A Quote by Frederick Lenz

There are ten thousand states of mind. Most people spend their entire lives confined to a few of these states of mind. — © Frederick Lenz
There are ten thousand states of mind. Most people spend their entire lives confined to a few of these states of mind.
The ten thousand states of mind that we talk about in Zen are all levels of perception. You can think of each of the ten thousand states of mind as a dimensional plane.
In Zen we classify ten thousand different states of mind, different ways of seeing life. There is something beyond the ten thousand states of mind that we call nirvana.
Everything is dependent upon your state of mind. That is all there is, states of mind, ten thousand of them. Beyond all states of mind is nirvana.
Advanced practice is the entrance into the ten thousand states of mind. Most people exist in five or six of these states in their whole lifetime.
There is no ultimate objective reality within the ten thousand states of mind. Most people don't like to hear this. But there are ten thousand realities, and each is definitely unifying.
Most persons spend their lives stuck in relatively low states of mind. In these states of mind their views of themselves and the world around them are often severely limited.
There are ten thousand states of mind. The culmination of the states of mind you have gone through will create your next lifetime.
Meditation simply means entering into states of mind which are happiness, profound happiness, simple happiness, beautiful happiness, complicated, uncomplicated - There are ten thousand states of mind.
I can assure you, as a practitioner of Buddhism, that there are ten thousand states of mind, at least, give or take a few billion.
An enlightened person lives in the world, passes through the ten thousand states of mind, but they are not bound by them. They can go beyond perception.
Nirvikalpa samadhi is a state of no mind, beyond the ten thousand states of mind, where there is nothing but perfection, where the self no longer exists...the ego dissolves into immortality.
Perfection is not a final state. It is a state of mind. There are ten thousand states of mind.
Once you have mastered the ten thousand states of mind, it's paranirvana, the absorption into the stillness forever.
Each of the ten thousand states of mind presents you with a different view of essence and experience.
You can get stuck in one state of mind or a general area of mind for a thousand lifetimes. Some states of mind afford better views than others.
According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through.
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