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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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“To not realize that everyone we think about affects us psychically, to not realize that life is a field of power, is criminal, in my opinion. If you are a sensitive and evolved being, it is simply criminal.”

Ifs Thinking Life Is Realizing Opinion Fields Criminals Sensitive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If someone has something you want, they can wrap you - they can make you think that they've got something that you have to get from them. They're the exclusive source. They are the only one who can make you happy.”

Ifs Thinking Want Source Exclusive Wraps Make You Happy Make You Think

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Who do you think of first in the morning? Good manipulators do it in the dream plane. The morning practice of meditation increases the aura to ward of negative energy. Meditate before bed if you are being attacked psychically.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Dream Energy Practice Morning Meditation Bed Negative Increase Planes Good Man Auras Negative Energy Manipulator

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Fear can be used to get into your attention. Any way a person can get you to think of them, allows them to drain you.”

Thinking Way Persons Used Attention Drains

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“When you see deterioration in the skin or the hair, you are having problems with the subtle body. You're taking in too much bad energy, usually from people, or you're thinking too many negative thoughts. You are pulling an energy that is not suitable for the human form.”

People Thinking Humans Problem Body Form Energy Too Much Hair Negative Skins Subtle Pulling Suitable Negative Thoughts Human Form Deterioration Bad Energy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“How can you tell if you are draining someone? How far have you gotten into their life? Are they dependent upon you? Are you thinking of them negatively? Does your energy drop when you stop seeing them?”

Ifs Thinking Doe Energy Seeing Dependent Draining

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Practice mediation and concentration exercises, and begin to think more about regaining your sensitivity by avoiding draining situations. Not because of fear but because of intelligence.”

Thinking Situation Practice Exercise Concentration Sensitivity Avoiding Mediation Draining

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Every living being is psychic. Whether or not we are consciously aware of it, we feel vibrations and energies coming to us from other people all the time. The vast majority of the thoughts you think and the emotions you feel aren't your own.”

People Thinking Feels Energy Emotion Majority Psychics Vibrations

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are people who will think of you in negative ways. You will feel it sometimes. It can actually be physically painful if they're somewhat powerful. You simply have to remove yourself inwardly from these individuals.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Feels Sometimes Individual Powerful Negative Painful Remove Think Of You

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you listen to what entities say, the gradually work their way into your thoughts. After a while you will start thinking their thoughts. You won't know they aren't your thoughts. Soon you will be fully possessed.”

Thinking Knows Way Possessed Entity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you can be agreeable to each and every person or situation with which you come into contact - no matter how "difficult" it is or how much you think you are in the "right" - then you are demonstrating control.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Matter Difficult Situation Buddhism Balance Contact Demonstrating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you accentuate yourself, thinking or acting like you are important, then you must want to look good to someone in this world. In order to impress or sway anybody in this world, you have to be in this world yourself.”

Ifs Thinking World Want Looks Important Order Acting This World Like You Buddhism Balance Impress Accentuate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Never think too much of yourself. Realize you are only an instrument of eternity. Do not get stuck in that terrible trap. You can lose everything.”

Thinking Realizing Loses Too Much Buddhism Balance Terrible Eternity Instruments Stuck Traps

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The sign of an advanced spiritual person is that they don't think they're an advanced spiritual person until after liberation.”

Thinking Persons Spiritual Buddhism Balance Liberation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When the time comes for a change, you will find it occurring without having created it yourself. You may think that you are the doer and that you are creating the change. That's nonsense.”

Thinking May Buddhism Balance Creating Nonsense Doers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Think about the flowers. Life is just a bunch of pretty pictures. All this is supposed to do is force you beyond the mind, when you realize that you can't figure it out.”

Thinking Mind Life Is Force Realizing Figures Flower Buddhism Balance Bunch Pretty Picture Flower Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Use power wisely. If you search your heart, I think you will.”

Ifs Thinking Heart Use Buddhism Balance

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To think that this is the only universe, that the physical creation is all there is, these are the dogmas of our times.”

Thinking World Science Universe Creation Buddhism Our Time Dogma Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are dimensions of power, there are dimensions of knowledge, and there are dimensions of confusion. The universe is a very, very big place. To think the universe is only composed of the physical universe is to be rather shortsighted.”

Thinking World Bigs Universe Buddhism Confusion Dimensions Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most people are completely oblivious to eternity. They look at the sky at night and they think that's eternity; it is just the senses having contact in the sense world. There are other dimensions.”

People Thinking World Looks Night Sky Buddhism Eternity Senses Contact Dimensions Other Worlds Oblivious

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

“Perception is the ability to be conscious of self and that which is other than self. Without thinking about it, a distinction is made between who we are and what we perceive.”

Thinking Made Self Ability Awareness Buddhism Perception Conscious Perceive Who We Are Distinction

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If we put five people together, are there really five people? I don't think so, not in the world of magic. In the worlds of magic, there is only one being, reflecting itself in countless forms.”

People Ifs Thinking World Together Form Five Magic Awareness Buddhism Reflecting

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you think about something, you separate yourself from it.”

Thinking Science Awareness Buddhism

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

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

“There is something to this fabric of life that is beautiful. If you find the world unpleasant, I don't think that is wisdom. That is a sign of a lack of wisdom.”

Ifs Thinking World Beautiful Humanity Buddhism Fabric Fabric Of Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You are awareness. You are mind. You are not from this world. I mean, think about it, could you really be from here?”

