Quotes from Frederick Lenz

To become balanced, meditate on the heart center in the center of the chest. There you will experience happiness, refinement, sensitivity, beauty, laughter.

Happiness is separate from daily experience. If picking the right door on the game show makes you happy, then you will be unhappy in the future because eventually you will pick a wrong door.

In the game of Frisbee you throw the disk to someone else. The point of Frisbee is perfect communication. The person at the other end of the field is receiving an impression, a vibration from you.

Transform yourself. It is not the opponent that will change, or the Frisbee. They will change in relation to your change. You must change.

Your ego interferes, your sense of self. When you let go of the mind, the Frisbee will take its own path.

When you unite the nothingness of your mind with the nothingness of the Frisbee, then the Frisbee is not a Frisbee, and you are not you.

The more perfectly you can refine the process of Frisbee, the tighter your energy is and the more you become one with the nothingness of the Frisbee, the nothingness of the play.

The Frisbee is a round disk. That's the somethingness. But it has another side; it has a nothingness which you cannot perceive with your physical mind or your senses.

You are trying to pierce the veil, to break through the Frisbee so that it doesn't exist, to break through the football so it doesn't exist, and to break through your opponent so they don't exist.

Those who are already adept at some disciplines of the body will find that the study of Zen and meditation will give you much more control than you now have.

Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do.

Allow the emptiness inherent within actions and experiences to guide and shape your choices. Let your actions direct you, the actor, not the other way around.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Most martial arts have to do with the mind, ultimately. The ability to be unafraid, to walk away from a fight without fear - that is control.

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.

Winning has to do with gaining personal power through the practice of meditation and mindfulness; not draining your energy on ridiculous things and people.

It is quite possible to speed up the healing process to the part of the body that is injured. This all has to do with the release of chi.

The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations.

Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons.