“Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." Everything happens perfectly.” SaidHappensHumanityFallSpecialBuddhismThings HappenFree WillProvidenceReadinessSparrowsHamlet And OpheliaHamlet 2Hamlet OpheliaMortality In HamletHamlet ThemeHamlet RevengeMorality In Hamlet Author:Frederick Lenz
“While the comforts of modern civilization and technological success or economic success seem at the moment quite fulfilling, I can assure you that all of these things are transitory and will fall away.” I CanMomentsSeemsHumanityFallEconomicModernBuddhismComfortCivilizationFulfillingTechnologicalTransitoryModern CivilizationEconomic Success Author:Frederick Lenz
“Happiness is not dependent upon outer circumstance. Happiness is falling in love with everything around you, everything inside of you.” HappinessFallBuddhismCircumstancesFalling In LoveDependent Author:Frederick Lenz
“Let the rain of unhappy and tragic experiences fall, as sometimes it inevitably must, even in the lives of the enlightened masters. If your mind has become one with nirvana, you will remain happy at all times.” IfsMindSometimesHappinessFallMastersBuddhismRainUnhappyAll TimeTragicEnlightened Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“It is always easier to capture eternity in the falling snow or along the coast where the waves crash and in solitary and lonely places. It is the quiet places where it is easiest to feel eternity.” FeelsFallNatureBuddhismEasierQuietLonelyEternityWaveSnowCaptureSolitaryCrashCoastQuiet PlaceLonely Places 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.” IfsI CanEndsRememberFallPerfectHappenedHealthBuddhismBoardsAthleticsDiving Author:Frederick Lenz
“In meditation the mind stops, thought ceases. When thought stops, the world stops. When the world stops, perception stops. When perception stops, the sense of "I" as a perceiver falls away.” WorldMindFallMeditationHumilityBuddhismPerceptionCease Author:Frederick Lenz
“Zen was a reaction. Just as Buddha came into the world and spoke against the fall of Vedanta, so Buddhism lost its essence and became ritual. Zen was a reaction to that.” WorldFallLostBuddhismEssenceReactionsSpokesRitualIntroductionVedanta Author:Frederick Lenz
“When you could be sloppy, you're not. When you could be indulgent, you're not. When you could be sad, you laugh instead. If you fall down, you pick yourself up again and again and again.” IfsFallEffortLaughingBuddhismPicksAgain And AgainFalling DownSloppyPick Yourself Up Author:Frederick Lenz