Frederick Lenz Quotes About Monk

• From my own personal encounters and studies with both Tantric and Zen Buddhist monks, I have found them to be humorous, warm, charming, and compassionate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Humorous, Encounters

• When I go visit my brother monks in Japan and sit down with other Zen Masters, they look at my crazy clothes and my strange expression, but they feel the power that emanates from my dedication to the practice. So they are comfortable with me, yet they're very uncomfortable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Brother, Crazy, Buddhism

• I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Thinking, Age

• Originally, I was interested in athletic pursuits like snowboarding, martial arts and surfing. When I went to the Himalayas and met a number of Buddhist monks I was introduced to a new way of looking at life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Buddhist, Snowboarding

• The tantras can be very confusing for a person who is new to Buddhism, and for several thousand years the rule was not to expose a person or a new monk to the tantras until they had practiced for many, many years.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Buddhism, Years

• As Buddhist monks, our task is to bring ourselves resolutely more and more into light, to forgive and forget, to forget those who create problems for us because to remember them is only to keep problems is mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Light

• A Buddhist monk has a responsibility first and foremost to themselves, and that's to find the truth each day in every part of their life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Responsibility, Buddhism

• As a monk you have a responsibility to meditate many hours a day. Not just to sit there but to think of the ten thousand radiances.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Responsibility, Buddhism

• 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

• Put the mind in alignment with the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment and experience them in various gradations forever. That's the total purpose of a monk.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Forever

• In both Surfing the Himalayas and Snowboarding to Nirvana, I have tried to transmit as best I could the spirit of humor, and the sense of humor of the monks I have encountered.

  Frederick Lenz

  Snowboarding, Surfing, Rama

• Happiness is something that comes from creating good karma. The monk who feels that what they are doing is unpleasant is not really creating any good karma and will not have a better lifetime.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Creating, Lifetime

• Many people, including Buddhist monks, spend thousands of hours sitting in what they call meditation. In reality, what they're doing is thinking and ruminating upon their problems.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Reality, Thinking

• Your journey is to see how deeply you can interface your mind with infinity. That's the journey of a monk - to see.

  Frederick Lenz

  Journey, Mind, Infinity

• In the Far East, it is taken for granted that the training of a monk is physically rigorous and academically challenging.

  Frederick Lenz

  Taken, Challenges, Training

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

• You become a monk and you practice and the teacher tells you what to do. If you find that you have a resistance to that, and the resistance is strong, it just means you're not interested. Why put yourself through some sort of torture. It means you weren't that interested.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Strong, Mean

• When you visit the Zen Monasteries, one of the first things required is that you bring a donation. They have to pay for those monasteries. The upkeep is fantastic. The monks have to be fed, and so on.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Careers

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