“Think about the flowers. Life is just a bunch of pretty pictures. All this is supposed to do is force you beyond the mind, when you realize that you can't figure it out.” ThinkingMindLife IsForceRealizingFiguresFlowerBuddhismBalanceBunchPretty PictureFlower Life Author:Frederick Lenz
“Eventually you're supposed to get so confounded by this whole thing that you just give up completely, and that's when it starts to work. Not give up the practice, but give up trying to figure it out.” GivingTryingWholePracticeFiguresBuddhismBalanceGiving UpNot Giving UpJust Give Up Author:Frederick Lenz
“Trust yourself. Figure out everything you want, but then don't worry about it. It's all out of our hands. Just let life work through you .” WantHandsWorryFiguresBuddhismBalanceTrust Yourself Author:Frederick Lenz
“You can just sweep the floor generally and gain nothing from it. Or you can figure out the best way to sweep the floor, put your power into it, use it as a concentration exercise, and be meditative.” WayUseFiguresBuddhismExerciseMindfulnessGainsBest WayConcentration Author:Frederick Lenz
“I think that we all at some point are in search of something - a higher power, whatever you want to call it, the meaning of life. I know I was, especially at even my son's age in my 20s, and dabbling in Eastern philosophies and yoga and Buddhism and Christianity and Islam. I kind of touched them all, you know, just trying to figure out the meaning of life or if nothing else, figure myself out.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantTryingKindPhilosophyAgeChristianityFiguresSonBuddhismHigherYogaIslamMeaning Of LifeTouchedMy SonEasternHigher PowerEastern PhilosophyChristianity And IslamDabblingBuddhism And Christianity Author:Denzel Washington
“The buddha-dharma does not invite us to dabble in abstract notions. Rather, the task it presents us with is to attend to what we actually experience, right in this moment. You don't have to look "over there." You don't have to figure anything out. You don't have to acquire anything. And you don't have to run off to Tibet, or Japan, or anywhere else. You wake up right here. In fact, you can only wake up right here. So you don't have to do the long search, the frantic chase, the painful quest. You're already right where you need to be.” NeedsLooksLongDoeMomentsFactsRunningFiguresBuddhismTasksWake UpNotionPainfulAbstractAcquireJapanInvitesQuestsDharmaFranticTibet Author:Steve Hagen
“Unfortunately, in self-discovery, you get the culty types who want the father figure or mother figure to tell them everything to do. They don't want to do any work. They want to hang on your energy and try to drain it.” WantTryingSelfMotherFatherEnergyFiguresBuddhismTypeDiscoverySelf DiscoveryRamaDrainsFather Figure Author:Frederick Lenz
“The obvious answer to money is to have tons of it - simply figure out how to make more money than you really need and go for it.” NeedsSuccessAnswersCareersFiguresBuddhismObviousMore Money Author:Frederick Lenz
“Universities are very clarifying places of power, because everyone is focused on trying to figure out exactly what to do with their lives.” TryingFiguresBuddhismUniversityFocusedClarifying Author:Frederick Lenz