“For an advanced preceiver, the play of life is to assemble and reassemble the self in alternate realities of which this is one.” WorldSelfPlayRealityLife IsBuddhismOther WorldsAlternate Realities Author:Frederick Lenz
“At every moment, you have the opportunity to crap out. The world will always tell you to play it safe and just be dead.” WorldPlayMomentsHumanityOpportunityBuddhismSafeCrap Author:Frederick Lenz
“In the world of interactive multi-media highways we are all traveling somewhere interactively and we are all shopping for something, our dreams, our hopes, our ambitions for ourselves, for those we love - these little scenarios we play out endlessly in our mind.” WorldMindLittlesPlayDreamHumanityMediaBuddhismAmbitionShoppingOur DreamsHighwaysScenariosThose We LoveInteractive Author:Frederick Lenz
“We play in the jungle gym of sexuality until our spirit takes us out into a clear field where we can see the stars, the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment. One of those radiances is the dance of sexuality.” PlaySpiritStarsClearFieldsBuddhismThousandTenEnlightenmentSexualityGymJungleRadiance Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” WaySelfPlaySportsPerfectMovementHealthBuddhismDisciplineAthletics Author:Frederick Lenz
“When your spirit is free and your body is well developed, magic occurs. You are able to let go and become the play.” WellsPlayBodyAbleSpiritMagicHealthBuddhismLetting GoYour BodyAthletics Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” KnowsPlayNextHealthBuddhismIncludingUnpredictableFluidAthletics 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.” IfsKnowsSelfPlayMomentsHomeRunningPerfectHonestHealthBuddhismInvolvedConnectionsCriticalBeing ThereAthleticsHome RunCritical 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.” IfsWantWellsPlayEnergyAttentionTeamHealthBuddhismMembersEgoUnitsAthletics 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.” SelfPlayPerfectHealthBuddhismEmptinessFluidAthletics 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.” IfsMindSelfPlaySportsPlayerHealthBuddhismParticipationSense Of SelfAthletics 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.” PlayEnergyProcessHealthBuddhismNothingnessAthleticsFrisbee Author:Frederick Lenz
“Pass the popcorn, please. Life is a film, theatre, a theatre of the soul. We play different roles on different stages. At death, we walk offstage. At birth, we walk onstage.” InspirationalDifferentSoulPlayFilmLife IsWalksRolesStageBuddhismBirthPleaseTheatrePopcorn Author:Frederick Lenz
“We applaud the people who are film stars, who get elected to an office, who are very athletic, the small group who play with power in a very limited way. But we're completely oblivious to what can be done to the infinite realities that exist in front of us. We deny them.” PeopleWayInspirationalDonePlayRealityFilmStarsGroupsFrontsBuddhismOfficeInfiniteDenyAthleticSmall GroupsObliviousFilm Stars Author:Frederick Lenz
“I must play my role, great or small - that is humility, without self-importance, without self-indulgence.” SelfPlayRolesHumilityBuddhismImportanceIndulgenceSelf-importanceSelf Indulgence Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you want to help people, if you care, go to the cities. The city is where the pain is the greatest - and the cities are a hell of a lot of fun if you like art, movies and plays.” PeopleIfsWantArtPlayHelpingCarePainFunCitiesHellBuddhismIf You Care Author:Frederick Lenz