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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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“A Buddhist is working not just to get paid, but working to advance spiritually. You shouldn't create a syntactical break in your mind between your career and your religious practice.”

Mind Success Religious Careers Break Practice Buddhism Paid Buddhist Religious Practices

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is necessary to be occupied almost all the time, to have your mind focused; otherwise, you get very spaced out. There are many variant psychic forces and powers that roam through the worlds. You can pick them up.”

World Mind Success Force Careers Buddhism Picks Focused Psychics Force And Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you want to become enlightened, you've got to get all the bullshit out of your life. You have to clear up your mind completely.”

Ifs Want Mind Effort Clear Enlightened Bullshit

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You must learn to meditate and stop your thoughts. You must overcome all egotism and selfishness by serving others. You must cleanse your mind so that enlightenment will find a happy place to reside there.”

Mind Effort Enlightenment Overcoming Selfishness Serving Egotism Serving Others Happy Place

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“Your mind is made up of light. We call it the dharmakaya, the clear light of reality. The transcendental eternal light is everywhere. It's the light of god or whatever you want to call it.”

Want Mind Made Reality Light Clear Buddhism Eternal Transcendental Eternal Light

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The Tibetan Buddhist realization is that mind does not have any particular qualities or attributes of its own. It's clear - clear light.”

Mind Doe Light Quality Clear Particular Buddhism Realization Buddhist Attributes Tibetan Tibetan Buddhist

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Keep your mind centered on that which leads to light, intensively. Accept no substitute.”

Mind Light Accepting Buddhism Substitutes

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I go snowboarding and scuba diving to get to places of power where I can more correctly perceive the still center of my own mind. I also find that extreme athletics helps to clarify your mind.”

Mind Stills I Can Helping My Own Extremes Perceive Rama Athletics Diving Snowboarding Scuba Scuba Diving

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you're interested in matching your mind with the most intelligent kind of beast I have ever encountered, get yourself a Scotty dog. He'll get bored very fast, and it will require all of your personal power and intelligence to keep up with him. You might find a good friend.”

Ifs Mind Kind Might Dog Intelligent Bored Beast Good Friend Rama Personal Power Matching Scotty

Author:Frederick Lenz

“My seminars are for you. They are moments, hours and evenings outside of time. A chance, in a highly charged environment, to meditate, find stillness, and remember who you are. A place, with others of like mind, to find and lose yourself in the transcendental light.”

Mind Moments Light Remember Hours Loses Chance Environment Buddhism Who You Are Evening Stillness Rama Transcendental Losing Yourself Seminars Remember Who You Are

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I may discuss contemporary cinema, how to shop at a mall without losing energy, how to use the power of mind to increase career and academic success, the Zen of sports, reincarnation, karma, sex, the experience of "suchness" or a new book by Stephen King.”

Mind May Book Use Energy Sex Sports Careers Buddhism Kings Losing Increase Karma Contemporary Cinema Shops Academic Reincarnation Rama Malls New Books Power Of The Mind Academic Success

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As an enlightened teacher of Buddhism, I'd like to welcome you to the pathway to enlightenment. I'd like to encourage you to be more positive, to engage in the practice meditation, to learn how to do this wonderful thing - make your mind still in a crazy world.”

World Mind Stills Practice Teacher Meditation Wonderful Crazy Buddhism Enlightenment Welcome Enlightened Wonderful Things Pathways Rama Crazy World

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You're going to merge your mind with the mind of eternity that goes on forever; that is not easy. It's very intense. I mean sitting on Mount St. Helens when it went off would have been small talk.”

Mind Mean Has Beens Easy Forever Goes On Sitting Eternity Intense Samadhi Small Talk

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Let's say you dissolve and become infinite light. There is this sense of being light even though the mind is not thinking it, one feels it, which indicates that one is still there - at least half of one.”

Thinking Feels Mind Stills Light Half Infinite Samadhi

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you sit and meditate and begin to experience expanded states of mind, you will be afraid. The light makes most people very, very afraid. The only way to overcome the fear is walking down into the light.”

