Frederick Lenz Quotes About Mindfulness

• I would encourage you to follow the pathway to enlightenment, to learn to meditate, to practice mindfulness, and not to really care what anybody thinks about you, including yourself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Thinking

• When we practice mindfulness, our nonphysical side merges with the nonphysical side of that which we are experiencing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Practice, Mindfulness

• If you want to experience the unalloyed ecstasy of life, you can accomplish this through the twin Buddhist practices of meditation and mindfulness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Practice

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

• Personal power, knowledge and fun come from how you approach something, not what you approach.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fun, Buddhism, Mindfulness

• You can just sweep the floor generally and gain nothing from it. Or you can figure out the best way to sweep the floor, put your power into it, use it as a concentration exercise, and be meditative.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Exercise, Gains

• Power either goes up or down. Your thoughts are the harness of power. It is necessary to think positive thoughts, not just wait for them to occur, but to introduce them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Waiting

• Look at how beautiful life is, and just keep looking until you see it. You don't see what is in front of you because you're so distracted by your thoughts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Buddhism, Mindfulness

• What we do outwardly will only interrupt the flow of our perfect attention is it is not in harmony with the dharma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perfect, Mindfulness

• Whenever you find yourself becoming angry or jealous, try to see good quality in the person. You will suddenly be thinking a higher thought and that will elevate you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jealous, Buddhism, Thinking

• Thinking is usually a waste of time and energy, since thinking is essentially a rehashing of what we already know. As a matter of fact, thinking is an easy way to confuse yourself. The more you think, the less you know.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Mindfulness

• Advanced meditators are not even desirous of liberation anymore - that is just another attachment. There is no liberation. There is no bondage. These are just ideas of the mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Attachment, Ideas, Mind

• 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

• Just see beauty as you walk around through your day. Feel things. Unhook from your thoughts and all the busy things you are doing. Start to look at life. This is mindfulness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mindfulness, Looks

• Mindfulness is the direct application of Buddhist teachings to a physical event, a way of doing or accomplishing something, or a way of thinking and viewing something.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Teaching, Buddhism

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

• The best form of meditation is the sitting meditation. But work is next. Work is a great way to meditate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Mindfulness

• It doesn't matter what your work really is. It is exciting to do well at something. It empowers you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Careers

• In every situation, feel before acting, just for a second. Look for a feeling.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Feelings, Acting

• Focus on this moment. Hold your hand and see what it feels like. Go look at some grass. Talk to a palm tree. Outrun a Ferrari. Experience life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Hands, Focus

• Stop trying to be different. Just do what you are good at, and work really hard. You have to work hard to be chaos.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hard Work, Buddhism, Trying

• Spend time all day and all night monitoring your thoughts, constantly keeping them in a high plateau. Avoid places and people that pull your energy down.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Night, People

• See your life as not just your life but as eternity. Be so completely integrated in the experience of perception that there's no sense of a perceiver but just the fluid moment of ecstasy that is reality unfolding itself to itself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, Perception

• Some people are so solemn. They take their practice so seriously, that when the moment comes to let go of it, they can't.

  Frederick Lenz

  Letting Go, Practice, People

• In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it mindfulness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reflection, Mindfulness

• When you do something half-heartedly, you don't get much of a result. When you do it fully, you get a great result.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mindfulness, Half

• If you are mindful in your work, if you put your best effort into it, then something comes back to you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Best Effort, Mindfulness

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