Nothing is any particular way. It's your state of mind that creates reality. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Zen we study the will. We learn how to cultivate it, to accumulate will. We use it to direct our actions,… — 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
With Zen we do it more through slight of hand, a very subtle and delicate shift in consciousness, which shifts the world.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves. — 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
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 sense of competition in Zen. You are competing with your thoughts and trying to overcome them. — 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
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
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
In the study of Zen you can learn how to strengthen and clarify your finite mind. Your finite mind is like a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The path of Zen is not easy. It's wonderful. It's beautiful beyond compare. You will experience more ecstasy and beauty than most… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Opportunities, creative ideas or the lack of them, happiness, frustration, brilliance, talent, success and failure - all are determined by the state… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the old days, Zen was not really practiced so much in a monastery. The Zen Master usually lived up on a… — 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
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
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
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
Satori is a brief flash. Suddenly the light breaks through. For a short timeless time we experience eternity in its unmanifest form.… — 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
If you're very, very conservative and you like that sort of practice, go find a very conservative Zen master and just do… — 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
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
