Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 76

• If you're very, very conservative and you like that sort of practice, go find a very conservative Zen master and just do traditional Japanese practice, which is not that traditional actually.

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  Practice, Conservative, Masters

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• It is only in the last 800 years that the rules have come into being and conservative Zen has surfaced. It is not particularly popular in Japan at all. Hardly anybody practices Zen any more because it's just too strict; there are too many rules.

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  Japan, Years, Practice

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• If you're very liberal, then you should go and find a very liberal Zen teacher, a liberal interpretation of the doctrines of the Soto or Rinzai schools.

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  Teacher, School, Doctrine

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• Zen is a study. It's a discipline. It involves the active use of will to make things happen or not happen. These are the secrets of power.

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  Discipline, Secret, Use

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• The path of Zen is not easy. It's wonderful. It's beautiful beyond compare. You will experience more ecstasy and beauty than most people will in a thousand lifetimes.

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  Beautiful, People, Path

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• The light is already there. In Zen Buddhism there's a little speck of dust on the mirror, and that's us.

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  Buddhism, Mirrors, Light

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• The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self or that we are anyone in particular.

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  Self, Ideas, Introduction

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• To have the illusion of selfhood simply means that when you look in the mirror, you see somebody.

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  Mean, Mirrors, Looks

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• In Zen you practice zazen, mindfulness and other forms of introspection to find out who you are and what you want, to balance your spirit, develop willpower, increase your sense of humor and gain wisdom.

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  Practice, Balance, Mindfulness

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• In Zen there is a sense of blending, of stepping out of your body and mind and gaining access to powers and abilities that are far beyond the minds of mortal men.

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  Buddhism, Men, Mind

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• In Zen we study the will. We learn how to cultivate it, to accumulate will. We use it to direct our actions, and we don't overuse it or abuse it - that's a waste.

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  Abuse, Our Actions, Waste

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• The study of Zen is the study of energy, power, knowledge and balance. It is the science of energy conservation and control. We use energy to aid others, to see beauty, to discover love where we saw no love at all.

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  Balance, Energy, Use

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• The way of nothingness is the way of Zen. It is just a term. The contemplation of nothingness or everythingness is where everything starts.

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  Way, Contemplation, Introduction

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• The theory of Zen is non-competition. But that is not really true at all. People who practice Zen are very competitive. They are competing against emptiness.

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  Practice, People, Competition

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• Zen is the path that focuses the most upon meditation. It is almost exclusively a path of meditation.

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  Meditation, Path, Introduction

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• You can only conceive of what lies beyond the state of mind you are in from the point of view of the state of mind you are in.

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  Lying, Views, Mind

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• In Zen you are learning how to make new realities, to build things inside your mind.

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  Reality, Mind, Introduction

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• There are ten thousand planes of awareness within the infinite mind of the diamond mind, your deeper mind.

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  Mind, Infinite, Awareness

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• The ten thousand states of mind that we talk about in Zen are all levels of perception. You can think of each of the ten thousand states of mind as a dimensional plane.

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  Thinking, Perception, Mind

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• Beyond the ten thousand states of mind is the still point. It exists within them all, yet beyond them. It is not affected by them. It gives birth to them. This is the riddle.

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  Giving, Mind, Birth

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• The ten thousand states of mind are hallucinatory. Hallucinations are real. Dreams are real. But there are some things more real.

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  Dream, Real, Mind

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• Both light and dark are eternity. Human beings assign relative values to colors, but beyond the relative, there just is - what in Zen we call "suchness".

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  Dark, Relative Value, Light

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• The study of Zen is a retraining. It is a series of new ways, not just one way, to learn to use your mind more efficiently.

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  Mind, Way, Use

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• Inner seeing has nothing to do with physical vision; it's the perception of life directly.

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  Perception, Vision, Perception Of Life

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• The hindrances to being psychic are a general dullness that develops from living in the material world, and being a material girl.

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  Girl, Psychics, World

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