Buddhism Quote by Frederick Lenz

In Zen we classify ten thousand different states of mind, different ways of seeing life. There is something beyond the ten thousand states of…

— Frederick Lenz

The ten thousand states of mind that we talk about in Zen are all levels of perception. You can think of each of the…

— Frederick Lenz

At times, Zen does get into some Buddhist Cosmology. Nishijima Roshi, my main teacher would talk about that and almost every time immediately say…

— Brad Warner

The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving…

— Jenny Offill

I can assure you, as a practitioner of Buddhism, that there are ten thousand states of mind, at least, give or take a few…

— Frederick Lenz

Just like there are different roads that lead to different places, so there are different levels of awareness that lead to different places and…

— Frederick Lenz

In advanced Zen a person comes to realize that the existence of things and their ability to perceive them correctly is completely dependent upon…

— Frederick Lenz

Through the study of Zen you can learn to move from lower to higher states of mind at will. Higher states of mind offer…

— Frederick Lenz

Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.

— D.T. Suzuki

There are ten thousand states of mind. Most people spend their entire lives confined to a few of these states of mind.

— Frederick Lenz

In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life.

— Alan Watts

Zen is the most scientific method to inquire into your consciousness. It takes you beyond mind into a space called no-mind. No self, but…

— Rajneesh