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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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“This is a world of unhappy beings. They don't understand how simple it is to be happy. You just have to practice meditation. To meditate is to be happy.”

World Simple Practice Meditation Buddhism Unhappy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Each time you meditate, you create a stronger connection with the world of inner light and happiness that exists within you.”

World Light Meditation Buddhism Connections Stronger Within You Inner Light

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

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

“Some people meditate because they are sick and tired of their life, of the world, of the way people abuse each other and abrogate each other's freedoms.”

People World Way Meditation Buddhism Sick Abuse Tired

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you meditate, then the real miracle is the transformation of your awareness field beyond the body. Beyond the body there are oceans of light, continents of light, universes of light. Meditation frees you from this world.”

Ifs World Real Body Light Universe Meditation Awareness Fields This World Buddhism Ocean Miracle Transformation Continents

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are those who feel that meditation is unrealistic or takes them out of the world, and if that was your experience with mediation, you weren't meditating.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The study of meditation is the entrance into the world of Wonderland. It has nothing to do with how you'd like it. You want a nice neat little study that's easily understandable.”

World Want Littles Study Nice Meditation Buddhism Neat Entrances Wonderland

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As you meditate, you'll develop a sense of humor so that you can laugh at yourself, which you need to do in this world.”

World Needs Laughing Meditation This World Buddhism Sense Of Humor Laugh At Yourself

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Stress is a state of mind and if you realize that you will find that it's something you can deal with. It is my belief that stress occurs not because of the conditions of the world.”

Ifs World Mind States Belief Realizing Deals Meditation Conditions Buddhism Stress State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If there were no world, no time, no space, no condition, if none of us existed, that would be meditation.”

Ifs World Would Be Space Meditation Conditions Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation is not emptiness. That is a way of trying to talk about something that is impossible to put into words. It is a world of fullness, if anything.”

Ifs World Way Trying Meditation Impossible Buddhism Emptiness Fullness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We live in a sensual world, and at the same time we live beyond it - billions of dimensions that are nonphysical, we experience them when we stop thought.”

World Meditation Buddhism Billions Sensual Dimensions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you can successfully stop thought for longer periods of time, you do move into other worlds. This can also happen in the very beginning, if a person meditates with someone who is very advanced.”

Ifs World Persons Happens Moving Meditation Buddhism Periods Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you meditate, you can experience the other worlds, the far-flung eternities and dimensions - and you are not stuck in any one of them.”

Ifs World Meditation Buddhism Eternity Stuck Dimensions Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In meditation, when your thoughts are stopped, you become empty. When you are empty, your mind folds back on itself and you see through the illusions of the material world.”

World Mind Meditation Materials Buddhism Illusion Empty Folds Material World

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

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

“The key to all enlightenment is to have personal experiences in the world of light. All you need to do that is to meditate.”

World Needs Light Meditation Buddhism Keys Enlightenment Personal Experiences

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is possible with pure willpower to force the kundalini up the shushumna, through the chakras. You will develop visions of other worlds that will not necessarily stop when you want them to. This is a condition we call insanity.”

World Want Force Vision Conditions Buddhism Pure Insanity Willpower Other Worlds Chakra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can move in and through the astral worlds once you have gained control of your subtle body. The astral worlds are the back corridors of eternity!”

World Dream Body Moving Buddhism Eternity Subtle Corridors

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

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

“There are thousands of lesser chakras. Chakras are doorways to other worlds. When you focus on them, you step into something else.”

World Steps Focus Buddhism Other Worlds Doorways Chakra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The causal body is the part of you that lives forever. It is ancient and complicated. It has lived through countless lives in both this and in other worlds.”

World Body Forever Buddhism Ancient Complicated Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization.”

World Self Dream Awareness This World Self Realization Realization Hinduism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sri Krishna is said to be an avatar, which is a human way of trying to define very big. That is to say that Sri Krishna is not from the local area network, but he has come from a world that is different because his mind is different.”

World Way Trying Mind Humans Said Different Bigs Areas Locals Hinduism Krishna

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

“We live in a world of careers. Work, as Sri Krishna points out in the Bhagavad Gita, is a necessary path for everyone attaining enlightenment. It is something that we all do. Some people work very hard at not working.”

People World Hard Careers Path Enlightenment Hinduism Krishna Gita

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sri Krishna refers, of course, to this world as a joyless, transient world. Obviously, he's never been to Disneyland.”

World Courses This World Hinduism Krishna Transient Disneyland

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The dreams of the self are manifold and endless and they exist in all the myriad worlds and conditions that appear to have solidity. When you're dreaming at night, something seems very real, but when you wake up the dream is gone and so is all that apparent solidity.”

