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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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“You can only conceive of what lies beyond the state of mind you are in from the point of view of the state of mind you are in.”

Mind States Lying Views Point Of View State Of Mind Introduction

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“There are ten thousand states of mind. Most people spend their entire lives confined to a few of these states of mind.”

People Mind States Thousand Ten State Of Mind Introduction Confined

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“The ten thousand states of mind that we talk about in Zen are all levels of perception. You can think of each of the ten thousand states of mind as a dimensional plane.”

Thinking Mind States Levels Thousand Ten Perception Planes State Of Mind Introduction

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“Beyond the ten thousand states of mind is the still point. It exists within them all, yet beyond them. It is not affected by them. It gives birth to them. This is the riddle.”

Giving Mind Stills States Birth Thousand Ten Affected State Of Mind Introduction Riddle

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“The ten thousand states of mind are hallucinatory. Hallucinations are real. Dreams are real. But there are some things more real.”

Mind Real States Dream Thousand Ten State Of Mind Introduction Hallucinations

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“Just like there are different roads that lead to different places, so there are different levels of awareness that lead to different places and we shift in and out of them. These are the ten thousand states of mind that we study in Zen.”

Mind Different States Levels Study Awareness Thousand Ten State Of Mind Introduction Different Place Different Levels Different Roads

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“If you have more personal power and you are in higher states of mind, then naturally you can see things and adhere to them or avoid them. Personal power is really the issue.”

Ifs Mind States Issues Seeing Higher State Of Mind Personal Power

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“Everything is a state of mind. Astral travel is the ability to wander through different states of mind and develop psychic perceptions.”

Mind Different States Ability Seeing Perception Wander State Of Mind Psychics

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“The Indians in the Southwestern United States went to many places of power. They were able to have profound dream experiences where they could see into the future or know what do to and make proper decisions.”

Knows States Dream Able Decision United United States Buddhism Profound

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“It is impossible to move on to new states of mind unless you seek the forgiveness of those you've offended.”

Mind States Action Moving Impossible State Of Mind Offended Right Action

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“I've moved a lot of my students into a high state of mind, but they don't do the things I have shown them how to do. So then, they drop down into a lower stage of attention.”

Mind States Action Attention Stage Students Buddhism Moved State Of Mind Rama Right Action

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“Spiritual evolution is a movement from the states of mind that reflect life less accurately to the states of mind that reflect life more accurately.”

Mind States Spiritual Movement Evolution State Of Mind Spiritual Evolution

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“The ideas that we have about self are an aggregate within a state of mind, and they chain us to a state of mind.”

Mind Ideas Self States Chains State Of Mind

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“The secret teaching was the bodhisattva ideal, to live for others, for the welfare of all beings. That's enlightenment, not some flashy state of luminosity.”

States Secret Compassion Teaching Enlightenment Ideals Welfare Flashy Live For Others Bodhisattva

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“In my very early childhood, when I was only 3 or 4 or 5, I would enter for many hours into meditative states in which the world would become light and energy and I would transcend the boundaries of the senses.”

World States Light Energy Hours Childhood Senses Boundaries Rama Early Childhood

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“I explored alternate states of consciousness at one period of my life through psychedelics, as was the fashion with all my friends.”

States Consciousness Fashion Periods My Friends Rama States Of Consciousness

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“We experimented and we experienced many altered states of awareness. We used the power plants. I did that for a year or two.”

Years Two States Used Awareness Plant Rama Altered Power Plants Altered States

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“Some of the most exalted states of consciousness I experienced were in bed with someone, alone, or with my spiritual teacher. There was never a difference for me.”

States Spiritual Differences Consciousness Teacher Bed Rama Exalted States Of Consciousness Spiritual Teachers

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“I began to go into samadhi, not just occasionally, but every day many times a day until I reached a point where I could no longer distinguish between ordinary and non-ordinary reality. For me it is all the same. I am in a state of continuous absorption in the Self.”

Self States Reality Ordinary Rama Samadhi Absorption

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“One day I was meditating on a cliff overlooking the ocean in Southern California and I was absorbed in a state of high meditation. As I came out of the meditation and became aware of the sense world the world around me I knew that I had a new name. And the name, of course, was Rama.”

