Study Quotes - Page 33

• The relationship between the student and teacher is ultimately important. In higher spirituality we don't study a subject as much as a person.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Yoga, Important

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• The study of Buddhism is essentially the study of modification, how we modify the state of mind we're in, how we modify the realm we're in.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mind, States

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• The study of enlightenment is really a reorganization of our perceptual body or our perceptual field. We learn to see life more directly and more clearly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Enlightenment, Reorganization, Body

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• You become what you study.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Motivational

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• Know that, as in life, there is much that many have looked upon but few have seen because, as my father told me and his father told him, you will come to learn a great deal if you study the insignificant in depth.

  Odysseas Elytis

  Father, Depth, Skepticism

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• The life of meditation and religious study is absolutely no guarantee of peak moments. Most people involved in religious study and meditation are downright bored, and they're as stuck in what they do as everyone else is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Religious, People, Bored

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• Gaining energy is accomplished by meditating, by right actions, right thoughts, right deeds, by studying with a real teacher or by just studying the teachings, by creating happiness in your life, and by never giving up.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Giving Up, Real

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• He would usually study with a small group of students, men and women.

  Frederick Lenz

  Men, Groups, Students

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• Through the study of Zen you can learn to move from lower to higher states of mind at will. Higher states of mind offer you a much more accurate picture of reality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Reality, Mind

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• Zen is the study of mind in all of its manifestations. The purpose of Zen is to be happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Purpose, Introduction

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• There is a beautiful flow to the study of Zen. If it is not making you happier, then you are not practicing correctly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Flow, Introduction

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• In the study of Zen you can learn how to strengthen and clarify your finite mind. Your finite mind is like a muscle; when exercised it becomes stronger.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Stronger, Muscles

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• There are two primary ways of studying Zen. Either an individual will enter into a Zen monastery and study with a Zen master there, or they will study with a Zen master who lives in the contemporary world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Two, World, Way

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• A person who undertakes the study of Zen and learns concentration and meditation is like a gymnast. You become a gymnast of the mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Meditation, Mind, Gymnast

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• Zen has lost its zip, if you will, or its nothingness and has become ritualistic Its established in monastaries with strict codes of koan study.

  Frederick Lenz

  Zips, Lost, Introduction

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• Zen is a study. It's a discipline. It involves the active use of will to make things happen or not happen. These are the secrets of power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Discipline, Secret, Use

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• In Zen we study the will. We learn how to cultivate it, to accumulate will. We use it to direct our actions, and we don't overuse it or abuse it - that's a waste.

  Frederick Lenz

  Abuse, Our Actions, Waste

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• The study of Zen is the study of energy, power, knowledge and balance. It is the science of energy conservation and control. We use energy to aid others, to see beauty, to discover love where we saw no love at all.

  Frederick Lenz

  Balance, Energy, Use

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• The study of Zen is a retraining. It is a series of new ways, not just one way, to learn to use your mind more efficiently.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Way, Use

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• Just like there are different roads that lead to different places, so there are different levels of awareness that lead to different places and we shift in and out of them. These are the ten thousand states of mind that we study in Zen.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Levels, Different

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• Psychic development is not a fanatical, freaky study, predicting the future, talking to UFOs, and being able to find out curious facts that are basically irrelevant to one's time in life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Talking, Psychics, Development

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• A great deal of energy is lost in the study by people who interact with non-physical beings. They get into your mind and your body by approaching you in the dream plane, promising you powers, playing on your desires. They sap your life force.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, People, Mind

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• ...physics is the study of the structure of consciousness.

  Gary Zukav

  Science, Consciousness, Physics

  Gary Zukav (1979). “The dancing Wu Li masters: an overview of the new physics”, Bantam

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• [When a young person loses faith in his religion because he begins to study science and its methodology] it isn't that [through the obtaining of real knowledge that] he knows it all, but he suddenly realizes that he doesn't know it all.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Real, Thinking, Know It All

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• There's an old Celtic proverb that I follow: See much, study much, suffer much is the path to wisdom.

  Greg Jackson

  Mma, Suffering, Path

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