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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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“Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself.”

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“Meditation is a violent act of separation from mass consciousness and direct access to power.”

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“We see in meditation that our experiences are endless, that we are endless, eternal spirit, not as a thought or an idea you read in a book. You have the experience yourself, every day.”

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“Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another.”

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“There are billions of people out there walking around and they don't meditate. You can tell. They are not having a good time with their lives. People are not happy.”

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“This is a world of unhappy beings. They don't understand how simple it is to be happy. You just have to practice meditation. To meditate is to be happy.”

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“Each time you meditate, you create a stronger connection with the world of inner light and happiness that exists within you.”

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

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

“Happiness is found principally in meditation.”

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“It is not simply a transient happiness that you experience in meditation that creates balance; it is a transformative light. Inner light is the most powerful thing there is.”

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“I'm not suggesting that everyone should meditate, far from it. Meditation is for very few individuals. I'm speaking of something that is a powerful experience.”

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“Meditation is not for everybody. When you meditate you become conscious. Most people don't want to be too conscious because they are afraid of awareness, of death, and of being happy.”

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“In meditation all the fake dull thoughts that you think, all the ridiculous philosophies, the necessities, all the things that won't matter a bit when you are dead - fade away.”

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“Meditate and bath in the light of eternity. Nothing else is worthwhile.”

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“Meditation is like taking a shower. You are going to wash all the dirt off that you have picked up since your last shower and be clean.”

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“The practice of meditation is an ancient practice. It's been practiced in many lands, for many lifetimes. You may have practiced it before.”

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“Meditation is when we go beyond incarnation, beyond all cycles, to immortality, to something that is not transient.”

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“Some people are drawn to meditation without knowing why. Their inner being realizes that they've totally fouled up their life so far, and now it's just going to drag them to the local meditation hall.”

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“Some people meditate because they want to get the larger picture on life. It could get kind of discouraging if this was all there was.”

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“Some people meditate because they are sick and tired of their life, of the world, of the way people abuse each other and abrogate each other's freedoms.”

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“Some people meditate because they need more energy and when you meditate you get a tremendous amount of energy.”

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“The reason one enters into lower mental states is because you don't have the power or chi flowing through you.”

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“You are down in the valley and the valley is filled with smog. You can't see too well. When we meditate, we are going beyond the smog to the top of the mountain.”

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“The place that you gain the most power is within your own mind. Stopping thought generates power. That is why people meditate. The longer you can stop thought, the more power you gain.”

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“You need energy and life force to see and feel what you need to do. Otherwise you are in a dark room and you can't tell what's going on. You need to practice meditation.”

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“When you meditate properly you are able to take your mind and merge it with the cosmos. Essentially, this causes your IQ to increase.”

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“When you meditate you will be able to get in touch with that part of yourself which knows what it wants, as opposed to the levels and layers of conditioning in your mind.”

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“You start meditation as an average human being who is filled with vagueness and not much purpose or definition, who is controlled by their desires, your mind spins all over the place, your senses spin all over the place, out of control.”

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“The mind is like a lake. It reflects eternity when it's very still. If ripples appear, lots of them, then the reflection is not clear. We lose the clarity of the perfect reflection.”

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“Learn to meditate. It's fun. It will give you a strong, wonderful mind.”

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“There is a spirit that guides us, if we will listen. It speaks softly. In order to hear it we must still our thoughts and meditate.”

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“Even after only several weeks of practicing meditation, you will begin to have more energy and be a little bit happier. Eventually, you will experience ecstasy and knowledge beyond the power of words to describe!”

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

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

“You become someone else when you meditate. It isn't just a little technique. If you really pursue it, you change radically - you evolve.”

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“When you meditate you are accessing eternity. You are plugging yourself into that source which is all light and all beauty and all perfection.”

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“Beginning meditation is a process of unhooking ourselves from thought, being motivated to meditate. It is very exciting in the beginning because we see the tremendous jumps we make in awareness.”

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“As you do your daily meditations, your life will change. Most people change between the ages of zero to four. The older we get the less we change. When we meditate we become perpetually young.”

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“Meditation is a process of liquefying the self temporarily and then allowing the self to rebind. The ice melts and then it comes back again.”

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“If we are in the same state of mind, we just self-reflect, things are dull and gray and kind of boring.”

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“When you start to meditate, if you stick with it, you will see tremendous changes in your life and state of mind.”

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“As your meditation practice improves from month to month, more and more light and ecstasy will spill over into the moments of your daily life. Eventually you will always exist in a state of continual light.”

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

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

“For years we practice meditation, like any art, and we get better at it each day. In the beginning it's just enough for us to sit down and focus our attention.”

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“If you meditate, then the real miracle is the transformation of your awareness field beyond the body. Beyond the body there are oceans of light, continents of light, universes of light. Meditation frees you from this world.”

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“The good news is that you don't have to stop thoughts completely to meditate. It takes a long time to stop thought impeccably. What you need is to detach yourself from thought.”

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“When there is no thought in the mind, no thought of thought, when the mind is quiet but fully alert, we experience a little bit of enlightenment.”

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“Through the practice of meditation and Buddhism, as you experience light, it immediately delights you.”

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“If you meditate you will change in ways that I cannot understand. But that is neither here nor there.”

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“Learn to meditate, practice and don't get frustrated. It will take you years to learn to meditate perfectly. Every time you try, you are growing. It's not as if you have to meditate perfectly to make progress.”

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“There are those who feel that meditation is unrealistic or takes them out of the world, and if that was your experience with mediation, you weren't meditating.”

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“Meditation is not impractical or unrealistic, nor is it difficult to integrate with any lifestyle or age, in that it's timeless, although it occurs in time.”

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“If you meditate your mind will become razor sharp. Your memory and retention will be superb. New talents and abilities will begin to unfold. You will become younger each day, yet wiser.”

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“Think of your mind as a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it will become.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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