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There is no letter of the law to follow in Zen. There is a lot of etiquette, but there are no rules (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
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 mountain or the hill or in the forest or sometimes in the village (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
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 that we call nirvana (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
There is a beautiful flow to the study of Zen. If it is not making you happier, then you are not practicing correctly (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
In the study of Zen you can learn how to strengthen and clarify your finite mind. Your finite mind is like a muscle; when exercised it becomes stronger (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
There are two primary ways of studying Zen. Either an individual will enter into a Zen monastery and study with a Zen master there, or they will study with a Zen master who lives in the contemporary world (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
There is a sense of competition in Zen. You are competing with your thoughts and trying to overcome them (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Different schools of Zen have evolved, principally the Rinzai and Soto orders. A whole hierarchy has developed for the teaching and practice of Zen. Zen has become, to a certain degree, institutionalized (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
The path of Zen is not easy. It’s wonderful. It’s beautiful beyond compare. You will experience more ecstasy and beauty than most people will in a thousand lifetimes (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
Meditation is the way the mind is. That’s why in Zen they call it the natural state, which means you don’t have to go and do anything to meditate (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
The light is already there. In Zen Buddhism there’s a little speck of dust on the mirror, and that’s us (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
The study of Zen is the study of energy, power, knowledge and balance. It is the science of energy conservation and control. We use energy to aid others, to see beauty, to discover love where we saw no love at all (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
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 against emptiness (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
Music is largely psychic. It is a feeling. It is not logical. It is a feeling - Art, life, why we live - feelings (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
At a university they had the freshman class make the same predictions that some of the well-known psychics do every year, and they found the freshman class did better (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
Emotions are there to enjoy life; but they are not used in self-reflection because they inhibit a proper reflection. They gunk us up (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
A great deal of energy is lost in the study by people who interact with non-physical beings. They get into your mind and your body by approaching you in the dream plane, promising you powers, playing on your desires. They sap your life force (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
We seek absolute neutrality in Buddhism. We don’t want to be drawn into anything in particular. We don’t want to be pushed away from anything in particular (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
Past life knowledge is not the wedding album of existence. Past life remembrance in Buddhism is the ability to bring a greater awareness we had in another life into this life (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
When thought stops, a doorway opens into dimensions that are pure and unassociated. They’re nonbinding realities. They’re non-samskaric, which simply means that they’re beautiful; they’re ecstatic (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
The final battles are the samskaras of good karma. They prevent Samadhi. Naturally for a religious person the avoidance is intensive. They are so hung up on good karma and on method (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
Work sustains us as bodies and it consumes a great deal of energy. The conservation of energy is the component theme of Buddhist practice and yoga. That is why people live in monasteries (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
Some people have a very strange idea that material success does not coincide harmoniously with self-realization, which is absurd. The aversion to material success, or the clinging to it, is an attachment (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
Self-honesty is not putting yourself down or feeling sorry for yourself. Self-honesty is looking at things as they are and then being compelled to make changes (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
Eventually light prevails, you just have to be patient. So practice Buddhism, learn to be enlightened, put a smile on your face, go find a great teacher, meditate, and stay funny (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
Compassion allows us to accept everything. That’s why there’s always a tear in the eye of the Buddha that no one sees, for the pain and suffering of others (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
In self-giving you must be so careful of egotism. You must be so careful when you are aiding others in their liberation not to have a sense of self (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
The Tibetan Buddhist realization is that mind does not have any particular qualities or attributes of its own. It’s clear - clear light (Frederick Lenz Quotes)
As you go into light for longer and longer periods, as you progress in your meditation practice, you transform, you become illumined, you overcome all limitation, all sorrow, and all pain. You learn not to be bound by desire, and eventually you transcend death itself (Frederick Lenz Quotes)