Thinking World Mind Mean Humanity Awareness This World Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“They don't understand the multi-life sequences. Anything they can't see in a laboratory, they think is nonsense.”

Thinking Humanity Buddhism Nonsense Sequence Laboratory

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Who are these human beings anyway? They walk around, strut, fret, as if they owned the planet, or the goddamned universe. I mean, who do they really think they are?”

Ifs Thinking Humans Mean Humanity Universe Human Beings Walks Planets Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everything is stuck together. People are stuck together. They can't change. Ideas are stuck together - they're irrevocable. We think that the end of the universe is as far as the telescope can see.”

People Thinking Ideas Ends Together Humanity Universe Buddhism Stuck Can't Change Telescopes Irrevocable

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance with life.”

People Thinking Humans Earth Humanity Fun Wish Buddhism Endless Absurd Vanity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Its funny how human beings tend to think that they're the masters of the earth never realizing that the earth, for a time, simply tolerates its tenants and then, when the mood strikes, it shifts its continents around.”

Thinking Humans Earth Humanity Realizing Human Beings Masters Buddhism Strikes Mood Continents Tolerate Tenants

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In this world we see nothing but diversity. Everyone thinks separate ideas and wants to develop a separate identity. They fight wars with each other. They destroy each other's identities.”

Thinking World Want Ideas War Humanity Fighting Identity This World Buddhism Diversity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Obstructions on the way to enlightenment, are you kidding? Hey, they crucify people here. You think this is an easy place?”

People Thinking Way Humanity Easy Buddhism Enlightenment Hey Obstruction

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are those who want to revolutionize the world with meditation. I really don't think that is necessary. The world is already revolutionized.”

Thinking World Want Humanity Meditation Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Slow down. Enjoy life. It's tough to slow down if your mind is going a million miles a second. It's tough to slow down if you think what these people do here matters.”

People Ifs Thinking Mind Matter Humanity Enjoy Millions Buddhism Mindfulness Tough Miles Enjoy Life Slow Down

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You do have an effect on the universe. If you think positive thoughts, if you are happy and progressive, then that energy affects everyone on the whole planet, in subtle ways, perhaps, but it does.”

Ifs Thinking Way Doe Whole Humanity Universe Energy Effects Planets Buddhism Subtle Progressive Positive Thoughts Think Positive Thinking Positive Thoughts

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Consistency is nice, I think, personally. I like to be consistently happy. I like to be consistently more aware and more conscious of the truth.”

Thinking Happiness Nice Buddhism Conscious Consistently Consistency

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most people think happiness comes from experiences in the world. The fulfillment of desire causes a type of happiness. But as soon as they experience passes, the happiness passes.”

People Thinking World Happiness Desire Causes Buddhism Type Fulfillment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The rich aren't happy so they try and get richer thinking it will make a difference. The poor aren't happy. They try and get rich thinking that will make a difference.”

Thinking Trying Happiness Differences Poor Rich Buddhism Making A Difference Get Rich

Author:Frederick Lenz

“How can you possibly be happy if you think you're a person? Because we all know, just by definition, that people are definitely not happy because they take everything too seriously. They take themselves seriously.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Persons Happiness Buddhism Definitions Not Happy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness only comes when you let go of who you think you are. If you think you're wealthy and powerful and noble and truthful or horrible and demonic, whatever it may be, it's all a waste of time. Take it from the Zen Master. He knows.”

Ifs Thinking Knows May Happiness Powerful Masters Buddhism Letting Go Waste Noble Horrible Wealthy Wasting Time Truthful Demonic Zen Master

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I've never seen a society that thinks about sex so much and gets so little!”

Thinking Littles Sex Buddhism Sexuality

Author:Frederick Lenz

“They say Casanova made love to over 10,000 women. Do you think it changed him? It probably aged him a little bit. But I doubt that it changed him. If it had changed him, he would have stopped somewhere along the line and done something a little different.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Made Different Done Bits Lines Doubt Changed Buddhism Little Bit Sexuality Casanova

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I love so and so, how can I let go of them? You don't have to. You do whatever you chose. What you think, you become. Your thoughts are strongly affected by those you are emotionally open to.”

Thinking Buddhism Letting Go Sexuality Affected

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A number of Guru's feel that there is something wrong or sick about being gay. I think it really doesn't matter what your sexual preference is; what matters is the quality of your love.”

Thinking Feels Matter Numbers Quality Buddhism Gay Sick Sexuality What Matters Preference Guru Being Gay

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

“In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all revolves around the ego. This has nothing to do with the Zen of sports and athletics.”

Thinking Individual Sports Health Buddhism Victory Ego Achievement West Defeat Agony Thrill Athletics Individual Achievement

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To do something perfectly, you must not think about what you are doing at all ... Your thoughts are what create imperfections in your actions. They alienate you from the true reality of any action you perform.”

Thinking Reality Action Health Buddhism Imperfection Athletics True Reality

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

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

“I think the very best thing you can do is observe what makes you stronger and what makes you weaker.”

Thinking Can Do Health Buddhism Stronger Best Things Athletics Makes You Stronger

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Linus Pauling would have us believe and perhaps correctly, that enough vitamin C will have us live another 20 or 30 years, I think the strongest power in the world is not vitamin C but the power of our own thoughts.”

Thinking World Years Believe Enough Health Buddhism Strongest Athletics Vitamins

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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