Enter into the activities of the world, without getting overjoyed by success or totally put out by failure. Whether they love you or hate you, it doesn't much matter. What matters is stillness. Frederick Lenz More Quotes by Frederick Lenz More Quotes From Frederick Lenz After this happens again and again, we reach a point were there is nothing but satori, which is what nirvikalpa samadhi is like. Frederick Lenz satori samadhi introduction In Zen the emphasis is on meditation and developing your body, mind and spirit to find inner peace, strength, clarity and enlightenment. Frederick Lenz inner-peace meditation mind 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 way world There is a sense of competition in Zen. You are competing with your thoughts and trying to overcome them. Frederick Lenz competition overcoming trying Zen is a very quick path to enlightenment and development of the mind and all its facilities. Frederick Lenz enlightenment development mind Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves. Frederick Lenz practice spiritual people With Zen we do it more through slight of hand, a very subtle and delicate shift in consciousness, which shifts the world. It's kind of done from the inside out. Frederick Lenz done hands world Both Zen and mysticsm have this beautiful quality of happiness and laughter, which I think is so necessary in our modern age. Frederick Lenz laughter beautiful thinking 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 study meditation mind There are ten thousand aspects of your mind. Your awareness has ten thousand forms. There is something else. You have to step outside of perception itself. Frederick Lenz perception mind steps From the highest state of mind you have a window whereby you could perhaps move beyond all states of mind, to enlightenment. Frederick Lenz enlightenment mind moving Zen is a very fast path to enlightenment, fast in comparison to some other paths, not fast for the person who practices it. There is no sense of speed. Frederick Lenz enlightenment practice path Zen is the way of splitting the self again and again, untilt there is nothing left. Frederick Lenz self introduction way Zen doesn't believe in the reconciliation of opposites because from the point of view of Zen, there is no point of view. Frederick Lenz views opposites believe People who practice Zen correctly are not spaced-out or unrealistic. They are balanced and grounded. Frederick Lenz practice introduction people There are monasteries in Japan where they teach Zen with rules, more rules than you can imagine, and you might feel comfortable with that. I don't teach that type of Zen. Frederick Lenz japan imagine might Bodhidharma who brought Zen from India to the Orient, taught a very pure Zen - in that it was pure Zen. He wanted to show that the way still existed and wanted to get back to its essence. Frederick Lenz taught india essence Now when I speak about Zen, I have a problem, in the sense that the Zen of today has lost the essence, in my estimation, of what I call "old Zen." Frederick Lenz problem essence today 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 study lost Old Zen is the way of nothingness, the way of having a good time. Frederick Lenz good-times introduction way
