Frederick Lenz Quotes About Rituals

• Unfortunately we've seen meditation insulted in a sense with the image of ritual. You have to dress a certain way, follow a certain type of lifestyle, all that sort of thing, very culty - and that, of course, has nothing to do with the practice whatsoever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Practice, Meditation

• Zen was a reaction. Just as Buddha came into the world and spoke against the fall of Vedanta, so Buddhism lost its essence and became ritual. Zen was a reaction to that.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fall, Buddhism, Essence

• When you live a life devoid of ritual and convention, with honesty and self-effacement, then you are on the road to freedom.

  Frederick Lenz

  Honesty, Self, Action

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