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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 most powerful force to maintaining a good immune system is the power of positive thinking and not allowing yourself to be unnecessarily drained emotionally by worries and fears.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you're happy, your immune system is at its strongest point. And when you think negatively, or when you hate, or allow yourself to grow emotionally out of control, you are weakening your immune system.”

Thinking Hate Grows Health Buddhism Strongest Immune Athletics Immune System Weakening

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“One or two of my friends set longevity records for people who had AIDS. What they did, incredibly hard though it was, was to practice meditation, positive thinking and they worked out physically quite a bit.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“As a human being you are capable of a higher level of perception than you may now be cognizant of. You are not really who you think you are. There are many selves inside you, not just one.”

Thinking Inspirational Humans May Self Human Beings Levels Buddhism Higher Perception Capable Just One Higher Level Cognizant

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Words are deceptive. You think you understand something because it's explained to you and now you are under no obligation to do anything because you understand it.”

Thinking Inspirational Buddhism Obligation Deceptive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What more could there be, but the absolute beauty of our lives? Look around you, for heaven's sake and stop thinking. It is only in your thoughts and in analytical processes that you lose yourself.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“You are everything and everyone. You are in all things. You exist in all conditions. You are the universe. You just think of yourself as existing within a temporal body”

Thinking Inspirational Body Universe Conditions Buddhism All Things Think Of You

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-knowledge, I guess, is hard. But I think pain is harder, personally. I think to be hopeless is very hard. I think to die without hope or to live without hope is very hard.”

Thinking Inspirational Self Hard Pain Dies Buddhism Harder Hopeless Self Knowledge Without Hope

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I would encourage you to follow the pathway to enlightenment, to learn to meditate, to practice mindfulness, and not to really care what anybody thinks about you, including yourself.”

Thinking Inspirational Care Practice Buddhism Mindfulness Enlightenment Including Pathways

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you think you are a vile slime, that means that you aspire to something higher...It's because you have a sense of perfection, and you obviously want that, that you find something wrong.”

Ifs Thinking Want Inspirational Mean Buddhism Higher Perfection Aspire Slime

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“There are really only three important things to remember in life: To care, to share, and to be fair. This is not a new idea at all, and yet, observing how most people live their lives, you might think it was.”

People Thinking Inspirational Important Ideas Might Care Remember Three Share Buddhism Fairs Important Things New Ideas Observing

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“In meditation all the fake dull thoughts that you think, all the ridiculous philosophies, the necessities, all the things that won't matter a bit when you are dead - fade away.”

Thinking Matter Philosophy Bits Meditation Buddhism Ridiculous Fake Dull Fades Fade Away

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“Think of your mind as a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it will become.”

Thinking Mind Use Meditation Buddhism Stronger Muscles Think Of You

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“Meditation gives you personal power. You will notice that people will treat you differently as you progress because they can feel that power. Use that power wisely. If you search your heart, I think you will.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation is a practice of detaching and then stopping ourselves from thinking; our thoughts are interruptions in the flow of awareness. Consciousness, in its highest aspect, is perfect and formless.”

Thinking Perfect Consciousness Practice Meditation Awareness Buddhism Highest Aspect Flow Our Thoughts Stopping Interruptions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A lot of people have this live or die attitude with mediation. It has to be all or nothing. I don't think it should be. It's a study that you follow for the rest of your life.”

People Thinking Should Dies Attitude Study Meditation Buddhism Rest Of Your Life Mediation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Real meditation engenders humility and purity, always. Yet I don't really think it demands any kind of lifestyle.”

Thinking Kind Real Meditation Humility Buddhism Demand Lifestyle Purity

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“It's funny, people who have a lot of sexual energy think of themselves as being not spiritual. They are probably more spiritually inclined. All that sexual energy is kundalini.”

People Thinking Spiritual Energy Buddhism Funny People

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Chakras really are dimensions. We think of them as objects, but they're not really. They're dimensional access points, whereby we can enter into different levels of mind, and that happens automatically.”

Thinking Mind Different Happens Levels Objects Buddhism Access Dimensions Different Levels Chakra

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

“One path leads back to this world, to rebirth; one path leads beyond. Your soul stands at a crossword, trying to make a decision, flipping a coin, a nice image for the soul, I think.”

Thinking World Trying Soul Decision Path Nice This World Your Soul Hinduism Coins Rebirth Crosswords Flipping A Coin

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You have to be a warrior in order to become enlightened. If you think it's tough paying the bills, think about being everywhere all at once and doing everything in all the universes, simultaneously, past, present, and future.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“We are immortal life. Think of the opportunity of self-realization. What a gas!”

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“Focus on one point and hold your attention there. The mind will waiver, you'll think a million thoughts, but each time you do, bring your mind back to the point of concentration, seeing it visually.”

