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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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“As you focus your attention on the heart center, you will begin to feel your thoughts slowing down. You'll begin to feel your mind becoming calm and quiet. They won't bother you.”

Feels Mind Heart Attention Focus Meditation Buddhism Becoming Quiet Calm Bother Slow Down Slowing Chakra Meditation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Focus your attention around the naval area, feel that spot. Visualize it. Do whatever it takes. When thoughts come in and out of your mind, pay no attention. You just stay right on that spot!”

Feels Mind Pay Attention Focus Meditation Buddhism Areas Spots Whatever It Takes Naval Chakra Meditation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Even though it's not perceivable to the mind or senses, it's there and enlightenment is absolute freedom.”

Mind Enlightenment Absolutes Senses Buddhist Cosmology Absolute Freedom

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Buddhism is yoga. Yoga started, who knows when? A long time ago, when the first person found that they could still their thoughts and experience eternity and access the higher planes of mind.”

Knows Mind Firsts Persons Long Stills Found Buddhism Higher Long Time Yoga Eternity Access Buddhist Planes Long Time Ago First Person Cosmology

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 is perception, gaining control of the mind and directing one's attention, to raise the kundalini energy so that it flows with such volatility and force that we simply perceive life correctly.”

Mind Energy Force Attention Buddhism Perception Flow Raises Buddhist Perceive Cosmology Volatility

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the Far Eastern languages we have many different words to describe the varying degrees of reality that a thing, a state of mind or plane of being may have.”

Mind May Different States Reality Language Degrees Buddhist Planes State Of Mind Eastern Cosmology

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

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

“Human beings have become so afraid of the unknown, themselves, and each other that they deprive themselves of that innate ecstasy and love of life which comes with a human body, mind and spirit, by hiding behind the empty shell of their ego.”

Mind Humans Body Spirit Human Beings Behinds Ego Empty And Love Buddhist Love Life Hiding Ecstasy Shells Innate Human Body Cosmology Empty Shell

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The dialectical change of mind that occurs in Buddhism is not simply the assimilation of a new philosophical basis or religious basis for viewing and interpreting experience. Rather it is the complete structural revision of that which is.”

Mind Religious Buddhism Bases Philosophical Buddhist Cosmology Assimilation Revision Interpreting Mind Changing

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Buddhism is the study of the way the mind works. One has to be able to hold a large number of relational concepts simultaneously in the mind. It is necessary to grid, to literally unlock realities and dimensions with the power of your mind.”

Way Mind Reality Able Numbers Study Buddhism Concepts Buddhist Dimensions Cosmology Large Numbers Grids

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The mind of the Buddha is perfect because it is empty and yet it contains all things.”

Mind Perfect Buddhism All Things Empty

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Perfection is not a final state. It is a state of mind. There are ten thousand states of mind.”

Mind States Buddhism Thousand Ten Perfection Finals State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What is perfect? From the Zen mind, perfection is not being there.”

Mind Perfect Buddhism Perfection Being There

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is in Zen practice that you gain power, balance and wisdom. The battles that you fight are within your own mind. That is where the real victories and defeats are.”

Mind Real Fighting Practice Buddhism Balance Victory Battle Gains Defeat Victory And Defeat Real Victory

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is no ultimate objective reality within the ten thousand states of mind. Most people don't like to hear this. But there are ten thousand realities, and each is definitely unifying.”

People Mind States Reality Buddhism Thousand Ten Ultimate Objectives State Of Mind Unifying Objective Reality

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you're in the tantric sex state of mind, what someone else experiences when they have sex is not what you'll experience. You won't even notice what your body is doing, particularly.”

Ifs Mind States Body Sex Buddhism Your Body State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are in a state of mind in which all things are one, then you can spend your time in lingerie shops.”

Ifs Mind States Buddhism All Things Shops State Of Mind Lingerie

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The issue is not what you're doing with your body; it's what you're doing with your mind.”

Mind Body Issues Buddhism Your Body

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The tantric path involves taking the mind and directing it beyond the senses.”

