The theory of Zen is non-competition. But that is not really true at all. People who practice Zen are very competitive. They… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation is the way the mind is. That's why in Zen they call it the natural state, which means you don't have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most persons spend their lives stuck in relatively low states of mind. In these states of mind their views of themselves and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
After this happens again and again, we reach a point were there is nothing but satori, which is what nirvikalpa samadhi is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are monasteries in Japan where they teach Zen with rules, more rules than you can imagine, and you might feel comfortable… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Both Zen and mysticsm have this beautiful quality of happiness and laughter, which I think is so necessary in our modern age. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you are around a lot of human beings who are filled with jealousy and anger and rage and desire, it filters… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can only conceive of what lies beyond the state of mind you are in from the point of view of the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Both light and dark are eternity. Human beings assign relative values to colors, but beyond the relative, there just is - what… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Zen you practice zazen, mindfulness and other forms of introspection to find out who you are and what you want, to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Through the study of Zen you can learn to move from lower to higher states of mind at will. Higher states of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Zen there is a sense of blending, of stepping out of your body and mind and gaining access to powers and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is a study. It's a discipline. It involves the active use of will to make things happen or not happen. These… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are ten thousand states of mind. Most people spend their entire lives confined to a few of these states of mind. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
With Zen we do it more through slight of hand, a very subtle and delicate shift in consciousness, which shifts the world.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A person who undertakes the study of Zen and learns concentration and meditation is like a gymnast. You become a gymnast of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The path of Zen is not easy. It's wonderful. It's beautiful beyond compare. You will experience more ecstasy and beauty than most… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is a sense of competition in Zen. You are competing with your thoughts and trying to overcome them. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Zen we classify ten thousand different states of mind, different ways of seeing life. There is something beyond the ten thousand… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is a very quick path. Zen is the path of meditation. The word Zen means emptiness or fullness, meditation. Meditation is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen was a reaction. Just as Buddha came into the world and spoke against the fall of Vedanta, so Buddhism lost its… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen has lost its zip, if you will, or its nothingness and has become ritualistic Its established in monastaries with strict codes… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The intuitive wisdom that comes from your infinite mind can add to your creativity, success and well-being, and can take you to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you're very, very conservative and you like that sort of practice, go find a very conservative Zen master and just do… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Satori is a brief flash. Suddenly the light breaks through. For a short timeless time we experience eternity in its unmanifest form.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the old days, Zen was not really practiced so much in a monastery. The Zen Master usually lived up on a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
From the highest state of mind you have a window whereby you could perhaps move beyond all states of mind, to enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are ten thousand planes of awareness within the infinite mind of the diamond mind, your deeper mind. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The ten thousand states of mind are hallucinatory. Hallucinations are real. Dreams are real. But there are some things more real. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Zen we study the will. We learn how to cultivate it, to accumulate will. We use it to direct our actions,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the study of Zen you can learn how to strengthen and clarify your finite mind. Your finite mind is like a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are ten thousand aspects of your mind. Your awareness has ten thousand forms. There is something else. You have to step… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Opportunities, creative ideas or the lack of them, happiness, frustration, brilliance, talent, success and failure - all are determined by the state… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The way of nothingness is the way of Zen. It is just a term. The contemplation of nothingness or everythingness is where… — 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
