Human beings actually have quite a bit of willpower. They don't know too much about it, but they have quite a bit. — 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
It is one thing to teach a dynamic Oriental philosophy and religious code; it is quite another to put such a discipline… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you abuse willpower you waste it. There really is not an infinite supply of it at your disposal. There is an… — 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
People on the pathway to enlightenment become very successful in whatever they approach, because they have learned to discipline the mind. — 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
When willpower is not guided, it's terrible. Hitler had a lot of will. But he used it for destructive purposes because he… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People are timid. They don't take chances. Naturally, they're bound. They are afraid of the light. They are afraid of their own… — 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
Enlightenment requires discipline, balance, knowledge, power, happiness and a sense of responsibility and sacrifice, being able to do things with your life… — 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
In the creative arts you draw a special power. The discipline required is awesome to be an actor or an actress, to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is discipline - the discipline of living life, the discipline of taking a breath, the discipline of not knowing and not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is possible with pure willpower to force the kundalini up the shushumna, through the chakras. You will develop visions of other… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you find yourself dwelling on something negative, consciously use your willpower to remove your mind from that which is negative. Move… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Self-control is completely necessary for increasing and raising your attention level. One of the places you practice that is at work. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the Zen of sports and athletics, we seek to bring discipline and control into our physical movements, but at the same… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Willpower determines success in business, interpersonal relationships, health, whatever it is. All the activities in your life, success and failure in them,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Feel that the energy of your willpower can easily deflect tension-causing feelings and frustrations that are directed towards you from the outside… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you meditate, you focus to clear the mind and to bring the willpower together. But then, toward the end of the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Those who are already adept at some disciplines of the body will find that the study of Zen and meditation will give… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
So in the path of love - rather than pulling our willpower together, using our discrimination, or working - we just cry… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sit in front of an object of concentration with the eyes open. Focus on a candle flame, or a yantra, a little… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We could go to monasteries. I could show you people who are very wise and they have great willpower, but they're not… — 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
