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Athletics Quotes by Frederick Lenz
- It is fun to be outside; it's good to move your body and there is just a joy in sports and athletics.
- As you gain more discipline over your body, you will find that a corollary discipline will develop in the mind because the two really go…
- Those who are already adept at some disciplines of the body will find that the study of Zen and meditation will give you much more…
- In order to succeed on the athletic field, it is necessary to succeed in daily life. Your spirit and your life must be perfectly trimmed…
- It is a good idea to become involved with sports and athletics. It makes you strong. You need to be strong to deal with this…
- Physical perfection, working out, adds to your spiritual perfection if that is your intent.
- 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…
- In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference between them.
- 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…
- I recommend for everyone the study of some type of sports or athletics, particularly martial arts. Always check with your doctor first, naturally.
- 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…
- There are lots of people who work out and aren't at all powerful in terms of their mind or their spirits.
- If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions become meditation.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- Winning has to do with gaining personal power through the practice of meditation and mindfulness; not draining your energy on ridiculous things and people.
- 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…
- Be a perfect flow of energy in whatever you chose to do. This is perfect action.
- Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do.
- To do something perfectly, you must not think about what you are doing at all ... Your thoughts are what create imperfections in your actions.…
- When your spirit is free and your body is well developed, magic occurs. You are able to let go and become the play.
- Allow the inherent emptiness within what you are about to do direct you.
- 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.
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