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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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“Meditation is the freeing of ourselves from all mental states and concepts of self.”

Self States Meditation Buddhism Concepts

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As you meditate, you will find that consciousness itself will move you beyond time and space and condition into a larger, vaster, more beautiful state of awareness.”

States Beautiful Moving Space Consciousness Meditation Conditions Awareness Buddhism Time And Space

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“With the practice of meditation you can move into other states of mind, sort of ungluing the glue that binds you to a particular perceptual mode, a way of seeing life which is an illusory one.”

Way Mind States Moving Practice Meditation Seeing Particular Buddhism State Of Mind Glue Illusory

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“Kundalini is seen as a serpent that can shoot up the shushumna, past the chakras, opening them all and bringing you into different states of awareness.”

Different States Past Awareness Buddhism Opening Serpent Chakra

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“As the kundalini energy increases, as the energy of the psyche becomes more pronounced, which it does as thought becomes eclipsed by silence, all the variant mind states burn away.”

Mind Doe States Energy Silence Buddhism Increase

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“In Buddhism we meditate. We make our minds quiet by learning to focus on the chakras, release internal energy that we call kundalini, and bring ourselves into high states of consciousness.”

Mind States Energy Consciousness Focus Buddhism Quiet Release Internals Chakra States Of Consciousness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The causal body holds the structure. The causal body is the coding. So you are not just scattered all over the ten thousand states of mind.”

Mind States Body Buddhism Thousand Ten Structure State Of Mind

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.”

People Thinking Trying States Certain Names Term Consciousness Hinduism Goddess States Of Consciousness Gods And Goddesses

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To stop thought it's necessary to put your life into a state of balance. Otherwise you can sit and meditate for hours and all kinds of conscious and unconscious thoughts will flow through you.”

Kind States Hours Balance Conscious Flow All Kinds Unconscious Conscious And Unconscious Unconscious Thoughts

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We have to push ourselves to stillness - to the natural state.”

States Natural Stillness

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“To stop thought, you have to go above it. We are collecting energy. When it is freed, it is like a flood and the water will rise and we are in altered states of attention.”

States Energy Water Attention Flood Collecting Altered Altered States

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“Mindfulness is when you are engaged in activities but the mind is set into the meditative state all the time. Meditation is to be aware of many different levels. It's not just the absence of thought.”

Mind Different States Levels Meditation Buddhism Activity Mindfulness Absence Engaged Different Levels

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“To be in thousands of states of mind simultaneously as you perform simple physical tasks gives you a reverence for life. Each of these outer manifestations of life is God.”

Giving Mind States Life Is Simple Buddhism Mindfulness Tasks Manifestation State Of Mind Reverence Reverence For Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you are just thinking a lot of silly thoughts and having a lot of worries, you waste a tremendous energy and power and you put yourself into very limited states of mind. You slow down your evolutionary process.”

Thinking Mind States Energy Process Worry Buddhism Waste Mindfulness Silly State Of Mind Slow Down

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“In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it mindfulness.”

Feels States Action Buddhism Mindfulness Reflection

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“You are moving in and out of different advanced states of mind through your practice of meditation and mindfulness. It's that level of excellence that gives you joy in life, not the fact that you won or lost.”

Giving Mind Different States Facts Moving Joy Lost Levels Practice Meditation Buddhism Mindfulness Excellence State Of Mind Moving In

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Begin to live in other levels of attention all the time whether you're at work, driving or running on the beach. When you begin to be in a more meditative state all the time you will find that it fits rather well with everything that you do.”

Wells States Running Levels Attention Buddhism Fit Mindfulness Driving Beach

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the state of emptiness, you are the action not the performer of the action. Allow an activity or event to take precedence over your own point of view.”

States Action Views Events Buddhism Activity Mindfulness Point Of View Emptiness Over You Performers Precedence

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“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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“We fall into states of illusion - we forget all this. We get caught up in desires, frustrations, political movements, philosophies, religions, the getting of a living, the pain of a body, the pleasure of a body.”

States Philosophy Body Pain Political Desire Fall Forget Pleasure Movement Ignorance Illusion Caught Frustration Caught Up Political Movements

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“Life isn't complicated. The reason it appears complicated to you is because you are in a very distorted state of mind. That's the basic premise of Buddhism - that you're in a very distorted state of mind.”

Mind States Reason Ignorance Buddhism Complicated State Of Mind Premises

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Samsara is the world appearance, the cycle of rebirth, the physically manifest universes and states of mind that you perceive through the medium of ego.”

World Mind States Universe Ignorance Ego Appearance Mediums Perceive Cycles Manifest State Of Mind Rebirth Samsara

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can be in a state of mind for a few seconds and forget that you were ever in any other state of mind. That's what we mean by illusion.”

Mind Mean States Forget Ignorance Illusion Seconds State Of Mind

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“Reincarnation is simply changing awareness. What you are reincarnating into are different states of mind. The whole show is on the inside.”

Mind Different States Whole Shows Awareness State Of Mind Reincarnation

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“Reincarnation is a process of moving from one state of mind to another. Whether you are in a body or out of a body is immaterial.”

Mind States Body Moving Process State Of Mind Reincarnation

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“Just remembering what you did in previous lives doesn't mean a thing. It's nice to remember that you had higher states of mind, but that won't necessarily get you there. It might even make things painful.”

