Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 162

• They say Casanova made love to over 10,000 women. Do you think it changed him? It probably aged him a little bit. But I doubt that it changed him. If it had changed him, he would have stopped somewhere along the line and done something a little different.

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  Buddhism, Thinking, Doubt

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• Sex does drain a certain amount of your occult energy. But that really has nothing to do with enlightenment.

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  Sex, Buddhism, Enlightenment

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• Love is not reasonable. If we could assign it to the reasonable world, it would not be useful.

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  Buddhism, Love Is, World

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

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  Health, Buddhism, Winning

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• 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.

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  Health, Buddhism, Winning

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

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  Health, Buddhism, Perfect

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

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  Health, Buddhism, Firsts

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

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• 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.

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  Health, Buddhism, Reality

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

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• When your spirit is free and your body is well developed, magic occurs. You are able to let go and become the play.

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  Letting Go, Health, Buddhism

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

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  Health, Buddhism, Emptiness

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• 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.

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  Mistake, Health, Buddhism

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

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• When you can become completely impassive in play, then you become fluid and completely unpredictable. No one knows, including yourself, what you will do next. You couldn't even explain it.

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  Health, Buddhism, Play

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• 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

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• 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.

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  Running, Home, Health

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• 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.

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  Team, Health, Buddhism

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

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  Teamwork, Health, Buddhism

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• 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.

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  Sports, Health, Buddhism

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• 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.

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  Health, Buddhism, Self

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• 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.

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  Sports, Health, Buddhism

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• Unlock the power of the will. Learn balance and gain the knowledge and wisdom necessary to guide those powers, to succeed in sports and athletics.

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  Sports, Health, Buddhism

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

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  Health, Buddhism, Athletic

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• 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.

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  Health, Buddhism, Winning

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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  Health, Buddhism, Play

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