist Yoga, you can become happy, ecstatic and free in your current incarnation, even if you have never been that way before in any of your past lives.”

Ifs Way Past Yoga Currents Karma Buddhist Our Past Your Past Incarnation Ecstatic Past Life

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“Happiness is something that comes from creating good karma. The monk who feels that what they are doing is unpleasant is not really creating any good karma and will not have a better lifetime.”

Feels Creating Lifetime Karma Better Life Monk Good Karma

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“If you are not happier every day, if you don't see a progression of development, then you are certainly not practicing yoga or Buddhism and therefore you cannot be amassing any positive karma.”

Ifs Buddhism Development Yoga Karma Progression

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“My favorite cause is the enlightenment of others. I think that is the best place to put money. You get the highest yield in terms of karma on your money.”

Thinking Causes Term Highest Enlightenment My Favorite Karma Yield Rama Best Place

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“If you work an extra ten hours to help spread the dharma, this will cause for much faster progression. You're doing something for a higher cause, for a higher ideal.”

Ifs Helping Causes Hours Higher Ten Ideals Spread Karma Faster Extras Dharma Progression

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“Many people excuse themselves by claiming that they don't have to do work anymore because they are beyond it. They are simply afraid of getting their hands dirty. Getting your hands dirty washes your being.”

People Hands Success Careers Buddhism Excuse Karma Dirty

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“A saint is someone who has been very selfless and, over a period of lifetimes, generated a tremendous amount of good karma, which has caused them to enter into very lovely states of mind.”

Mind Has Beens States Amount Periods Lifetime Saint Karma Lovely State Of Mind Selfless Karma Yoga Good Karma

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“Good karma leads to rebirth also. The desire for higher states of mind is a desire. When you are fixated on higher states of mind, you don't become enlightened.”

Mind States Desire Higher Karma Enlightened State Of Mind Rebirth Good Karma

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“To go beyond karma you have to end the structure of self.”

Ends Self Structure Karma Nothingness

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“Death is only a summer vacation for us. We don't really change or lose what we have learned or who we have been when we die, because we are our karma.”

Has Beens Death Dies Loses Summer Karma Vacation Summer Vacation

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

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

“To encounter such a being is considered the ultimate karmic blessing in the sense that your life will be so configured that every single variant problematic karma will surface, which means you have the opportunity of passing through them all correctly, going over the ocean of the samsara and reaching nirvana yourself.”

Mean Opportunity Teacher Blessing Ocean Ultimate Surface Karma Passing Passings Encounters Reaching Enlightened Passing Through Samsara

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“The role of the Buddhist teacher is to explain your options and to show you what creates karma. All our discussions are basically karmic until you're fully engaged in samadhi.”

Shows Roles Teacher Karma Buddhist Discussion Engaged Enlightened Samadhi

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“If even one woman in the West were to become enlightened, it would change karmas on this planet.”

Ifs Women Planets Enlightenment West Karma Enlightened One Woman

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“What a man must do is realize that his continued belief in the inferiority of women is going to produce a type of karma that is going to hold him back, and already has.”

Men Belief Women Realizing Produce Type Enlightenment Karma Inferiority

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“So when we wake from the ignorance of this world, the dream of existence, all of the experiences that we have ever had fall away. The ideas of life and death, of rebirth, of reincarnation, karma, God, truth, knowledge - all these things fall away.”

World Ideas Dream Fall Existence This World Ignorance Yoga Karma Life And Death Reincarnation Rebirth

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“The secret to enlightenment is kindness and selfless giving. Without that, it's just words, isn't it?”

Giving Secret Kindness Enlightenment Yoga Karma Selfless Karma Yoga Selfless Giving

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“Selfless giving is the art of living.”

Giving Art Yoga Karma Selfless Karma Yoga Art Of Living Selfless Giving

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“This is what Krishna says in the Bhagavad-Gita - Karma Yoga. If you can't avoid action, you might as well act.”

Ifs Wells Might Action Yoga Karma Krishna Karma Yoga Gita

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“Whenever you engage in a selfless action that contributes to the welfare of others, this will create a vibratory pattern that will lead you into higher states of mind.”

Mind States Action Higher Yoga Patterns Karma Welfare State Of Mind Selfless Karma Yoga Right Action

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“One thing I have seen, regardless of the method of aprehenesion of the dimensional plane one is in, is self-giving and how effective it is.”

