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Introduction Quotes by Frederick Lenz
- This is Zen, and in Zen, as we all know ... anything goes!
- There is no letter of the law to follow in Zen. There is a lot of etiquette, but there are no rules.
- Zen is discipline - the discipline of living life, the discipline of taking a breath, the discipline of not knowing and not trying to know.
- Zen is about breaking out of your ideas and experiencing life and not ideas.
- Nothing is any particular way. It's your state of mind that creates reality.
- Zen is a very quick path. Zen is the path of meditation. The word Zen means emptiness or fullness, meditation. Meditation is the quickest path…
- Zen was a reaction. Just as Buddha came into the world and spoke against the fall of Vedanta, so Buddhism lost its essence and became…
- Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings.
- In the old days, Zen was not really practiced so much in a monastery. The Zen Master usually lived up on a top of the…
- He would usually study with a small group of students, men and women.
- They would spend a lot of their time simply walking around in the woods or in the cities, or they would come over to his…
- According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through.
- In Zen we classify ten thousand different states of mind, different ways of seeing life. There is something beyond the ten thousand states of mind…
- Each of the ten thousand states of mind presents you with a different view of essence and experience.
- Opportunities, creative ideas or the lack of them, happiness, frustration, brilliance, talent, success and failure - all are determined by the state of mind that…
- Most persons spend their lives stuck in relatively low states of mind. In these states of mind their views of themselves and the world around…
- If you are around a lot of human beings who are filled with jealousy and anger and rage and desire, it filters into the mind.…
- Through the study of Zen you can learn to move from lower to higher states of mind at will. Higher states of mind offer you…
- In advanced Zen a person comes to realize that the existence of things and their ability to perceive them correctly is completely dependent upon their…
- Zen is the study of mind in all of its manifestations. The purpose of Zen is to be happy.
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