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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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“I think one can advance faster outside a monastery if you use the experiences of daily life to advance yourself.”

Ifs Thinking Use Buddhism Faster Daily Life Monasteries

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think to be in a monastery or an ashram is not always the answer because we don't fight, we kick back. We don't listen to Sri Krishna.”

Thinking Fighting Answers Buddhism Kicks Krishna Monasteries

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“I don't think there is a right approach to teaching self discovery. Every situation is unique.”

Thinking Self Situation Teaching Buddhism Approach Unique Discovery Self Discovery

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“Clothing is art. It's an expression of how you feel. I think that it's not so much a question of a certain style or designer, but of finding the type of clothing that works well for you.”

Thinking Feels Wells Art Certain Style Expression Buddhism Type Findings Designer Clothings How You Feel

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“Clothing has a great deal to do with the attitudes and energy that others direct towards you. I favor the chic, and tend to avoid the trendy. I think that it's good to be chic when possible because it is more inaccessible.”

Thinking Energy Deals Attitude Buddhism Direct Favors Clothings Chic Inaccessible Trendy

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“To think the universe is only composed of the physical universe is to be rather shortsighted.”

Thinking Science Universe Buddhism

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“The world is the way the world is because we think that it is so.”

Thinking World Way Science Buddhism

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“Thoughts can increase our understanding of a subject, or they can just as easily constrict or block our understanding of a subject. It very much depends upon the language we are thinking in.”

Thinking Science Language Understanding Subjects Buddhism Depends Increase Block

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

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

“Intelligence is something that is not just thinking, it's feeling. Ultimately, the highest reflection of intelligent life is cooperative life in which all benefit.”

Thinking Feelings Science Life Is Buddhism Benefits Highest Reflection Intelligent Cooperatives Intelligent Life

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“Next to meditation itself, I really can't think of anything more important than the development of your career.”

Thinking Important Success Next Careers Meditation Buddhism Development

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“Two people can be work at the same job, side by side. One person is working just for a paycheck. Another is working to perfect their being. Some people think that the material world will make them happy.”

People Thinking World Persons Two Jobs Success Sides Perfect Careers Materials Buddhism Paychecks Material World

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“If you think of thoughts of success and back them up with hard work, then you will be a winner. If you cherish doubts, negative thoughts, then you won't be a winner at all.”

Ifs Thinking Hard Success Careers Doubt Hard Work Buddhism Negative Winner Cherish Negative Thoughts

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“Duality is a part of reality, and there is definitely winning and losing. If you don't think so talk to someone who has beaten cancer, talk to somebody who hasn't.”

Ifs Thinking Reality Success Winning Careers Buddhism Losing Cancer Beaten Duality Winning And Losing

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think it is very important to view life in terms of winning and losing until complete enlightenment has occurred.”

Thinking Important Success Winning Term Views Careers Buddhism Losing Enlightenment Winning And Losing

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“Think about these things and see if they make sense to you. You will find that work will no longer be a four-letter word. It will be a three-letter word: fun.”

Ifs Thinking Success Three Fun Careers Four Buddhism Letters Make Sense Four Letter Words

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Software is a reflection of our own mind. And as our software improves it will not only take on the patterns of our minds more closely, but it will also pick up the energy of our minds; in other words, I think that software is alive.”

Thinking Mind Science Energy Alive Computer Picks Reflection Patterns Software Computer Science

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can think whatever you want, you can create all the labels you choose, but the universe just is. You can come to terms with it or not. If you don't come to terms with it, we say you live in illusion.”

Ifs Thinking Want Universe Term Illusion Labels Mysticism You Choose

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“There is no future and there is no past, there never has been, there never will be. You just think there is. It's not life that moves; it's awareness.”

Thinking Has Beens Past Moving Awareness Mysticism Be You

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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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“I don't think you have to wait for knowledge and balance to come before you seek power because you need a certain amount of power to gain knowledge and balance.”

Thinking Needs Certain Waiting Amount Balance Gains Mysticism Personal Power

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“Think of your life as a field. The field is the field of action. What a mystic does is set up their life as a field of power.”

Thinking Doe Action Fields Mysticism Think Of You Mystic Gaining Power

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“Most power is lost in one's own mind by thinking negative thoughts, by worrying about the future, by focusing on the past, as opposed to thinking positive, strong, and happy thoughts.”

