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Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do. — Frederick Lenz
To do something perfectly, you must not think about what you are doing at all ... Your thoughts are what create imperfections in your actions.… — Frederick Lenz
When your spirit is free and your body is well developed, magic occurs. You are able to let go and become the play. — Frederick Lenz
Allow the inherent emptiness within what you are about to do direct you. — Frederick Lenz
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. — Frederick Lenz
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.… — Frederick Lenz
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… — Frederick Lenz
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… — Frederick Lenz
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… — Frederick Lenz
Teamwork - everything is one. You can connect with the emptiness of all things. All things are empty. — Frederick Lenz
If you are serious about sports and athletics then you need to begin the discipline of mind. With the power of mind, almost anything can… — Frederick Lenz
The emptiness of play is when there is no self present. There is no one playing - there is only play itself taking place, perfect… — Frederick Lenz
If you have the sense of participation in sports or athletics, of being a player, then you are not really into the Zen mind. In… — Frederick Lenz
Unlock the power of the will. Learn balance and gain the knowledge and wisdom necessary to guide those powers, to succeed in sports and athletics. — Frederick Lenz
Any good athletic is always in a state of perpetual training, as is the Zen student. — Frederick Lenz
Thought control is the ability to direct mind and attention anywhere. Your ability to win is dependent upon the power of your concentration. Winning is… — 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 with your physical… — Frederick Lenz
In the game of Frisbee you throw the disk to someone else. The point of Frisbee is perfect communication. The person at the other end… — Frederick Lenz
The more perfectly you can refine the process of Frisbee, the tighter your energy is and the more you become one with the nothingness of… — Frederick Lenz
Your ego interferes, your sense of self. When you let go of the mind, the Frisbee will take its own path. — Frederick Lenz
When you unite the nothingness of your mind with the nothingness of the Frisbee, then the Frisbee is not a Frisbee, and you are not… — Frederick Lenz
You are trying to pierce the veil, to break through the Frisbee so that it doesn't exist, to break through the football so it doesn't… — Frederick Lenz
Transform yourself. It is not the opponent that will change, or the Frisbee. They will change in relation to your change. You must change. — Frederick Lenz
Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons. — Frederick Lenz
Most martial arts have to do with the mind, ultimately. The ability to be unafraid, to walk away from a fight without fear - that… — Frederick Lenz

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