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“In order to succeed on the athletic field, it is necessary to succeed in daily life. Your spirit and your life must be perfectly trimmed for the chi to flow properly.”

Spirit Order Fields Health Buddhism Succeed Flow Daily Life Athletic Athletics Order To Succeed

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is a good idea to become involved with sports and athletics. It makes you strong. You need to be strong to deal with this world and the powers and forces that block enlightenment.”

World Needs Ideas Strong Force Sports Deals This World Health Buddhism Involved Enlightenment Block Good Ideas Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Physical perfection, working out, adds to your spiritual perfection if that is your intent.”

Ifs Spiritual Health Buddhism Perfection Add Work Out Athletics Spiritual Perfection

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with your spirit, not just with your body.”

Needs Body Moving Spirit Sports Practice Path Meditation Health Buddhism Your Body Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference between them.”

Mind Body Differences Perfect Health Buddhism Strive Combination Athletics Perfect Combination

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is easier to develop the mind through meditation than it is just through athletic practice. If you put the two together, it will be unbelievable.”

Ifs Mind Two Together Practice Meditation Health Buddhism Easier Unbelievable Athletic Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I recommend for everyone the study of some type of sports or athletics, particularly martial arts. Always check with your doctor first, naturally.”

Firsts Art Sports Study Health Buddhism Type Doctors Checks Martial Arts Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All success in sports and athletics, from the Zen point of view, comes from the mind. No matter what kind of shape your body is in, there is disharmony in the being.”

Mind Kind Matter Body Sports Views Health Buddhism Shapes No Matter What Point Of View Your Body Athletics Disharmony

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are lots of people who work out and aren't at all powerful in terms of their mind or their spirits.”

People Mind Spirit Term Powerful Health Buddhism Work Out Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions become meditation.”

Ifs Mind Sports Levels Meditation Health Buddhism Higher Mindfulness Tools Devices Workout Session Athletics Higher Level

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Allow the emptiness inherent within actions and experiences to guide and shape your choices. Let your actions direct you, the actor, not the other way around.”

Way Action Choices Actors Health Buddhism Shapes Direct Guides Emptiness Inherent Athletics

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“In the Zen of sports and athletics, we seek to bring discipline and control into our physical movements, but at the same time to eliminate the self that gets in the way of perfect play.”

Way Self Play Sports Perfect Movement Health Buddhism Discipline Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all revolves around the ego. This has nothing to do with the Zen of sports and athletics.”

Thinking Individual Sports Health Buddhism Victory Ego Achievement West Defeat Agony Thrill Athletics Individual Achievement

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If someone else runs faster than you or makes more money than you or is more adept at anything, that doesn't mean you have lost. You are measuring yourself only against yourself and your tendencies not to do all that you are capable of doing.”

Ifs Mean Running Lost Health Buddhism Capable Tendencies Faster More Money Athletics Measuring Adept Lost You

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Winning has to do with gaining personal power through the practice of meditation and mindfulness; not draining your energy on ridiculous things and people.”

People Winning Energy Practice Meditation Health Buddhism Mindfulness Ridiculous Athletics Personal Power Draining Ridiculous Things

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The strategy of winning is gaining personal power. There are no techniques to learn that will cause you to win. You need power, balance and wisdom to win and to learn from your loses.”

Needs Winning Causes Loses Health Buddhism Balance Strategy Technique Athletics Personal Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Be a perfect flow of energy in whatever you chose to do. This is perfect action.”

Action Energy Perfect Health Buddhism Flow Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do.”

Firsts Health Buddhism Activity Empty Athletics

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

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

“To do something perfectly, you must not think about what you are doing at all ... Your thoughts are what create imperfections in your actions. They alienate you from the true reality of any action you perform.”

Thinking Reality Action Health Buddhism Imperfection Athletics True Reality

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

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

“When your spirit is free and your body is well developed, magic occurs. You are able to let go and become the play.”

Wells Play Body Able Spirit Magic Health Buddhism Letting Go Your Body Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Allow the inherent emptiness within what you are about to do direct you.”

Health Buddhism Direct Emptiness Inherent Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Instead of your ego directing you and making countless mistakes, allow yourself to be guided by the invisible principles of the universe within your action.”

Action Universe Mistake Principles Health Buddhism Ego Invisible Athletics

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

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

“When you can become completely impassive in play, then you become fluid and completely unpredictable. No one knows, including yourself, what you will do next. You couldn't even explain it.”

Knows Play Next Health Buddhism Including Unpredictable Fluid Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If I have led my life totally deliberately, then when I come to the end of the diving board, I can just fall off the diving board and it will be perfect. I won't even remember what happened.”

Ifs I Can Ends Remember Fall Perfect Happened Health Buddhism Boards Athletics Diving

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can hit a home run. If you are honest, you'll know when it's perfect because at that critical moment of connection, there was no sense of being there. That is perfect play. There is no self involved.”

Ifs Knows Self Play Moments Home Running Perfect Honest Health Buddhism Involved Connections Critical Being There Athletics Home Run Critical Moments

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If all the members of a team have synchronized their energy and they have all subordinated their egos to success of the team, then we have a functioning unit. If we have a lot of hotshots who want attention, you won't really play that well.”

