Frederick Lenz Quotes About Mindfulness

• I would encourage you to follow the pathway to enlightenment, to learn to meditate, to practice mindfulness, and not to really care what anybody thinks about you, including yourself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Thinking

• In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it mindfulness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reflection, Mindfulness

• When you do something half-heartedly, you don't get much of a result. When you do it fully, you get a great result.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mindfulness, Half

• If you are mindful in your work, if you put your best effort into it, then something comes back to you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Best Effort, Mindfulness

• There is no fanaticism in any of this. There is intensity. You have to make it happen. You have to put your will into perfecting your daily life, into monitoring your thoughts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mindfulness, Daily Life

• It is necessary to learn how to do a systems analysis of your life, to learn about the effects of places, people, jobs. There are millions of things that go into the study of meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jobs, Buddhism, People

• No matter how many times you have failed you must keep going forward. Only when you have become humble will you begin to grasp the meaning of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humble, Buddhism, Meaning Of Life

• Thought control is the ability to direct mind and attention anywhere.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mind, Attention

• Your ability to still your mind through the process of meditation and inner reflection and outer change brings a stillness to the mind all the time, even in the midst of the busiest activities.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reflection, Meditation

• When you are just thinking a lot of silly thoughts and having a lot of worries, you waste a tremendous energy and power and you put yourself into very limited states of mind. You slow down your evolutionary process.

  Frederick Lenz

  Silly, Buddhism, Thinking

• With the happiness, ecstasy and power you gain from meditation, you can gradually remove your mind from the things it has become hooked to that cause it pain.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Meditation, Mind

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

• Mindfulness is the ability to do physical things in a harmonious way; it is a way to remain centered in a physical world that is out of balance.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Balance, Mindfulness

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

• Stop worrying about tomorrow. Stop thinking about yesterday. Mindfulness is to be here now, in the moment. Focus on this moment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Yesterday

• You don't have to do anything to meditate. That's what makes it so difficult. Everybody wants to do something.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mindfulness, Want

• None of this matters a bit. Yet, of course, it matters at that moment. So we try to be mindful of the moment; but it's fleeting.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Trying, Mindfulness

• We are trying to do our best to bring perfection into whatever we turn our attention to.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perfection, Trying

• There are parts of us that are miserable, that hate, that love, that are cruel, are kind, are reasonable, are unreasonable. You know, you live inside your own mind. Who are you kidding?

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Buddhism, Mind

• 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

• Any area you slough off in your life will reflect in your meditation. Be happy when you could be depressed. Push jealous, fear, and anger out of your mind. Don't feel sorry for yourself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sorry, Jealous, Buddhism

• If you hold a negative thought, then it will become more powerful and not only will it send bad energy to the person, but it will crash your consciousness. All the hard work of meditating is sabotaged.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Hard Work, Buddhism

• We're connected to the Buddhist order, to the mind of enlightenment. All day long we draw the power and force from that world, from all the teachers and all the adherents of the practices and the principles.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Order

• Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and mindfulness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Buddhism, Assessment

• Mindfulness is when you are engaged in activities but the mind is set into the meditative state all the time. Meditation is to be aware of many different levels. It's not just the absence of thought.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Mind

• Mindfulness means that as we go through the day we learn to gain control of our mind, our emotions. We learn to conserve energy in a variety of simple and complicated ways that we learned in Buddhist practice.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Mean, Buddhism

• We are so absorbed in our thoughts that every thought that comes through is a reality. We have to start to detach ourselves from thought and become aware that there are things beyond thought.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, Mindfulness

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