Frederick Lenz Quotes About Emptiness

• When you realize your own emptiness, that will be something, won't it?

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Emptiness, Realizing

• In Tantric Buddhism we call the inherent knowledge that all animate and inanimate objects possess of themselves - their emptiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Buddhism, Inanimate Objects

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

• There won't be emptiness. Emptiness is just another idea, another illusion.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Ideas, Emptiness

• Meditation is not emptiness. That is a way of trying to talk about something that is impossible to put into words. It is a world of fullness, if anything.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Trying

• Most human beings are completely out of touch with their spiritual nature and with the inner dimensions that exist within themselves. They don't realize each person has a soul, an inner core of light and intelligence as vast as the ten thousand worlds, whose inner nature is emptiness, ecstasy and happiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Buddhism

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

• Our actions and experiences will direct us. In other words, we will be guided by the inherent emptiness of the things we choose to interact with.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mindfulness, Our Actions

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

• Enlightenment is a timeless void. It's an emptiness that's filled with the most excellent light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Void

• Allow the inherent emptiness within what you are about to do direct you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Emptiness

• In the state of emptiness, you are the action not the performer of the action. Allow an activity or event to take precedence over your own point of view.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Views, Over You

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

• 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, Buddhism, Self

• Meditation is a refocusing on symbols. It's not emptiness. We are using symbols, doorways to step from one world to another, from darkness into light, from death to immortality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Meditation, Darkness

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Teamwork, Health, Buddhism

• Allow the emptiness inherent within actions and experiences to guide and shape your choices. Let your actions direct you, the actor, not the other way around.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Choices

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Practice, People, Competition

• 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

• You can't just sit in emptiness. Even the enlightened don't sit in emptiness. We call it emptiness - but we move our mind into a world of light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Light, Mind

• By perfecting the practices of zazen and mindfulness, by learning patience and love and by realizing the essential emptiness of all phenomena, you will discover nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Compassion, Practice, And Love

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