World Real Self Dream Seems Night Gone Conditions Wake Up Endless Hinduism Manifold Solidity Dreaming At Night

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Krishna says meditate and you'll see the various ephemeral worlds, the various ephemeral beings, all of them going through the same thing; some are rich, some are poor, some are more knowledgeable, some are less knowledgeable - in countless myriad universes, forever.”

World Universe Poor Forever Rich Various Hinduism Krishna Ephemeral Knowledgeable

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Yoga means we go a step further back. In yoga we go to the cause. The cause of pain is not the world. The cause of pain is us.”

World Mean Pain Causes Steps Yoga Hinduism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Yoga is a removal of the conscious awareness from the world as you know it - the world that you've constructed - through your focus within your mind, to something else.”

Knows World Mind Focus Awareness Conscious Yoga Hinduism Removal Conscious Awareness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Trying to use the power of yoga to improve your life, this is a terrible mistake. Because all you are doing is binding yourself more. You're putting more of your attention into the transient world.”

World Trying Use Attention Mistake Terrible Yoga Hinduism Transient Binding Improve Your Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Illumination in the outer world is to be happy no matter what is going on. In the inner world, it's more ineffable. It's harder to express.”

World Matter Harder No Matter What Hinduism Illumination Inner World Ineffable Outer Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the Bhagavad-Gita Krishna says: Arjuna you cannot avoid action. Everyone is stuck in the world of action. The world of action is forever.”

World Action Forever Stuck Hinduism Krishna Gita Arjuna

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Yantras are specific designs that have a great deal of power in them, as do mantras, which are words of power. Yantras are designs of power that tap into other levels of attention. They remind us of things in other worlds.”

World Levels Deals Attention Design Concentration Other Worlds Mantras

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation is a refocusing on symbols. It's not emptiness. We are using symbols, doorways to step from one world to another, from darkness into light, from death to immortality.”

World Light Steps Darkness Meditation Symbols Immortality Emptiness Doorways Visualization

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Feel that the energy of your willpower can easily deflect tension-causing feelings and frustrations that are directed towards you from the outside world.”

World Feels Feelings Energy Tension Frustration Willpower Visualization Outside World

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Try to feel that you are beyond time and space when you practice meditation. Go beyond this world, beyond time, beyond life, not a feeling of being spaced out, but in touch with the moment and with eternity.”

World Feels Trying Moments Feelings Space Practice Meditation This World Eternity Time And Space Visualization

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The second stage of meditation begins when you can successfully stop thought for long periods of time. At this point you move beyond the awareness of this world.”

World Long Moving Meditation Stage Awareness This World Periods Long Periods Of Time

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If the world does not shine brightly, even just the physical, sensual perception after meditation, you have not meditated. You have sat and thought of things that were not real.”

Ifs World Doe Real Meditation Perception Shining Sensual Sat

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Stopping thought also involves shifting your values. Thought is stimulated by ideas that we have about life and the world.”

World Ideas Values Stopping Shifting

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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“You're going to go to stillness. When that happens, the world collapses. There is no time, no space, no viewer, no viewing, no object in view.”

World Happens Space Views Objects Stillness Collapse Viewers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can't just sit in emptiness. Even the enlightened don't sit in emptiness. We call it emptiness - but we move our mind into a world of light.”

World Mind Light Moving Emptiness Enlightened

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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

“Mindfulness is the ability to do physical things in a harmonious way; it is a way to remain centered in a physical world that is out of balance.”

World Way Ability Buddhism Balance Mindfulness Harmonious Physical Things

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“You have but a short time to live in this world. As you age, you will experience the pains of aging. If your hopes and joys rest upon the body, then you will suffer greatly.”

Ifs World Body Age Pain Joy Suffering This World Aging Short Time

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are the body, you are in terrible trouble! One small microbe will destroy it one day, if not an accident. You have but a short time to live in this world.”

Ifs World Body Suffering Trouble This World Terrible One Day Accidents Short Time Microbes

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The world is futile when viewed through the persona of the body. The body is not simply the physical body but it's the body of knowledge of this world.”

World Body Suffering This World Persona Physical Body

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“There is nothing wrong with the world of physicality. There is nothing wrong with existence. It's perfect ... but it's terribly transient.”

World Suffering Perfect Existence Transient Physicality

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As I'm sure you know by now, most people aren't really very happy. Beyond their surface appearances, the smiles they wear for the rest of the world, most people are soul-sick.”

People Knows World Soul Suffering Sick Appearance Surface Very Happy

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“Nothing is here in this world that is of any interest at all.”

World Suffering Interest This World

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“Life is just masturbation in a sense, mentally. What people do is they just create a world out of their self-reflection.”

People World Self Life Is Suffering Reflection Self Reflection Masturbation

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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