Thinking Mind Past Lost Strong Worry Losing Negative Mysticism Negative Thoughts Think Positive Losing Power Happy Thoughts Thinking Negative

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“In the world of power, people will come looking for you. If you're a movie star, you know what I am saying. People will come around you, little groupie types. They think that being around you they can get something.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows World Littles Stars Type Losing Mysticism Movie Star Losing Power Groupie

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“The big problem with power, of course, is obsession. Once you get some of it and feel it, it dominates your whole life and it's all you can think about. That doesn't have to happen.”

Thinking Feels Whole Problem Bigs Happens Courses Buddhism Whole Life Obsession Big Problems

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“When you think an angry thought about someone, it's like hitting them.”

Thinking Buddhism Angry Hitting

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“People who have power, who think negatively of others and seek to injure them, are practicing a kind of voodoo, a lower sorcery.”

People Thinking Kind Buddhism Sorcery Voodoo

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“Deluded beings think that if they get in a battle with a Zen Master or with a Don Juan, that it's going enhance their life if they win. You can never take power from someone else any more than you can take sunlight.”

Ifs Thinking Winning Masters Buddhism Battle Sunlight Deluded Don Juan Juan Zen Master

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“People think that by getting in touch with some being outside the body, it will solve their problems. This only creates problems. It won't help you a bit.”

People Thinking Helping Problem Body Bits Buddhism Solve

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“When you go to a power spot, and you think negative or depressing thoughts they tend to grow stronger. Whereas, if you think more positive, happier thoughts, they tend to increase in strength.”

Ifs Thinking Grows Buddhism Negative Increase Stronger Spots Depressing

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“The tonal is also endless and limitless. We like to think of it as being finite so we feel better.”

Thinking Feels Buddhism Endless Feel Better Finite Limitless

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“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

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“I don't think anyone knows why they meditate. As a matter of fact I'm not even sure that we do meditate. All we know is that we don't know.”

Thinking Knows Matter Facts Buddhism Matter Of Fact

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“You're not the doer. What's to do? You can't undo what's not done. It's all one anyway, why think about it? But you need to discriminate, so you'd better think about it.”

Thinking Needs Done Buddhism Doers

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“You're thinking that you shouldn't have sex because you're celibate. So you just keep thinking about sex instead of enlightenment.”

Thinking Sex Buddhism Enlightenment

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“What is Tantric Zen? Well, I don't think I can give you a straight answer, since I don't happen to be a very straight Zen master.”

Thinking Giving Wells I Can Happens Answers Masters Buddhism Zen Master

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“After the meditation session you have to be a little bit careful. If you start to think a lot of thoughts and become very active, you can prevent some of the meditative awareness from coming into your mind.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Littles Bits Meditation Awareness Buddhism Little Bit Careful Active Session

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“Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one might think it was in some way antithetical to contempory life.”

Thinking World Way Humans Might Found Easy Human Beings Interesting Taoism Imagery Reconcile Laos

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“We know we should be completely humble. We should stop thinking that we're very marvelous because we're not. We are interesting at best because we are a part of life.”

Thinking Knows Should Interesting Humble Taoism Marvelous Parts Of Life

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“Some people think Taoism means not doing anything, just going on with your life. That has little or nothing to do with Taoism.”

People Thinking Mean Littles Taoism

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“We can think of descriptions almost as computer languages, an operative description that only deals with very simple operations. Its code is sex - Male, female, dark, light, up down, in out - its the language of duality.”

Thinking Light Language Sex Dark Simple Deals Computer Female Males Code Operations Description Taoism Duality Light Up Computer Language Male Female

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“In the West when you talk about yin and yang, people normally think of yin and yang as something that's linear. But in the east we tend to think of yin and yang as circles. They're two circles that actually can lie on top of each other, yet they remain separate.”

People Thinking Two Lying West East Circles Taoism Linear Yang Yin And Yang

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“Unconscious of the existence of Tao, beings live supposing themselves to be separate from the universal intelligence, supposing themselves to be powerful or to be weak, thinking that they live their lives and die their deaths.”

Thinking Dies Powerful Existence Weak Universal Unconscious Taoism Tao Supposing

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About the Author

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

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