Athletics Quotes - Page 2

• Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Firsts

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

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• Linus Pauling would have us believe and perhaps correctly, that enough vitamin C will have us live another 20 or 30 years, I think the strongest power in the world is not vitamin C but the power of our own thoughts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Believe, Health, Buddhism

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• Diet is highly individual. You have to see what your body wants and what is healthy for it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Body

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• It is fun to be outside; it's good to move your body and there is just a joy in sports and athletics.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Fun, Moving

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• As you gain more discipline over your body, you will find that a corollary discipline will develop in the mind because the two really go together.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Two

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• The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.

  Plato

  Athlete, Savages, Too Much

  Plato, Justin Kaplan (1951). “Dialogues of Plato”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.

  Edwin Moses

  School, Scholarship, Majors

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• Physical perfection, working out, adds to your spiritual perfection if that is your intent.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Health, Buddhism

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• Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with your spirit, not just with your body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Moving, Health

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• In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference between them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Differences

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• There are lots of people who work out and aren't at all powerful in terms of their mind or their spirits.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Health, Buddhism

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• If someone else runs faster than you or makes more money than you or is more adept at anything, that doesn't mean you have lost. You are measuring yourself only against yourself and your tendencies not to do all that you are capable of doing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Health, Mean

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• Those who are already adept at some disciplines of the body will find that the study of Zen and meditation will give you much more control than you now have.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Discipline

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• Winning has to do with gaining personal power through the practice of meditation and mindfulness; not draining your energy on ridiculous things and people.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Winning

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• The strategy of winning is gaining personal power. There are no techniques to learn that will cause you to win. You need power, balance and wisdom to win and to learn from your loses.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Winning

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• Diet is a matter of personal preference, but if you're interested in the advanced states of meditation, eating mammals should be avoided. They have a more evolved consciousness and can affect your attention field greatly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Meditation

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• Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Buddhist, Health

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• In the Orient we have known for thousands of years that the most powerful tonic for ill health is a happy and clear mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Health, Buddhism

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• The samurais lived with death constantly. They wore a short dagger to take their own life if need be. At any moment they might have to do that, it was a part of their code.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Needs

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• I think the very best thing you can do is observe what makes you stronger and what makes you weaker.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Thinking

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• The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Health, Fighting

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• Most martial arts have to do with the mind, ultimately. The ability to be unafraid, to walk away from a fight without fear - that is control.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Health, Fighting

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• It is quite possible to speed up the healing process to the part of the body that is injured. This all has to do with the release of chi.

  Frederick Lenz

  Healing, Health, Buddhism

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• The more perfectly you can refine the process of Frisbee, the tighter your energy is and the more you become one with the nothingness of the Frisbee, the nothingness of the play.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Play

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• The very advanced practitioners of martial arts never had to raise a hand. They could knock an opponent down without physically touching them, just with chi, pure power. We don't see too many of them anymore.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Health, Buddhism

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