Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 49

• If you hold a negative thought, then it will become more powerful and not only will it send bad energy to the person, but it will crash your consciousness. All the hard work of meditating is sabotaged.

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  Powerful, Hard Work, Buddhism

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

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  Buddhism, Feelings, Acting

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• 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.

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  Jealous, Buddhism, Thinking

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• This is the process of mental analysis, sifting through the selves, sifting through your thoughts, practicing mindfulness, learning to control thought.

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  Buddhism, Self, Mindfulness

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• 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.

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  Buddhism, Night, People

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• Your ability to still your mind through the process of meditation and inner reflection and outer change brings a stillness to the mind all the time, even in the midst of the busiest activities.

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  Buddhism, Reflection, Meditation

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• If we try and direct our lives with only our limited rationalistic thoughts and our sense perceptions, then our actions and our activities will not be prefect.

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  Buddhism, Perception, Trying

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

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

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  Buddhism, Reflection, Mindfulness

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• It is necessary to go through all the daily tasks and bring perfection to them.

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  Buddhism, Daily Tasks, Perfection

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

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  Buddhism, Mindfulness, Half

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• You are moving in and out of different advanced states of mind through your practice of meditation and mindfulness. It's that level of excellence that gives you joy in life, not the fact that you won or lost.

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  Moving, Buddhism, Practice

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• Any area you slough off in your life will reflect in your meditation. Be happy when you could be depressed. Push jealous, fear, and anger out of your mind. Don't feel sorry for yourself.

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  Sorry, Jealous, Buddhism

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• We are trying to do our best to bring perfection into whatever we turn our attention to.

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  Buddhism, Perfection, Trying

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• Why do everything perfectly? Isn't perfection just an illusion? Tell me if it's an illusion if they don't fix your car perfectly next time you bring it in.

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  Buddhism, Perfection, Car

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• 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.

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  Buddhism, Exercise, Gains

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• If you are just spaced out and you have no purpose in life, you pick everything up. Everybody else's thoughts will come into your mind, everyone else's desires.

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  Buddhism, Mind, Desire

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

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  Success, Buddhism, Careers

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

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  Fun, Buddhism, Mindfulness

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• Sitting around idly contemplating doesn't produce much. In work you can discipline your attention, forget about your misery.

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  Buddhism, Discipline, Mindfulness

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• If President Bush does a lousy job, then he'll lose power. If the guy at McDonalds who's selling burgers does a great job, then he'll be much more powerful than President Bush.

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  Jobs, Powerful, Buddhism

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• There comes a time in life when you just buckle down and have a good time with what you're doing. It doesn't matter much what you're doing. What matters is how you do it.

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  Buddhism, What Matters, Mindfulness

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

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  Buddhism, Perfect, Mindfulness

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

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  Hard Work, Buddhism, Trying

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

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  Buddhism, Meditation, Mindfulness

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

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  Buddhism, Best Effort, Mindfulness

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