Nothingness Quotes by Frederick Lenz

When you laugh at the world, the world dissolves.

— Frederick Lenz

Life is a series of dreams, a series of interlocking awarenesses.

— Frederick Lenz

There is no such thing as reality. Reality is what you make it.

— Frederick Lenz

We were never there to begin with. What we are, or conceive of ourselves as, is a perception.

— Frederick Lenz

Nirvana is a very exclusive club - no one is in it.

— Frederick Lenz

We aren't anything in particular. There is no self. There are only ideas and states of mind.

— Frederick Lenz

There is no self, yet we all exist. All phenomena are "empty," yet they have Buddha nature.

— Frederick Lenz

Old Zen is the way of nothingness, the way of having a good time.

— Frederick Lenz

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

None of this is real. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the…

— Frederick Lenz

All incarnations are lived at once, and yet there does seem to be a linear sense of time when you're in the…

— Frederick Lenz

None of this has ever been or will ever be; all is an appearance, all is an illusion. Illusions are truth. All…

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Frederick Lenz

We are everything and we are nothing. We are a forgotten moment. We don't even exist, which is the freeing part. We…

— Frederick Lenz

When you stop all thought, the battle is won. Everything is still and peaceful. You will come to see the eternal voidness…

— Frederick Lenz

The world is empty - all of the people and places, the earth, the seas, mountains, deserts, forests and cities, and the…

— Frederick Lenz

Qualityless simply means there is no way to discuss it. There is no way to pin it down. It could be anything…

— Frederick Lenz

This is simple meditation, nothingness and everythingness, the color and the form, death and the void, the end and the beginning, a…

— Frederick Lenz

We are made up of nothing. There is no self. We are whatever we decide we are.

— Frederick Lenz

Nothing is or is not unless you happen to think it so. That's what Shakespeare said, and he knew.

— Frederick Lenz

Some types of nothing are more fun than other types of nothing.

— Frederick Lenz

There is no self. There is nobody home. No forwarding address, no zip code. Address unknown.

— Frederick Lenz

The world wasn't created. It is created anew at every moment by mind.

— Frederick Lenz

The world is always ending and always beginning at every moment.

— Frederick Lenz

To go beyond karma you have to end the structure of self.

— Frederick Lenz

None of this exists. All important decisions in the universe occur someplace else.

— Frederick Lenz

You're a part of me. I'm a part of you and we are all a part of this great nothingness.

— Frederick Lenz

We've decided what we are. That's the dream. When the dream fades, it's not that we don't exist. How could we not…

— Frederick Lenz

When you visit Nirvana, there is neither existence nor nonexistence. Your baggage never arrives because there is no one there to claim…

— Frederick Lenz

The way you become happy is by realizing that there is no self. No self at all, not a silly millimeter of…

— Frederick Lenz

We can only conceive of changing the self-reflection in response to our concept of self-reflection, which is predicated on our concept of…

— Frederick Lenz

We label things through value systems that we have developed. But nothing is or is not unless we feel it is that…

— Frederick Lenz

You are fighting against nothingness all the time by creating a series of shields that you call personality, life history, feelings, ideas,…

— Frederick Lenz

The more perfectly you can refine the process of Frisbee, the tighter your energy is and the more you become one with…

— Frederick Lenz

Life is a series of dreams, a series of interlocking awarenesses. I don't necessarily believe in linear time. Everything happens all at…

— Frederick Lenz

So in the world of Enlightenment, things are just things, except they're not things. We're in nirvana. There is no debating team.

— Frederick Lenz

Nirvana is something that cannot be known here. I know it seems incongruous, but it is only incongruous from the perspective of…

— Frederick Lenz

Everything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. It's an illusion. It's a hallucination.

— Frederick Lenz

There is no deterioration and there is no creation. There are projections, moments of existence. Each moment is perfect.

— Frederick Lenz

There is no evil, there's no bad; there's no good. These are human ideas. There's no creator, there's no creation; there's no…

— Frederick Lenz