Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 108

• If you suspect someone is draining you, generally you should not confront them, but be nice, relax them, and then see what they are doing.

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  Nice, Relax, Should

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• Keep some of your attention on your navel center when you are in a situation in which you feel your power is being drained. You will find that you will keep your power tighter, you won't lose as much.

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  Attention, Navel, Situation

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• At the umbilical region we actually network with people. Picture that you are cutting those cords to everyone you know. It doesn't mean you don't love them; you are just cutting down on the negative energy pickup from people.

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  Mean, Cutting, People

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• Your ego interferes, your sense of self. When you let go of the mind, the Frisbee will take its own path.

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  Letting Go, Health, Buddhism

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• 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.

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  Health, Buddhism, Mind

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• 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.

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  Football, Health, Buddhism

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

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  Health, Buddhism, Opponents

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

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  Art, Buddhist, Health

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• 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.

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  Art, Health, Fighting

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• 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.

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  Art, Health, Buddhism

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• 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.

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  Moving, Health, Buddhism

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• 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.

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  Art, Health, Buddhism

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• 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.

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  Health, Buddhism, Needs

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• The samurais were very interested in Zen because they admired the tremendous precision that the Zen Masters had, their lack of fear and pain and their absolute lack of fear of death.

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  Pain, Health, Buddhism

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• 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

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• 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.

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  Health, Buddhism, Useless

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

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  Health, Buddhism, Thinking

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• Linus Pauling would have us believe and perhaps correctly, that enough vitamin C will have us live another 20 or 30 years, I think the strongest power in the world is not vitamin C but the power of our own thoughts.

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  Believe, Health, Buddhism

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

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  Powerful, Health, Buddhism

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• Several very good friends of mine have died of AIDS. I spent a great deal of time with them when they went through that process.

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  Health, Buddhism, Good Friend

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• One or two of my friends set longevity records for people who had AIDS. What they did, incredibly hard though it was, was to practice meditation, positive thinking and they worked out physically quite a bit.

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  Health, Positive Thinking, Buddhism

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

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  Health, Buddhism, Body

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• 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.

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  Health, Buddhism, Meditation

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• 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

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• The possibilities for immortality are endless. Here you sit reading these words, a butterfly resting on a flower!

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  Inspirational, Flower, Reading

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