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“Nobody can make you happy but yourself. Things occupy us, people occupy us, but they don't make us happy. If we are honest, what makes us happy is to experience spirit.”

People Ifs Happiness Spirit Honest Buddhism Make You Happy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Even sickness becomes an experience that we pass through in happiness because our happiness is not dependent upon how our body feels, but how our spirit feels.”

Feels Body Happiness Spirit Buddhism Sickness Dependent

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is important to have a certain amount of solitude just to clear your circuits. You will find that you can be very happy just being by yourself. Go to new places. It will cleanse your spirit.”

Important Spirit Certain Nature Clear Buddhism Amount Solitude Being Yourself Just Being Very Happy Circuits New Places

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.”

Play Spirit Stars Clear Fields Buddhism Thousand Ten Enlightenment Sexuality Gym Jungle Radiance

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

“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

“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

“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

“A long time ago individuals looked at life and saw that most people aren't happy. They saw this was obviously an inefficient system. So they combed the universe and found immeasurable happiness inside of us, our spirits.”

People Inspirational Long Spirit Universe Found Individual Saws Buddhism Long Time Long Time Ago

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The key to happiness, in my opinion, is taking the time to find out what your spirit wants you to do, and doing it.”

Want Inspirational Spirit Opinion Buddhism Keys Key To Happiness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You might have a warrior spirit in there somewhere, and it's just waiting for the opportunity to come out. If you do, you might be a candidate for the pathway to enlightenment.”

Ifs Inspirational Might Spirit Opportunity Waiting Buddhism Enlightenment Warrior Candidates Pathways Warrior Spirit

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The immortal silence is there always waiting for you and that spirit is deathless and courageous. Remember, many have trod the path that you are walking on and they succeeded. They were no better than you, no wiser.”

Inspirational Remember Spirit Waiting Silence Path Buddhism Walking Immortal Courageous Wiser Silence Is Better Than You Waiting For You Deathless Always Waiting

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The spirit longs for the world of light from which it came. That longing causes something to happen. It causes the being to grow into light.”

World Inspirational Light Happens Spirit Grows Causes Buddhism Longing

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You need to feel good about your life. Winning is a great idea, but you can get stuck in it too. It's just another way of looking at life, an idea. You need to renew yourself and your spirit.”

Way Inspirational Needs Feels Ideas Spirit Winning Buddhism Stuck Feel Good Another Way Great Idea

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The trap of the self is the trap that causes unhappiness. We define ourselves too much; whereas the infinite, the pure radiant spirit, is not so definable.”

Inspirational Self Spirit Causes Too Much Buddhism Pure Infinite Unhappiness Traps Radiant

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We see in meditation that our experiences are endless, that we are endless, eternal spirit, not as a thought or an idea you read in a book. You have the experience yourself, every day.”

Book Ideas Spirit Meditation Buddhism Eternal Endless Experience Yourself

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is a spirit that guides us, if we will listen. It speaks softly. In order to hear it we must still our thoughts and meditate.”

Ifs Stills Spirit Order Speak Meditation Buddhism Guides Our Thoughts Speak Softly

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The aggregates that we pick up in the human plane will be washed away, and we will become pure spirit, pure light, pure love, and pure ecstasy.”

Humans Light Spirit Meditation Buddhism Pure Picks Planes Ecstasy Pure Love

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There's really no pain in the realm of the higher astral. A lot of spirits are playing mini-golf having a good time.”

Pain Spirit Buddhism Higher Golf Realms Good Times Having A Good Time No Pain

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When we lack etiquette, we trash things. We trash each other. We trash the environment. We lose sight of the value of things. We suffer alienation when our spirit is disconnected from our physical awareness.”

Spirit Suffering Values Loses Environment Awareness Buddhism Sight Buddhist Trash Alienation Etiquette Disconnected

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It has been my experience as a teacher over the years and incarnations that what really counts are not techniques. What really counts is spirit, love. What really counts is a sense of propriety and dedication.”

Years Has Beens Spirit Teacher Buddhism Technique Buddhist Dedication Etiquette Incarnation Propriety Spirit Love

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Love makes you wise. Love unites. Pain divides. Hate divides even more. Hate separates and brings us down to a very physical plane. Love elevates us to a plane of spirit.”

Pain Spirit Hate Wise Buddhism Buddhist Planes Divides Etiquette Wise Love

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The spirit of the West, of America, is different than the East. The cultural conditioning is very different. It seems to be harder for people to work in teams, more difficult for people here to live in harmony, in a monastery.”

People Different Seems America Spirit Difficult Team Buddhism Harder Harmony West East Conditioning Monasteries

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I suggest that you do not get involved in channeling, tapping into spirits not physically present. Your own mind has the ability to properly reflect and determine what is correct and what is not.”

Mind Spirit Ability Buddhism Involved Determine Get Involved Channeling Tapping

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People go to mediums and they get in touch with spirits outside of the body. Most of these spirits are pretty malevolent and unenlightened, although they often claim to be enlightened teachers who are disincarnate. These low-vibe beings seek life-force.”

People Body Spirit Force Teacher Buddhism Lows Claims Mediums Enlightened

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are spirits in Hawaii. They're very protective and very good and they watch over these islands. I must confess, they're not entirely happy with what they see, with the way the civilization is moving. But they're patient. They've been here for a long time, and they'll be here long after the human beings have ceased to inhabit the islands.”

Way Humans Long Moving Spirit Human Beings Watches Buddhism Civilization Long Time Patient Very Good Islands Hawaii Protective

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The way you dress is extremely important. It demonstrates your spirit. It's the guise through which the world evaluates and views you.”

World Way Important Spirit Views Buddhism Dresses Evaluate Guise

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Consider the way you speak and your use of language; it's a reflection of your warrior spirit.”

Way Use Spirit Speak Language Buddhism Reflection Warrior Use Of Language Warrior Spirit

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The comedies, the tragedies we see played out on this earth before us, don't last. But we are eternal spirits. These events will come and go, but the planes of light and nirvana will always be there.”

Light Earth Lasts Spirit Suffering Comedy Events Buddhism Eternal Tragedy Planes Comes And Goes

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes hold of the enlivening spirit of the Buddha, stripped of all its historical and doctrinal garments.”

Spirit Belief Buddhism Essence Claims Historical Followers Garments

Book:Essays in Zen Buddhism

Source: Essays in Zen Buddhism

“Obviously there is a lot more ecstasy in the spirit than in the flesh but the flesh has its moments!”

Moments Spirit Buddhism Flesh Ecstasy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism and great characteristics of the human spirit. Because in jazz we share, we listen to each other, we respect each other, we are creating in the moment. At our best, we're non-judgmental.”

Inspirational Humans Moments Spirit Wonderful Share Example Buddhism Creating Jazz Characteristics Human Spirit Judgmental Cool Things Respect Each Other Non Judgmental

Author:Herbie Hancock