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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 have found in the world of film many movies including Beyond Rangoon, The Crow, Gandhi, Doctor Zhivago, and The Big Blue, a French film, convey similar understandings. I'm sure the list is endless. These are just a few of my favorites.”

World Bigs Film Found Understanding Doctors Blue Including Lists Endless Rama Crow Doctor Zhivago

Author:Frederick Lenz

“While I am here I would like to experience as many of the beauties of the world as possible and help others to do the same.”

World Helping Buddhism Helping Others Rama Beauty Of The World

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“I am an expert in the world of the supremely happy because I am happy. I've never met anybody as happy as I am - that, in itself, should make you unhappy.”

World Should Buddhism Mets Unhappy Experts Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I'd love to find some people to teach advanced meditation to. I've been looking for many years. There are a few around. Once in a while I run into another one. It's a very limited league at this time, in this world.”

People World Years Running Teach Meditation This World Buddhism League Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People love misery, they love to feel sorry for themselves, and they definitely don't want to be enlightened. That's the first thing they tell you at boot camp in the higher worlds.”

People World Want Feels Firsts Buddhism Higher Misery Sorry Enlightened Camps Boots Rama Boot Camp

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Our field trips are an opportunity for you to enter into the world of mystical power.”

World Opportunity Fields Buddhism Mystical Rama Field Trip

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I show people the techniques for gaining knowledge, and this inspires them in their search for truth, freedom and happiness. I also try to show people that truth exists as much in this world as it does in any other world.”

People World Trying Doe Shows This World Inspire Buddhism Technique Rama Other Worlds Search For Truth Freedom And Happiness Gaining Knowledge

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As an enlightened teacher of Buddhism, I'd like to welcome you to the pathway to enlightenment. I'd like to encourage you to be more positive, to engage in the practice meditation, to learn how to do this wonderful thing - make your mind still in a crazy world.”

World Mind Stills Practice Teacher Meditation Wonderful Crazy Buddhism Enlightenment Welcome Enlightened Wonderful Things Pathways Rama Crazy World

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are people I feel in other parts of the world who will never meet me or hear my name. They are probably better off. I help them inwardly. I feel their souls seeking light, and I help all who come.”

People World Feels Soul Helping Light Names Buddhism Seeking Better Off Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Reality is perfect light. It frees you from the limitations of this world, from the ugliness, from the unhappiness of limited perception.”

World Reality Light Perfect This World Perception Limitation Unhappiness Ugliness Samadhi

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you stop your thoughts, you stop the world.”

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“When the world stops, time stops.”

World Samadhi Stop Time

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“The light of the supra-conscious, of salvakalpa and nirvikalpa samadhi, is not connected to this world at all. It passes through this world but it is not part of this world, in a way of speaking.”

World Way Light This World Conscious Connected Samadhi

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sahaja samadhi means that you have just gone back and forth so many times that there is no back and forth. All you see is enlightenment in this world and the other side. There is no other side anymore. It means that you are wakeful.”

World Mean Sides Gone This World Enlightenment Back And Forth Samadhi

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The Dali Lama and other notable Buddhist teachers have now indicated that since the world has plunged into a dark age, the information available in the tantras, which include the very, very powerful Kundalini release techniques, should be made available to the public.”

World Should Made Philosophy Age Dark Powerful Teacher Information Available Technique Release Buddhist Very Powerful Notable Dark Ages Tantra Lama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In this world we see the pairs of opposites. Ultimately there are no oppositions. In the superconscious awareness there is no division.”

World Philosophy Awareness This World Opposites Opposition Pairs Division

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Avoidance of experiences is a fixation and it binds you to the world, it binds you to the personal self.”

World Self Philosophy Avoidance Fixation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Advanced yoga is not withdrawal from the world. That's a preliminary state.”

World States Philosophy Yoga Withdrawal

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantra is non-dogmatic, in the sense that we don't care about the sensual world; we don't care about other religious traditions. To not care doesn't mean that we don't learn.”

World Mean Philosophy Care Religious Tradition Don't Care Sensual Dogmatic Tantra Religious Traditions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Living in the spiritual world is very easy, once you grow accustomed to it. But initially, it puts you through some changes.”

World Philosophy Spiritual Grows Easy Accustomed

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Your soul wants experience. It wants the world. You're a human - and your eternal. The two are the same.”

World Want Humans Two Soul Philosophy Eternal Your Soul

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the world of Buddhist mind, in the advanced states, we go beyond time, space, life, death and Newsweek.”

World Mind States Philosophy Space Buddhist Life Death

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We're connected to the Buddhist order, to the mind of enlightenment. All day long we draw the power and force from that world, from all the teachers and all the adherents of the practices and the principles.”

World Mind Long Order Force Principles Practice Teacher Mindfulness Draws Enlightenment Connected Buddhist

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is a way beyond this life and beyond death, the path of liberation. In order to be liberated, you have to enter into the world of advanced meditation.”

World Way Order Path Meditation This Life Liberation Concentration Liberated

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Buddhism is not just going to temple, being at a ceremony and dressing up. That is the church of Buddhism. Esoteric Buddhism is to move beyond this world.”