Mind Mean States Might Remember Nice Higher Painful State Of Mind Reincarnation Previous Life

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“The inner aspects of reincarnation have to do with where you put your mind. The more expansive state of mind you enter into, the less suffering there is.”

Mind States Suffering Aspect State Of Mind Reincarnation

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“You can summon up power from past lives and bring them into this life. That can give you a boost into the next state of mind or further up.”

Giving Mind States Past Next This Life State Of Mind Reincarnation Boost Past Life

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“The essence of Buddhism is simply that the mind is forever. We are always experiencing different states of mind in one form or another, in one body or another, in one life or another, forever.”

Mind Different States Body Form Forever Buddhism Essence State Of Mind Reincarnation

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“Your states of mind do not occur randomly. They occur because of vibratory and karmic patterns.”

Mind States Patterns Karma State Of Mind

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“Karma is the sum total of who you are, everything you've been. The mind state you are in is karmic. Meaning, it's related by a causal chain of existences, of moments, of particles of timelessness.”

Mind States Moments Existence Who You Are Karma Chains Related Particles Timelessness

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“All states of mind have different views. On the higher plateau, opportunities will open to you because you can see them.”

Mind Different States Opportunity Views Higher Karma State Of Mind Different Views All State

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“Karma is engendered by states of mind. If you are in a happy state of mind, that will engender one kind of karma. If you are in an unhappy state of mind, that will engender another kind of karma.”

Ifs Mind Kind States Karma Unhappy State Of Mind Karma Yoga

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“The state of mind that you are in causes you to act in a certain way. Your actions will bear results. The ultimate result of all karmas and actions is state of mind. You are your state of mind.”

Way Mind States Action Certain Causes Results Bears Ultimate Karma State Of Mind

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“Karma means that through your thoughts and feelings and actions, you are generating a state of mind. That state of mind has a view. That view will cause things to happen to you or not happen to you.”

Mind Mean States Feelings Happens Action Causes Views Karma State Of Mind Thoughts And Feelings

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“It is always possible to get into a higher state of mind. The way you get into a higher state of mind is by generating good karma.”

Way Mind States Higher Karma State Of Mind Good Karma

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“The person who gives selflessly in this lifetime immediately goes into a better state of mind. That is instant karma.”

Giving Mind Persons States Lifetime Karma Instant State Of Mind

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“When you do things in a selfish way, let alone a destructive way, then you are bound by that karma. Your state of mind will go down. You will find yourself becoming depressed, nervous, anxious and upset.”

Way Mind States Becoming Bounds Selfish Karma Nervous Upset Destructive Finding Yourself State Of Mind Anxious

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“Selfless actions create a higher karma, which brings you into higher states of mind. When you are in higher states of mind you will see things that you never saw before.”

Mind States Action Saws Higher Karma State Of Mind Selfless Karma Yoga

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“A saint is someone who has been very selfless and, over a period of lifetimes, generated a tremendous amount of good karma, which has caused them to enter into very lovely states of mind.”

Mind Has Beens States Amount Periods Lifetime Saint Karma Lovely State Of Mind Selfless Karma Yoga Good Karma

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“Good karma leads to rebirth also. The desire for higher states of mind is a desire. When you are fixated on higher states of mind, you don't become enlightened.”

Mind States Desire Higher Karma Enlightened State Of Mind Rebirth Good Karma

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“Life is forever. Death is only a temporary abridgment. It is just a state of transition where you will move from one world into another. You will move from the physical to the causal, from matter into pure energy.”

World Matter States Moving Life Is Death Energy Forever Pure Temporary Transition

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“Death doesn't change anything. It just gives you a new location. The physical mind dissolves. But the overriding state of mind that you die in is the state of mind that you are born into.”

Giving Mind States Death Dies Born State Of Mind Location

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“The essence of your awareness field definitely goes on after death. It goes through death, it goes into non-physical states for a time, and then eventually is pulled back and it reincarnates.”

States Awareness Fields Goes On Essence Rebirth After Death

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“The state between birth and death is not sympathetic. It is a flow system. Whatever your conscious level is, that is how you will reincarnate.”

States Levels Birth Conscious Flow Rebirth Sympathetic Birth And Death

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“The disembodied being stays in the same state of mind that it was in when it was embodied, unless it does something to change that while it is out of the body.”

Mind Doe States Body State Of Mind Rebirth

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“There are ten thousand states of mind. The culmination of the states of mind you have gone through will create your next lifetime.”

Mind States Next Gone Thousand Ten Lifetime State Of Mind Rebirth Culmination Next Lifetime

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“Enlightenment is not a state of mind, yet all states of mind are contained within it.”

Mind States Enlightenment State Of Mind All State

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“While I may not be able to describe to you exactly what enlightenment is like, I can tell you that it is wonderful beyond understanding. The experience of enlightenment frees your mind from painful and limited states of awareness.”

Mind May I Can States Able Understanding Wonderful Awareness Enlightenment Painful I May Not Be

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“Enlightenment is a perfect state of mind. It is the direct seeing of reality. The world most people see, which they call life, is really just a dream.”

People World Mind States Dream Reality Life Is Perfect Seeing Enlightenment Direct State Of Mind Just A Dream

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

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

About the Author

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

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