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.

  Frederick Lenz

  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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Health, Positive Thinking

• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  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.

  Frederick Lenz

  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.

  Frederick Lenz

  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

• Thought control is the ability to direct mind and attention anywhere. Your ability to win is dependent upon the power of your concentration. Winning is a state of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Winning

• Transform yourself. It is not the opponent that will change, or the Frisbee. They will change in relation to your change. You must change.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Opponents

• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Health, Buddhism

• The more perfectly you can refine the process of Frisbee, the tighter your energy is and the more you become one with the nothingness of the Frisbee, the nothingness of the play.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Play

• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Order

• To do something perfectly, you must not think about what you are doing at all ... Your thoughts are what create imperfections in your actions. They alienate you from the true reality of any action you perform.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Reality

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

• Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Buddhist, Health

• Winning has to do with gaining personal power through the practice of meditation and mindfulness; not draining your energy on ridiculous things and people.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Winning

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