Frederick Lenz Quotes
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 wisdom to win and to learn from your loses.
Winning has to do with gaining personal power through the practice of meditation and mindfulness; not draining your energy on ridiculous things and people.
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 the self that gets in the way of perfect play.
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 around.
If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions become meditation.
There are lots of people who work out and aren't at all powerful in terms of their mind or their spirits.
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 in, there is disharmony in the being.
I recommend for everyone the study of some type of sports or athletics, particularly martial arts. Always check with your doctor first, naturally.
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 unbelievable.
In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference between them.
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 just with your body.
Physical perfection, working out, adds to your spiritual perfection if that is your intent.
The awareness of liberation is not liberation. The awareness of time is not liberation.
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 world and the powers and forces that block enlightenment.
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 for the chi to flow properly.
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 control than you now have.
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 together.
It is fun to be outside; it's good to move your body and there is just a joy in sports and athletics.
In the high mountains and desert beings can affect you. Most aren't malicious, but some will lure you to your death.
In the West people are basically oblivious to power, solstices, enlightenment and everything that matters.
Your life can be horrible or it can be incredibly beautiful. It can be boring or exciting. It's seldom in between. Your active use of will determines what will happen to you in this and other lives.
Enlightenment is a timeless void. It's an emptiness that's filled with the most excellent light.
The miracle of enlightenment is that you take the self and let it dissolve in the white light of eternity.
Happiness has to do with how quickly you vibrate, how intelligent you are, how subtle your awareness field is, how deep you are, how aware of your eternal part you are.
Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the illusion of time and life.
Dogs have fleas; people have each other. We are born to die. Life is a continuing tragic comedy. Everything and everyone we love suffers. Anybody who doesn't see that has not grown up and known life.
Happiness is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is an immediate experience, very transient in nature, that's enjoyable, and if we experience a great deal of it - there's a sense of satiation.
I was drawn to the arts because I sensed that I was by nature Bohemian, and yet very conservative.
Samadhi is not going to take away your humanity. It will give it to you. You will become more cosmopolitan, more conscious, and more infinite.
Unhappiness is really an incorrect way of seeing. When we are unhappy we don't see life as it really is. We are in a condition of veiled light, of shadows.
As you pass through bhakti yoga, as you pass through love, you're elated. You're fulfilled and you're joyous.
Put a smile on your face. Don't sit in the waiting room of life. Go do something, happily.
This solidity is not true. The apparent solidity is the delusion of the senses and of the self. Everything is made up of infinite, intelligent light.
The fulfillment of desire does not necessarily make you happy because there is a satiation factor. You can get some apple pie and eat it. If this is what makes you happy, why not eat ten?
The first stage of meditation is simply to ignore thought; to become conscious that there is something beyond thought.
I examine each student carefully: Is there a balance between their tonal and their nagual?
Stress is a state of mind and if you realize that you will find that it's something you can deal with. It is my belief that stress occurs not because of the conditions of the world.
Yoga means we go a step further back. In yoga we go to the cause. The cause of pain is not the world. The cause of pain is us.
Advanced meditators are not even desirous of liberation anymore - that is just another attachment. There is no liberation. There is no bondage. These are just ideas of the mind.
Only a humble person can come to know God because the humble person can recognize that there is something more powerful, more complete and more perfect than they are.
The Jews didn't like him because he threatened their religion. He was saying things that didn't go with the order.
Have the courage to be selfless in a world were such qualities are not admired. Dare to be differnt. Be crazy!
Taoism is the way of water. The most frequent element or symbol refered to in Lao Tzu's wrtings is the symbol of water.
The real test on the path of love is are you willing to give up everything for your love?
A lot of the parallel processing software we're currently developing for supercomputers is tantric.
I am humility, nothing more and nothing less. I am one blade of grass in a sea of grass. I am one wave in an endless ocean of waves. I am one glowing star in a galaxy of stars.
When you focus on a chakra, it's very easy to bring subtle physical energies into your consciousness.
The software is the strength of the electronic tribe because it's networking. It's creating oneness. It's creating tributaries that link together into a singular river.