Frederick Lenz Quotes About Health

• When you're happy, your immune system is at its strongest point. And when you think negatively, or when you hate, or allow yourself to grow emotionally out of control, you are weakening your immune system.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Health, Buddhism

• The most powerful force to maintaining a good immune system is the power of positive thinking and not allowing yourself to be unnecessarily drained emotionally by worries and fears.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Health, Positive Thinking

• In the game of Frisbee you throw the disk to someone else. The point of Frisbee is perfect communication. The person at the other end of the field is receiving an impression, a vibration from you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Communication, Health, Buddhism

• If the chi is being wasted by useless activities, emotions and associations that drain us, then we don't have enough power when it comes time to perform.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Useless

• If someone else runs faster than you or makes more money than you or is more adept at anything, that doesn't mean you have lost. You are measuring yourself only against yourself and your tendencies not to do all that you are capable of doing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Health, Mean

• When you unite the nothingness of your mind with the nothingness of the Frisbee, then the Frisbee is not a Frisbee, and you are not you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Mind

• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Strong, Block

• Instead of your ego directing you and making countless mistakes, allow yourself to be guided by the invisible principles of the universe within your action.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mistake, Health, Buddhism

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

• If you are afraid of other people take a martial arts class. The best way to overcome fear is learn to be proficient in martial arts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Health, Buddhism

• If you are serious about sports and athletics then you need to begin the discipline of mind. With the power of mind, almost anything can be accomplished.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Health, Buddhism

• The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Health, Fighting

• In the Orient we have known for thousands of years that the most powerful tonic for ill health is a happy and clear mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Health, Buddhism

• It is quite possible to speed up the healing process to the part of the body that is injured. This all has to do with the release of chi.

  Frederick Lenz

  Healing, Health, Buddhism

• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Winning

• The very advanced practitioners of martial arts never had to raise a hand. They could knock an opponent down without physically touching them, just with chi, pure power. We don't see too many of them anymore.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Health, Buddhism

• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Moving, Health

• If all the members of a team have synchronized their energy and they have all subordinated their egos to success of the team, then we have a functioning unit. If we have a lot of hotshots who want attention, you won't really play that well.

  Frederick Lenz

  Team, Health, Buddhism

• Use the practice of mind and body; in order to make those moves perfectly, you have to pull your mind out of its mundane thoughts and awarenesses and bring it into the body movement.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Health, Buddhism

• Most martial arts have to do with the mind, ultimately. The ability to be unafraid, to walk away from a fight without fear - that is control.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Health, Fighting

• Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Firsts

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

• I think the very best thing you can do is observe what makes you stronger and what makes you weaker.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Thinking

• Be a perfect flow of energy in whatever you chose to do. This is perfect action.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Perfect

• The samurais lived with death constantly. They wore a short dagger to take their own life if need be. At any moment they might have to do that, it was a part of their code.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Needs

• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Practice

• If you have the sense of participation in sports or athletics, of being a player, then you are not really into the Zen mind. In Zen mind there is no sense of self in the play.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Health, Buddhism

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