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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 want to experience the unalloyed ecstasy of life, you can accomplish this through the twin Buddhist practices of meditation and mindfulness.”

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

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

“Be mindful, which is more of a passive meditation practice. It is passive when you are active. Then there is active meditation, when you are passive, sitting still.”

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“It is as important to monitor your mind constantly as it is to sit down and practice meditation.”

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“Gain control of the mind and make it still, initially just during periods of meditation, but then throughout the day and throughout the night.”

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“It is necessary to learn how to do a systems analysis of your life, to learn about the effects of places, people, jobs. There are millions of things that go into the study of meditation.”

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“Your ability to still your mind through the process of meditation and inner reflection and outer change brings a stillness to the mind all the time, even in the midst of the busiest activities.”

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“You are moving in and out of different advanced states of mind through your practice of meditation and mindfulness. It's that level of excellence that gives you joy in life, not the fact that you won or lost.”

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“Any area you slough off in your life will reflect in your meditation. Be happy when you could be depressed. Push jealous, fear, and anger out of your mind. Don't feel sorry for yourself.”

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“The best form of meditation is the sitting meditation. But work is next. Work is a great way to meditate.”

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“Enlightenment, meditation is really a shift in perception. It's not a thing that you go and do or become, since you're already that.”

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“Once we've achieved perfect meditation, we're terribly trapped because that's an illusion...any enlightenment that seems ultimate is an illusion.”

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“An enlightened teacher has personal power. Sitting and meditating with an enlightened teacher in a meditation hall or at a power spot can change you forever.”

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“In this whole world, there are actually very few people who study meditation with an enlightened master. This is because there are not very many enlightened masters on the entire earth.”

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

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

“If you become very close to your teacher, if you do well in your meditation, a deep emotional bond will develop between both of you over a period of time. You can be thousands of miles away from your teacher and find that induction is always taking place. That's the ideal.”

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“If you are going to focus on a teacher, you have to be focused on the teacher and not peripheral vibrations that might be around them or it will totally screw up your meditation.”

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“I can go shopping and pick up some Bounty Towels, the three pack, I can go home and open those up and look at them and see more infinity than in the Buddha's best meditation. If I can't do that, that means I'm wrapped by the Buddha's best meditation.”

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“In meditation you can erase the conditioning. But still, you have to fight the description of the world that everyone else is carrying around.”

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“Meditation erases conditioning. It allows a person to channel the kundalini energy through their subtle physical body and reach enlightened states of awareness.”

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“Meditate well so you can be a good instrument of eternity. You could have a mediocre meditation today, but you're not going to. Today you might run into someone who you might talk to about the dharma.”

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“In deep meditation, all of the things that we call life, all of the combinations of experiences, fall away.”

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“Each day when you meditate, you should devote the first few minutes of your meditation to concentration. This will develop the power of the intellect.”

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“We sit in meditation and cry to God, we cry to the light, as little children, knowing God will do everything for us.”

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“Someone maybe be able to meditate well, but if they can't manifest that meditation in just good common sense by loving and being king to those who are around them, then I can't say they're spiritually developed.”

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“In this world people love to talk and be active. Everyone wants to express their opinion. Listen in meditation, not to your thoughts but to your feelings.”

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“Don't be afraid to experiement with your life and with your heart, your meditation and your being. Just love.”

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“Meditation is the ultimate selfless act, because when you meditate you are sacrificing your puny personality for the universal reality.”

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“Meditation without selfless giving is not enough. You may go into very high states of consciousness but the rough edges will still be there - there may be lots of selfish motives lurking within the self - that you don't see.”

“Through the practice of meditation and the auric empowerments and guidance of an enlightened master, you can totally change your karmic destiny.”

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

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

“Meditation is humility - the absence of thought, doubt, and ego.”

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“In meditation the mind stops, thought ceases. When thought stops, the world stops. When the world stops, perception stops. When perception stops, the sense of "I" as a perceiver falls away.”

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“Every day work on your humility through your meditation, giving more of yourself, giving those things you don't want to give.”

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“In deep meditation we see nothing but purity.”

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“The life of meditation and religious study is absolutely no guarantee of peak moments. Most people involved in religious study and meditation are downright bored, and they're as stuck in what they do as everyone else is.”

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“I think cosmopolitan spirituality is the best, where we go beyond "My teacher is better than yours" or "My meditation form is better than yours." It's not Ford versus Chevy. But it's rather the transition of our limited awareness into eternity.”

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“Zen is a very quick path. Zen is the path of meditation. The word Zen means emptiness or fullness, meditation. Meditation is the quickest path to enlightenment.”

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“Zen is meditation, the actual experience of life directly, immediately with no buffers.”

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“In Zen the emphasis is on meditation and developing your body, mind and spirit to find inner peace, strength, clarity and enlightenment.”

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“A person who undertakes the study of Zen and learns concentration and meditation is like a gymnast. You become a gymnast of the mind.”

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“Meditation is the way the mind is. That's why in Zen they call it the natural state, which means you don't have to go and do anything to meditate.”

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“Zen is the path that focuses the most upon meditation. It is almost exclusively a path of meditation.”

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“Seeing occurs, of course, through stopping thought. Thought is the fog. When thought stops in meditation, at any point, when there's no thought, we see the other shore.”

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“I think everyone is equally psychic. But through the practice of meditation, you learn to make your thoughts quiet and become more aware of your innate psychic abilities.”

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“The tremendous population increase has made meditation and psychic perception, things that come naturally to spiritually evolved people, difficult to practice and participate in.”

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“In advanced meditation you become light. You transcend self, ego, time, space, and dimensionality.”

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“A time comes when you don't have to use meditation techniques anymore. You just sit down and you are nonexistence itself.”

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“The person who practices advanced meditation is usually not married, some are. They usually don't have children, some do. But chances are they will not marry or have children because it demands to much time.”

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“Words like meditation, karma, samskaras, they're just words. You can get into the jargon, you can speak it, but that doesn't mean you'll be any freer.”

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“Everyone in advanced meditation practice should be involved with the economic support of the spread of the dharma. We live in a material world, and it's very expensive to teach meditation.”

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“The advanced student of meditation takes an active part in supporting the work of their teacher. They happily work more hours or do whatever is necessary to help out more.”

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“Selfless-giving burns away the layers of the onion. Purity and humility keep meditation and selfless-giving clear. Love radiates through the entire practice because we do all of it only for love.”

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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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