Buddhism Quotes - Page 39

• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Play, Next

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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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fall, Health, Perfect

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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.

  Frederick Lenz

  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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Team, Health, Play

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Teamwork, Health, Emptiness

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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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Health, Discipline

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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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Self, Play

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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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Health, Player

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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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Health, Balance

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Athletic, Training

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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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Winning, Mind

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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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Mind, Sides

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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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Communication, Health, Games

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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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Play, Energy

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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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Letting Go, Health, Self

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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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Mind, Athletics

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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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Football, Health, Break Through

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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, Opponents, Relation

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

  Frederick Lenz

  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.

  Frederick Lenz

  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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Health, Class

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• The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Health, Fighting

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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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Health, Order

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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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Health, Hands

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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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Needs, Samurai

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