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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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“Most people are fragile. They're fragile in the sense that they're afraid of the unknown, so they cling to each other. They cling to families, traditions, ways of seeing life that protect them from the immensity of the unknown”

People Way Inspirational Seeing Buddhism Protect Tradition Fragile Immensity Family Tradition

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are really only three important things to remember in life: To care, to share, and to be fair. This is not a new idea at all, and yet, observing how most people live their lives, you might think it was.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everyone meditates in their own way. Some people sit and practice formal mediation techniques for many hours a day while others spontaneously meditate while watching a sunset, listening to music, or participating in athletics.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“People who meditate seek good moments forever. They know that there are other worlds beyond this world. They feel it. I experience those worlds when I meditate.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are billions of people out there walking around and they don't meditate. You can tell. They are not having a good time with their lives. People are not happy.”

People Suffering Meditation Buddhism Walking Billions Good Times Having A Good Time Not Happy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation is not for everybody. When you meditate you become conscious. Most people don't want to be too conscious because they are afraid of awareness, of death, and of being happy.”

People Want Meditation Awareness Buddhism Conscious Awareness Of Death

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Some people are drawn to meditation without knowing why. Their inner being realizes that they've totally fouled up their life so far, and now it's just going to drag them to the local meditation hall.”

People Realizing Knowing Meditation Buddhism Locals Halls Being Real Drag

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Some people meditate because they want to get the larger picture on life. It could get kind of discouraging if this was all there was.”

People Ifs Want Kind Meditation Buddhism Discouraging

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“Some people meditate because they are sick and tired of their life, of the world, of the way people abuse each other and abrogate each other's freedoms.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Some people meditate because they need more energy and when you meditate you get a tremendous amount of energy.”

People Needs Energy Meditation Buddhism Amount

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“The place that you gain the most power is within your own mind. Stopping thought generates power. That is why people meditate. The longer you can stop thought, the more power you gain.”

People Mind Meditation Buddhism Gains Stopping Gaining Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As you do your daily meditations, your life will change. Most people change between the ages of zero to four. The older we get the less we change. When we meditate we become perpetually young.”

People Age Young Four Meditation Buddhism Zero Daily Meditation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People who meditate deeply find wonderful things happening in their life all the time.”

People Meditation Wonderful Buddhism Happenings Things Happen Wonderful Things Wonderful Things Happening

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“Meditation gives you personal power. You will notice that people will treat you differently as you progress because they can feel that power. Use that power wisely. If you search your heart, I think you will.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“A lot of people have this live or die attitude with mediation. It has to be all or nothing. I don't think it should be. It's a study that you follow for the rest of your life.”

People Thinking Should Dies Attitude Study Meditation Buddhism Rest Of Your Life Mediation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Try to find a teacher of meditation and meditate at least once a week in a group with people who meditate a little better than you do. It will inspire you to keep meditating.”

People Trying Littles Teacher Meditation Groups Week Inspire Buddhism Better Than You Meditating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Personal power changes or shapes consciousness, and that is kundalini. Kundalini exists within us. Some people have more of it, some dimensions have more of it.”

People Consciousness Buddhism Shapes Dimensions Personal Power

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“People are under the assumption that the kundalini just flows from the base of the spine up. That's not the case at all. Kundalini also flows downward.”

People Cases Buddhism Flow Assumption Spine

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“You can transmit the kundalini physically when people are there, and of course, long distance. It is energy, inter-dimensional energy.”

People Long Courses Energy Buddhism Distance Long Distance Transmit

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's funny, people who have a lot of sexual energy think of themselves as being not spiritual. They are probably more spiritually inclined. All that sexual energy is kundalini.”

People Thinking Spiritual Energy Buddhism Funny People

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People who tap the kundalini and are able to release it are more successful. Anyone who is really on top has some access to the kundalini. They have learned somewhere down the line, in this or other lives, ways of releasing power.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Some people travel to other dimensions in their astral bodies when they meditate. But astral traveling doesn't bring a person lasting happiness. If astral traveling is not done properly, it can be quite dangerous.”

People Ifs Persons Done Body Dangerous Buddhism Dimensions Lasting Lasting Happiness

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

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

“There are chakras in the hands; you've seen me use those quite frequently when I meditate. I project the shakti, the kundalini, through the chakras in the hands to people I meditate with.”

People Use Hands Buddhism Projects Chakra Shakti

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“Some people speak of the Akashic Records as if they were on an IBM mainframe that's out there somewhere near the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.”