People Way Mind States Light Walking Overcoming State Of Mind Samadhi

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The mind is afraid of its own dissolution. Life always seeks life.”

Mind Dissolution Samadhi

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is implicit in the self that the self will automatically evolve if you can dissolve it. It re-patterns itself after archetypal formations that exist deep within the mind.”

Ifs Mind Self Patterns Evolve Formation Deep Within Implicit Samadhi Self Will

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Nirvikalpa samadhi is a state of no mind, beyond the ten thousand states of mind, where there is nothing but perfection, where the self no longer exists...the ego dissolves into immortality.”

Mind Self States Thousand Ten Ego Perfection Immortality State Of Mind Samadhi

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The human mind and the entire life process is chaotic. Chaos is not something that lacks order; chaos has varieties of order within it.”

Mind Humans Philosophy Order Process Chaos Variety Human Mind Chaotic

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everything aids everything, because all things are a reflection of the Buddha mind, of the mind of Enlightenment.”

Mind Philosophy Enlightenment Reflection All Things Aids

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It doesn't really matter what you do. It is your state of mind that matters.”

Mind Matter States Philosophy State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Success, failure, pain, small furry animals, household products, freeways, Star Wars systems - all are interlinked in the dance of tantra, the disco of the mind, the ballroom of cosmic consciousness.”

Mind War Philosophy Pain Stars Animal Consciousness Products Cosmic Household Success Failure Tantra Disco Ballroom Freeways Cosmic Consciousness Furry

Author:Frederick Lenz

“For most people the prohibitions are a good thing. But If you are able to maintain very powerful states of mind, then you'll find yourself in everything you see.”

People Ifs Mind States Philosophy Able Powerful Good Things Finding Yourself State Of Mind Very Powerful Prohibition

Author:Frederick Lenz

“One person will eat meat and it will lower their attention field. Another person won't even be affected by it because they're not in the state of mind whereby they'll be affected by it.”

Mind Persons States Philosophy Attention Fields Meat Affected State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the world of Buddhist mind, in the advanced states, we go beyond time, space, life, death and Newsweek.”

World Mind States Philosophy Space Buddhist Life Death

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Part of what we seek in Buddhism is the sense of quiet observation. We don't get so involved in a state of mind that we forget that it's just another transient state of mind, no matter how much ecstasy or agony is involved.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The perfect view of existence comes from an unclouded, uncluttered life and mind whereby the radiance of perfect attention of the mind of the universe floods us at every moment. This is Buddhism. This is being on the path.”

Mind Moments Universe Perfect Views Existence Attention Path Buddhism Mindfulness Flood Radiance

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We're connected to the Buddhist order, to the mind of enlightenment. All day long we draw the power and force from that world, from all the teachers and all the adherents of the practices and the principles.”

World Mind Long Order Force Principles Practice Teacher Mindfulness Draws Enlightenment Connected Buddhist

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Advanced meditators are not even desirous of liberation anymore - that is just another attachment. There is no liberation. There is no bondage. These are just ideas of the mind.”

Mind Ideas Mindfulness Liberation Attachment Bondage

Author:Frederick Lenz

“With the happiness, ecstasy and power you gain from meditation, you can gradually remove your mind from the things it has become hooked to that cause it pain.”

Mind Pain Causes Meditation Mindfulness Gains Remove Ecstasy Hooked

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

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

“Advanced practice is the entrance into the ten thousand states of mind. Most people exist in five or six of these states in their whole lifetime.”

People Mind States Whole Practice Five Thousand Ten Six Lifetime Whole Life Concentration State Of Mind Entrances

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In advanced meditation there are methods and formations of joining the mind with the various aggregate aspects of the universe, fusing it, dissolving it, sometimes thousands of times in a microsecond or outside of time.”

