A Quote by Frederick Lenz

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.

Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz
American - Author
February 9, 1950 - April 12, 1998

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.

Frederick Lenz

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.

Frederick Lenz

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.

Frederick Lenz

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

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. The culmination of the states of mind you have gone through will create your next lifetime.

Frederick Lenz

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.

Frederick Lenz

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

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

Frederick Lenz

Just like there are different roads that lead to different places, so there are different levels of awareness that lead to different places and we shift in and out of them. These are the ten thousand states of mind that we study in Zen.

Frederick Lenz

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.

Frederick Lenz

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.

Frederick Lenz

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.

Frederick Lenz

Once you have mastered the ten thousand states of mind, it's paranirvana, the absorption into the stillness forever.

Frederick Lenz

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.

Frederick Lenz

Perfection is not a final state. It is a state of mind. There are ten thousand states of mind.

Frederick Lenz