People Ifs Ends Universe Speak Records Buddhism Restaurants Ibm Mainframe

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Gods and goddesses are not what people think they are. Their names are terms with which we try to convey a certain experience, a state of consciousness.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“We live in a world of careers. Work, as Sri Krishna points out in the Bhagavad Gita, is a necessary path for everyone attaining enlightenment. It is something that we all do. Some people work very hard at not working.”

People World Hard Careers Path Enlightenment Hinduism Krishna Gita

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Krishna says, fight. He says, go out on the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill; and whether they were your friends or not, you have to look at the big picture. In the big picture, you can't go kill anybody, you can't be killed.”

People Looks Bigs Jobs Fighting Hinduism Battlefields Krishna Big Picture

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“There are people in the Himalayas who are thousands of years old. But that's just a power, you see. It would seem to me that would suggest a tremendous aversion to the experience of death.”

People Years Seems Death Hinduism Aversion Himalayas

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“Yes, there are siddha powers. Yes, you can heal people, transform attention. You can flood the sky with light at night so you can't even see the stars. But the greatest miracle is the spirit - it is light”

People Light Spirit Night Stars Attention Sky Miracle Heal Hinduism Flood Yes You Can

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“Place an object within your view, hopefully at about eye level. You might have to look down a little bit. Some people have a meditation table on which they put an object of concentration on.”

People Looks Littles Might Eye Bits Levels Views Meditation Objects Little Bit Tables Hopefully Concentration

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can focus on me or on any spiritual teacher. Spiritual teachers who have left the body, who are no longer on earth can help you too. When I leave the body someday, I can help people just as effectively if they focus upon me.”

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“I observe many people who say they are meditating, but I sure don't see them meditating. They sit and touch a lot of people, places and things psychically, but they sure don't meditate.”

People Meditating

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“When a lot of people meditate what they do is they're thinking about other people. This is a terrible mistake. If you do this, stop!”

People Ifs Thinking Mistake Terrible

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“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

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“If you start picking up other people's impressions while you are meditating, then instead of clearing yourself, you are just going to completely glom yourself up to the point where there is no meditation.”

People Ifs Meditation Impression Meditating Clearing

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“People focus on things that vibrate very slowly during meditation and because they are so open they make themselves really sick, psychically.”

People Focus Meditation Sick Vibrate

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“Many people, including Buddhist monks, spend thousands of hours sitting in what they call meditation. In reality, what they're doing is thinking and ruminating upon their problems.”

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“You can just sit and space out. A lot of people do that and think they are doing a wonderful meditation.”

People Thinking Space Meditation Wonderful

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“When you meditate your body shouldn't move. Some people get into this kundalini sway business. Your body shouldn't move.”

People Body Moving Your Body

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“Spend time all day and all night monitoring your thoughts, constantly keeping them in a high plateau. Avoid places and people that pull your energy down.”

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“It is necessary to learn how to do a systems analysis of your life, to learn about the effects of places, people, jobs. There are millions of things that go into the study of meditation.”

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“People don't really want to know the truth. The truth is that you are all dead in the future, everything that you do has no point, and all of the achievements of the human race are meaningless.”

People Knows Want Humans Suffering Race Truth Is Achievement Human Race Meaningless No Point

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I see people driving cars, winding down the streets. I don't know where these people think they're going. They're going to the funeral home; that's about it.”

People Thinking Knows Home Suffering Streets Car Driving Funeral Driving Cars Winding Down

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As I'm sure you know by now, most people aren't really very happy. Beyond their surface appearances, the smiles they wear for the rest of the world, most people are soul-sick.”

People Knows World Soul Suffering Sick Appearance Surface Very Happy

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“Most people lead lives of frustration and disapointment. They enjoy temporary pleasures and long-lasting suffering.”

People Long Suffering Enjoy Pleasure Frustration Lasting Temporary Long Lasting

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“Dogs have fleas; people have each other. We are born to die. Life is a continuing tragic comedy. Everything and everyone we love suffers. Anybody who doesn't see that has not grown up and known life.”

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“Life for most people is a bad dream. They live in pain, grabbing at what they can for pleasure. As they grow old, they despair. Things don't work out the way you planned.”

People Way Dream Pain Suffering Grows Pleasure Despair Work Out Grabbing Bad Dream

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“Life is just masturbation in a sense, mentally. What people do is they just create a world out of their self-reflection.”

People World Self Life Is Suffering Reflection Self Reflection Masturbation

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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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“People are so tired. The world is set up to exhaust you and drain you. That's how humankind has devised their world. Life is not necessarily that way”

People World Way Life Is Suffering Tired Humankind Drains World Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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