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
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 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 all the members of a team have synchronized their energy and they have all subordinated their egos to success of the… — 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
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
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
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
Allow the inherent emptiness within what you are about to do direct you. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The samurais lived with death constantly. They wore a short dagger to take their own life if need be. At any moment… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In order to succeed on the athletic field, it is necessary to succeed in daily life. Your spirit and your life must… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do. — 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
Teamwork - everything is one. You can connect with the emptiness of all things. All things are empty. — 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
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
Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons. — 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
