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

• 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.

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  Communication, 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.

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  Powerful, Health, Positive Thinking

• The chi is the central energy or power that we use in physical expression. When the chi is flowing properly in our lives, we can be very adept athletically.

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  Health, Buddhism, Expression

• Diet is highly individual. You have to see what your body wants and what is healthy for it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Body

• If I have led my life totally deliberately, then when I come to the end of the diving board, I can just fall off the diving board and it will be perfect. I won't even remember what happened.

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  Fall, Health, Buddhism

• It is fun to be outside; it's good to move your body and there is just a joy in sports and athletics.

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  Sports, Fun, Moving

• 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.

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  Sports, Health, Buddhism

• The Frisbee is a round disk. That's the somethingness. But it has another side; it has a nothingness which you cannot perceive with your physical mind or your senses.

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  Health, Buddhism, Mind

• Diet is a matter of personal preference, but if you're interested in the advanced states of meditation, eating mammals should be avoided. They have a more evolved consciousness and can affect your attention field greatly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Meditation

• In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all revolves around the ego. This has nothing to do with the Zen of sports and athletics.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Health, Buddhism

• Allow the inherent emptiness within what you are about to do direct you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Emptiness

• Physical perfection, working out, adds to your spiritual perfection if that is your intent.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Health, Buddhism

• Teamwork - everything is one. You can connect with the emptiness of all things. All things are empty.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teamwork, Health, Buddhism

• 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.

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  Health, Buddhism, Two

• If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions become meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Workout, Health

• Eternity becomes more beautiful as we age, if we age well. If we age poorly, then we don't improve our minds; we don't refine all the aspects of our being.

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  Beautiful, Health, Buddhism

• You can hit a home run. If you are honest, you'll know when it's perfect because at that critical moment of connection, there was no sense of being there. That is perfect play. There is no self involved.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Home, Health

• The emptiness of play is when there is no self present. There is no one playing - there is only play itself taking place, perfect fluid motion.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Self

• In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference between them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Differences

• Any good athletic is always in a state of perpetual training, as is the Zen student.

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  Health, Buddhism, Athletic

• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Discipline

• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Choices

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

• You are trying to pierce the veil, to break through the Frisbee so that it doesn't exist, to break through the football so it doesn't exist, and to break through your opponent so they don't exist.

  Frederick Lenz

  Football, Health, Buddhism

• There are lots of people who work out and aren't at all powerful in terms of their mind or their spirits.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Health, Buddhism

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