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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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“People who meditate deeply find wonderful things happening in their life all the time.”

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“The study of meditation is the entrance into the world of Wonderland. It has nothing to do with how you'd like it. You want a nice neat little study that's easily understandable.”

World Want Littles Study Nice Meditation Buddhism Neat Entrances Wonderland

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“When you meditate, you take charge of your life. You bring your conscious awareness to a new high point, where the vista is beyond any horizon.”

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“Meditation gives you personal power. You will notice that people will treat you differently as you progress because they can feel that power. Use that power wisely. If you search your heart, I think you will.”

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“If you pursue meditation with a non-competitive attitude, with a hopeful and helpful attitude, without violence, then you will find that you will become a very benign and powerful being, one who is at peace with himself and the universe.”

Ifs Universe Powerful Attitude Meditation Violence Buddhism Pursue Hopeful Helpful Benign

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“When you meditate, you will care more for those around you and you will be able to do more for them, as your own awareness advances. Everyone who comes into your field of energy is positively influenced.”

Care Able Energy Meditation Awareness Fields Buddhism Positively

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“As you meditate, you'll develop a sense of humor so that you can laugh at yourself, which you need to do in this world.”

World Needs Laughing Meditation This World Buddhism Sense Of Humor Laugh At Yourself

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“Learn to control your emotions. Be able to glide through them. By practicing concentration exercises and meditation, you will find that when strong emotions strike, you will gain the ability to not be swayed by them.”

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“As you meditate, you will be able to look at the beauties and horrors of life and accept them with an equal mind. You will love more and be kinder to those around you.”

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“Stress is a state of mind and if you realize that you will find that it's something you can deal with. It is my belief that stress occurs not because of the conditions of the world.”

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“Meditation will give you the power to overcome fear. As you sit and meditate each day, it makes you stronger. The energy of the universe flows through your mind, your body, and your life.”

Giving Mind Body Universe Energy Meditation Buddhism Flow Overcoming Stronger Your Body Each Day Overcoming Fear Makes You Stronger Energy Of The Universe

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“Will is developed in meditation. It is refined. It is within you, but you don't know how to get to it.”

Knows Know How Meditation Buddhism Within You Refined

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“With the power of one's will we stop thought and move into alternate forms of perception. We gain that power through practicing very, very, very hard each day when we meditate to stop our thoughts.”

Hard Moving Form Meditation Buddhism Perception Gains Each Day Our Thoughts Power Of One

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“When we meditate and we are able to stop thought, we get a sense of being beyond the body. Our consciousness expands and we see ourselves as beings of light.”

Body Light Able Consciousness Meditation Buddhism

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“Meditation is a practice of detaching and then stopping ourselves from thinking; our thoughts are interruptions in the flow of awareness. Consciousness, in its highest aspect, is perfect and formless.”

Thinking Perfect Consciousness Practice Meditation Awareness Buddhism Highest Aspect Flow Our Thoughts Stopping Interruptions

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“Meditation is the freeing of ourselves from all mental states and concepts of self.”

Self States Meditation Buddhism Concepts

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“What we're seeking to do is internalize perception. Perception is very much involved with the senses and the mental processes and the emotional processes.”

Process Meditation Emotional Buddhism Involved Perception Seeking Senses

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“Our current perception is very cloudy and all screwed up. As our perception increases through meditation, we're seeing life more correctly.”

Meditation Seeing Buddhism Perception Increase Currents Screwed Up Cloudy

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“We are not really separate beings of light. That's a dream we are having, the dream of multiplicity. Meditation takes us beyond the moment to eternal awareness.”

Moments Dream Light Meditation Awareness Buddhism Eternal Multiplicity

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“The period of meditation is a time when we go back to the source. We go back to what we were before we were born.”

Born Meditation Source Buddhism Periods

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“If there were no world, no time, no space, no condition, if none of us existed, that would be meditation.”

Ifs World Would Be Space Meditation Conditions Buddhism

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“Meditation is not emptiness. That is a way of trying to talk about something that is impossible to put into words. It is a world of fullness, if anything.”

Ifs World Way Trying Meditation Impossible Buddhism Emptiness Fullness

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“From the point of view of meditation, there is nothing that is not God. When we meditate, we are participating in a spiritual experience. We are seeing life is not perhaps as we thought, but a little bit different, vastly different.”