World Moving Church This World Buddhism Temples Concentration Dressings Ceremony Esoteric Dressing Up

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All the sutras in the world are useless. All the lectures of all the teachers don't really mean anything. They are only words. They point in a direction, that is their only use.”

World Mean Use Teacher Useless Concentration Lectures Really Mean

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To perfect your nature means to let go of this world and place your attention fully in the plane of enlightenment.”

World Mean Perfect Attention This World Letting Go Enlightenment Planes Concentration

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You have to come to the world of enlightenment with open hands, not clinched fists, without an agenda.”

World Hands Buddhism Enlightenment Buddhist Agendas Fists Etiquette

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“There is a certain beauty and refinement that is often found in our world and it is expensive. It shouldn't necessarily be so. It is just the way our economic system is.”

World Way Certain Found Economic Buddhism Expensive Our World Refinement Economic Systems

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can live in the world and have all the myriad experiences that life has to offer and yoke your awareness field to the planes of light, and eventually to nirvana itself.”

World Light Awareness Fields Buddhism Offers Planes Yoke

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We live in a world where money is necessary. You can't just go out and roam the forest and the cities, at least in America.”

World America Cities Buddhism Forests

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“You can live in the world and have friends, family and possessions. But don't take them all too seriously. Death removes everything. Feel death is every moment, as life is every moment.”

World Feels Moments Life Is Buddhism Possession Remove Family Friends

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In reality, as any physicist will tell you, the physical world is made up of moving energy. All matter is energy.”

World Made Matter Reality Moving Science Energy Buddhism Physicist

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

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

“The world glows all the time. All of the things that you have come to understand aren't. The greatest thinkers in the world see very little compared to the enlightened.”

World Littles Science Buddhism Enlightened Thinker

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There's no way we can possibly understand anything. But we can see things, we can perceive things, and we can wonder. We can just be in a world of awe and wonder. That's the best we can do.”

World Way Science Can Do Wonder Buddhism Perceive Awe Awe And Wonder

Author:Frederick Lenz

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

Thinking World Way Science Buddhism

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“Our past affects us, our present affects us, and even our future can affect us. We live in the relative world of time and space.”

World Past Science Space Buddhism Our Future Relative Our Past Time And Space

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“One of the greatest mistakes that people make who pursue self-discovery is they neglect to develop their careers. There is a popular notion that those who seek enlightenment should abandon the things of this world.”

People World Should Self Success Mistake Careers This World Buddhism Enlightenment Discovery Notion Self Discovery Pursue Abandon Neglect

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Money is very useful in this particular world to buy you space. In the old days, there were not too many people on the planet. Today everybody owns the forests and woods and there are "No Trespassing" signs everywhere.”

People World Today Success Space Careers Particular Planets Buddhism Woods Forests Old Days Trespassing

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“Without money, you are powerless in this world. You are totally subject to whatever happens. To be without money in the physical world is to be powerless.”

World Happens Success Careers Subjects This World Buddhism Powerless Whatever Happens

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The way our world is set up, a higher economic priority is given to things that bespeak a greater refinement. It is just a determination that was made, to make money.”

World Way Made Success Given Careers Greater Economic Buddhism Higher Determination Priorities Making Money Our World Refinement

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The work that most people do in the world tends to deaden them, deadens their mind, uses up their energy and they get a paycheck and old age and not much energy. You get the check and they get your energy. That energy is translated into corporate dollars.”

People World Mind Use Age Success Energy Careers Buddhism Dollars Checks Old Age Corporate Paychecks

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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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“We've done this before in other worlds, in other lives. It is our strength, law, medicine, entertainment, and computers, the networking of energy. All of these are arts.”

World Art Done Success Law Energy Careers Buddhism Computer Medicine Entertainment Networking Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Career success is using your daily work, schoolwork, work in the world, work at home, as a way of advancing your mental state.”

World Way States Home Success Careers Buddhism Advancing Career Success Daily Work Schoolwork

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As long as you are in the relative worlds, you should be realistic and know there is winning and losing here.”

Knows World Should Long Success Winning Careers Buddhism Losing Realistic Relative Winning And Losing

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“It is a real service to humanity and the world to be a good programmer, particularly if you design great products. You make is easier for everybody, everybody has less headaches.”

Ifs World Real Science Humanity Design Products Easier Computer Programmers Computer Science Headache Service To Humanity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is my belief that one of the most exciting things about the World Wide Web is that they allow minds, as Spock might say, to meld. The transfer of consciousness through a variety of mediums is nothing new.”

World Mind Might Science Belief Consciousness Computer Exciting Wide Mediums Variety Transfers Computer Science Nothing New Exciting Things World Wide Web

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The process is learning to turn your back on everything and everyone and face that immensity. And only after you've done that can you then turn around and face the world again with new, clear eyes.”

World Done Eye Faces Turns Process Clear Mysticism Immensity Clear Eyes

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The meaning of life changes as you change dimensional planes. The way human beings perceive the world is only one simple method of seeing. There are many ways to see life. Life has many meanings, and self realization is the understanding of all this.”

World Way Humans Self Understanding Human Beings Simple Seeing Method Self Realization Realization Planes Perceive Life Changing Meaning Of Life Mysticism

Author:Frederick Lenz

About the Author

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

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