What motivates someone who's become wealthy to go out and work in the ghetto with those who are poor? What motivates one… — 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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Use the practice of mind and body; in order to make those moves perfectly, you have to pull your mind out of… — 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
When you're happy, your immune system is at its strongest point. And when you think negatively, or when you hate, or allow… — 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
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
The subtle physical body protects the body's physical health. It is the radiant life force that is you. When you get sick,… — 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
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 more perfectly you can refine the process of Frisbee, the tighter your energy is and the more you become one with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with… — 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
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 recommend for everyone the study of some type of sports or athletics, particularly martial arts. Always check with your doctor first,… — 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
Thought control is the ability to direct mind and attention anywhere. Your ability to win is dependent upon the power of 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 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
