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Frederick Lenz Quotes about Buddhism - Page 16

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The practice of mindfulness is monitoring your mind all day and all night. It's enjoyable to just remove things that make you unhappy from your mind, to clarify your emotions.

The practice of mindfulness is monitoring your mind all day and all night. It's enjoyable to just remove things that make you unhappy from your mind, to clarify your emotions.

Buddhism, Night, Practice

Mindfulness is passive meditation. It is passive because your energy and your attention are divided between your actions and your practice, your meditation.

Buddhism, Practice, Meditation

Mindfulness means that as we go through the day we learn to gain control of our mind, our emotions. We learn to conserve energy in a variety of simple and complicated ways that we learned in Buddhist practice.

Buddhist, Mean, Buddhism

Mindfulness is when you are engaged in activities but the mind is set into the meditative state all the time. Meditation is to be aware of many different levels. It's not just the absence of thought.

Buddhism, Meditation, Mind

If you want to experience the unalloyed ecstasy of life, you can accomplish this through the twin Buddhist practices of meditation and mindfulness.

Buddhist, Buddhism, Practice

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

Any area you slough off in your life will reflect in your meditation. Be happy when you could be depressed. Push jealous, fear, and anger out of your mind. Don't feel sorry for yourself.

Sorry, Jealous, Buddhism

We are trying to do our best to bring perfection into whatever we turn our attention to.

Buddhism, Perfection, Trying

Why do everything perfectly? Isn't perfection just an illusion? Tell me if it's an illusion if they don't fix your car perfectly next time you bring it in.

Buddhism, Perfection, Car

You can just sweep the floor generally and gain nothing from it. Or you can figure out the best way to sweep the floor, put your power into it, use it as a concentration exercise, and be meditative.

Buddhism, Exercise, Gains

If you are just spaced out and you have no purpose in life, you pick everything up. Everybody else's thoughts will come into your mind, everyone else's desires.

Buddhism, Mind, Desire

It doesn't matter what your work really is. It is exciting to do well at something. It empowers you.

Success, Buddhism, Careers

Personal power, knowledge and fun come from how you approach something, not what you approach.

Fun, Buddhism, Mindfulness

Sitting around idly contemplating doesn't produce much. In work you can discipline your attention, forget about your misery.

Buddhism, Discipline, Mindfulness

If President Bush does a lousy job, then he'll lose power. If the guy at McDonalds who's selling burgers does a great job, then he'll be much more powerful than President Bush.

Jobs, Powerful, Buddhism

There comes a time in life when you just buckle down and have a good time with what you're doing. It doesn't matter much what you're doing. What matters is how you do it.

Buddhism, What Matters, Mindfulness

What we do outwardly will only interrupt the flow of our perfect attention is it is not in harmony with the dharma.

Buddhism, Perfect, Mindfulness

Stop trying to be different. Just do what you are good at, and work really hard. You have to work hard to be chaos.

Hard Work, Buddhism, Trying

The best form of meditation is the sitting meditation. But work is next. Work is a great way to meditate.

Buddhism, Meditation, Mindfulness

If you are mindful in your work, if you put your best effort into it, then something comes back to you.

Buddhism, Best Effort, Mindfulness

It is necessary to have a strong focus. Work will give you that focus.

Strong, Buddhism, Giving

Thought control is the ability to direct mind and attention anywhere.

Buddhism, Mind, Attention

There is no fanaticism in any of this. There is intensity. You have to make it happen. You have to put your will into perfecting your daily life, into monitoring your thoughts.

Buddhism, Mindfulness, Daily Life

You don't have to do anything to meditate. That's what makes it so difficult. Everybody wants to do something.

Buddhism, Mindfulness, Want

Mindfulness is the ability to do physical things in a harmonious way; it is a way to remain centered in a physical world that is out of balance.

Buddhism, Balance, Mindfulness

Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

Begin to live in other levels of attention all the time whether you're at work, driving or running on the beach. When you begin to be in a more meditative state all the time you will find that it fits rather well with everything that you do.

Running, Beach, Buddhism

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