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Introduction Quotes by Frederick Lenz

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Zen breaks out of ordinary ideas and invites you to experience life directly. It is called a fast path to enlightenment, though the practice itself is not about speed. When practiced correctly, Zen keeps you balanced and grounded instead of spaced‑out.

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Old Zen is the way of nothingness, the way of having a good time.

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Zen is the study of mind in all of its manifestations. The purpose of Zen is to be happy.

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Zen is about breaking out of your ideas and experiencing life and not ideas.

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According to Zen philosophy each human being has two minds, a finite mind and an infinite mind.

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There is no letter of the law to follow in Zen. There is a lot of etiquette, but there are no rules.

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This is Zen, and in Zen, as we all know ... anything goes!

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We see signs of it perhaps for 28 das or 34 days, then it goes away. Yet we are different.

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Zen is the path that focuses the most upon meditation. It is almost exclusively a path of meditation.

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The theory of Zen is non-competition. But that is not really true at all. People who practice Zen are very competitive. They…

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Meditation is the way the mind is. That's why in Zen they call it the natural state, which means you don't have…

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Zen is a very fast path to enlightenment, fast in comparison to some other paths, not fast for the person who practices…

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Zen doesn't believe in the reconciliation of opposites because from the point of view of Zen, there is no point of view.

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In Zen the emphasis is on meditation and developing your body, mind and spirit to find inner peace, strength, clarity and enlightenment.

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Zen is discipline - the discipline of living life, the discipline of taking a breath, the discipline of not knowing and not…

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The study of Zen is a retraining. It is a series of new ways, not just one way, to learn to use…

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If you're very liberal, then you should go and find a very liberal Zen teacher, a liberal interpretation of the doctrines of…

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They would spend a lot of their time simply walking around in the woods or in the cities, or they would come…

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Each of the small enlightenments that a Zen practitioner has, which are known in Zen as "Satori experiences," provides deeper insights into…

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The study of Zen is the study of energy, power, knowledge and balance. It is the science of energy conservation and control.…

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There are two primary ways of studying Zen. Either an individual will enter into a Zen monastery and study with a Zen…

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It is only in the last 800 years that the rules have come into being and conservative Zen has surfaced. It is…

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Different schools of Zen have evolved, principally the Rinzai and Soto orders. A whole hierarchy has developed for the teaching and practice…

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Old Zen was very funny; there was a great deal of humor and happiness. Zen today seems much drier. While there's a…

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Just like there are different roads that lead to different places, so there are different levels of awareness that lead to different…

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Zen is meditation, the actual experience of life directly, immediately with no buffers.

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He would usually study with a small group of students, men and women.

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Old Zen was the reduction of concepts to absurdity.

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Nothing is any particular way. It's your state of mind that creates reality.

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Zen is a very quick path to enlightenment and development of the mind and all its facilities.

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People who practice Zen correctly are not spaced-out or unrealistic. They are balanced and grounded.

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In Zen you are learning how to make new realities, to build things inside your mind.

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Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings.

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Zen is the way of splitting the self again and again, untilt there is nothing left.

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To have the illusion of selfhood simply means that when you look in the mirror, you see somebody.

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Each of the ten thousand states of mind presents you with a different view of essence and experience.

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The light is already there. In Zen Buddhism there's a little speck of dust on the mirror, and that's us.

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Now when I speak about Zen, I have a problem, in the sense that the Zen of today has lost the essence,…

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In advanced Zen a person comes to realize that the existence of things and their ability to perceive them correctly is completely…

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There is a beautiful flow to the study of Zen. If it is not making you happier, then you are not practicing…

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Beyond the ten thousand states of mind is the still point. It exists within them all, yet beyond them. It is not…

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If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns.

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Enlightened people live in very charged states of attention, with a tremendous power circuiting through them.

Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it…

Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance.

The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations.

Karma means changing planes of reality or changing fields of attention. There will be perhaps a resulting physical action stemming from the change of…

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…

Why waste your time being around people who drag you down? You don't live forever, at least in this life.

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…

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