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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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“When you sit and meditate and begin to experience expanded states of mind, you will be afraid. The light makes most people very, very afraid. The only way to overcome the fear is walking down into the light.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“You are all dirty and grungy. You go step in the shower and you come out clean. When you enter into the white light, it does something to you.”

Doe Light White Steps Clean Dirty Showers Samadhi White Light

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“Eventually you will go into samadhi. Samadhi is a very advanced meditation. You dissolve into the clear light of eternity again and again.”

Light Clear Meditation Eternity Again And Again Samadhi

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“Salvakalpa samadhi is like a sea of perfect light; nirvikalpa samadhi is no light, no darkness, no way to describe it. Absorption is complete, that's nirvana.”

Way Light Perfect Darkness Sea Samadhi Absorption

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Nirvikalpa Samadhi means you are sitting in meditation and you go beyond the planes of light to nirvana. Then you come back and here you are "back in the saddle again".”

Mean Light Meditation Sitting Planes Samadhi Saddles

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everything is subtle. Everything has a million sides. Everything is a manifestation of god. Everything is light. All beings are infinite. All things are perfect, in their own way.”

Way Philosophy Light Sides Perfect Millions All Things Infinite Manifestation Subtle

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“Any avenue that you follow leads to light. All roads lead to Rome.”

Philosophy Light Rome Avenues

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“If you follow anything far enough in the universe, it will eventually lead to light.”

Ifs Enough Philosophy Light Universe

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“As you go into the light, you will gain a more profound happiness. That happiness will free you from the desire-aversion cycle.”

Light Desire Gains Profound Concentration Cycles Aversion

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“To know that these are people who for a moment, in glory, in light, were true warriors, and you had the chance to associate with them, to live with them, to share with them, words and moments of power - this is the nature of spiritual study.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“As Buddhist monks, our task is to bring ourselves resolutely more and more into light, to forgive and forget, to forget those who create problems for us because to remember them is only to keep problems is mind.”

Mind Problem Light Remember Forget Buddhism Tasks Forgiving Buddhist Monk Etiquette Forgive And Forget Buddhist Monk

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We seek to unify ourselves with the endless light of truth, of God, of nirvana. We recognize the infinite playing through all beings and all forms, but we only have to concern ourselves with ourselves.”

Light Form Buddhism Concern Infinite Endless Buddhist Etiquette Truth Of God

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can live in the world and have all the myriad experiences that life has to offer and yoke your awareness field to the planes of light, and eventually to nirvana itself.”

World Light Awareness Fields Buddhism Offers Planes Yoke

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“Mysticism cuts through bullshit, and it takes you right there to the experience. Everything in your life is eventually set up as a pragmatic energy flow into the light.”

Light Life Is Energy Cutting Flow Mysticism Bullshit Pragmatic Energy Flow

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Chaos is everywhere and chaos is wonderful. That's all there really is. There is no today. There is no tomorrow. There is only eternity, perfection, consciousness, power, and light.”

Light Today Consciousness Wonderful Tomorrow Perfection Eternity Chaos Mysticism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We're using gradients of light as an auric measurement, a quantified auric measurement of the ascension of consciousness from the relatively sensorial, material perceptions of existence to the more refined spiritual perceptions of existence.”

Light Spiritual Existence Consciousness Materials Perception Mysticism Measurement Refined Ascension

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is only black light between the stars. It may seem that it's darkness, but it's really black light. There is no such thing as darkness. Darkness is a human concept. There's only black light between the stars.”

Humans May Light Seems Stars Black Darkness Concepts Mysticism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You have got to get your power up and do something and not just sit around. Always be optimistic. Always be positive! And ignore those who aren't, because they're obviously confused, and out of touch with light.”

Light Optimistic Confused Mysticism Being Positive Being Optimistic Gaining Power

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“To choose the light or to choose other things is always the question.”

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“The important thing to remember is to follow the path of light. As the fictional character Yoda, from Star Wars, correctly pointed out, once you start down the dark path to power, it's very difficult to leave that path.”

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“If you go to a higher place of power, you can gain power there and you might even encounter some beings of knowledge and light that might aid you in some way.”

Ifs Way Light Might Buddhism Higher Gains Aids Encounters

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“If you go to a place of power, the beings are higher, magnificent beings of light. They are not from our world. They pass through it, the place where dimensions touch, where there are many worlds present.”

