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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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“The causal body holds the structure. The causal body is the coding. So you are not just scattered all over the ten thousand states of mind.”

Mind States Body Buddhism Thousand Ten Structure State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The intuitive mind is nonphysical. It is not part of the brain or any other cellular structure in the physical body. It is part of the causal body.”

Mind Body Brain Buddhism Structure Intuitive Physical Body Cellular

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

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

“All the records of your past lives are contained within your own mind, just as the records of your ancestors are contained within your DNA.”

Mind Past Records Buddhism Ancestor Our Past Dna Your Past Past Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The planes of light exist. Yoga is a method of unifying the energies of the body, the mind, and the spirit and directing them towards infinity, the planes of light.”

Mind Body Light Spirit Energy Yoga Method Planes Infinity Hinduism Unifying

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Krishna once said to Arjuna: Consider the past and future with an equal mind, and pass the peanut M&M's.”

Mind Said Past Equal Hinduism Krishna Peanuts Arjuna

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sri Krishna is said to be an avatar, which is a human way of trying to define very big. That is to say that Sri Krishna is not from the local area network, but he has come from a world that is different because his mind is different.”

World Way Trying Mind Humans Said Different Bigs Areas Locals Hinduism Krishna

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You have to elevate yourself to that point and bring your mind into the Godhead, into nirvana, into that perfect and pure radiant knowledge. It will not come to you. It never does.”

Mind Doe Perfect Pure Hinduism Radiant

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Yoga is a removal of the conscious awareness from the world as you know it - the world that you've constructed - through your focus within your mind, to something else.”

Knows World Mind Focus Awareness Conscious Yoga Hinduism Removal Conscious Awareness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Beyond mind, beyond time, beyond space there is immortal awareness.”

Mind Space Awareness Immortal Hinduism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Mind delineates experience, and through the filter of mind, experience becomes something else; it becomes knowledge in tantra.”

Mind Hinduism Filters Tantra

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“The more completely you concentrate, the stronger your mind becomes.”

Mind Stronger Concentration

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“Sit in front of an object of concentration with the eyes open. Focus on a candle flame, or a yantra, a little dot, something small. Just look at it. Focus on it until there is nothing else in your mind. This develops willpower.”

Mind Looks Littles Eye Focus Fronts Objects Flames Concentration Candle Willpower Dots

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Focus on one point and hold your attention there. The mind will waiver, you'll think a million thoughts, but each time you do, bring your mind back to the point of concentration, seeing it visually.”

Thinking Mind Attention Millions Focus Seeing Concentration Waiver

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sight is not absolutely essential in this process, but we use sight because it is the dominant sense. It's easiest to interrupt the flow of thought in sense perception and move the mind beyond sense perception with sight.”

Mind Use Moving Process Essentials Perception Flow Sight Concentration Dominant Sense Perception

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Put on the music, and listen. Zazen means to sit, to listen. You're listening to enlightenment, to the universes, to the planes of mind.”

Mind Mean Universe Listening Enlightenment Planes Concentration

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you keep focusing, gradually thoughts will become quieter and quieter, gradually the images will disappear from the mind. What is happening is the kundalini energy begins to radiate and rise, it causes the mind to be quiet.”

Ifs Mind Energy Causes Quiet Happenings Disappear Concentration

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It takes a number of years to learn to hold the mind perfectly in one place. But each day we do it a little better, and in the doing we're releasing energy that is taking our mind in higher diffuse planes of attention.”

Years Mind Littles Energy Numbers Attention Higher Planes Each Day Concentration

Author:Frederick Lenz

“By disciplining and training the mind to focus on one thing, we gain control of perception; we learn to grab it and put it someplace we want it to be.”

Want Mind Focus One Thing Perception Training Gains Concentration Focus On One Thing Training The Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The mind must be made calm and still. Then it is aimed at the sky, at the brightness, at that infinitude of being that stretches out endlessly in every direction forever.”

Mind Made Stills Forever Sky Calm Visualization Brightness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Cry to god. If you do that just for a couple minutes with your whole being, just like a child who so badly wants a cookie. You will break through the barrier of the mind.”

Ifs Want Mind Children Whole Break Minutes Cry Couple Barriers Cookies Visualization Break Through

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditate upon all the perfect light within your own mind! Do this repeatedly and the radiant Bodhisattvas of Wisdom and Laughter will visit you and change your karma forever!”

Mind Light Perfect Forever Laughter Karma Visualization Radiant Light Within Bodhisattva Visits You

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The practice of meditation is emptying the mind. When the mind is empty, completely empty, it's perfect meditation. It's really that simple.”

Mind Simple Perfect Practice Meditation Empty

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The quieter you can make your mind, the more you've invoked your will.”

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation, in the beginning, is just replacement thinking. Instead of having the usual negative things that wander around in your mind, you are replacing those with very bright images.”

