Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do. — 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
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
Teamwork - everything is one. You can connect with the emptiness of all things. All things are empty. — 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
Physical perfection, working out, adds to your spiritual perfection if that is your intent. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Allow the inherent emptiness within what you are about to do direct you. — 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
If the chi is being wasted by useless activities, emotions and associations that drain us, then we don't have enough power when… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Linus Pauling would have us believe and perhaps correctly, that enough vitamin C will have us live another 20 or 30 years,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Frisbee is a round disk. That's the somethingness. But it has another side; it has a nothingness which you cannot perceive… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The strategy of winning is gaining personal power. There are no techniques to learn that will cause you to win. You need… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The samurais were very interested in Zen because they admired the tremendous precision that the Zen Masters had, their lack of fear… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The chi is the central energy or power that we use in physical expression. When the chi is flowing properly in our… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As you gain more discipline over your body, you will find that a corollary discipline will develop in the mind because the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can hit a home run. If you are honest, you'll know when it's perfect because at that critical moment of connection,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Diet is a matter of personal preference, but if you're interested in the advanced states of meditation, eating mammals should be avoided.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the game of Frisbee you throw the disk to someone else. The point of Frisbee is perfect communication. The person at… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you have the sense of participation in sports or athletics, of being a player, then you are not really into the… — 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 Image
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 Image
Everyone will admire you when you do well. What a horrible thing to do to someone. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Enlightened people live in very charged states of attention, with a tremendous power circuiting through them. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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 Image
Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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 Image
