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Frederick Lenz Quotes - Page 18

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Determine where you are and where you wish to be. Then use all of your self-effort to make that happen, following the guiding principles of all the Buddhas and bohisattvas and seekers of the dharma, of enlightenment.

Determine where you are and where you wish to be. Then use all of your self-effort to make that happen, following the guiding principles of all the Buddhas and bohisattvas and seekers of the dharma, of enlightenment.

Guiding Principles, Self, Effort

You must be kind to others. You must foster a caretaker personality of gentleness and perseverance, even in the midst of adversity.

Perseverance, Adversity, Buddhism

A way of spreading the dharma is just telling people, sharing with them your experiences. Never push it, never be a missionary. Be completely selfless; realize you're only an instrument of eternity.

People, Selfless, Missionary

Care, but don't be pushy! Don't preach about enlightenment to people who don't really want to hear about it.

People, Enlightenment, Care

Share the way by being a good example.

Example, Way, Share

It is good to have respect for all beings because who knows what anyone can do?

Knows, Can Do

We must be able to deal with ridicule and scorn, which it always seems that Buddhists receive. But we feel that it doesn't matter. God's laughing at us; God's laughing at God. We can take a joke too. We're pretty funny.

Buddhist, Buddhism, Laughing

You don't want to become so sensitive that you can't interact with people in the world. If you get to that point, you are not practicing psychic development. You are running away from the world, and you've made yourself weak.

Success, Running, Psychics

Self-discover is not as someone would have us think, a heavy, awesome, moral process where everyone sits around and frowns. As you progress towards enlightenment, you become funny.

Thinking, Self, Progress

Enlightenment is not about being political. It is not a social club. Ashrams often turn into that, I know. Societies of enlightenment often just become cliques.

Buddhism, Political, Enlightenment

I think cosmopolitan spirituality is the best, where we go beyond "My teacher is better than yours" or "My meditation form is better than yours." It's not Ford versus Chevy. But it's rather the transition of our limited awareness into eternity.

Teacher, Buddhism, Thinking

Feel the underlying meaning of the teachings that are espoused by me or anyone else. The word's don't mean much. Words are supposed to be catalysts for higher states of attention. That is where the action is.

Teaching, Mean, Attention

This is Zen, and in Zen, as we all know ... anything goes!

Anything Goes, Introduction, Knows

There is no letter of the law to follow in Zen. There is a lot of etiquette, but there are no rules.

Law, Letters, Etiquette

Zen is discipline - the discipline of living life, the discipline of taking a breath, the discipline of not knowing and not trying to know.

Live Life, Knowing, Discipline

Zen is about breaking out of your ideas and experiencing life and not ideas.

Ideas, Introduction

Nothing is any particular way. It's your state of mind that creates reality.

Reality, Mind, Way

Zen is a very quick path. Zen is the path of meditation. The word Zen means emptiness or fullness, meditation. Meditation is the quickest path to enlightenment.

Mean, Meditation, Enlightenment

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.

Fall, Buddhism, Essence

Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings.

Teaching, Enlightenment, Strings

In the old days, Zen was not really practiced so much in a monastery. The Zen Master usually lived up on a top of the mountain or the hill or in the forest or sometimes in the village.

Mountain, Village, Forests

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

Men, Groups, Students

They would spend a lot of their time simply walking around in the woods or in the cities, or they would come over to his house and he would teach them with a great deal of humor and laughter about the nature of existence.

Laughter, Cities, House

According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through.

Buddhist, Views, Mind

Each of the ten thousand states of mind presents you with a different view of essence and experience.

Views, Essence, Mind

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