Mind Sometimes Universe Meditation Aspect Method Various Concentration Formation Joining Dissolving

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The majority of the ten thousand states of mind cannot be discussed. It is rather a question of teaching a person to step outside the conceptual framework they have and transmitting blocks of awareness to an individual psychically.”

Mind Persons States Individual Steps Teaching Awareness Masters Thousand Ten Majority Block State Of Mind Framework Zen Master Conceptual Framework

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The teaching of the ten thousand states of mind, particularly as one advances further, is done through transmission. This is where we differ from teaching algebra or calculus.”

Mind States Done Teaching Masters Thousand Ten State Of Mind Algebra Calculus Transmission Zen Master

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We call it the transmission of the lamp in Zen. That's when we take enlightened states of mind and literally, you can transfer them, just like you can hand somebody flowers.”

Mind States Hands Flower Masters Like You Enlightened State Of Mind Lamps Transfers Transmission Zen Master

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The highest teaching is never written down. It's only communicated from teacher to student because it's a "transmission of the lamp." It's a transmission of mind.”

Mind Teacher Written Teaching Students Masters Highest Lamps Transmission Teacher Student Zen Master

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Zen is not a religion. There is no room for a cult. There is no dependence on a teacher. There is only learning how to use your own mind and making it strong.”

Mind Use Strong Rooms Teacher Masters Dependence Cult Zen Master

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What is important in self-discovery is the person who keeps going, who has a smile, who is kind to others, who works hard at everything, and who keeps their mind on their own business and not everybody else's.”

Mind Kind Persons Important Self Hard Hard Work Buddhism Discovery Self Discovery Buddhist Keep Going Etiquette Own Business

Author:Frederick Lenz

“One should never become devoted to a teacher, any more than one should become devoted to a statue of a god. There is only one thing to be devoted to, and that is your mind.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is very important to always hold the thought of an enlightened teacher in your mind in a very positive way. When you direct negative energy towards someone who is powerful, it has a terrible bounce-back effect.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Emotional control is essential for attaining higher levels of mind. The thing that the teacher looks for in a student is the degree of self-control, not coldness that someone has.”

Mind Looks Self Levels Teacher Students Emotional Buddhism Higher Essentials Degrees Buddhist Self Control Etiquette Higher Level Coldness Emotional Control

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Simplify your life and your mind. Think more of infinity and less of yourself.”

Thinking Mind Buddhism Buddhist Infinity Etiquette Simplify

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If someone is in the same state of mind and doesn't seek to block your success, you have a friend. Such friends are rare, and if you find such a friend, value them.”

Ifs Mind States Values Buddhism Block Buddhist State Of Mind Etiquette

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As Buddhist monks, our task is to bring ourselves resolutely more and more into light, to forgive and forget, to forget those who create problems for us because to remember them is only to keep problems is mind.”

Mind Problem Light Remember Forget Buddhism Tasks Forgiving Buddhist Monk Etiquette Forgive And Forget Buddhist Monk

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Put the mind in alignment with the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment and experience them in various gradations forever. That's the total purpose of a monk.”

Mind Purpose Forever Buddhism Thousand Ten Enlightenment Various Buddhist Monk Etiquette Alignment Radiance

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The degree of success that you attain in all of your physical, mental and spiritual undertakings is dependent upon the strength and clarity of your finite mind and your ability to access your infinite mind.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The body is a very low level machine language. The language of the soul, of the mind, is much more evolved.”

Mind Soul Body Science Language Levels Buddhism Lows Machines Low Level

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The shortest distance between two points is your mind. It's not a straight line.”

Mind Two Science Lines Buddhism Distance Straight Lines

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is only eternity. That's our real body. The stars are our blanket. Time doesn't even exist, except in our own minds.”

Mind Real Body Science Stars Buddhism Eternity Blanket

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Chaos theory simply suggests that what appears to most people as chaos is not really chaotic, but a series of different types of orders with which the human mind has not yet become familiar.”

People Mind Humans Different Science Order Theory Buddhism Type Series Chaos Familiar Human Mind Chaotic Chaos Theory

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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