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“When you go into the planes of light, all of the incorrect ways of seeing and understanding life that you pick up are washed away.”

Way Light Understanding Meditation Seeing Buddhism Picks Planes Understanding Life

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“When you meditate deeply, you will see beyond life and death. You will see that you can't die and you can't be reborn. You are existence itself.”

Dies Existence Meditation Buddhism Life And Death Reborn

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You remember, you are drawn back to the pathway to enlightenment, to meditation, and when you begin to meditate your past life knowledge returns to you.”

Past Remember Meditation Buddhism Return Enlightenment Our Past Your Past Pathways Remember You Remembers You Past Life

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“In meditation we get a sense of the countless selves within ourselves, the different forms they take. Those that don't seem positive or helpful we push aside. Those that seem progressive we enjoy.”

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“As you meditate, you will find that consciousness itself will move you beyond time and space and condition into a larger, vaster, more beautiful state of awareness.”

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“We live in a sensual world, and at the same time we live beyond it - billions of dimensions that are nonphysical, we experience them when we stop thought.”

World Meditation Buddhism Billions Sensual Dimensions

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“With the practice of meditation you can move into other states of mind, sort of ungluing the glue that binds you to a particular perceptual mode, a way of seeing life which is an illusory one.”

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“When you can successfully stop thought for longer periods of time, you do move into other worlds. This can also happen in the very beginning, if a person meditates with someone who is very advanced.”

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“If you meditate, you can experience the other worlds, the far-flung eternities and dimensions - and you are not stuck in any one of them.”

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“As you meditate, you will discover, pleasantly, that you too can see beyond this life, that you can see your eternality.”

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“When it comes time to die, you will not be afraid. By meditating, you will have already seen beyond life and death and you will see there is nothing to fear.”

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“In meditation, when your thoughts are stopped, you become empty. When you are empty, your mind folds back on itself and you see through the illusions of the material world.”

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

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

“Try to be still inside. Learn to quiet and stop thought, and you will be able to develop your mind. Your psychic intuition will start to come about.”

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“When you develop your psychic vision after some meditation, you will be able to see the subtle physical of others, or perhaps yourself. At first you will see it as an aura; eventually you can see the whole subtle physical.”

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“A lot of people have this live or die attitude with mediation. It has to be all or nothing. I don't think it should be. It's a study that you follow for the rest of your life.”

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“Real meditation engenders humility and purity, always. Yet I don't really think it demands any kind of lifestyle.”

Thinking Kind Real Meditation Humility Buddhism Demand Lifestyle Purity

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“The way to meditate is by not trying to be too good at it too quickly. This is essential, because otherwise you won't have any fun with it.”

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“You have to learn to be very, very gentle to start with - with yourself eventually. Meditation is not something that you force. It is something that happens to you because life gives you a gift.”

Giving Happens Force Meditation Buddhism Gentle

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“Meditation is coming back to your original self, if we can use self without a sense of self. It's perfect, clear light, radiant, infinite mind of the universe, as it is, without identifying with qualities”

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“Unfortunately we've seen meditation insulted in a sense with the image of ritual. You have to dress a certain way, follow a certain type of lifestyle, all that sort of thing, very culty - and that, of course, has nothing to do with the practice whatsoever.”

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“Don't try to be someone. Be yourself. This is what mediation should teach you.”

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“Try to find a teacher of meditation and meditate at least once a week in a group with people who meditate a little better than you do. It will inspire you to keep meditating.”

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“In meditation, we are going back into the light. All our pain will be taken away, our frustration.”

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“The aggregates that we pick up in the human plane will be washed away, and we will become pure spirit, pure light, pure love, and pure ecstasy.”

Humans Light Spirit Meditation Buddhism Pure Picks Planes Ecstasy Pure Love

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“The light is not quantifiable. You experience it in meditation when thought stops. When you go beyond the limitations of the ego, the light is waiting for you.”

Light Waiting Meditation Buddhism Ego Limitation Waiting For You

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“Learn the motions of infinity within your mind. Your mind becomes a perfect mirror to the motions of infinity.”

Mind Perfect Meditation Buddhism Mirrors Infinity

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“What you focus on you become. If you spend an hour or two a day meditating and focusing on light, then you will eventually become light.”

Ifs Two Light Hours Focus Meditation Buddhism Meditating

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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