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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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“The way you learn is by sitting with the Master, as he moves into those states of attention, you feel that and follow him. He generates tremendous energy when he's doing anything. You are taught inwardly.”

Way Feels States Wisdom Moving Energy Attention Taught Masters Buddhism Sitting

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Life draws us in different directions, sometimes simultaneously. When you follow the direction that life draws you in, if you stay in a very powerful state of mind, then you'll see eternity.”

Ifs Mind Different Sometimes States Wisdom Powerful Buddhism Draws Eternity State Of Mind Very Powerful Different Directions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can get stuck in being wise. You can get stuck in having a developed will. It is very hard to get stuck in being happy. It is too lucid a state of mind.”

Mind Hard States Wise Buddhism Balance Stuck State Of Mind Being Wise

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend to last.”

States Problem Lasts Certain Understanding Consciousness Buddhism Balance Drug Perception Altered States Of Consciousness Excursions Altered States Altered States Of Consciousness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are endless planes of attention, endless realities and endless mind states. They're like collections of atoms and protons and neutrons, nuclei. They just go on forever. They're plasma, they're fluid ... they're alive.”

World Mind States Reality Attention Forever Alive Buddhism Goes On Endless Planes Collections Atoms Fluid Other Worlds Nucleus Neutrons Plasma Proton

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I can assure you, as a practitioner of Buddhism, that there are ten thousand states of mind, at least, give or take a few billion.”

World Giving Mind I Can States Ignorance Buddhism Thousand Ten Billions State Of Mind Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everything is perception. A hallucination is a perception of a certain reality. It is a perception of a certain state of mind.”

Mind States Reality Certain Awareness Ignorance Buddhism Perception State Of Mind Hallucinations

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You think you are somebody and that is where the problem begins. You're really not somebody, you're everybody. You objectify yourself into thinking that you are a particular state of being.”

Thinking States Problem Awareness Particular Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Anything that you might want to be is around somewhere. You can become it. You just have to get into the state of mind that allows that to occur.”

Want Mind States Might Awareness Buddhism State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You are a little band of awareness and your awareness moves from one state of mind to another.”

Mind Littles States Moving Awareness Buddhism Band State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Your self is the universe, and you perceive the universe through a state of mind.”

Mind Self States Universe Awareness Buddhism Perceive State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You perceive yourself as being solid and physical, limited to a body. You are made up of light, endless mind. The way you see life is a limited state of mind.”

Way Mind Made States Body Light Life Is Awareness Buddhism Endless Perceive State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Your state of mind dominates your awareness to such an extent that you can't conceive of any other state of mind other than the state of mind that you're in.”

Mind States Awareness Buddhism State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you change your state of mind, your whole life changes, nothing remains the same. Nothing looks the same, because you have changed.”

Mind Looks States Whole Awareness Changed Buddhism Remains Whole Life Life Changing State Of Mind You Have Changed

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We don't always walk from one state of mind into another. We might just oscillate back and forth for a whole lifetime within the polarities of a certain state of mind.”

Mind States Whole Might Certain Walks Awareness Buddhism Lifetime Whole Life State Of Mind Back And Forth Polarity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Anyone has the ability, if they choose, to move to the higher end of the state of mind they are in. From that higher end, they can generate another state of mind.”

Ifs Mind Ends States Moving Ability Awareness Buddhism Higher State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The reason a person is in a particular state of mind is primarily because of attraction and aversion. Attraction and aversion cause us to format a mental or intellectual program.”

Mind Persons States Reason Causes Awareness Particular Buddhism Intellectual Program Attraction State Of Mind Format Aversion

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everyone has sunk on this plane to such a low state of consciousness, it is the natural state. We have deviated so far from the norm in this age of darkness.”

States Age Humanity Natural Consciousness Darkness Buddhism Lows Planes Norm States Of Consciousness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People on this planet are currently preparing to blow themselves up in ultimate thermonuclear wars. We are living among beings whose state of mind is destruction.”

People Mind War States Humanity Planets Buddhism Destruction Ultimate Blow State Of Mind Preparing Nuclear War

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In this prison camp, the Gestapo state brain-police planet Earth, what is normal is insane and what is insane is normal. But it doesn't pay to tell that to the local politicians or other organizational structures that run the place that. They didn't crucify Christ because they liked what he said.”

“Happiness comes from living in the moment, this moment, now, right here. If you are in obscure states of mind, you won't see what this moment is. You won't realize its beauty.”

Ifs Mind States Moments Happiness Realizing Buddhism State Of Mind Obscure Live In The Moment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Stop trying to do things that will make you happy. Happiness is a state of mind; because otherwise, you are a slave to circumstance.”

Trying Mind States Happiness Buddhism Circumstances Slave State Of Mind Make You Happy Stop Trying

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness is a state of mind. The key to happiness is being able to disconnect your life from your perceptions. If you saw things as they really were, you would be happy automatically.”

Ifs Mind States Would Be Able Happiness Saws Buddhism Keys Perception State Of Mind Key To Happiness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness is only gained when your mind is in extended states of attention, when your mind is merging with the infinite.”

Mind States Happiness Attention Buddhism Infinite Merging

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness is everything in the whole universe. It's a state of mind. Your whole life is a state of mind. So be happy, why not?”

Mind States Whole Happiness Life Is Universe Buddhism Whole Life Why Not State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation simply means entering into states of mind which are happiness, profound happiness, simple happiness, beautiful happiness, complicated, uncomplicated - There are ten thousand states of mind.”

