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Athletics Quotes by Frederick Lenz

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Zen thinking says that true participation in sports is different from a normal competitive mind. The speaker notes that physical training can boost spiritual growth when that is the goal. He also says that winning comes from personal power, balance, and wisdom, not just technique.

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There are lots of people who work out and aren't at all powerful in terms of their mind or their spirits.

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It is quite possible to speed up the healing process to the part of the body that is injured. This all has…

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If you are afraid of other people take a martial arts class. The best way to overcome fear is learn to be…

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When you unite the nothingness of your mind with the nothingness of the Frisbee, then the Frisbee is not a Frisbee, and…

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I think the very best thing you can do is observe what makes you stronger and what makes you weaker.

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Most martial arts have to do with the mind, ultimately. The ability to be unafraid, to walk away from a fight without…

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Teamwork - everything is one. You can connect with the emptiness of all things. All things are empty.

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Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do.

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Use the practice of mind and body; in order to make those moves perfectly, you have to pull your mind out of…

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When you're happy, your immune system is at its strongest point. And when you think negatively, or when you hate, or allow…

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Linus Pauling would have us believe and perhaps correctly, that enough vitamin C will have us live another 20 or 30 years,…

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The Frisbee is a round disk. That's the somethingness. But it has another side; it has a nothingness which you cannot perceive…

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If the chi is being wasted by useless activities, emotions and associations that drain us, then we don't have enough power when…

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When you can become completely impassive in play, then you become fluid and completely unpredictable. No one knows, including yourself, what you…

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You are trying to pierce the veil, to break through the Frisbee so that it doesn't exist, to break through the football…

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In the Zen of sports and athletics, we seek to bring discipline and control into our physical movements, but at the same…

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I like extreme athletics, extreme meditation and extremely beautiful women. Perhaps I'm an extreme person, or it's simply my Karma. But I…

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In the Orient we have known for thousands of years that the most powerful tonic for ill health is a happy and…

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The emptiness of play is when there is no self present. There is no one playing - there is only play itself…

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Your ego interferes, your sense of self. When you let go of the mind, the Frisbee will take its own path.

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Be a perfect flow of energy in whatever you chose to do. This is perfect action.

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Several very good friends of mine have died of AIDS. I spent a great deal of time with them when they went…

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Transform yourself. It is not the opponent that will change, or the Frisbee. They will change in relation to your change. You…

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In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference…

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Any good athletic is always in a state of perpetual training, as is the Zen student.

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Allow the inherent emptiness within what you are about to do direct you.

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Diet is highly individual. You have to see what your body wants and what is healthy for it.

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It is fun to be outside; it's good to move your body and there is just a joy in sports and athletics.

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If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions…

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When your spirit is free and your body is well developed, magic occurs. You are able to let go and become the…

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Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons.

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Physical perfection, working out, adds to your spiritual perfection if that is your intent.

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I go snowboarding and scuba diving to get to places of power where I can more correctly perceive the still center of…

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Everyone meditates in their own way. Some people sit and practice formal mediation techniques for many hours a day while others spontaneously…

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Eternity becomes more beautiful as we age, if we age well. If we age poorly, then we don't improve our minds; we…

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Thought control is the ability to direct mind and attention anywhere. Your ability to win is dependent upon the power of your…

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If you are serious about sports and athletics then you need to begin the discipline of mind. With the power of mind,…

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I recommend for everyone the study of some type of sports or athletics, particularly martial arts. Always check with your doctor first,…

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The very advanced practitioners of martial arts never had to raise a hand. They could knock an opponent down without physically touching…

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The most powerful force to maintaining a good immune system is the power of positive thinking and not allowing yourself to be…

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There are places that are very draining. There are places where there is another dimensional crossover but to a dimension that is not powerful…

You can draw power from everything in your life. In order to do that, everything has to be set up in a proper way.

Everyone will admire you when you do well. What a horrible thing to do to someone.

Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the…

I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get to watch…

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

A human being can only absorb a small amount of the mystical kundalini, you can be exposed again and again to it, but it…

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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