Frederick Lenz Quotes About Balance

• The balance and patience factors are much more critical in surfing than they are in snowboarding ... if you're out surfing serious waves and you wipe out, you don't land on soft snow. It's usually either very sharp coral, or you get raked across the beach gravel and sand while you're tumbling underwater.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beach, Snowboarding, Land

• The power chakra is the navel center. The center of balance is the heart chakra; it's the center of our being. The third eye is the center of wisdom, the Agni chakra.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Eye, Buddhism

• A life that most people will never even know about can be yours in this study, but only if you approach it with equanimity, poise, grace, balance, and professionalism.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, People

• Spiritual balance is tai chi. It is the center of things. It is the place where yin and yang meet. In the chakras, it is considered the heart chalkra, anahata.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Heart, Buddhism

• Humor is the balance of the tonal. Within the tonal you've got reason and humor. The two balance each other so that the tonal can accept and understand the journeys into the nagual.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Journey, Two

• It is in Zen practice that you gain power, balance and wisdom. The battles that you fight are within your own mind. That is where the real victories and defeats are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Fighting, Buddhism

• I examine each student carefully: Is there a balance between their tonal and their nagual?

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Balance, Students

• A strong onslaught of the nagual would upset your balance completely.

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  Strong, Buddhism, Upset

• Without that poise and balance and gentle humor and caring sense, nothing happens at all. It's just egotism and vanity and jealousy and possessiveness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Caring

• Spiritual Balance is the obvious answer to the obsession that sometimes accompanies religious practice, occult practice, philosophical understandings - the assertion that one is right - that something that you're doing is better than something somebody else is doing, the way you're doing it is better than the way someone else is doing it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Religious, Buddhist

• We see an enlightened teacher to gain a sense of humor, to learn balance and proportion and of course to learn wisdom.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Balance

• Without balance and wisdom, power becomes very destructive. It creates unhappiness and not happiness. To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Mistake

• When you practice selfless giving, you're in balance and harmony with everything.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Practice

• It is not simply a transient happiness that you experience in meditation that creates balance; it is a transformative light. Inner light is the most powerful thing there is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Buddhism, Light

• A master of will can teach you how to use will. You watch them and observe them use that will, guided by wisdom, with a happy balance.

  Frederick Lenz

  Power, Balance, Watches

• If there is no way out and confrontation and battle is inevitable, one can use power and strategy, balance and wisdom and enlightenment to win, of course. But the best battle is the battle that is never fought.

  Frederick Lenz

  Winning, Balance, Enlightenment

• Have the right attitude in advanced practice. Feel that you are always a beginner in Zen. They refer to it as "beginners mind". I feel I am a beginner, always; because it's true.

  Frederick Lenz

  Attitude, Buddhism, Practice

• A balanced person will get depressed, discouraged, frustrated and angry sometimes, but doesn't direct it towards anybody else. If they do, they quickly realize they made a mistake.

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  Mistake, Buddhism, Frustrated

• Balance is the most important of all qualities. We don't want a little bit of rapid growth and then to stagnate. We want continual growth, continual development, which implies balance, always.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Growth, Balance

• If you accentuate yourself, thinking or acting like you are important, then you must want to look good to someone in this world. In order to impress or sway anybody in this world, you have to be in this world yourself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Order

• Never think too much of yourself. Realize you are only an instrument of eternity. Do not get stuck in that terrible trap. You can lose everything.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Balance

• The action of giving is in a certain vibratory level, meaning giving exists in a certain plane of consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Compassion, Giving

• It is my experience that people who don't participate in society, who don't have jobs, who don't have friends, are just very stuck in irresponsibility and cultism and all kinds of nonsense.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jobs, Buddhism, People

• You can detach your attention from yourself and go anywhere. You can wander the universe. Big deal!

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Balance, Attention

• When the time comes for a change, you will find it occurring without having created it yourself. You may think that you are the doer and that you are creating the change. That's nonsense.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Creating

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