Mind Mean States Beautiful Happiness Simple Meditation Buddhism Thousand Ten Profound Complicated State Of Mind Entering Uncomplicated Simple Happiness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What we focus on we become. If you are just focusing on unhappy things, you will become unhappy. If you focus on happy states of mind, then it will grow in you.”

Ifs Mind States Happiness Grows Focus Buddhism Unhappy State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think I've learned more from women than anyone else, and perhaps from love - what a wonderful testing ground, what a wonderful place to see and sense our limitations, to know that the pain reflects your state of awareness and not being able to hide from it.”

Thinking Knows States Able Pain Wonderful Awareness Buddhism Sexuality Limitation I've Learned Testing Wonderful Places

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Let us say that you wanted a romantic partner who is in a higher sate of mind, a nicer person. The reason you will meet that person is because you are in a state of mind that will cause that meeting to occur.”

Mind Persons States Reason Wanted Causes Buddhism Higher Meetings Sexuality Partners State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Any good athletic is always in a state of perpetual training, as is the Zen student.”

States Students Health Buddhism Training Perpetual Athletic Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Thought control is the ability to direct mind and attention anywhere. Your ability to win is dependent upon the power of your concentration. Winning is a state of mind.”

Mind States Winning Ability Attention Health Buddhism Direct Dependent Concentration State Of Mind Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Diet is a matter of personal preference, but if you're interested in the advanced states of meditation, eating mammals should be avoided. They have a more evolved consciousness and can affect your attention field greatly.”

Ifs Should Matter States Attention Consciousness Meditation Fields Health Buddhism Eating Diets Preference Avoided Athletics Mammals Personal Preferences

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The pathway to enlightenment leads to states of ecstasy, knowledge, and a pretty ironic sense of humor.”

Inspirational States Buddhism Enlightenment Sense Of Humor Ecstasy Ironic Pathways

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you live in a psychic state of mind, you are happy. You don't have to do anything. Life is always beautiful, but we don't see it when we enter into lower states of mind that are, in effect, cloudy.”

Inspirational Mind States Beautiful Life Is Effects Buddhism State Of Mind Psychics Cloudy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everything depends on your state of awareness. If your state of awareness is low, then all the material success in the world won't help.”

Ifs World Inspirational States Helping Awareness Materials Buddhism Depends Lows

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The whole quality of your life depends on your state of mind. There are very high states of mind that very few people experience. They are also quite pragmatic and practical and they make you more efficient at living and working in the world.”

People World Inspirational Mind States Whole Quality Buddhism Depends Practicals State Of Mind Efficient Pragmatic

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There was a time when you came forth from infinity, your essence that is. You've always existed, and you'll always exist. But there are different states of mind in the universe.”

Inspirational Mind Different States Universe Buddhism Essence Infinity State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are no bad people; there are only bad states of mind.”

People Inspirational Mind States Buddhism State Of Mind Bad People

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“You can get stuck in one state of mind or a general area of mind for a thousand lifetimes. Some states of mind afford better views than others.”

Inspirational Mind States Views Buddhism Thousand Areas Lifetime Stuck State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We get so involved with the latest craze or having the latest car or the most high-powered house that we lose touch with that which makes us happy - what makes us happy are quiet states of mind.”

Inspirational Mind States House Loses Car Buddhism Involved Quiet State Of Mind Craze

Author:Frederick Lenz

“These truths may seem simple and self-apparent and the words easy to say, but the states of mind that you live in as you progress are beautiful beyond description.”

Inspirational Mind May Self States Seems Beautiful Easy Simple Progress Buddhism Description State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Your inner being already knows. It's trying to communicate with you. But it needs to shift you into a different state of mind.”

Knows Inspirational Needs Trying Mind Different States Buddhism Communicate State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You are your state of mind. Your state of mind creates your view, or your window, on life.”

Inspirational Mind States Views Inspirational Life Buddhism Window State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-discovery is realistic. It's not built on ideas and philosophies. It's what works. Philosophies are nice if you like philosophies. But self-discovery is predicated on something that really brings you into enlightened states of mind.”

Ifs Inspirational Mind Ideas Self States Philosophy Nice Buddhism Discovery Built Self Discovery Enlightened Realistic State Of Mind

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“When you meditate, you are shifting your state of mind to a higher vibratory level that will give you a much more expansive view.”

Giving Mind States Levels Views Meditation Buddhism Higher State Of Mind Shifting

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The reason one enters into lower mental states is because you don't have the power or chi flowing through you.”

States Reason Meditation Buddhism Personal Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If we are in the same state of mind, we just self-reflect, things are dull and gray and kind of boring.”

Ifs Mind Kind Self States Meditation Buddhism Boring Dull Gray State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you start to meditate, if you stick with it, you will see tremendous changes in your life and state of mind.”

Ifs Mind States Meditation Buddhism Sticks State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As your meditation practice improves from month to month, more and more light and ecstasy will spill over into the moments of your daily life. Eventually you will always exist in a state of continual light.”

States Moments Light Practice Meditation Buddhism Months Daily Life Ecstasy Spills Meditation Practice

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

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

“Stress is a state of mind and if you realize that you will find that it's something you can deal with. It is my belief that stress occurs not because of the conditions of the world.”

Ifs World Mind States Belief Realizing Deals Meditation Conditions Buddhism Stress 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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