All Frederick Lenz Quotes
- The intuitive wisdom that comes from your infinite mind can add to your creativity, success and well-being, and can take you to the threshold of… Add
- Each of the small enlightenments that a Zen practitioner has, which are known in Zen as "Satori experiences," provides deeper insights into the nature of… Complete
- Satori is a brief flash. Suddenly the light breaks through. For a short timeless time we experience eternity in its unmanifest form. It's comparable to… Break
- We see signs of it perhaps for 28 das or 34 days, then it goes away. Yet we are different. Away Yet
- After this happens again and again, we reach a point were there is nothing but satori, which is what nirvikalpa samadhi is like. Happens
- In Zen the emphasis is on meditation and developing your body, mind and spirit to find inner peace, strength, clarity and enlightenment. Body
- There are two primary ways of studying Zen. Either an individual will enter into a Zen monastery and study with a Zen master there, or… Contemporary
- There is a sense of competition in Zen. You are competing with your thoughts and trying to overcome them. Competing
- Zen is a very quick path to enlightenment and development of the mind and all its facilities. All
- Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves. Aside
- With Zen we do it more through slight of hand, a very subtle and delicate shift in consciousness, which shifts the world. It's kind of… Consciousness
- Both Zen and mysticsm have this beautiful quality of happiness and laughter, which I think is so necessary in our modern age. Age
- A person who undertakes the study of Zen and learns concentration and meditation is like a gymnast. You become a gymnast of the mind. Concentration
- There are ten thousand aspects of your mind. Your awareness has ten thousand forms. There is something else. You have to step outside of perception… Aspect
- From the highest state of mind you have a window whereby you could perhaps move beyond all states of mind, to enlightenment. All
- Zen is a very fast path to enlightenment, fast in comparison to some other paths, not fast for the person who practices it. There is… Comparison
- Zen is the way of splitting the self again and again, untilt there is nothing left. Introduction
- Zen doesn't believe in the reconciliation of opposites because from the point of view of Zen, there is no point of view. Believe
- People who practice Zen correctly are not spaced-out or unrealistic. They are balanced and grounded. Balanced
- There are monasteries in Japan where they teach Zen with rules, more rules than you can imagine, and you might feel comfortable with that. I… Comfortable