Mind Path Buddhism Senses

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There's a place where everything comes together and where it's all the same. That state of mind, in which all things are the same, is the state of mind of Tantric Zen.”

Mind States Together Buddhism All Things State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantric Zen is a state of mind”

Mind States Buddhism State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantric Zen is all about the practice of zazen meditation. If you meditate well, you'll be in very powerful states of mind and then it really doesn't matter what you do.”

Ifs Mind Wells Matter States Powerful Practice Meditation Buddhism State Of Mind Very Powerful

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everything is dependent upon your state of mind. That is all there is, states of mind, ten thousand of them. Beyond all states of mind is nirvana.”

Mind States Buddhism Thousand Ten Dependent State Of Mind All State

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Chanting a mantra at the beginning of your meditation helps you clear the mind and takes you deep within the self. Chanting a mantra at the end of meditation helps you seal the meditation. It helps you bring the awareness of the meditation down into your daily life.”

Mind Ends Self Helping Clear Meditation Awareness Buddhism Daily Life Seals Mantras Deep Within Chanting

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Initially the student, in some traditions, is given a mantra, a particular word of power to focus on. While thoughts are cascading through your mind during meditation, you should be absorbed in the repetition of a mantra.”

Should Mind Given Focus Meditation Students Particular Buddhism Tradition Repetition Mantras

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A mantra is a thought. Use a mantra to help you still your mind initially and then move into silent meditation.”

Mind Stills Helping Use Moving Meditation Buddhism Silent Mantras Silent Meditation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“After the meditation session you have to be a little bit careful. If you start to think a lot of thoughts and become very active, you can prevent some of the meditative awareness from coming into your mind.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Littles Bits Meditation Awareness Buddhism Little Bit Careful Active Session

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Don't judge your meditations. Don't rate them. The physical mind cannot tell how well you did. As long as you are sitting there trying, something will happen.”

Trying Mind Wells Long Happens Meditation Judging Buddhism Sitting Rate Trying Something

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation is a process in which we're essentially, at first, breathing out. We're exhaling existence, taking it out of the mind, and the mind out of the mind.”

Mind Firsts Process Existence Meditation Buddhism Breathing Exhaling

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you meditate, you focus to clear the mind and to bring the willpower together. But then, toward the end of the session let go, just become eternity.”

Mind Ends Together Clear Focus Meditation Buddhism Letting Go Eternity Willpower Session

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Every time you sit down to meditate, you have to sit down with a resolve to win. You are going to sit there and will your mind to be happy, quiet and still.”

Mind Stills Winning Meditation Buddhism Quiet Resolve

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In meditation what you are trying to do is simply get rid of your own junk. You are trying to move all the confusion out of your mind, all the heaviness, all the emotional upsets, all the impressions that you have picked up since your last meditation.”

Trying Mind Lasts Moving Meditation Emotional Buddhism Impression Confusion Upset Junk Heaviness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The mind of the child is not formed. We are shown that this is life, this is the world.”

World Mind Children Taoism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If we're distracted from the continual flow of perfect mind that we're in, suddenly everything configures, everything solidifies. Suddenly a shape appears out of flux, a world appears, karmas appear, pasts, futures, presents, time structures, ying and yang appear.”

Ifs World Mind Past Perfect Shapes Flow Structure Karma Taoism Distracted Flux Yang Ying And Yang

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What we are seeking is the nexus of all possible worlds and states of mind, which is within us. The source of yin and yang is within you.”

World Mind States Source Seeking Taoism State Of Mind Within You Yang Yin And Yang Nexus

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enlightenment is part of everything and so our minds have to be very big to encompass all things, to understand all things - To see the tao in a grape, the act of sexuality, meditation, work, play, taking a shower, brushing your teeth, being sick and hurting.”

Mind Play Bigs Hurt Meditation Enlightenment All Things Sick Sexuality Teeth Taoism Showers Tao Grapes Brushing Being Sick Work Play Brushing Your Teeth

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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