Introduction Quotes - Page 12

• In Zen we study the will. We learn how to cultivate it, to accumulate will. We use it to direct our actions, and we don't overuse it or abuse it - that's a waste.

  Frederick Lenz

  Abuse, Our Actions, Waste

  4 Copy quote

• In Zen there is a sense of blending, of stepping out of your body and mind and gaining access to powers and abilities that are far beyond the minds of mortal men.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Men, Mind

  4 Copy quote

• Punctuality or the lack thereof oftentimes is the only introduction one will ever have to new groups and friends. Serenity and poise are not the companions of those who lack the courtesy and judgment to be on time.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Serenity, Groups, Judgment

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Balance, Energy, Use

  5 Copy quote

• To have the illusion of selfhood simply means that when you look in the mirror, you see somebody.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Mirrors, Looks

  4 Copy quote

• The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self or that we are anyone in particular.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Ideas, Particular

  4 Copy quote

• The light is already there. In Zen Buddhism there's a little speck of dust on the mirror, and that's us.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mirrors, Light

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  Mean, Meditation, Mind

  4 Copy quote

• Old Zen was very funny; there was a great deal of humor and happiness. Zen today seems much drier. While there's a certain amount of humor, it seems to lack that total intensity because humor is one of the primary tools for liberation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Tools, Today, Intensity

  4 Copy quote

• Invest in learning and discovering new filmmaking techniques is the next keystone to success. Film is changing rapidly right now. The last big change was the introduction of sound. This time around it is movies on th internet and mobile telephones.

  Elliot Grove

  Technique, Sound, Lasts

  6 Copy quote

• Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But the next quite logical step after the reals, namely the introduction of infinitesimals, has simply been omitted. I think, in coming centuries it will be considered a great oddity in the history of mathematics that the first exact theory of infinitesimals was developed 300 years after the invention of the differential calculus.

  Abraham Robinson

  Thinking, Oddities, Discovery

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  Beautiful, People, Path

  4 Copy quote

• Vivisection is wrong because it is an abuse of man's power over the helpless, involving pain and suffering. The name for this is cruelty, and cruelty is immoral, no matter what the reason for its introduction.

  Jon Evans

  Pain, Animal, Men

  7 Copy quote

• After this happens again and again, we reach a point were there is nothing but satori, which is what nirvikalpa samadhi is like.

  Frederick Lenz

  Satori, Samadhi, Again And Again

  6 Copy quote

• They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was made to fit the dictates of their intuition. In short, they broke all the laws of rigor and of mathematical decorum. The veritable orgy which followed the introduction of the infinitesimals... was but a natural reaction. Intuition had too long been held imprisoned by the severe rigor of the Greeks. Now it broke loose, and there were no Euclids to keep its romantic flight in check.

  Tobias Dantzig

  Law, History, Long

  4 Copy quote

• A blond in a red dress can do without introductions -- but not without a bodyguard.

  Rona Jaffe

  Dresses, Red, Wealth

  12 Copy quote

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Competition, Trying, Overcoming

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Two, World, Way

  4 Copy quote

• I am intentionally avoiding the standard term which, by the way, did not exist in Euler's time. One of the ugliest outgrowths of the "new math" was the premature introduction of technical terms.

  George Polya

  Math, Discovery, Way

  4 Copy quote

• How do you think the transition from the present situation to community of Property is to be effected? The first, fundamental condition for the introduction of community of property is the political liberation of the proletariat through a democratic constitution.

  Friedrich Engels

  Thinking, Community, Political

  Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx (2004). “The Communist Manifesto”, p.109, Broadview Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life.

  George Gamow

  Problem, Made, Blunders

  George Gamow (1970). “My world line; an informal autobiography”, Viking Adult

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is no letter of the law to follow in Zen. There is a lot of etiquette, but there are no rules.

  Frederick Lenz

  Law, Letters, Etiquette

  4 Copy quote

• The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge.

  Edward H. Levi

  Unity, Mind, Alive

  Edward H. Levi (2008). “Point of View: Talks on Education”, p.89, University of Chicago Press

  88 Copy quote

  Show source

• People who practice Zen correctly are not spaced-out or unrealistic. They are balanced and grounded.

  Frederick Lenz

  Practice, People, Grounded

  4 Copy quote

• I remember my mom had a big collection of copies of Saturday Evening Post magazines, and that was really my introduction to those great illustrators.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Mom, Evening, Magazines

  4 Copy quote