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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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“A teacher will alter the balance of power by actually lifting a person into other states of mind. In those states of mind the teaching will take place in non-verbal ways through direct experience.”

Way Mind Persons States Teacher Teaching Balance Direct Mysticism State Of Mind Lifting Balance Of Power Gaining Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you deal with people, it tends to drag your energy down - if those people are in a lower auric state than you. If you meditate and they don't, then by the end of the day you tend to be more drained.”

People Ifs Ends States Energy Deals Losing The End Of The Day Mysticism Drag Drained Losing Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Drinking alcohol takes you into a lower state of mind. If you drink a lot of it, things get very fuzzy and they are not very sharp or defined. This brings you into a lower state of attention.”

Ifs Mind States Attention Drink Losing Drinking Alcohol Defined Mysticism State Of Mind Drinking Alcohol Fuzzy Losing Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People are taught to fear god. They are taught to fear everything. It has become such a natural state that no one questions it.”

People States Natural Taught Losing Mysticism Fear God Losing Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Pain and suffering only occur in temporal time. They don't occur in the world of forever. They only occur in limited transient time, which is a state of mind.”

World Mind States Pain Suffering Forever Losing Mysticism State Of Mind Transient Pain And Suffering Losing Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You need to shelter yourself from the abrasive forces of life that drain you and keep you in a lower state of mind.”

Needs Mind States Force Losing Mysticism State Of Mind Shelter Drains Losing Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The United States has an incredible debt. That is obviously not the way to live. You have to eliminate waste in your life as the United States has to eliminate waste in its spending.”

Way States United United States Waste Losing Incredibles Debt Spending Mysticism Way To Live Losing Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are many different places of power around the world. They're invisible openings to other worlds. We find a preponderance of these places in the Himalayas, in the western part of the United States; of course, in every country of the world there are some.”

World Different Country States Courses United United States Buddhism Western Invisible Opening Around The World Other Worlds Different Place Himalayas Countries Of The World

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are places where it is easy to see, places of illumination, where one moves into illumined states of attention.”

States Moving Easy Attention Buddhism Illumination

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The United States is filled with power places. The majority of them, however, are to be found either along the West Coast and in the southwestern United States or along the Eastern Seaboard.”

States Found United United States Buddhism Majority Filled West Coast Eastern West Coast

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the Southwestern United States, the places of power reference the lower three chakras, the chakras of power.”

States Three United United States Buddhism Chakra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The forces are different up here at the continental divide. The magnetic lines of energy run in specific directions. The United States is divided into power zones. The Divide itself is the point where the energy meets.”

Different States Running Energy Force Lines United United States Buddhism Zone Divided Divides Magnetic Continental

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

People States Age Earth Planets Easier Thousand Hundred Harmony Ancient Purity Sublime Our Planet Living On Auras Ancient Egypt Atlantis

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

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

“Nirvana is a state of perpetual bliss and ecstasy, unaffected by the transient ups and downs of its own creations.”

States Suffering Creation Buddhism Bliss Ecstasy Perpetual Ups & Downs Transient

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

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

“There are some beings who reach a point where they no longer want to move through the ten thousand states of mind. There is something else. It is beyond subject and object. That is nirvana.”

Want Mind States Moving Suffering Subjects Objects Buddhism Thousand Ten State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Start meditating with your eyes open, focusing as a warm-up, then focus on a chakra, then just let go and merge. Don't sit there and think or move into sleepy states of awareness, but move into high-powered states of attention.”

Thinking States Eye Moving Attention Focus Meditation Awareness Buddhism Letting Go Warm Meditating Sleepy Chakra Just Let Go Chakra Meditation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is not advisable for persons who are in the early stages of meditation to mediate on the two lower chakras. You will unleash powers and forces that will throw you into very powerful altered state of consciousness that might not be pleasant at all.”

“In the Far Eastern languages we have many different words to describe the varying degrees of reality that a thing, a state of mind or plane of being may have.”

Mind May Different States Reality Language Degrees Buddhist Planes State Of Mind Eastern Cosmology

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

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

“Perfection is not a final state. It is a state of mind. There are ten thousand states of mind.”

Mind States Buddhism Thousand Ten Perfection Finals State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

People Mind States Reality Buddhism Thousand Ten Ultimate Objectives State Of Mind Unifying Objective Reality

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you're in the tantric sex state of mind, what someone else experiences when they have sex is not what you'll experience. You won't even notice what your body is doing, particularly.”

Ifs Mind States Body Sex Buddhism Your Body State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are in a state of mind in which all things are one, then you can spend your time in lingerie shops.”

Ifs Mind States Buddhism All Things Shops State Of Mind Lingerie

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There's a place where everything comes together and where it's all the same. That state of mind, in which all things are the same, is the state of mind of Tantric Zen.”

Mind States Together Buddhism All Things State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantric Zen is a state of mind”

Mind States Buddhism State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantric Zen is all about the practice of zazen meditation. If you meditate well, you'll be in very powerful states of mind and then it really doesn't matter what you do.”

Ifs Mind Wells Matter States Powerful Practice Meditation Buddhism State Of Mind Very Powerful

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everything is dependent upon your state of mind. That is all there is, states of mind, ten thousand of them. Beyond all states of mind is nirvana.”

Mind States Buddhism Thousand Ten Dependent State Of Mind All State

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What we are seeking is the nexus of all possible worlds and states of mind, which is within us. The source of yin and yang is within you.”

World Mind States Source Seeking Taoism State Of Mind Within You Yang Yin And Yang Nexus

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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