Introduction Quotes - Page 8

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Believe, Views, Opposites

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• Zen is about breaking out of your ideas and experiencing life and not ideas.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ideas

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• Nothing is any particular way. It's your state of mind that creates reality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, Mind, Way

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• Zen is a very quick path. Zen is the path of meditation. The word Zen means emptiness or fullness, meditation. Meditation is the quickest path to enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Meditation, Enlightenment

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• Zen was a reaction. Just as Buddha came into the world and spoke against the fall of Vedanta, so Buddhism lost its essence and became ritual. Zen was a reaction to that.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fall, Buddhism, Essence

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• Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teaching, Enlightenment, Strings

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• In the old days, Zen was not really practiced so much in a monastery. The Zen Master usually lived up on a top of the mountain or the hill or in the forest or sometimes in the village.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mountain, Village, Forests

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• He would usually study with a small group of students, men and women.

  Frederick Lenz

  Men, Groups, Students

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• They would spend a lot of their time simply walking around in the woods or in the cities, or they would come over to his house and he would teach them with a great deal of humor and laughter about the nature of existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Laughter, Cities, House

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• According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Views, Mind

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• In Zen we classify ten thousand different states of mind, different ways of seeing life. There is something beyond the ten thousand states of mind that we call nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Different, Way

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Meditation

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

  Frederick Lenz

  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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Stronger, Study

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• The intuitive wisdom that comes from your infinite mind can add to your creativity, success and well-being, and can take you to the threshold of enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Creativity, Mind, Enlightenment

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• Each of the small enlightenments that a Zen practitioner has, which are known in Zen as "Satori experiences," provides deeper insights into the nature of existence and helps a person prepare for complete enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Enlightenment, Helping, Satori

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• Drug warriors' staunch opposition to needle exchanges to prevent the spread of HIV in addicts delayed the programs' widespread introduction in most states for years. A federal ban on funding for these programs wasn't lifted until 2009. Contrast this with what happened in the U.K. At the peak of the AIDS epidemic in the mid-1990s, the HIV infection rate in IV drug users in the U.K. was about 1%. In New York City, the American epicenter, that figure was 50%. The British had introduced widespread needle exchange in 1986. That country had no heterosexual AIDS epidemic.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Country, New York, Warrior

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• We have misunderstood our confusion when we think there is an answer to it. The confusion is not a result of questions that are too hard, but rather a questioner who is disintegrating. Confusion is the introduction to true intelligence.

  Steven Harrison

  Thinking, Confusion, Misunderstood

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• [ 1600 Penn] is an ensemble comedy about a family. It just happens to utilize the fact that my character is now being forced into this world as a jumping off point. But, in no way is it the crux of the series. It's simply an introduction to the world.

  Josh Gad

  Character, Jumping, Way

  "Josh Gad and Jason Winer Talk 1600 Penn, Creating the White House Family Comedy, Improvisation During Filming and Viewers’ Perception of the Characters". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 8, 2013.

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• My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the 'Pata Pata' album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice.

  Henry Rollins

  Mother, Voice, Albums

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• If you go to any fight, whether MMA or boxing, there's a whole musical soundscape to these events. There's pre-event pump up/psych-up music, there's fighter introductions, there's between rounds, so my musical needs are really diverse.

  Shawn Anthony Levy

  Fighting, Psych, Mma

  Source: collider.com

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• 3D is very exciting. I love it. I'm a complete convert. Everything for me, from now on, is 3D. I'm completely convinced it's the future of home entertainment, as well as cinema entertainment. I think it's a paradigm shift, in terms of cinema, and those things don't happen very often. The introduction of sound, the introduction of color photography and now 3D have been the big shifts. They happen once every 40 or 50 years, so it's very exciting to be a filmmaker, working while one of them is happening.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Photography, Home, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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

  Frederick Lenz

  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.

  Frederick Lenz

  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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hands, Done, World

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