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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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“Thought control is the ability to direct mind and attention anywhere.”

Mind Ability Attention Buddhism Mindfulness Direct

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The unlimited mind, the diamond mind of the Buddha, is your mind, if you can get in touch with it. Stop thinking so much and tap into that psychic part of your being.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Buddhism Mindfulness Diamond Unlimited Psychics

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“Your mind is filled with thoughts and desires. Your moods shift constantly. You are not sure what it is you want, it changes from moment to moment; there is little or no continuity in your life.”

Want Mind Littles Moments Desire Suffering Filled Mood Not Sure Continuity

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“It is much nicer to live in perfect mind, free from pain and agony. How painful it is to be unenlightened. Buddha called it "the nightmare of the day."”

Mind Pain Suffering Perfect Painful Nightmare Agony Mind Free

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“As long as you wish to separate yourself from the immortal consciousness, you will suffer. You will experience the pain of the separation, the abridgment of infinite mind in finite form.”

Mind Long Pain Form Suffering Wish Consciousness Infinite Separation Immortal Finite

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“Most people exist in very clouded states of mind. It's sort of like when you're underwater in a big swimming pool and you open your eyes, and you can't see very far and everything is distorted.”

People Mind States Bigs Eye Suffering Swimming State Of Mind Pool Underwater Clouded Swimming Pool

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“Life isn't complicated. The reason it appears complicated to you is because you are in a very distorted state of mind. That's the basic premise of Buddhism - that you're in a very distorted state of mind.”

Mind States Reason Ignorance Buddhism Complicated State Of Mind Premises

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I don't think you see your minds. I think you see your thoughts; you see your desires; you see your relatives, friends, lovers, enemies. I don't think you see your mind. You think of the mind as the clutter.”

Thinking Mind Desire Enemy Ignorance Lovers Clutter

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“Samsara is the world appearance, the cycle of rebirth, the physically manifest universes and states of mind that you perceive through the medium of ego.”

World Mind States Universe Ignorance Ego Appearance Mediums Perceive Cycles Manifest State Of Mind Rebirth Samsara

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“You can be in a state of mind for a few seconds and forget that you were ever in any other state of mind. That's what we mean by illusion.”

Mind Mean States Forget Ignorance Illusion Seconds State Of Mind

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“As long as you exist, you are aware of the manifest universes through the senses, through feelings and through mind.”

Mind Long Feelings Universe Ignorance Senses Manifest

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“The stars in the sky last for billions of years. That's nothing to the mind, nothing. It's an instant, a millisecond. The mind shines radiantly forever. But we don't see the shine because of the clutter.”

Years Mind Lasts Stars Forever Sky Ignorance Shining Billions Instant Clutter Stars In The Sky

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“Mind is not simply the collection of aggregate cells inside your brain. If you are only the grey matter, then when that dies, you won't exist any more. It's not that easy. You exist forever.”

Ifs Mind Matter Science Dies Easy Brain Forever Buddhism Cells Collections Reincarnation Grey Grey Matter

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“Reincarnation is simply changing awareness. What you are reincarnating into are different states of mind. The whole show is on the inside.”

Mind Different States Whole Shows Awareness State Of Mind Reincarnation

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“Reincarnation is a process of moving from one state of mind to another. Whether you are in a body or out of a body is immaterial.”

Mind States Body Moving Process State Of Mind Reincarnation

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“Just remembering what you did in previous lives doesn't mean a thing. It's nice to remember that you had higher states of mind, but that won't necessarily get you there. It might even make things painful.”

Mind Mean States Might Remember Nice Higher Painful State Of Mind Reincarnation Previous Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The inner aspects of reincarnation have to do with where you put your mind. The more expansive state of mind you enter into, the less suffering there is.”

Mind States Suffering Aspect State Of Mind Reincarnation

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“You can summon up power from past lives and bring them into this life. That can give you a boost into the next state of mind or further up.”

Giving Mind States Past Next This Life State Of Mind Reincarnation Boost Past Life

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“The essence of Buddhism is simply that the mind is forever. We are always experiencing different states of mind in one form or another, in one body or another, in one life or another, forever.”

Mind Different States Body Form Forever Buddhism Essence State Of Mind Reincarnation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“So, those who hate, those who are violent in nature, live in a world of hate and fear and violence inside themselves, inside their minds, inside their awareness.”

World Mind Hate Violence Awareness Karma Violent Karma Yoga Hate And Fear

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“Your states of mind do not occur randomly. They occur because of vibratory and karmic patterns.”

Mind States Patterns Karma State Of Mind

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“Karma is the sum total of who you are, everything you've been. The mind state you are in is karmic. Meaning, it's related by a causal chain of existences, of moments, of particles of timelessness.”

Mind States Moments Existence Who You Are Karma Chains Related Particles Timelessness

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“All states of mind have different views. On the higher plateau, opportunities will open to you because you can see them.”

Mind Different States Opportunity Views Higher Karma State Of Mind Different Views All State

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“Karma is engendered by states of mind. If you are in a happy state of mind, that will engender one kind of karma. If you are in an unhappy state of mind, that will engender another kind of karma.”

Ifs Mind Kind States Karma Unhappy State Of Mind Karma Yoga

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“The state of mind that you are in causes you to act in a certain way. Your actions will bear results. The ultimate result of all karmas and actions is state of mind. You are your state of mind.”