Ifs Want Wells Play Energy Attention Team Health Buddhism Members Ego Units Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Teamwork - everything is one. You can connect with the emptiness of all things. All things are empty.”

Health Buddhism All Things Empty Emptiness Teamwork Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are serious about sports and athletics then you need to begin the discipline of mind. With the power of mind, almost anything can be accomplished.”

Ifs Needs Mind Sports Serious Health Buddhism Discipline Accomplished Athletics Power Of The Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The emptiness of play is when there is no self present. There is no one playing - there is only play itself taking place, perfect fluid motion.”

Self Play Perfect Health Buddhism Emptiness Fluid Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you have the sense of participation in sports or athletics, of being a player, then you are not really into the Zen mind. In Zen mind there is no sense of self in the play.”

Ifs Mind Self Play Sports Player Health Buddhism Participation Sense Of Self Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Unlock the power of the will. Learn balance and gain the knowledge and wisdom necessary to guide those powers, to succeed in sports and athletics.”

Sports Health Buddhism Balance Succeed Gains Guides Athletics Knowledge And Wisdom

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Any good athletic is always in a state of perpetual training, as is the Zen student.”

States Students Health Buddhism Training Perpetual Athletic Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Thought control is the ability to direct mind and attention anywhere. Your ability to win is dependent upon the power of your concentration. Winning is a state of mind.”

Mind States Winning Ability Attention Health Buddhism Direct Dependent Concentration State Of Mind Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The Frisbee is a round disk. That's the somethingness. But it has another side; it has a nothingness which you cannot perceive with your physical mind or your senses.”

Mind Sides Health Buddhism Rounds Senses Perceive Nothingness Athletics Disk Frisbee

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the game of Frisbee you throw the disk to someone else. The point of Frisbee is perfect communication. The person at the other end of the field is receiving an impression, a vibration from you.”

Persons Ends Games Perfect Fields Health Communication Buddhism Impression Receiving Vibrations Athletics Disk Frisbee

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The more perfectly you can refine the process of Frisbee, the tighter your energy is and the more you become one with the nothingness of the Frisbee, the nothingness of the play.”

Play Energy Process Health Buddhism Nothingness Athletics Frisbee

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Your ego interferes, your sense of self. When you let go of the mind, the Frisbee will take its own path.”

Mind Self Path Health Buddhism Letting Go Ego Interfere Sense Of Self Athletics Frisbee

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you unite the nothingness of your mind with the nothingness of the Frisbee, then the Frisbee is not a Frisbee, and you are not you.”

Mind Health Buddhism Nothingness Athletics Frisbee

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You are trying to pierce the veil, to break through the Frisbee so that it doesn't exist, to break through the football so it doesn't exist, and to break through your opponent so they don't exist.”

Trying Break Football Health Buddhism Opponents Veils Athletics Break Through Pierce Frisbee

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Transform yourself. It is not the opponent that will change, or the Frisbee. They will change in relation to your change. You must change.”

Health Buddhism Relation Opponents Athletics Frisbee

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons.”

Art Health Buddhism Weapons Art Is Buddhist Martial Arts Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most martial arts have to do with the mind, ultimately. The ability to be unafraid, to walk away from a fight without fear - that is control.”

Mind Art Fighting Ability Walks Health Buddhism Martial Arts Athletics Unafraid

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are afraid of other people take a martial arts class. The best way to overcome fear is learn to be proficient in martial arts.”

People Ifs Way Art Class Health Buddhism Overcoming Best Way Martial Arts Overcoming Fear Athletics Gaining Power Art Class

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations.”

Way Mind Art Self Body Artist Fighting Winning Emotion Situation Health Buddhism Art Is Martial Arts Combat Mastery Self Mastery Athletics Mind Body Martial Artist

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Use the practice of mind and body; in order to make those moves perfectly, you have to pull your mind out of its mundane thoughts and awarenesses and bring it into the body movement.”

Mind Use Body Moving Order Practice Awareness Movement Health Buddhism Mind And Body Mundane Athletics Body Movement

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The very advanced practitioners of martial arts never had to raise a hand. They could knock an opponent down without physically touching them, just with chi, pure power. We don't see too many of them anymore.”

Art Hands Health Buddhism Pure Raises Opponents Martial Arts Touching Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The samurais lived with death constantly. They wore a short dagger to take their own life if need be. At any moment they might have to do that, it was a part of their code.”

Ifs Needs Moments Might Health Buddhism Code Athletics Samurai Daggers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The samurais were very interested in Zen because they admired the tremendous precision that the Zen Masters had, their lack of fear and pain and their absolute lack of fear of death.”

Pain Health Masters Buddhism Absolutes Fear Of Death Precision Athletics Samurai Zen Master

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The chi is the central energy or power that we use in physical expression. When the chi is flowing properly in our lives, we can be very adept athletically.”

Use Energy Our Lives Expression Health Buddhism Athletics Adept

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If the chi is being wasted by useless activities, emotions and associations that drain us, then we don't have enough power when it comes time to perform.”

Ifs Enough Emotion Health Buddhism Activity Useless Association Drains Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

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