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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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“Mind only comes into apparent existence through the action of perception. Mind appears to exist because it perceives.”

Mind Action Existence Perception Perceive Nothingness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Learn to accept the transitory nature of existence of the body and the mind; see eternity in everything, this world, the other worlds, and nirvana.”

World Mind Body Existence Accepting This World Eternity Intention Other Worlds Transitory

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“In order not to lose your resolve and purpose, you need to unite with others of like mind and work with an advanced Teacher who is in touch with, and can transfer, knowledge and power.”

Needs Mind Purpose Order Loses Teacher Intention Resolve Transfers Knowledge And Power

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“Your journey is to see how deeply you can interface your mind with infinity. That's the journey of a monk - to see.”

Mind Journey Intention Infinity Monk Interfaces

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“Nothing is any particular way. It's your state of mind that creates reality.”

Way Mind States Reality Particular State Of Mind Introduction

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“According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through.”

Mind Different States Views Thousand Ten Buddhist State Of Mind Introduction Cosmology Zen Buddhist

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“In Zen we classify ten thousand different states of mind, different ways of seeing life. There is something beyond the ten thousand states of mind that we call nirvana.”

Way Mind Different States Seeing Thousand Ten Different Ways State Of Mind Introduction

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“Each of the ten thousand states of mind presents you with a different view of essence and experience.”

Mind Different States Views Thousand Ten Essence State Of Mind Introduction Different Views

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“Opportunities, creative ideas or the lack of them, happiness, frustration, brilliance, talent, success and failure - all are determined by the state of mind that you're in.”

Mind Ideas States Opportunity Creative Talent Determined Frustration State Of Mind Introduction Brilliance Success And Failure Creative Ideas

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“Most persons spend their lives stuck in relatively low states of mind. In these states of mind their views of themselves and the world around them are often severely limited.”

World Mind Persons States Views Lows Stuck State Of Mind Introduction

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“If you are around a lot of human beings who are filled with jealousy and anger and rage and desire, it filters into the mind. Zen is writing a new program to run in the mind.”

Ifs Writing Mind Humans Running Desire Human Beings Program Filled Rage Introduction Filters

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“Through the study of Zen you can learn to move from lower to higher states of mind at will. Higher states of mind offer you a much more accurate picture of reality.”

Mind States Reality Moving Study Higher Offers State Of Mind Accurate Introduction

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“In advanced Zen a person comes to realize that the existence of things and their ability to perceive them correctly is completely dependent upon their state of mind.”

Mind Persons States Realizing Ability Existence Perceive Dependent State Of Mind Introduction

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“Zen is the study of mind in all of its manifestations. The purpose of Zen is to be happy.”

Mind Purpose Study Manifestation Introduction

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“According to Zen philosophy each human being has two minds, a finite mind and an infinite mind.”

Mind Humans Two Philosophy Human Beings Infinite Finite Introduction Two Minds

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“In the study of Zen you can learn how to strengthen and clarify your finite mind. Your finite mind is like a muscle; when exercised it becomes stronger.”

Mind Study Stronger Muscles Finite Introduction

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“The intuitive wisdom that comes from your infinite mind can add to your creativity, success and well-being, and can take you to the threshold of enlightenment.”

Mind Wells Creativity Enlightenment Infinite Add Well Being Intuitive Introduction Threshold

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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.”

Mind Body Spirit Meditation Enlightenment Your Body Inner Peace Clarity Developing Emphasis Introduction

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“Zen is a very quick path to enlightenment and development of the mind and all its facilities.”

Mind Path Development Enlightenment Introduction Facility Path To 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.”

Mind Persons Study Meditation Concentration Introduction Gymnast

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“There are ten thousand aspects of your mind. Your awareness has ten thousand forms. There is something else. You have to step outside of perception itself.”

Mind Form Steps Awareness Thousand Ten Perception Aspect Introduction

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“From the highest state of mind you have a window whereby you could perhaps move beyond all states of mind, to enlightenment.”

Mind States Moving Highest Enlightenment Window State Of Mind Introduction All State

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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.”

Way Mind Mean States Natural Meditation Introduction

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“In Zen there is a sense of blending, of stepping out of your body and mind and gaining access to powers and abilities that are far beyond the minds of mortal men.”

Men Mind Body Ability Buddhism Access Your Body Mortals Mind And Body Introduction

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“You can only conceive of what lies beyond the state of mind you are in from the point of view of the state of mind you are in.”

Mind States Lying Views Point Of View State Of Mind Introduction

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“There are ten thousand states of mind. Most people spend their entire lives confined to a few of these states of mind.”

People Mind States Thousand Ten State Of Mind Introduction Confined

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“In Zen you are learning how to make new realities, to build things inside your mind.”

Mind Reality Introduction

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“There are ten thousand planes of awareness within the infinite mind of the diamond mind, your deeper mind.”

Mind Awareness Thousand Ten Infinite Deeper Planes Diamond Introduction

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“The ten thousand states of mind that we talk about in Zen are all levels of perception. You can think of each of the ten thousand states of mind as a dimensional plane.”

