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

• This is the process of mental analysis, sifting through the selves, sifting through your thoughts, practicing mindfulness, learning to control thought.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Self, Mindfulness

• Mindfulness is passive meditation. It is passive because your energy and your attention are divided between your actions and your practice, your meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Practice, Meditation

• It is necessary to go through all the daily tasks and bring perfection to them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Daily Tasks, Perfection

• Our life interferes, our mind, our thoughts. Meditating is not just a practice of asserting will and learning to control the mind, it is also developing control of one's life and gaining wisdom.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Practice, Mind

• If you can't hold a person in your mind with a good thought, it is better not to think about them at all.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Mind

• The unlimited mind, the diamond mind of the Buddha, is your mind, if you can get in touch with it. Stop thinking so much and tap into that psychic part of your being.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Psychics

• If you are just spaced out and you have no purpose in life, you pick everything up. Everybody else's thoughts will come into your mind, everyone else's desires.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mind, Desire

• If you think of others in a jealous way or if you become angry, immediately pause for a moment. It's going to pull you down and send negative energy. At that moment, pause and correct yourself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jealous, Buddhism, Thinking

• If President Bush does a lousy job, then he'll lose power. If the guy at McDonalds who's selling burgers does a great job, then he'll be much more powerful than President Bush.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jobs, Powerful, Buddhism

• 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

• Slow down. Enjoy life. It's tough to slow down if your mind is going a million miles a second. It's tough to slow down if you think what these people do here matters.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, People

• When we practice mindfulness, our nonphysical side merges with the nonphysical side of that which we are experiencing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Practice, Mindfulness

• If you want to experience the unalloyed ecstasy of life, you can accomplish this through the twin Buddhist practices of meditation and mindfulness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Practice

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

• Personal power, knowledge and fun come from how you approach something, not what you approach.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fun, Buddhism, Mindfulness

• You can just sweep the floor generally and gain nothing from it. Or you can figure out the best way to sweep the floor, put your power into it, use it as a concentration exercise, and be meditative.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Exercise, Gains

• Power either goes up or down. Your thoughts are the harness of power. It is necessary to think positive thoughts, not just wait for them to occur, but to introduce them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Waiting

• Look at how beautiful life is, and just keep looking until you see it. You don't see what is in front of you because you're so distracted by your thoughts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Buddhism, Mindfulness

• What we do outwardly will only interrupt the flow of our perfect attention is it is not in harmony with the dharma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perfect, Mindfulness

• Whenever you find yourself becoming angry or jealous, try to see good quality in the person. You will suddenly be thinking a higher thought and that will elevate you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jealous, Buddhism, Thinking

• Thinking is usually a waste of time and energy, since thinking is essentially a rehashing of what we already know. As a matter of fact, thinking is an easy way to confuse yourself. The more you think, the less you know.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Mindfulness

• Advanced meditators are not even desirous of liberation anymore - that is just another attachment. There is no liberation. There is no bondage. These are just ideas of the mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Attachment, Ideas, Mind

• If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions become meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Workout, Health

• 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

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