Athlete Quote by Frederick Lenz

There is competition in Zen. Let's not be ridiculous. There is competition in everything in life; being a winner in Zen means, competing and…

— 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.…

— Frederick Lenz

“Zen training is a means of enabling us to live our ordinary lives supremely well.”

— Katsuki Sekida

There is a sense of competition in Zen. You are competing with your thoughts and trying to overcome them.

— Frederick Lenz

A person who undertakes the study of Zen and learns concentration and meditation is like a gymnast. You become a gymnast of the mind.

— Frederick Lenz

Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with your spirit,…

— Frederick Lenz

The theory of Zen is non-competition. But that is not really true at all. People who practice Zen are very competitive. They are competing…

— Frederick Lenz

Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make…

— Shunryu Suzuki

“Buddhist as well as non-Buddhist religions regard, without exception, their founders as superhuman beings, but the practisers of Zen hold the Buddha as their…

— Kaiten Nukariya

Zen is a totally different kind of religion. It brings humanness to religion. It is not bothered about anything superhuman; its whole concern is…

— Rajneesh

“Zen is the practice of being still, while doing what we do in our lives, so that we are focused and connected with what…

— David Carlyle

In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all revolves around…

— Frederick Lenz