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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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“Slow down. Enjoy life. It's tough to slow down if your mind is going a million miles a second. It's tough to slow down if you think what these people do here matters.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the world of interactive multi-media highways we are all traveling somewhere interactively and we are all shopping for something, our dreams, our hopes, our ambitions for ourselves, for those we love - these little scenarios we play out endlessly in our mind.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness comes from self-knowledge. Self-knowledge means that you have understood your mind. Your mind is the whole universe.”

Mind Mean Self Whole Happiness Universe Buddhism Understood Self Knowledge

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness comes from living in the moment, this moment, now, right here. If you are in obscure states of mind, you won't see what this moment is. You won't realize its beauty.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“I can't give you happiness. I can show you where it is, but I can't give it to you. How can I give you what you already have? You have to get it yourself, inside your mind.”

Giving Mind I Can Shows Happiness Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You don't have to do anything to be happy, nor do you have to avoid anything. Happiness comes from within your mind. Happiness already exists.”

Mind Happiness Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“My god, life is beautiful! Look at the colors! if you are blind, look at the colors of your mind.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness is in the mind and the mind is the universe. Your mind is the universe, not just this physical universe that you perceive through your senses.”

Mind Happiness Universe Buddhism Senses Perceive

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“Happiness is found principally in meditation. Let your mind flow out into eternity. You have to exert some effort. Then you will notice a subtle smile on your face.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Stop trying to do things that will make you happy. Happiness is a state of mind; because otherwise, you are a slave to circumstance.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness does not come from external things as we're really taught as children. It doesn't come from Santa Claus. Happiness is from within your mind. Just realizing that will change your whole life.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness is a state of mind. The key to happiness is being able to disconnect your life from your perceptions. If you saw things as they really were, you would be happy automatically.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Let the rain of unhappy and tragic experiences fall, as sometimes it inevitably must, even in the lives of the enlightened masters. If your mind has become one with nirvana, you will remain happy at all times.”

Ifs Mind Sometimes Happiness Fall Masters Buddhism Rain Unhappy All Time Tragic Enlightened

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“Happiness is only gained when your mind is in extended states of attention, when your mind is merging with the infinite.”

Mind States Happiness Attention Buddhism Infinite Merging

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You must constantly check that you are meditating properly, and not become, what Clint Eastwood refers to as, "a legend in your own mind."”

Mind Happiness Buddhism Checks Legends Meditating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To occupy yourself with tasks that are useful to yourself and others, you can get your mind off your problems.”

Mind Problem Happiness Buddhism Tasks Occupy Yourself

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness is everything in the whole universe. It's a state of mind. Your whole life is a state of mind. So be happy, why not?”

Mind States Whole Happiness Life Is Universe Buddhism Whole Life Why Not State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness.”

World Mind Stills Self Happiness Desire Loses Buddhism Involved Stillness Centering

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation simply means entering into states of mind which are happiness, profound happiness, simple happiness, beautiful happiness, complicated, uncomplicated - There are ten thousand states of mind.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everything you do in meditation is amplified. If you meditate for five minutes with your complete mind focused on happiness, that is like focusing on happiness for several hours as you are walking around.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“What we focus on we become. If you are just focusing on unhappy things, you will become unhappy. If you focus on happy states of mind, then it will grow in you.”

Ifs Mind States Happiness Grows Focus Buddhism Unhappy State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You don't have to take drugs to be happy. You don't have to drink to be happy. You don't have to have people around you who love you to be happy. You don't need anything except the clarity of your own mind.”

People Needs Mind Happiness Love You Buddhism Drink Drug Clarity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Let us say that you wanted a romantic partner who is in a higher sate of mind, a nicer person. The reason you will meet that person is because you are in a state of mind that will cause that meeting to occur.”

Mind Persons States Reason Wanted Causes Buddhism Higher Meetings Sexuality Partners State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As you gain more discipline over your body, you will find that a corollary discipline will develop in the mind because the two really go together.”

Mind Two Body Together Health Buddhism Discipline Gains Your Body Over You Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference between them.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is easier to develop the mind through meditation than it is just through athletic practice. If you put the two together, it will be unbelievable.”

