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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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“Beyond this world, beyond other worlds, be they inter-dimensional worlds or physical worlds, there is something else, which is the vast unknown eternity.”

World This World Buddhism Eternity Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You're standing in a closet, and you've been in it so long that you can't remember that there's anything else, that there's a huge house with lots of rooms and there are lands outside the house and planets and universes and creations”

World Long Remember Universe House Rooms Land Creation Ignorance Planets Huge Buddhism Standing Closets Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are worlds beyond anything you can imagine; there are joys beyond anything you have experienced. There are ecstasies that are undreamed of, I assure you.”

World Joy Imagine Buddhism Ecstasy Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The human field of perception is not the only band of perception. Nor is it necessarily the best; there is no such thing in infinity. Infinity does not label.”

World Humans Doe Fields Buddhism Band Perception Labels Infinity Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Step into the mystery of the mind. There are billions of minds, there are billions of selves. There are billions of worlds and dimensions.”

World Mind Self Steps Mystery Buddhism Billions Dimensions Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I can assure you, as a practitioner of Buddhism, that there are ten thousand states of mind, at least, give or take a few billion.”

World Giving Mind I Can States Ignorance Buddhism Thousand Ten Billions State Of Mind Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are countless dimensions filled with beings of other orders. Now this may sound peculiar to some people, but it was only several hundred years ago that we invented something called the microscope. Since then worlds whose existence we did not suspect have become commonplace”

People World Years May Order Sound Existence Buddhism Hundred Years Ago Filled Dimensions Suspects Peculiar Commonplace Other Worlds Microscopes

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All the universes are bound together by a web, a matrix, which is our perception. And our perception actually has colors; it has bands. We call them bands of attention.”

World Together Universe Attention Color Buddhism Band Perception Bounds Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As we go deeper and deeper into the world of meditation, we are able to travel along the luminous bands, just like you travel along a highway or road.”

World Able Meditation Like You Buddhism Band Deeper Highways Other Worlds Luminous

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The end of this world occurs when you move from one world into another, from one reality into another.”

World Ends Reality Moving This World Buddhism Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You exist someplace else, and when you can contact yourself in that other place, when you can open up a kind of inter-dimensional phone line between yourself and our various selves, when you have become aware of that, that's when magic begins.”

World Kind Self Lines Magic Buddhism Phones Various Contact Other Worlds One Line

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We are transmuting the reality of our perceptual field. There are endless, beautiful and perfect universes - or you can go beyond universes to the dissolution, where there's no beginning.”

World Reality Beautiful Universe Perfect Fields Buddhism Endless Other Worlds Dissolution

Author:Frederick Lenz

“For an advanced preceiver, the play of life is to assemble and reassemble the self in alternate realities of which this is one.”

World Self Play Reality Life Is Buddhism Other Worlds Alternate Realities

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are many universes, many dimensions. They are endless. Most of them are not particularly relevant for us. They won't help us. They won't make us happier.”

World Helping Universe Buddhism Endless Dimensions Relevant Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Life is more or less the same wherever you go, because, wherever you go, there you are.”

World Life Is Buddhism Other Worlds

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

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

“The experiences that you have in astral dimensions are not essentially all that different from the experiences you have here in the physical dimension. They are all transient.”

World Different Buddhism Dimensions Other Worlds Transient

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

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

“There's a place this moment comes from, where it's made. Actually, it's like a big factory where they make moments, where they make realities, where they make infinities.”

World Made Moments Bigs Reality Buddhism Infinity Factories Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Open up to the other dimensional planes so you can penetrate the mysteries of existence and enjoy the wonder of being, the wonder of being you.”

World Enjoy Existence Wonder Mystery Buddhism Planes Penetrate Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Love is the bridge that joins all the worlds together.”

World Together Love Is Buddhism Bridges Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There wasn't a single day in which the world was created. It's created anew at every moment. The structures of eternity are completely fluid but they are bound together by the mind forming a nexus point so reality comes into being.”

World Mind Moments Reality Together Awareness Buddhism Eternity Structure Bounds Fluid Nexus

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We cut up time and space and mind and place and being and non-being. We create a world of ideas. This is duality, pairs of apparent opposites.”

World Mind Ideas Space Cutting Awareness Buddhism Opposites Pairs Time And Space Duality

Author:Frederick Lenz

“This particular world is not really a world, it's a perception that you are having at the moment.”

World Moments Awareness Particular Buddhism Perception

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The universe is made up of vibrating, pulsing light. When our attention level drops, we don't see that. Instead we see what appears to be a solid material world.”

World Made Light Universe Levels Attention Awareness Materials Buddhism Material World

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We perceive the solidification as the world around us, which appears to be relatively solid. But that solidification is just really a reflection of the solidification of one's sense of self.”

World Self Awareness Buddhism Reflection Self Awareness Perceive Sense Of Self

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

“The world has an ending and a beginning. It begins with you and it ends with you. The end of the world occurs when you make a major transition in attention.”

World Ends Attention Awareness Buddhism Majors Transition End Of The World

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most people are not in the world of awe and wonder. They're in the world of deadness. Their perceptual fields and bodies are completely self-reflective, and all they see is themselves wherever they go.”

