Frederick Lenz Quotes About Losing

• A lot of people who are involved in self-discovery lose energy to abusive teachers, to abusive friends and to entities, non-physical beings.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Discovery, Self

• If your power level gets low enough, you will die. You will get in a car accident. You will pick up a disease. That is why it is very important to keep your power level high, just to be a happy human being.

  Frederick Lenz

  Car, Important, Levels

• Real winning and losing all takes place at the meditation table. This is where the battles are. Winning is stopping thought. Losing is sitting there and being subjected to all kinds of ridiculous thoughts

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Buddhism, Winning

• I may discuss contemporary cinema, how to shop at a mall without losing energy, how to use the power of mind to increase career and academic success, the Zen of sports, reincarnation, karma, sex, the experience of "suchness" or a new book by Stephen King.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Sports, Sex

• Being a Buddhist monk means never losing one's optimism in spite of all difficulties. It also means being harder on yourself than any of your teachers ever were.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Mean

• Even the lucky ones, who do manage to become happy by attaining their goals, live each day in fear of losing whatever it is they may have gained.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Goal

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

• There's no difference between winning and losing. They are the same type of experience. Winning and losing are sensorial, affixed to an ego, blocked in time and space and none of them ultimately make you happy very long

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Winning

• From my point of view, which is the point of view of no illusions, there is only winning and losing. You might as well be a winner.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Winning

• You need to constantly examine your life, inner and outer, to see where you are losing and gaining power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Needs, Gaining Power, Losing

• Watch out for dark streets in big cities because there are a lot of strange beings that hang out there at night, let alone the people. Don't you remember anything from your other lives?

  Frederick Lenz

  Dark, Night, Cities

• If you ever care about things, that means they have power over you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Over You, Care

• People don't necessarily take power from you for themselves. It just means they are operating at a lower attention level and you got pulled down by it. You are not sufficiently strong enough to be with someone and be unaffected.

  Frederick Lenz

  Strong, Mean, People

• Pain and suffering only occur in temporal time. They don't occur in the world of forever. They only occur in limited transient time, which is a state of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Forever, Mind

• The United States has an incredible debt. That is obviously not the way to live. You have to eliminate waste in your life as the United States has to eliminate waste in its spending.

  Frederick Lenz

  United States, Way To Live, Debt

• Duality is a part of reality, and there is definitely winning and losing. If you don't think so talk to someone who has beaten cancer, talk to somebody who hasn't.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Cancer, Buddhism

• You are drained by foolish actions and others.

  Frederick Lenz

  Losing, Action, Foolish

• Most power is lost in one's own mind by thinking negative thoughts, by worrying about the future, by focusing on the past, as opposed to thinking positive, strong, and happy thoughts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Strong, Past, Thinking

• Power comes from doing meditation, leading a controlled life, being conservative, not wasting all your energy on drugs, alcohol and sex and other pastimes. The guideline for all experience is how you feel afterwards.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, Meditation, Alcohol

• In most cases, energy is lost in little games of manipulation, in little struggles of will, in the attempts to possess others, to wrap them up, to delude them, to shine them on.

  Frederick Lenz

  Struggle, Games, Shining

• A lot of energy is lost to false teachers. Wherever dependency is created, energy is lost.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Energy, Losing

• It takes many years to become proficient in energy conservation. But it is something that happens. You get continually stronger. You see your attention field is far different than it ever was before.

  Frederick Lenz

  Years, Stronger, Energy

• As long as you are in the relative worlds, you should be realistic and know there is winning and losing here.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Winning

• When you allow desire, anger and frustration to dominate you, you are losing power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Frustration, Desire, Losing

• If you lead a sloppy life, if you indulge in your emotions, if you're always upset, freaked out, stressful, and not happy, you are wasting power and your power level will get very low.

  Frederick Lenz

  Indulge In, Upset, Levels

• Drinking alcohol takes you into a lower state of mind. If you drink a lot of it, things get very fuzzy and they are not very sharp or defined. This brings you into a lower state of attention.

  Frederick Lenz

  Drinking, Alcohol, Mind

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