Way Mind States Action Certain Causes Results Bears Ultimate Karma State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Karma means that through your thoughts and feelings and actions, you are generating a state of mind. That state of mind has a view. That view will cause things to happen to you or not happen to you.”

Mind Mean States Feelings Happens Action Causes Views Karma State Of Mind Thoughts And Feelings

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is always possible to get into a higher state of mind. The way you get into a higher state of mind is by generating good karma.”

Way Mind States Higher Karma State Of Mind Good Karma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The person who gives selflessly in this lifetime immediately goes into a better state of mind. That is instant karma.”

Giving Mind Persons States Lifetime Karma Instant State Of Mind

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“When you do things in a selfish way, let alone a destructive way, then you are bound by that karma. Your state of mind will go down. You will find yourself becoming depressed, nervous, anxious and upset.”

Way Mind States Becoming Bounds Selfish Karma Nervous Upset Destructive Finding Yourself State Of Mind Anxious

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Selfless actions create a higher karma, which brings you into higher states of mind. When you are in higher states of mind you will see things that you never saw before.”

Mind States Action Saws Higher Karma State Of Mind Selfless Karma Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A saint is someone who has been very selfless and, over a period of lifetimes, generated a tremendous amount of good karma, which has caused them to enter into very lovely states of mind.”

Mind Has Beens States Amount Periods Lifetime Saint Karma Lovely State Of Mind Selfless Karma Yoga Good Karma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Good karma leads to rebirth also. The desire for higher states of mind is a desire. When you are fixated on higher states of mind, you don't become enlightened.”

Mind States Desire Higher Karma Enlightened State Of Mind Rebirth Good Karma

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“Anything that ends with death isn't really mind, just the things that pass through a mind.”

Mind Ends Death

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Death doesn't change anything. It just gives you a new location. The physical mind dissolves. But the overriding state of mind that you die in is the state of mind that you are born into.”

Giving Mind States Death Dies Born State Of Mind Location

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The disembodied being stays in the same state of mind that it was in when it was embodied, unless it does something to change that while it is out of the body.”

Mind Doe States Body State Of Mind Rebirth

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“There are ten thousand states of mind. The culmination of the states of mind you have gone through will create your next lifetime.”

Mind States Next Gone Thousand Ten Lifetime State Of Mind Rebirth Culmination Next Lifetime

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“Enlightenment is not a state of mind, yet all states of mind are contained within it.”

Mind States Enlightenment State Of Mind All State

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“Enlightenment occurs when your mind merges with nirvana, with what Tibetans call the Dharmakaya, the clear light of reality, which is the highest plane of transcendental wisdom and perfect understanding.”

Mind Reality Light Understanding Perfect Clear Buddhism Highest Enlightenment Planes Transcendental Tibetan

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“Enlightenment simply means that you've gotten above the body-mind complex. You've refined the self, dissolved it in the white light of eternity and gone through all the gradient shifts.”

Mind Mean Self Body Light White Gone Enlightenment Eternity Complexes Refined White Light

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“When you are enlightened and have united your mind with the deepest and most ancient part of the mind of the universe, you are not affected by suffering the way other people are.”

People Way Mind Suffering Universe United Enlightenment Ancient Enlightened Affected

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

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

“While I may not be able to describe to you exactly what enlightenment is like, I can tell you that it is wonderful beyond understanding. The experience of enlightenment frees your mind from painful and limited states of awareness.”

Mind May I Can States Able Understanding Wonderful Awareness Enlightenment Painful I May Not Be

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“Enlightenment means having no human mind, no limitations. Your awareness is eternity, timeless, infinite, beyond boundaries, and yet it exists within all things.”

Mind Humans Mean Awareness Enlightenment All Things Eternity Infinite Boundaries Limitation Human Mind Timeless

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“Enlightenment is a perfect state of mind. It is the direct seeing of reality. The world most people see, which they call life, is really just a dream.”

People World Mind States Dream Reality Life Is Perfect Seeing Enlightenment Direct State Of Mind Just A Dream

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

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

“Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting your awareness, your mind.”

Mind Book Self Reading Awareness Pure Enlightenment Self Knowledge Culmination

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“Once you have mastered the ten thousand states of mind, it's paranirvana, the absorption into the stillness forever.”

Mind States Forever Thousand Ten Enlightenment State Of Mind Stillness Absorption

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“Enlightenment doesn't simply mean being in heavenly states of mind. It doesn't mean being a saint.”

Mind Mean States Enlightenment Saint Heavenly State Of Mind

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“It is possible to move to an enlightened state of mind from a lower bardo or level of awareness. It can happen, but it is extremely unlikely.”

Mind States Happens Moving Levels Awareness Enlightenment Enlightened State Of Mind Unlikely

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“Enlightenment is the ability to freely transact within the ten thousand states of mind without a continuous self or awareness”

Mind Self States Ability Awareness Thousand Ten Enlightenment State Of Mind

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“Buddhists don't feel that enlightenment is particularly unusual. We feel that it's the natural state. Enlightenment simply means perceiving life directly as it is in all of its infinite, ever changing wonder, in all of its varied, myriad states of mind or as pari-nirvana, or whatever.”

Feels Mind Mean States Natural Wonder Enlightenment Infinite Buddhist State Of Mind Unusual

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“The dreams of eternity are the states of mind. When we wake up from the dreams there's only enlightenment. There could never be anything else.”

Mind States Dream Enlightenment Eternity Wake Up State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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