People World Self Body Wonder Awareness Fields Buddhism Awe Awe And Wonder

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If your awareness was strong enough, you could change the fate of a whole world without ever leaving your room.”

Ifs World Enough Whole Strong Rooms Fate Awareness Buddhism Leaving Whole World Strong Enough Your Room

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you line everything up, just right, you walk through a doorway where the world as you know it collapses.”

Ifs Knows World Lines Walks Awareness Buddhism Collapse Doorways

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

“This world is not a middle point in evolution. It's one step down from the middle point in evolution. This is the world of desire and fulfillment, frustration, but at least once in a while you can go to Burger King.”

World Desire Humanity Steps Middle This World Buddhism Evolution Kings Fulfillment Frustration Burgers Burger King

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We live in a world where no one believes. Enlightenment and knowledge are laughed at. Those who seek and teach the mysteries are scorned and often persecuted. Welcome to the planet earth: environment hostile.”

World Believe Earth Humanity Teach Environment Mystery Planets Buddhism Enlightenment Welcome Laughed Hostile Planet Earth Persecuted Scorned

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We live in a world filled with automobiles, highways of the mind, urban disasters, billions of people living on a tiny planet, sharing the diminishing natural resources of the earth.”

People World Mind Earth Humanity Natural Planets Buddhism Resources Filled Billions Tiny Disaster Urban Highways Automobile Living On Natural Resources

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

“This is a world that defines everything backwards, a world in which good is called bad, brightness is called darkness, up is called down, enlightenment is called abnormal behavior and abnormal behavior is applauded as reason.”

World Reason Humanity Darkness Buddhism Behavior Enlightenment Backwards Brightness Abnormal

Author:Frederick Lenz

“This world we exist in is populated by people who have really shut themselves off from life.”

People World Humanity This World Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The level of evolution in this world is not exactly high.”

World Humanity Levels This World Buddhism Evolution

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

“The vast majority of beings who incarnate on this planet are at the stage of their evolution where power is the dominant theme. They are learning about power. That is why we live in a world where there are so many wars and so much destruction.”

World War Humanity Stage Planets Buddhism Evolution Destruction Majority Theme Dominant

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Consider that we live in a world predicated upon fear. The underlying assumption is that human beings are innately evil and must be groomed and controlled. That is the dichotomy that is set up within the human mind, good and evil.”

World Mind Humans Humanity Evil Human Beings Buddhism Assumption Good And Evil Human Mind Controlled Dichotomy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In this world we see more passion than dispassion. We see more fear than knowledge. Armies rule the world. Fear-net is happening. Consequently, everyone is raised with fear embedded in their consciousness.”

World Humanity Passion Consciousness This World Buddhism Happenings Army Raised Embedded

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Spiritual people are often persecuted because of their beliefs. Christians were fed to the lions. Jews were slaughtered in concentration camps. Various forms of persecution still exist today throughout the world.”

People World Stills Today Christian Spiritual Form Humanity Belief Buddhism Jew Various Concentration Feds Lions Camps Persecution Persecuted Concentration Camp

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

“This is the age of electrical energy. The age of atomic energy hasn't really dawned yet, not in the way that atomic energy has evolved in other worlds.”

World Way Age Humanity Energy Buddhism Other Worlds Electrical Atomic Energy Electrical Energy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In our world, in our pre-World War III condition, meditation is considered a cult activity and people who practice self-discovery are actually persecuted and ridiculed.”

People World War Self Humanity Practice Meditation Conditions Buddhism Activity Discovery Self Discovery War Of The Worlds Our World World War Ii World War I Cult Persecuted

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The imbalance I speak of in the world, which we see manifested in wars, violence, poverty and other depressed social conditions stems from a lack of knowledge.”

World War Humanity Speak Social Poverty Violence Conditions Buddhism Stem Imbalance Social Conditions Lack Of Knowledge

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is a world of deaf, dumb and blind people out there, who are shuffling through their lives, not knowing how wonderful life can be. They have their moments, but they are very unconscious.”

People World Moments Humanity Knowing Wonderful Buddhism Blind Dumb Unconscious Not Knowing Deaf Wonderful Life Shuffling Blind People

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Very few people are happy in this world. Most are miserable. Even in their so-called happiness, they are unhappy; it is so short of ecstasy, of god-consciousness; it's almost pitiful.”

People World Humanity Consciousness This World Buddhism Unhappy Miserable Ecstasy Pitiful

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the dead world of the Western mind all that is seen are shades of gray. There's a cloud over every experience. There's no possibility of divine incarnation, divine intervention, let alone that one's self in every moment is divine.”

World Mind Self Moments Humanity Possibility Divine Buddhism Western Clouds Gray Shade Intervention Incarnation Divine Intervention Shades Of Gray

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The planet earth is a sub-world, way below what's average, because if an enlightened being walked through New York City today, no one would see him or her. They wouldn't see the glow.”

Ifs World Way Today Earth Humanity Cities New York Planets Buddhism Average Enlightened New York City Planet Earth

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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