Thinking Mind States Levels Thousand Ten Perception Planes State Of Mind Introduction

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“Beyond the ten thousand states of mind is the still point. It exists within them all, yet beyond them. It is not affected by them. It gives birth to them. This is the riddle.”

Giving Mind Stills States Birth Thousand Ten Affected State Of Mind Introduction Riddle

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“The ten thousand states of mind are hallucinatory. Hallucinations are real. Dreams are real. But there are some things more real.”

Mind Real States Dream Thousand Ten State Of Mind Introduction Hallucinations

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“The study of Zen is a retraining. It is a series of new ways, not just one way, to learn to use your mind more efficiently.”

Way Mind Use Study Series One Way Just One New Ways Introduction

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“Just like there are different roads that lead to different places, so there are different levels of awareness that lead to different places and we shift in and out of them. These are the ten thousand states of mind that we study in Zen.”

Mind Different States Levels Study Awareness Thousand Ten State Of Mind Introduction Different Place Different Levels Different Roads

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“A person who has power has an open mind. Their mind is open and they can see on other levels. Seeing is a quality that comes to a person who has personal power.”

Mind Persons Levels Quality Seeing Open Mind Personal Power

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“If you are psychic, you can see into the minds of others. You can use that opening to aid somebody. Sometimes someone's trying to tell you something and they don't even know what it is.”

Ifs Knows Trying Mind Sometimes Use Seeing Aids Opening Psychics

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“The universe is a giant mind. Some people have the ability to tap into that mind, we call them psychic. Others don't, we call them dull ... but they have potential.”

People Mind Universe Ability Seeing Giants Dull Psychics

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“The psychic perception is a feeling as opposed to a thinking. Not a feeling that is engendered through emotion necessarily. It comes from the psychic plane of intuition, which is another stage of our mind.”

Thinking Mind Feelings Emotion Seeing Stage Perception Intuition Planes Psychics

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“In the psychic process we are trying to eliminate everyone else from our minds, their effects, their energies, their influences: "To thine own self be true and it must follow as the night the day, thou cans't be false to any man."”

Men Trying Mind Self Night Energy Process Seeing Influence Effects Being True Psychics

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“A continuous perception is taking place deep within the mind. It is hard to hear that signal because it is blurred over by your own thoughts, desires, and fears. It is blurred over by your emotional swings. You become dull.”

Mind Hard Desire Seeing Emotional Perception Dull Swings Signals Deep Within

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“If you have more personal power and you are in higher states of mind, then naturally you can see things and adhere to them or avoid them. Personal power is really the issue.”

Ifs Mind States Issues Seeing Higher State Of Mind Personal Power

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“Continually reorder the mind and the mental structures, the ability to think in prescribed ways, to analyze in prescribed ways, and to stop thought for periods of time.”

Thinking Way Mind Ability Seeing Periods Structure

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“Everything is a state of mind. Astral travel is the ability to wander through different states of mind and develop psychic perceptions.”

Mind Different States Ability Seeing Perception Wander State Of Mind Psychics

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“Who is that is dreaming all of this? Ecstasy, pure ecstasy, joy beyond understanding, bliss beyond the dry dullness of the mind's philosophical ranging, light beyond any light in this world - The substance and the essence of all existence is this light, the transcendental light.”

World Mind Dream Light Joy Understanding Existence This World Pure Essence Philosophical Substance Bliss Dry Ecstasy Transcendental Dullness

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“Dreams are just silly things that pass through your mind at night. "Dreaming" is out-of-the-body experiences where you are traveling through the different dimensions - most of which you don't remember.”

Mind Different Dream Body Remember Night Silly Dimensions Where You Are Silly Things Different Dimensions

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“A great deal of energy is lost in the study by people who interact with non-physical beings. They get into your mind and your body by approaching you in the dream plane, promising you powers, playing on your desires. They sap your life force.”

People Mind Dream Body Desire Energy Lost Force Deals Study Your Body Planes Mysticism Sap Losing Power

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“To go to the very center of the mind of God, to be that, to become aware of our infiniteness, is the goal of Buddhism and along the way, to be as kind to others as possible without thinking that we are particularly wonderful.”

Thinking Way Mind Kind Action Goal Wonderful Buddhism Right Action

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“It is impossible to move on to new states of mind unless you seek the forgiveness of those you've offended.”

Mind States Action Moving Impossible State Of Mind Offended Right Action

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“I've moved a lot of my students into a high state of mind, but they don't do the things I have shown them how to do. So then, they drop down into a lower stage of attention.”

Mind States Action Attention Stage Students Buddhism Moved State Of Mind Rama Right Action

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“Spiritual evolution is a movement from the states of mind that reflect life less accurately to the states of mind that reflect life more accurately.”

Mind States Spiritual Movement Evolution State Of Mind Spiritual Evolution

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“The ideas that we have about self are an aggregate within a state of mind, and they chain us to a state of mind.”

Mind Ideas Self States Chains State Of Mind

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About the Author

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

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