Thinking Mind Meditation Negative Wander Usual Replacements

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the beginning, when you are meditating, just ignore thought. Shine it on. Then after you are comfortable sitting there, try selectively eliminating negative thoughts, thoughts that agitate the mind.”

Trying Mind Comfortable Sitting Negative Shining Meditating Negative Thoughts Eliminating Agitate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Your mind is turbulent because you're filled with desires, frustrations. You want too many things. You are afraid of too many things. It is necessary to overcome both attraction and repulsion to still the mind.”

Want Mind Stills Desire Overcoming Filled Attraction Frustration Repulsion Attraction And Repulsion

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you allow people, places and things, to pass through your mind during meditation, you will pull in all those other auras and you be much more confused and dissociated than you were prior to your meditation experience.”

People Ifs Mind Meditation Confused Auras

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When your mind drifts away from one of the secret meditation techniques, do not become upset or frustrated. Gently move your mind back to the technique you were practicing and begin again.”

Mind Moving Secret Meditation Technique Upset Frustrated Begin Again

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Only when there are no impressions of others clouding our mind, can we sit and practice the glorious practice of meditation.”

Mind Practice Meditation Impression Glorious

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation will do you a disservice. It will confuse you more than clarify you. It will bring tremendous impurity in you - if you are allowing your mind to wander during the empowered experience.”

Ifs Mind Meditation Wander Allowing Empowered Disservice Impurity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When your thoughts come and you're trying to stop them, simply say "No". Learn the mantra "No". Every time a thought comes in your mind ... just say no.”

Trying Mind Mantras Just Say No

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When your mind is tranquil and at peace with the universe, when it has become void of all thought - you become meditation.”

Mind Universe Meditation Void Tranquil

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

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

“You can't just sit in emptiness. Even the enlightened don't sit in emptiness. We call it emptiness - but we move our mind into a world of light.”

World Mind Light Moving Emptiness Enlightened

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation is a very powerful time and you are very psychic. It is most important to not allow your attention, your mind, to wander.”

Mind Important Powerful Attention Meditation Wander Psychics Very Powerful

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The practice of mindfulness is monitoring your mind all day and all night. It's enjoyable to just remove things that make you unhappy from your mind, to clarify your emotions.”

Mind Night Emotion Practice Buddhism Mindfulness Unhappy Remove All Night Enjoyable Monitoring

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Mindfulness means that as we go through the day we learn to gain control of our mind, our emotions. We learn to conserve energy in a variety of simple and complicated ways that we learned in Buddhist practice.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Mindfulness is when you are engaged in activities but the mind is set into the meditative state all the time. Meditation is to be aware of many different levels. It's not just the absence of thought.”

Mind Different States Levels Meditation Buddhism Activity Mindfulness Absence Engaged Different Levels

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Practicing zazen and mindfulness constantly and correctly, over a period of time, can bring strength and clarity to your finite mind and eventually give you access to your infinite mind.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

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

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“Our life interferes, our mind, our thoughts. Meditating is not just a practice of asserting will and learning to control the mind, it is also developing control of one's life and gaining wisdom.”

Mind Practice Our Lives Buddhism Mindfulness Developing Interfere Our Thoughts Meditating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To be in thousands of states of mind simultaneously as you perform simple physical tasks gives you a reverence for life. Each of these outer manifestations of life is God.”

Giving Mind States Life Is Simple Buddhism Mindfulness Tasks Manifestation State Of Mind Reverence Reverence For Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

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

Mind Stills Night Meditation Buddhism Periods Mindfulness Gains

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are parts of us that are miserable, that hate, that love, that are cruel, are kind, are reasonable, are unreasonable. You know, you live inside your own mind. Who are you kidding?”

Knows Mind Kind Hate Buddhism Mindfulness Miserable Reasonable Unreasonable

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you can't hold a person in your mind with a good thought, it is better not to think about them at all.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Persons Buddhism Mindfulness Good Thoughts

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you find yourself dwelling on something negative, consciously use your willpower to remove your mind from that which is negative. Move your mind into the flow of something positive.”

Mind Use Moving Buddhism Mindfulness Negative Flow Remove Finding Yourself Willpower Dwelling

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you are just thinking a lot of silly thoughts and having a lot of worries, you waste a tremendous energy and power and you put yourself into very limited states of mind. You slow down your evolutionary process.”

Thinking Mind States Energy Process Worry Buddhism Waste Mindfulness Silly State Of Mind Slow Down

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Mind Stills Process Ability Meditation Buddhism Activity Mindfulness Reflection Midst Stillness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Giving Mind Different States Facts Moving Joy Lost Levels Practice Meditation Buddhism Mindfulness Excellence State Of Mind Moving In

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Feels Mind Meditation Buddhism Mindfulness Areas Sorry Jealous Feel Sorry For You Slough

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are just spaced out and you have no purpose in life, you pick everything up. Everybody else's thoughts will come into your mind, everyone else's desires.”

Ifs Mind Desire Purpose Buddhism Mindfulness Picks Purpose Of Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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