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

• Just see beauty as you walk around through your day. Feel things. Unhook from your thoughts and all the busy things you are doing. Start to look at life. This is mindfulness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mindfulness, Looks

• Mindfulness is the direct application of Buddhist teachings to a physical event, a way of doing or accomplishing something, or a way of thinking and viewing something.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Teaching, Buddhism

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

• The best form of meditation is the sitting meditation. But work is next. Work is a great way to meditate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Mindfulness

• It doesn't matter what your work really is. It is exciting to do well at something. It empowers you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Careers

• In every situation, feel before acting, just for a second. Look for a feeling.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Feelings, Acting

• Focus on this moment. Hold your hand and see what it feels like. Go look at some grass. Talk to a palm tree. Outrun a Ferrari. Experience life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Hands, Focus

• Stop trying to be different. Just do what you are good at, and work really hard. You have to work hard to be chaos.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hard Work, Buddhism, Trying

• Spend time all day and all night monitoring your thoughts, constantly keeping them in a high plateau. Avoid places and people that pull your energy down.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Night, People

• See your life as not just your life but as eternity. Be so completely integrated in the experience of perception that there's no sense of a perceiver but just the fluid moment of ecstasy that is reality unfolding itself to itself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, Perception

• Some people are so solemn. They take their practice so seriously, that when the moment comes to let go of it, they can't.

  Frederick Lenz

  Letting Go, Practice, People

• 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

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