Buddhism Quotes - Page 40

• 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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• The samurais were very interested in Zen because they admired the tremendous precision that the Zen Masters had, their lack of fear and pain and their absolute lack of fear of death.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Health, Samurai

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• The chi is the central energy or power that we use in physical expression. When the chi is flowing properly in our lives, we can be very adept athletically.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Expression, Energy

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• If the chi is being wasted by useless activities, emotions and associations that drain us, then we don't have enough power when it comes time to perform.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Useless, Association

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• It is quite possible to speed up the healing process to the part of the body that is injured. This all has to do with the release of chi.

  Frederick Lenz

  Healing, Health, Body

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• I think the very best thing you can do is observe what makes you stronger and what makes you weaker.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Thinking, Stronger

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• Linus Pauling would have us believe and perhaps correctly, that enough vitamin C will have us live another 20 or 30 years, I think the strongest power in the world is not vitamin C but the power of our own thoughts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Believe, Health, Thinking

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• The most powerful force to maintaining a good immune system is the power of positive thinking and not allowing yourself to be unnecessarily drained emotionally by worries and fears.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Health, Positive Thinking

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• In the Orient we have known for thousands of years that the most powerful tonic for ill health is a happy and clear mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Health, Years

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• When you're happy, your immune system is at its strongest point. And when you think negatively, or when you hate, or allow yourself to grow emotionally out of control, you are weakening your immune system.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Health, Thinking

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• Several very good friends of mine have died of AIDS. I spent a great deal of time with them when they went through that process.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Good Friend, Aids

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• One or two of my friends set longevity records for people who had AIDS. What they did, incredibly hard though it was, was to practice meditation, positive thinking and they worked out physically quite a bit.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Positive Thinking, Practice

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• Diet is highly individual. You have to see what your body wants and what is healthy for it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Body, Want

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• Diet is a matter of personal preference, but if you're interested in the advanced states of meditation, eating mammals should be avoided. They have a more evolved consciousness and can affect your attention field greatly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Meditation, Mammals

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• Eternity becomes more beautiful as we age, if we age well. If we age poorly, then we don't improve our minds; we don't refine all the aspects of our being.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Health, Mind

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• It just seemed like Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism - because that's mainly what I've been exposed to - was a real solid organization of teachings to point someone in the right direction. Some real well thought out stuff. But I don't know, like, every last detail about Buddhism.

  Adam Yauch

  Real, Teaching, Organization

  "Sometimes, you just gotta' shut down". Interview With Amy Green, www.salon.com. 1995.

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• The possibilities for immortality are endless. Here you sit reading these words, a butterfly resting on a flower!

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Flower, Reading

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• Life is perfect, it glows.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Perfect, Life Is

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• Life is beautiful all of the time. Just to be alive and perceive that beauty of life all around you and within you is the best that there is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Alive

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• Life has no meaning. It doesn't need a meaning. A meaning is an arbitrary thought formulation that we affix to it because we are in the mood. Life is its own raison d'etre.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Needs, Arbitrary

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• OK, you're alive. How aware are you, of anything? Can you see eternity? Do you live in the land of the perpetually happy?

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Land, Alive

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• A long time ago individuals looked at life and saw that most people aren't happy. They saw this was obviously an inefficient system. So they combed the universe and found immeasurable happiness inside of us, our spirits.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Long, People

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• Self-realization is the last game on earth worth playing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Self, Games

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• The last game on earth is in progress. And when you lose, you win. And when you win, you can't lose.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Winning, Games

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