Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think the very best thing you can do is observe what makes you stronger and what makes you weaker. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most martial arts have to do with the mind, ultimately. The ability to be unafraid, to walk away from a fight without… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Teamwork - everything is one. You can connect with the emptiness of all things. All things are empty. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you are afraid of other people take a martial arts class. The best way to overcome fear is learn to be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you unite the nothingness of your mind with the nothingness of the Frisbee, then the Frisbee is not a Frisbee, and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are lots of people who work out and aren't at all powerful in terms of their mind or their spirits. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is quite possible to speed up the healing process to the part of the body that is injured. This all has… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The most powerful force to maintaining a good immune system is the power of positive thinking and not allowing yourself to be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The very advanced practitioners of martial arts never had to raise a hand. They could knock an opponent down without physically touching… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The more perfectly you can refine the process of Frisbee, the tighter your energy is and the more you become one with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Allow the emptiness inherent within actions and experiences to guide and shape your choices. Let your actions direct you, the actor, not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everybody deals with stress differently. Some people drink, some people use drugs, some people watch TV. I have always found that extreme… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All success in sports and athletics, from the Zen point of view, comes from the mind. No matter what kind of shape… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Unlock the power of the will. Learn balance and gain the knowledge and wisdom necessary to guide those powers, to succeed in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I like extreme athletics, extreme meditation and extremely beautiful women. Perhaps I'm an extreme person, or it's simply my Karma. But I… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Physical perfection, working out, adds to your spiritual perfection if that is your intent. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Allow the inherent emptiness within what you are about to do direct you. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Diet is highly individual. You have to see what your body wants and what is healthy for it. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Any good athletic is always in a state of perpetual training, as is the Zen student. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is fun to be outside; it's good to move your body and there is just a joy in sports and athletics. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When your spirit is free and your body is well developed, magic occurs. You are able to let go and become the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Transform yourself. It is not the opponent that will change, or the Frisbee. They will change in relation to your change. You… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Several very good friends of mine have died of AIDS. I spent a great deal of time with them when they went… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Be a perfect flow of energy in whatever you chose to do. This is perfect action. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the Orient we have known for thousands of years that the most powerful tonic for ill health is a happy and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The emptiness of play is when there is no self present. There is no one playing - there is only play itself… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your ego interferes, your sense of self. When you let go of the mind, the Frisbee will take its own path. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Eternity becomes more beautiful as we age, if we age well. If we age poorly, then we don't improve our minds; we… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Thought control is the ability to direct mind and attention anywhere. Your ability to win is dependent upon the power of your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I go snowboarding and scuba diving to get to places of power where I can more correctly perceive the still center of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everyone meditates in their own way. Some people sit and practice formal mediation techniques for many hours a day while others spontaneously… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you are serious about sports and athletics then you need to begin the discipline of mind. With the power of mind,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I recommend for everyone the study of some type of sports or athletics, particularly martial arts. Always check with your doctor first,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You are trying to pierce the veil, to break through the Frisbee so that it doesn't exist, to break through the football… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you can become completely impassive in play, then you become fluid and completely unpredictable. No one knows, including yourself, what you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are places that are very draining. There are places where there is another dimensional crossover but to a dimension that is not powerful… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
You can draw power from everything in your life. In order to do that, everything has to be set up in a proper way. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Everyone will admire you when you do well. What a horrible thing to do to someone. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get to watch… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
A human being can only absorb a small amount of the mystical kundalini, you can be exposed again and again to it, but it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Enlightened people live in very charged states of attention, with a tremendous power circuiting through them. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Karma means changing planes of reality or changing fields of attention. There will be perhaps a resulting physical action stemming from the change of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
You and I are both life. There's just the experience of every moment. We like to call them moments. There isn't really such a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Why waste your time being around people who drag you down? You don't live forever, at least in this life. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
Everybody here is so caught up in the game of life they don't see death. They don't see beyond their deaths. They are on… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share
