Zen is about breaking out of your ideas and experiencing life and not ideas. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We see signs of it perhaps for 28 das or 34 days, then it goes away. Yet we are different. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is the path that focuses the most upon meditation. It is almost exclusively a path of meditation. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
He would usually study with a small group of students, men and women. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is a very quick path to enlightenment and development of the mind and all its facilities. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation is the way the mind is. That's why in Zen they call it the natural state, which means you don't have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The theory of Zen is non-competition. But that is not really true at all. People who practice Zen are very competitive. They… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The light is already there. In Zen Buddhism there's a little speck of dust on the mirror, and that's us. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you're very liberal, then you should go and find a very liberal Zen teacher, a liberal interpretation of the doctrines of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is a very fast path to enlightenment, fast in comparison to some other paths, not fast for the person who practices… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen doesn't believe in the reconciliation of opposites because from the point of view of Zen, there is no point of view. — 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
In Zen the emphasis is on meditation and developing your body, mind and spirit to find inner peace, strength, clarity and enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The study of Zen is the study of energy, power, knowledge and balance. It is the science of energy conservation and control.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Each of the small enlightenments that a Zen practitioner has, which are known in Zen as "Satori experiences," provides deeper insights into… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are two primary ways of studying Zen. Either an individual will enter into a Zen monastery and study with a Zen… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Old Zen was very funny; there was a great deal of humor and happiness. Zen today seems much drier. While there's a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Just like there are different roads that lead to different places, so there are different levels of awareness that lead to different… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nothing is any particular way. It's your state of mind that creates reality. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People who practice Zen correctly are not spaced-out or unrealistic. They are balanced and grounded. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To have the illusion of selfhood simply means that when you look in the mirror, you see somebody. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Each of the ten thousand states of mind presents you with a different view of essence and experience. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The study of Zen is a retraining. It is a series of new ways, not just one way, to learn to use… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In advanced Zen a person comes to realize that the existence of things and their ability to perceive them correctly is completely… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is a beautiful flow to the study of Zen. If it is not making you happier, then you are not practicing… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Now when I speak about Zen, I have a problem, in the sense that the Zen of today has lost the essence,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The ten thousand states of mind that we talk about in Zen are all levels of perception. You can think of each… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Bodhidharma who brought Zen from India to the Orient, taught a very pure Zen - in that it was pure Zen. He… — 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
There are monasteries in Japan where they teach Zen with rules, more rules than you can imagine, and you might feel comfortable… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Most persons spend their lives stuck in relatively low states of mind. In these states of mind their views of themselves and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
After this happens again and again, we reach a point were there is nothing but satori, which is what nirvikalpa samadhi is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen has lost its zip, if you will, or its nothingness and has become ritualistic Its established in monastaries with strict codes… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen was a reaction. Just as Buddha came into the world and spoke against the fall of Vedanta, so Buddhism lost its… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The intuitive wisdom that comes from your infinite mind can add to your creativity, success and well-being, and can take you to… — 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