Ifs Mind Two Together Practice Meditation Health Buddhism Easier Unbelievable Athletic Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All success in sports and athletics, from the Zen point of view, comes from the mind. No matter what kind of shape your body is in, there is disharmony in the being.”

Mind Kind Matter Body Sports Views Health Buddhism Shapes No Matter What Point Of View Your Body Athletics Disharmony

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are lots of people who work out and aren't at all powerful in terms of their mind or their spirits.”

People Mind Spirit Term Powerful Health Buddhism Work Out Athletics

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“If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions become meditation.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are serious about sports and athletics then you need to begin the discipline of mind. With the power of mind, almost anything can be accomplished.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you have the sense of participation in sports or athletics, of being a player, then you are not really into the Zen mind. In Zen mind there is no sense of self in the play.”

Ifs Mind Self Play Sports Player Health Buddhism Participation Sense Of Self Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Thought control is the ability to direct mind and attention anywhere. Your ability to win is dependent upon the power of your concentration. Winning is a state of mind.”

Mind States Winning Ability Attention Health Buddhism Direct Dependent Concentration State Of Mind Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The Frisbee is a round disk. That's the somethingness. But it has another side; it has a nothingness which you cannot perceive with your physical mind or your senses.”

Mind Sides Health Buddhism Rounds Senses Perceive Nothingness Athletics Disk Frisbee

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Your ego interferes, your sense of self. When you let go of the mind, the Frisbee will take its own path.”

Mind Self Path Health Buddhism Letting Go Ego Interfere Sense Of Self Athletics Frisbee

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“When you unite the nothingness of your mind with the nothingness of the Frisbee, then the Frisbee is not a Frisbee, and you are not you.”

Mind Health Buddhism Nothingness Athletics Frisbee

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“Most martial arts have to do with the mind, ultimately. The ability to be unafraid, to walk away from a fight without fear - that is control.”

Mind Art Fighting Ability Walks Health Buddhism Martial Arts Athletics Unafraid

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Use the practice of mind and body; in order to make those moves perfectly, you have to pull your mind out of its mundane thoughts and awarenesses and bring it into the body movement.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the Orient we have known for thousands of years that the most powerful tonic for ill health is a happy and clear mind.”

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“Eternity becomes more beautiful as we age, if we age well. If we age poorly, then we don't improve our minds; we don't refine all the aspects of our being.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“There's a different film being made in every mind. And of course, the star of the film is the mind, the personality, the self.”

Inspirational Mind Made Different Self Film Courses Stars Ignorance Buddhism Personality

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You should be drawing awareness from a deeper part of your being. Your deeper mind has everything already. It knows everything already. It has all the answers.”

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“The ghetto is not where you live. The ghetto is inside your mind. And anyone who tells you that you can't get out of the ghettos of your own mind has no idea what they're talking about.”

Inspirational Mind Ideas Talking Buddhism No Idea Ghetto Where You Live

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Your whole life is inside your mind. Your mind is the prism that refracts the entire universe. Everything around you and within you comes from your mind.”

Inspirational Mind Whole Life Is Universe Buddhism Whole Life Within You Prisms

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You have to become a master or mistress of your mind.”

Inspirational Mind Masters Buddhism Mistress

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“People on the pathway to enlightenment become very successful in whatever they approach, because they have learned to discipline the mind.”

People Inspirational Mind Successful Buddhism Discipline Approach Enlightenment Pathways

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“It's not going to be easy. It's the earth. What creates power in your life is when you perfect your mind, your career, and your associations with others.”

Inspirational Mind Earth Life Is Easy Perfect Careers Buddhism Association

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The real dance is within; it is within your mind. Everything is inside your mind. God is inside your mind.”

Inspirational Mind Real Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you live in a psychic state of mind, you are happy. You don't have to do anything. Life is always beautiful, but we don't see it when we enter into lower states of mind that are, in effect, cloudy.”

Inspirational Mind States Beautiful Life Is Effects Buddhism State Of Mind Psychics Cloudy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can be locked away in prison and be free if your mind is not a prison. Or you can be walking around with lots of credit cards and be in a prison, the prison of your own mind, the prison of your illusions.”

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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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