Frederick Lenz Quotes

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• The way of nothingness is the way of Zen. It is just a term. The contemplation of nothingness or everythingness is where everything starts.
• The theory of Zen is non-competition. But that is not really true at all. People who practice Zen are very competitive. They are competing against…
• Zen is the path that focuses the most upon meditation. It is almost exclusively a path of meditation.
• You can only conceive of what lies beyond the state of mind you are in from the point of view of the state of mind…
• There are ten thousand states of mind. Most people spend their entire lives confined to a few of these states of mind.
• In Zen you are learning how to make new realities, to build things inside your mind.
• There are ten thousand planes of awareness within the infinite mind of the diamond mind, your deeper mind.
• The ten thousand states of mind that we talk about in Zen are all levels of perception. You can think of each of the ten…
• Beyond the ten thousand states of mind is the still point. It exists within them all, yet beyond them. It is not affected by them.…
• The ten thousand states of mind are hallucinatory. Hallucinations are real. Dreams are real. But there are some things more real.
• Both light and dark are eternity. Human beings assign relative values to colors, but beyond the relative, there just is - what in Zen we…
• The study of Zen is a retraining. It is a series of new ways, not just one way, to learn to use your mind more…
• Just like there are different roads that lead to different places, so there are different levels of awareness that lead to different places and we…
• Inner seeing has nothing to do with physical vision; it's the perception of life directly.
• Everyone is psychic. People just don't know that. They think so much. They worry so much. They're so caught up in unhappy emotions. They're not…
• The hindrances to being psychic are a general dullness that develops from living in the material world, and being a material girl.
• Seeing occurs, of course, through stopping thought. Thought is the fog. When thought stops in meditation, at any point, when there's no thought, we see…
• A person who has power has an open mind. Their mind is open and they can see on other levels. Seeing is a quality that…
• If you are psychic you will become much more aware of the beauty of life. If you are psychic, when you look at a rose,…
• To be psychic is to see without the senses and to keep the thoughts and emotions of others out of your awareness.

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