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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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“People who want to go to power places all of the time and want to be around powerful people, they don't last long in the study.”

People Want Long Lasts Powerful Study Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I don't put much stock in powers that people have to hurt others, in sorcery and all this nonsense. There are murders and there are dictators. That is just a part of life. The intelligent use of power in yoga can assist you avoiding that side of humanity.”

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“Angry people, unhappy people, people that seek to injure others, these people all have something in common. They waste energy. They don't conserve it and they don't know how to increase it.”

People Knows Energy Common Know How Buddhism Waste Increase Angry Unhappy Happy People Unhappy People

Author:Frederick Lenz

“How do you overcome the negative karmas and problems and misery that occur to people who abuse power? You stop abusing power.”

People Problem Buddhism Negative Overcoming Abuse Misery Karma Negative Karma

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“Some people travel to other dimensions in their astral bodies when they meditate.”

People Body Buddhism Dimensions

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

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

“Today it is very popular to do a thing we call channeling. People are trying to channel entities and have these beings come through them. In my estimation this is downright ridiculous and dangerous.”

People Trying Today Dangerous Buddhism Ridiculous Entity Channeling Estimation Very Popular

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Don't get involved with non-physical beings. This current pastime, this rage, is dangerous. Many of these people who are channeling entities are going to become very sick, physically and mentally”

People Dangerous Buddhism Involved Sick Currents Rage Entity Get Involved Channeling Pastime

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People think that by getting in touch with some being outside the body, it will solve their problems. This only creates problems. It won't help you a bit.”

People Thinking Helping Problem Body Bits Buddhism Solve

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“People go to mediums and they get in touch with spirits outside of the body. Most of these spirits are pretty malevolent and unenlightened, although they often claim to be enlightened teachers who are disincarnate. These low-vibe beings seek life-force.”

People Body Spirit Force Teacher Buddhism Lows Claims Mediums Enlightened

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Pilgrimages are journeys to places of power. People sometimes make pilgrimages to the caves where Milarepa or other great yogis meditated.”

People Sometimes Journey Buddhism Caves Pilgrimage Yogi

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you go to a lower crossover point, a negative place of power, then the beings there are very unevolved, very demonic, crazy, lower than the people of this world.”

People Ifs World Crazy This World Buddhism Negative Being There Demonic Crossover

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everything is amplified in the world of attention at night. People are more open to forces. That is why human beings cluster around each other in housing developments - a group force pervades and keeps the beings out.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“For most people this is not a conscious process, it's an inner pull that takes place, that simply draws them there.”

People Process Buddhism Draws Conscious

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is a vortex of energy at the bottom of Walden Pond. That's where the inter-dimensional opening is. As people swim in Old Walden Pond, it soothes them, it renews them. It's a little bit like the pool in Cocoon - I suppose, any power spot is.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Almost all the people who lived in Atlantis meditated and had powerful psychic skills.”

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

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

“During the age Atlantis, there were only several hundred thousand people living on our planet. They lived in a sublime state of harmony with nature. At that time, because of the purity of the earth's aura, it was much easier to meditate.”

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

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

“Rae Chorze Fwaz was a mystery school. A mystery school is an occult order comprised of people who study meditation, enlightenment and psychic and occult arts.”

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

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

“Unfortunately, half the boats were lost in a great storm at sea, and many members of the six boats that did make it to their destinations safely, were later killed by the very native people to whom they sought to transmit their knowledge of the Atlantean sciences, arts and metaphysics.”

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

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

“The people to become enlightened in Atlantis lit the "flame of enlightenment" on earth for the first time. The members of the various mystery schools have kept the flame alive by passing on the secret techniques for attaining enlightenment from the time of Atlantis to our present day.”

“Occasionally in my travels I meet people who have pushed too far into the nagual. These individuals are not too balanced but they have made great journeys in the unknown.”

People Made Individual Journey Buddhism Balanced Great Journeys

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are people who just can't handle life because they've thrown away too much of their reason.”

People Reason Too Much Buddhism Handle Thrown

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“The Buddha would never speak about enlightenment. The way he taught people about enlightenment was they meditated with him. He exposed them to countless views of the nagual.”

People Way Speak Views Taught Buddhism Enlightenment Exposed

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“When you can command the nagual you have a great deal of power, and people know it intuitively. They feel if they can plunge themselves into the nagual they can get anything they want in the tonal.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Another condition can be attained ... a condition of ecstasy. A condition so far from what the people of planet Earth experience it's not even discussable.”

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“All of the previously described techniques can be practiced with your eyes open and closed. Most people find that it is easier initially to practice meditation with their eyes closed.”

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Book:Snowboarding to Nirvana: A Novel

Source: Snowboarding to Nirvana: A Novel

“Buddhism isn't about temples, and incense, and shaved heads, and robes. It's not about church. There are aspects of Buddhism that involve that. People enjoy that, it helps them, it strengthens their practice.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is the Buddhist belief that all things, experiences and people are inherently empty. That is a simple way of saying that all physical and nonphysical things have another side.”

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

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

“The world is filled with people who understand. I personally value people who don't understand. People who understand have nothing more to learn. People who don't understand have hope. Do you understand?”

People World Values Buddhism Filled Having Hope

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“There is no ultimate objective reality within the ten thousand states of mind. Most people don't like to hear this. But there are ten thousand realities, and each is definitely unifying.”

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“Celibacy doesn't make you enlightened, otherwise every nun or priest in Buddhism or Christianity would be enlightened. People who don't date and can't get any action would be enlightened.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Some people, of course, say they're practicing tantra. There are a lot of books on tantric sexual practice in local bookstores. These are usually pretty silly books.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The most important thing is sensitivity. Many people have sex and don't feel anything, and that seems kind of sad to me. The answer is not necessarily the avoidance of sex, but learning to be sensitive and to love and to care.”

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“Tantric Zen, and the people who practice it, of course, make some people feel extremely uncomfortable.”

People Feels Courses Practice Buddhism Uncomfortable

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“Sometimes people start to meditate and they get a headache. It's because they're trying too hard. You're pulling in too much energy.”

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“Taoism is not a religion, although perhaps it has been made into one by some people. Lao Tsu's way of life occurs in any spiritual philosophy.”

People Way Has Beens Made Philosophy Spiritual Taoism Laos

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“Some people think Taoism means not doing anything, just going on with your life. That has little or nothing to do with Taoism.”

People Thinking Mean Littles Taoism

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“In the West when you talk about yin and yang, people normally think of yin and yang as something that's linear. But in the east we tend to think of yin and yang as circles. They're two circles that actually can lie on top of each other, yet they remain separate.”

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“Learn not to be attached to other people, to certain types of experiences. Allow the flow of life to guide you wherever it is supposed to and accept with equanimity, with balance, with poise, whatever happens.”

People Happens Certain Accepting Type Balance Flow Guides Taoism Whatever Happens Equanimity Poise

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About the Author

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

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