World States Courses Names Meditation One Day Ocean California Southern Cliffs Rama Meditating Southern California Overlooking

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“Naturally, the Zen Master Rama philosophy is to have a high state of awareness and material success.”

States Philosophy Awareness Materials Masters Buddhism Rama Zen Master

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“Every new movement or group of people who seek to explore awareness is considered a cult. The United States was founded by several cults. They felt that Protestantism had become much too lax, so they came to America and set up a hard line religious cult.”

People Hard States America Felt Religious Lines United United States Groups Awareness Movement Buddhism Cult Rama Protestantism Lax Religious Cults

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“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

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“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

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“If we are in a high enough state of consciousness we see that life is only a passing dream.”

Ifs States Enough Philosophy Dream Life Is Consciousness Passing Passings States Of Consciousness

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“People who are capable of practicing tantra are individuals who have meditated for many, many years and developed very strong and powerful states of attention.”

People Years States Philosophy Individual Strong Powerful Attention Capable Very Strong Tantra

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

Mind Matter States Philosophy State Of Mind

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“Advanced yoga is not withdrawal from the world. That's a preliminary state.”

World States Philosophy Yoga Withdrawal

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“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

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“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

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“Tantra involves radical change, a change in states of awareness.”

States Philosophy Awareness Radical Tantra Radical Change

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“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

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“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.”

Mind Matter States Forget Buddhism Involved Quiet Mindfulness Observation Ecstasy State Of Mind Agony Transient

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“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

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“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

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“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

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“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

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“People enter states of consciousness where they think they've become enlightened. The best thing to do, if you've gone through one of those phases, is to be sensible, laugh at yourself for how foolish you were.”

People Ifs Thinking States Consciousness Laughing Gone Buddhism Foolish Buddhist Best Things Things To Do Enlightened Sensible Phases Etiquette States Of Consciousness Laugh At Yourself

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“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

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“Most people are operating out of repetition. If you come to work or school each day with the same mind-state, you probably can't get more out of it than you did yesterday.”

People Ifs Mind States School Success Careers Buddhism Yesterday Each Day Repetition

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“Most people want to make maximum money for minimum work, and that does not result in a happy life. Work does not become an active force to advance your awareness into higher states.”

People Want Doe States Success Force Results Careers Awareness Buddhism Higher Active Happy Life Minimum Maximum

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“Career success is using your daily work, schoolwork, work in the world, work at home, as a way of advancing your mental state.”

World Way States Home Success Careers Buddhism Advancing Career Success Daily Work Schoolwork

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“Success will come about because you are in a higher state of mind. If you create good karma, then you will go into higher states of mind.”

Ifs Mind States Success Careers Buddhism Higher Karma State Of Mind Good Karma

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“Mysticism is the hidden way. It is the most difficult to discuss, because it involves the exploration of perceptual states which are difficult to describe in words.”

Way States Difficult Mysticism Exploration

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“Your ability to use mind whatever way you choose is outrageous. Much will depend upon how intensely you approach the study and the state of mind in which you begin.”

Way Mind States Use Ability Study Depends Approach Mysticism State Of Mind You Choose Outrageous

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“When you look at a couch you don't really see the couch. You see the couch as perceived by a state of mind.”

Mind Looks States Mysticism State Of Mind Couches

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“Things that are impossible - are everyday experiences when you live in advanced states of mind. You live in a world of constant miraculous awareness.”

World Mind States Impossible Awareness Constant Everyday Mysticism State Of Mind Miraculous

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“The skeptics who say it can't be done are simply in extremely limited states of mind. They can't even perceive the possibility of anybody doing something that they can't do.”

Mind States Done Possibility Perceive Mysticism State Of Mind Skeptic

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“The types of thoughts that you think create a state of mind. The reason you think the thoughts you do results from your level of power.”

Thinking Mind States Reason Levels Results Type Mysticism State Of Mind Personal Power

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“The December - January period is the strongest time of the year. It is an easy time to shift states of mind.”

Years Mind States Easy Periods Mysticism Strongest State Of Mind December January Gaining Power

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About the Author

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

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