All Frederick Lenz Quotes
- Physical perfection, working out, adds to your spiritual perfection if that is your intent. Add
- Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with your spirit, not… Athletics
- In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference between them. Athletics
- It is easier to develop the mind through meditation than it is just through athletic practice. If you put the two together, it will be… Athletic
- I recommend for everyone the study of some type of sports or athletics, particularly martial arts. Always check with your doctor first, naturally. Always Check
- All success in sports and athletics, from the Zen point of view, comes from the mind. No matter what kind of shape your body is… All
- There are lots of people who work out and aren't at all powerful in terms of their mind or their spirits. All
- If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions become meditation. Athletics
- Allow the emptiness inherent within actions and experiences to guide and shape your choices. Let your actions direct you, the actor, not the other way… Action
- In the Zen of sports and athletics, we seek to bring discipline and control into our physical movements, but at the same time to eliminate… Athletics
- In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all revolves around the… Achievement
- If someone else runs faster than you or makes more money than you or is more adept at anything, that doesn't mean you have lost.… Adept
- Winning has to do with gaining personal power through the practice of meditation and mindfulness; not draining your energy on ridiculous things and people. Athletics
- The strategy of winning is gaining personal power. There are no techniques to learn that will cause you to win. You need power, balance and… Athletics
- Be a perfect flow of energy in whatever you chose to do. This is perfect action. Action
- Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do. Activity
- To do something perfectly, you must not think about what you are doing at all ... Your thoughts are what create imperfections in your actions.… Action
- When your spirit is free and your body is well developed, magic occurs. You are able to let go and become the play. Able
- Allow the inherent emptiness within what you are about to do direct you. Allow
- Instead of your ego directing you and making countless mistakes, allow yourself to be guided by the invisible principles of the universe within your action. Action
- When you can become completely impassive in play, then you become fluid and completely unpredictable. No one knows, including yourself, what you will do next.… Athletics
- If I have led my life totally deliberately, then when I come to the end of the diving board, I can just fall off the… Athletics
- You can hit a home run. If you are honest, you'll know when it's perfect because at that critical moment of connection, there was no… Athletics
- If all the members of a team have synchronized their energy and they have all subordinated their egos to success of the team, then we… All
- Teamwork - everything is one. You can connect with the emptiness of all things. All things are empty. All