Ifs World Light Buddhism Higher Dimensions Our World Magnificent

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The Divide is like two rivers merging, at the point of merging there is a great deal of activity. The sunset, it's neither dark nor light, and the sunrises are the moments of transition.”

Two Moments Light Dark Deals Buddhism Activity Rivers Sunset Transition Divides Sunrise Merging

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The computers in Atlantis were infinitely evolved as opposed to what we see today. The science, the technology, everything was really done with light. All processing was done with light, with crystal formations and structures. Electricity is much too slow.”

Done Light Today Technology Computer Structure Ancient Electricity Crystals Formation Processing Ancient Egypt Atlantis

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When your mind is flooded with the pure light of nirvana, which is happiness itself, you will be delighted with whatever occurs to you.”

Mind Light Suffering Buddhism Pure Delighted

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

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

“The comedies, the tragedies we see played out on this earth before us, don't last. But we are eternal spirits. These events will come and go, but the planes of light and nirvana will always be there.”

Light Earth Lasts Spirit Suffering Comedy Events Buddhism Eternal Tragedy Planes Comes And Goes

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Outside of nirvana, the planes begin, the subtlest planes of light that vibrate fastest, all the way on down through the astral realms through the physical and so on.”

Way Light Suffering Buddhism Planes Realms Vibrate

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“The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.”

Light Form Desire Suffering Buddhism Pure Unhappiness Aversion

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“Beyond the world of thought and sensorial impressions, there are planes and dimensions of perfect light, knowledge, and radiant perfection.”

World Light Suffering Perfect Buddhism Perfection Impression Planes Dimensions Radiant

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“By fully focusing your mind on your chakras, stilling your thoughts, and increasing your kundalini flow, you can rise above your body consciousness and unite your mind with the clear light of nirvana.”

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

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

“Enlightenment is to be outside the circle, the circle of death and rebirth. There is a circle inside you. If you meditate and focus on your third eye, you will see a circle of light.”

Ifs Light Eye Focus Meditation Buddhism Enlightenment Thirds Circles Rebirth Third Eye Chakra Meditation Death And Rebirth

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Focus your attention on the center of your forehead. Visualize that there is a slow but steady swirl of white light there. Visualize that the white light above your forehead is slowly moving in a clockwise direction.”

Light Moving White Attention Focus Meditation Buddhism Steady Foreheads Moving In Swirls White Light Chakra Meditation

Book:Snowboarding to Nirvana: A Novel

Source: Snowboarding to Nirvana: A Novel

“Visualize the soft white light continuing to expand as it gently swirls around, until it has filled the earth, the sky, the universe, and all of infinity.”

Light Earth Universe White Meditation Sky Buddhism Filled Infinity Continuing Swirls White Light Chakra Meditation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The realms of light exist everywhere forever. But it is up to an individual to raise their mind to a level of stillness at which they can perceive these most beautiful realms of light.”

Mind Light Beautiful Individual Levels Forever Raises Buddhist Perceive Realms Stillness Cosmology

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Buddhism leads you to the awareness that all things are holy. Everything is holy. The dark has its own light, in other words.”

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“Tantric Zen, at first, does not appear to have a method. In Tantric Zen, you could meditate on a Brillo box or you could meditate on the clear light of reality.”

Firsts Doe Reality Light Clear Buddhism Method Boxes

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“Aum is the most powerful of all mantras. It is good to chant Aum seven or more times before and after each meditation. Chanting "Aum" puts you in harmony with the vibration of Eternity. "Aum" opens the gateway to the infinite highway of light.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Lakshmi is a celestial being who lives in a higher plane of existence. Her mantra is "Sring." When you chant it, it brings beauty and light into your consciousness.”

Light Existence Consciousness Meditation Buddhism Higher Planes Celestial Mantras Lakshmi

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Each time you meditate you have the possibility of completely changing your life in one meditation. If you meditate with your whole heart and your whole soul, you will become light itself.”

Ifs Heart Soul Whole Light Meditation Possibility Buddhism Changing Your Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We can think of descriptions almost as computer languages, an operative description that only deals with very simple operations. Its code is sex - Male, female, dark, light, up down, in out - its the language of duality.”

Thinking Light Language Sex Dark Simple Deals Computer Female Males Code Operations Description Taoism Duality Light Up Computer Language Male Female

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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