Frederick Lenz Quotes about Health - Page 2

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

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

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

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

Be a perfect flow of energy in whatever you chose to do. This is perfect action.

Frederick Lenz

Health, Buddhism, Perfect

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

To do something perfectly, you must not think about what you are doing at all ... Your thoughts are what create imperfections in your actions. They alienate you from the true reality of any action you perform.

Frederick Lenz

Health, Buddhism, Reality

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

When your spirit is free and your body is well developed, magic occurs. You are able to let go and become the play.

Frederick Lenz

Letting Go, Health, Buddhism

Allow the inherent emptiness within what you are about to do direct you.

Frederick Lenz

Health, Buddhism, Emptiness

Instead of your ego directing you and making countless mistakes, allow yourself to be guided by the invisible principles of the universe within your action.

Frederick Lenz

Mistake, Health, Buddhism

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

When you can become completely impassive in play, then you become fluid and completely unpredictable. No one knows, including yourself, what you will do next. You couldn't even explain it.

Frederick Lenz

Health, Buddhism, Play

If I have led my life totally deliberately, then when I come to the end of the diving board, I can just fall off the diving board and it will be perfect. I won't even remember what happened.

Frederick Lenz

Fall, Health, Buddhism

You can hit a home run. If you are honest, you'll know when it's perfect because at that critical moment of connection, there was no sense of being there. That is perfect play. There is no self involved.

Frederick Lenz

Running, Home, Health

If all the members of a team have synchronized their energy and they have all subordinated their egos to success of the team, then we have a functioning unit. If we have a lot of hotshots who want attention, you won't really play that well.

Frederick Lenz

Team, Health, Buddhism

Teamwork - everything is one. You can connect with the emptiness of all things. All things are empty.

Frederick Lenz

Teamwork, Health, Buddhism

If you are serious about sports and athletics then you need to begin the discipline of mind. With the power of mind, almost anything can be accomplished.

Frederick Lenz

Sports, Health, Buddhism

The emptiness of play is when there is no self present. There is no one playing - there is only play itself taking place, perfect fluid motion.

Frederick Lenz

Health, Buddhism, Self

If you have the sense of participation in sports or athletics, of being a player, then you are not really into the Zen mind. In Zen mind there is no sense of self in the play.

Frederick Lenz

Sports, Health, Buddhism

Unlock the power of the will. Learn balance and gain the knowledge and wisdom necessary to guide those powers, to succeed in sports and athletics.

Frederick Lenz

Sports, Health, Buddhism

Any good athletic is always in a state of perpetual training, as is the Zen student.

Frederick Lenz

Health, Buddhism, Athletic

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

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

The samurais were very interested in Zen because they admired the tremendous precision that the Zen Masters had, their lack of fear and pain and their absolute lack of fear of death.

Frederick Lenz

Pain, Health, Buddhism

The chi is the central energy or power that we use in physical expression. When the chi is flowing properly in our lives, we can be very adept athletically.

Frederick Lenz

Health, Buddhism, Expression

If the chi is being wasted by useless activities, emotions and associations that drain us, then we don't have enough power when it comes time to perform.

Frederick Lenz

Health, Buddhism, Useless