Giving Self One Thing Yoga Method Karma Planes Karma Yoga Self Giving

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“Selfless giving presupposes something - that there is a lumunious reality.”

Giving Reality Yoga Karma Selfless Karma Yoga Selfless Giving

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“We have two choices in life: One is to fulfill ourselves. The other is to take the time and energy that we would utilize in fulfilling ourselves and use it to make others happy.”

Two Use Choices Energy Yoga Karma Fulfilling Life Choices Karma Yoga Time And Energy Two Choices Make Others Happy

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“You suffer because you try to fulfill yourself. You think of yourself in a limited way.”

Thinking Way Trying Suffering Yoga Karma Think Of You Karma Yoga

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“If we look further, we see that we actually contain all of existence. Everyone who has ever been or will ever be, is in some way contained in our awareness. Our awareness is like the sky, it's endless.”

Ifs Way Looks Existence Sky Awareness Yoga Karma Endless Karma Yoga

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“We try to fulfill ourselves, even though our inner voice tells us to become all that we are - still, we run from it.”

Trying Stills Running Voice Yoga Karma Inner Voice Karma Yoga

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“We hide in relationships. We hide in material possessions. We hide in ambitions, secret desires, hates, frustrations, jealousy, self-ptiy, in our insecurity - and more than anything our vanity and our egotism.”

Self Desire Hate Secret Materials Ambition Yoga Possession Karma Vanity Frustration Insecurity Egotism Karma Yoga Material Possessions Secret Desire

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“If your nature is infinite awareness trapped in a body, suddenly there's a lack of happiness, a lack of freedom. No matter what you get you'll never be happy, because these are all trinkets.”

Ifs Matter Body Awareness Yoga Infinite No Matter What Karma Trapped Karma Yoga Trinkets

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“If a bird is used to flying and you put in a a cage, it won't be a happy bird; It wants to fly; that's its nature. Your nature is infinite awareness.”

Ifs Want Used Awareness Bird Yoga Infinite Karma Flying Cages Karma Yoga

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“You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering.”

Feels Self Pain Suffering Causes Illusion Yoga Karma Fixed Karma Yoga Pain And Suffering

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“The reason why we're not happy is because we believe consciously and subconsciously that we're separate from god, eternal awareness.”

Believe Reason Awareness Eternal Yoga Karma Reason Why Not Happy Karma Yoga

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“We define a world. We build a house, then after building the house we enter into it and we never leave it.”

World House Building Yoga Karma Karma Yoga

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“Whenever we just try to please ourselves, all we do is cover up another window in the little house we're stuck in.”

Trying Littles House Please Yoga Window Karma Stuck Karma Yoga Cover Ups

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“Whenever we do something for someone else, we affirm that we are not simply in it for ourselves, that our self is someone else, is everyone else.”

Self Yoga Karma Karma Yoga

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“What you do affects your awareness field. When you do something selfless your attention feild is more clear, more lucid.”

Attention Clear Awareness Fields Yoga Karma Selfless Karma Yoga

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“When you do something "selflish" you'll feel constricted and restricted. You won't be happy.”

Feels Yoga Karma Karma Yoga

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“Those who pursue a worldy life - who try to get others to do what they want, to peform for them, who use and abuse in the name of their own happiness - are miserable.”

Want Trying Use Names Yoga Abuse Karma Pursue Miserable Karma Yoga Use And Abuse

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“Feeling "comfortable" is the short path to annihilation.”

Feelings Path Comfortable Yoga Karma Annihilation Karma Yoga

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“If your life is based around your being comfortable, you're not very comfortable. You suffer quite a bit - becuase in the realm of the senses there is not only pleasure, but there is pain.”

Ifs Pain Life Is Suffering Bits Pleasure Comfortable Yoga Karma Senses Realms Karma Yoga

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“Selfless giving changes our concept of our identity. When we give to others our unselfishness removes the spot of "self" that stained our awareness.”

Giving Self Awareness Identity Yoga Concepts Karma Spots Remove Selfless Karma Yoga Unselfishness Selfless Giving

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“We preceive that God is in all of those we give to.”

Giving Yoga Karma Karma Yoga

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“Then we see that the same God is within ourselves.”

Yoga Karma Karma Yoga

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About the Author

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

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