Buddhism Quotes
1466 Buddhism quotes by 146 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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Teamwork - everything is one. You can connect with the emptiness of all things. All things are empty.
— Frederick Lenz
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Any good athletic is always in a state of perpetual training, as is the Zen student.
— Frederick Lenz
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Your ego interferes, your sense of self. When you let go of the mind, the Frisbee will take its own path.
— Frederick Lenz
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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
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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
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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
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Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons.
— Frederick Lenz
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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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If you are afraid of other people take a martial arts class. The best way to overcome fear is learn to be proficient in martial…
— Frederick Lenz
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The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions.…
— Frederick Lenz
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Use the practice of mind and body; in order to make those moves perfectly, you have to pull your mind out of its mundane thoughts…
— Frederick Lenz
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The very advanced practitioners of martial arts never had to raise a hand. They could knock an opponent down without physically touching them, just with…
— Frederick Lenz
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The samurais lived with death constantly. They wore a short dagger to take their own life if need be. At any moment they might have…
— Frederick Lenz
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The samurais were very interested in Zen because they admired the tremendous precision that the Zen Masters had, their lack of fear and pain and…
— Frederick Lenz
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