Thinking Mind Attention Millions Focus Seeing Concentration Waiver

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you can't feel grateful, if you're discouraged or depressed, then think of the fact that things could be a lot worse than they are.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Facts Grateful Discouraged Visualization

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Your life is either getting brighter from moment to moment or it's not. If it's not getting brighter, it's because there's no risk. There's no risk in thinking instead of stopping your thought. There's a lot of risk in stopping your thought.”

Ifs Thinking Moments Life Is Risk Stopping Brighter

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“Meditation, in the beginning, is just replacement thinking. Instead of having the usual negative things that wander around in your mind, you are replacing those with very bright images.”

Thinking Mind Meditation Negative Wander Usual Replacements

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“Whatever you focus on during meditation, you psychically travel to and touch. In meditation, when you think of somebody, you actually go into their aura. That is the issue. Keep your meditation pristine, unalloyed.”

Thinking Issues Focus Meditation Auras Pristine

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“When a lot of people meditate what they do is they're thinking about other people. This is a terrible mistake. If you do this, stop!”

People Ifs Thinking Mistake Terrible

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“Many people, including Buddhist monks, spend thousands of hours sitting in what they call meditation. In reality, what they're doing is thinking and ruminating upon their problems.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you are meditating, thinking about things in this world is not going to help you. Instead, forget about everything for a while and look at something that is perfect, this will help you deal with the world better.”

Thinking World Looks Helping Perfect Forget Deals This World Meditating

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“Granted you want to go beyond ideas and beyond thought, but that takes years of practice. If you must think, think good thoughts, happy thoughts, and constructive thoughts.”

Ifs Thinking Want Years Ideas Practice Granted Constructive Good Thoughts Happy Thoughts

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can just sit and space out. A lot of people do that and think they are doing a wonderful meditation.”

People Thinking Space Meditation Wonderful

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“At the beginning of a meditation session your thoughts will be relatively earthbound. You will think about yourself, your world, problems, difficulties and anxieties.”

Thinking World Problem Meditation Anxiety Difficulty About Yourself Session World Problems

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In your thoughts, you need to be selective. Thoughts are powerful vehicles of attention. Only think positive thoughts about yourself and your endeavors, and think well of the endeavors of others.”

Thinking Needs Wells Powerful Attention Buddhism Mindfulness Endeavor About Yourself Vehicle Positive Thoughts Selective Think Positive Thinking Positive Thoughts

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“You have to look at your own thought forms. Are you sitting around and thinking a lot of negative thoughts? These injure the subtle body. When you hate, when you are angry, you bring that energy through you.”

Thinking Looks Body Form Hate Energy Buddhism Mindfulness Sitting Negative Angry Subtle Negative Thoughts Sitting Around

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“Every time you find yourself becoming angry, jealous or frustrated, stop and think the opposite thought.”

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“If you can't hold a person in your mind with a good thought, it is better not to think about them at all.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Persons Buddhism Mindfulness Good Thoughts

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

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Power either goes up or down. Your thoughts are the harness of power. It is necessary to think positive thoughts, not just wait for them to occur, but to introduce them.”

Thinking Waiting Buddhism Mindfulness Introducing Positive Thoughts Harness Think Positive Thinking Positive Thoughts

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you think of others in a jealous way or if you become angry, immediately pause for a moment. It's going to pull you down and send negative energy. At that moment, pause and correct yourself.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Whenever you find yourself becoming angry or jealous, try to see good quality in the person. You will suddenly be thinking a higher thought and that will elevate you.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Mindfulness is the direct application of Buddhist teachings to a physical event, a way of doing or accomplishing something, or a way of thinking and viewing something.”

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“Thinking is usually a waste of time and energy, since thinking is essentially a rehashing of what we already know. As a matter of fact, thinking is an easy way to confuse yourself. The more you think, the less you know.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The unlimited mind, the diamond mind of the Buddha, is your mind, if you can get in touch with it. Stop thinking so much and tap into that psychic part of your being.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Buddhism Mindfulness Diamond Unlimited Psychics

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“Think about what is in front of you, if you must think.”

Ifs Thinking Fronts Buddhism Mindfulness

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“Stop worrying about tomorrow. Stop thinking about yesterday. Mindfulness is to be here now, in the moment. Focus on this moment.”

Thinking Moments Worry Focus Buddhism Tomorrow Mindfulness Yesterday Stop Worrying Be Here Now

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“I see people driving cars, winding down the streets. I don't know where these people think they're going. They're going to the funeral home; that's about it.”

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“There is illusion, the way you see things now, thinking that there is a tomorrow, there is a today, there is time and that there is life and death. Those are just appearances”

Thinking Way Today Ignorance Tomorrow Illusion Appearance Life And Death

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I don't think you see your minds. I think you see your thoughts; you see your desires; you see your relatives, friends, lovers, enemies. I don't think you see your mind. You think of the mind as the clutter.”

Thinking Mind Desire Enemy Ignorance Lovers Clutter

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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