Gain control of the mind and make it still, initially just during periods of meditation, but then throughout the day and throughout… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
None of this matters a bit. Yet, of course, it matters at that moment. So we try to be mindful of the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you are just spaced out and you have no purpose in life, you pick everything up. Everybody else's thoughts will come… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mindfulness means that as we go through the day we learn to gain control of our mind, our emotions. We learn to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Look at how beautiful life is, and just keep looking until you see it. You don't see what is in front of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our life interferes, our mind, our thoughts. Meditating is not just a practice of asserting will and learning to control the mind,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Any area you slough off in your life will reflect in your meditation. Be happy when you could be depressed. Push jealous,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If President Bush does a lousy job, then he'll lose power. If the guy at McDonalds who's selling burgers does a great… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Advanced meditators are not even desirous of liberation anymore - that is just another attachment. There is no liberation. There is no… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are parts of us that are miserable, that hate, that love, that are cruel, are kind, are reasonable, are unreasonable. You… — 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
You don't have to do anything to meditate. That's what makes it so difficult. Everybody wants to do something. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you hold a negative thought, then it will become more powerful and not only will it send bad energy to the… — 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
If we try and direct our lives with only our limited rationalistic thoughts and our sense perceptions, then our actions and our… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some people are so solemn. They take their practice so seriously, that when the moment comes to let go of it, they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sitting around idly contemplating doesn't produce much. In work you can discipline your attention, forget about your misery. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can just sweep the floor generally and gain nothing from it. Or you can figure out the best way to sweep… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is the direct application of Buddhist teachings to a physical event, a way of doing or accomplishing something, or a way… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you are not meditating, eliminate hate, doubt, fear, anxiety, negative thoughts and emotions that limit your consciousness, that bind you to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no fanaticism in any of this. There is intensity. You have to make it happen. You have to put your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you are just thinking a lot of silly thoughts and having a lot of worries, you waste a tremendous energy and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
With the happiness, ecstasy and power you gain from meditation, you can gradually remove your mind from the things it has become… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What we do outwardly will only interrupt the flow of our perfect attention is it is not in harmony with the dharma. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Slow down. Enjoy life. It's tough to slow down if your mind is going a million miles a second. It's tough to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the state of emptiness, you are the action not the performer of the action. Allow an activity or event to take… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When we practice mindfulness, our nonphysical side merges with the nonphysical side of that which we are experiencing. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is the ability to do physical things in a harmonious way; it is a way to remain centered in a physical… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Forget that you are anybody and just perform the activities around you. Look at them. Watch what you are doing, my God!… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
By perfecting the practices of zazen and mindfulness, by learning patience and love and by realizing the essential emptiness of all phenomena,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Just see beauty as you walk around through your day. Feel things. Unhook from your thoughts and all the busy things you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Thinking is usually a waste of time and energy, since thinking is essentially a rehashing of what we already know. As a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There comes a time in life when you just buckle down and have a good time with what you're doing. It doesn't… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Spend time all day and all night monitoring your thoughts, constantly keeping them in a high plateau. Avoid places and people that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I would encourage you to follow the pathway to enlightenment, to learn to meditate, to practice mindfulness, and not to really care… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
No matter how many times you have failed you must keep going forward. Only when you have become humble will you begin… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our actions and experiences will direct us. In other words, we will be guided by the inherent emptiness of the things we… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Winning has to do with gaining personal power through the practice of meditation and mindfulness; not draining your energy on ridiculous things… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In your thoughts, you need to be selective. Thoughts are powerful vehicles of attention. Only think positive thoughts about yourself and your… — 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
