Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 75

• Zen is meditation, the actual experience of life directly, immediately with no buffers.

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  Meditation, Introduction

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• According to Zen philosophy each human being has two minds, a finite mind and an infinite mind.

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  Philosophy, Two, Mind

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• In the study of Zen you can learn how to strengthen and clarify your finite mind. Your finite mind is like a muscle; when exercised it becomes stronger.

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  Mind, Stronger, Study

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• After this happens again and again, we reach a point were there is nothing but satori, which is what nirvikalpa samadhi is like.

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  Satori, Samadhi, Introduction

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• In Zen the emphasis is on meditation and developing your body, mind and spirit to find inner peace, strength, clarity and enlightenment.

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  Meditation, Inner Peace, Mind

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• There are two primary ways of studying Zen. Either an individual will enter into a Zen monastery and study with a Zen master there, or they will study with a Zen master who lives in the contemporary world.

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  Two, World, Way

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• There is a sense of competition in Zen. You are competing with your thoughts and trying to overcome them.

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  Competition, Trying, Overcoming

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• Zen is a very quick path to enlightenment and development of the mind and all its facilities.

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  Mind, Enlightenment, Development

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• Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves.

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  Spiritual, Practice, People

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• With Zen we do it more through slight of hand, a very subtle and delicate shift in consciousness, which shifts the world. It's kind of done from the inside out.

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  Hands, Done, World

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• Both Zen and mysticsm have this beautiful quality of happiness and laughter, which I think is so necessary in our modern age.

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  Beautiful, Laughter, Thinking

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• A person who undertakes the study of Zen and learns concentration and meditation is like a gymnast. You become a gymnast of the mind.

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  Meditation, Mind, Study

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• There are ten thousand aspects of your mind. Your awareness has ten thousand forms. There is something else. You have to step outside of perception itself.

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  Perception, Mind, Steps

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• From the highest state of mind you have a window whereby you could perhaps move beyond all states of mind, to enlightenment.

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  Moving, Mind, Enlightenment

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• Zen is a very fast path to enlightenment, fast in comparison to some other paths, not fast for the person who practices it. There is no sense of speed.

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  Practice, Enlightenment, Path

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• Zen is the way of splitting the self again and again, untilt there is nothing left.

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  Self, Way, Introduction

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• Zen doesn't believe in the reconciliation of opposites because from the point of view of Zen, there is no point of view.

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  Believe, Views, Opposites

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• People who practice Zen correctly are not spaced-out or unrealistic. They are balanced and grounded.

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  Practice, People, Introduction

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• There are monasteries in Japan where they teach Zen with rules, more rules than you can imagine, and you might feel comfortable with that. I don't teach that type of Zen.

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  Japan, Might, Imagine

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• Bodhidharma who brought Zen from India to the Orient, taught a very pure Zen - in that it was pure Zen. He wanted to show that the way still existed and wanted to get back to its essence.

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  Essence, Taught, India

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• Now when I speak about Zen, I have a problem, in the sense that the Zen of today has lost the essence, in my estimation, of what I call "old Zen."

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  Essence, Today, Problem

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• Zen has lost its zip, if you will, or its nothingness and has become ritualistic Its established in monastaries with strict codes of koan study.

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  Zips, Study, Lost

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• Old Zen is the way of nothingness, the way of having a good time.

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  Way, Good Times, Introduction

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• Old Zen was the reduction of concepts to absurdity.

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  Reduction, Introduction, Absurdity

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• Different schools of Zen have evolved, principally the Rinzai and Soto orders. A whole hierarchy has developed for the teaching and practice of Zen. Zen has become, to a certain degree, institutionalized.

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  Teaching, School, Order

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