Frederick Lenz Quotes about Meditation - Page 5

Initially the student, in some traditions, is given a mantra, a particular word of power to focus on. While thoughts are cascading through your mind during meditation, you should be absorbed in the repetition of a

Initially the student, in some traditions, is given a mantra, a particular word of power to focus on. While thoughts are cascading through your mind during meditation, you should be absorbed in the repetition of a mantra.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, Focus, Meditation

A mantra is a thought. Use a mantra to help you still your mind initially and then move into silent meditation.

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Moving, Buddhism, Meditation

It is not a good idea to continually repeat a mantra during meditation. Repeating a mantra throughout your mediation causes you to fixate on a specific level of consciousness.

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Buddhism, Ideas, Meditation

It is more important to repeat a mantra several times with total absorption than to parrot it for hours on end.

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Buddhism, Meditation, Important

At the end of meditation period we always bow and we touch our head to the floor and say "Buddha's name be praised."

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Buddhism, Names, Meditation

Bow and offer your meditation to Eternity, as you would offer a Flower to your lover.

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Flower, Buddhism, Meditation

After the meditation session you have to be a little bit careful. If you start to think a lot of thoughts and become very active, you can prevent some of the meditative awareness from coming into your mind.

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Buddhism, Thinking, Meditation

Learn not to judge your meditation. Just meditate, do your best, set a minimum period of time and meditate.

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Buddhism, Judging, Meditation

The only bad meditation is when you don't meditate.

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Buddhism, Meditation

Frederick Lenz (2014). “Snowboarding to Nirvana: A Novel”, p.104, St. Martin's Press

To meditate with full effort, produces infinity, freedom.

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Buddhism, Meditation, Effort

Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment. Move the ego aside and be still, open, clear, bright and fully conscious.

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Moving, Buddhism, Meditation

You should always feel, no matter how many times you've meditated before, that this is your first meditation. You have no idea what will happen or what won't happen.

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Buddhism, Ideas, Meditation

There are many ways to meditate. When you meditate, you are learning how to feel again.

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Buddhism, Meditation, Way

If you can bring earnestness to your meditation, you will find that happiness is something that will run through your life constantly.

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Running, Buddhism, Meditation

There's no risk in doing a lousy meditation or not meditating at all. There's no risk in being convenient and comfortable. There's a lot of risk in the world of enlightenment.

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Buddhism, Meditation, Risk

Try to read books about meditation, but not so many different viewpoints that they get confusing. There is no best way. It's just what works for you at the time.

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Book, Buddhism, Meditation

Sometimes people start to meditate and they get a headache. It's because they're trying too hard. You're pulling in too much energy.

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Buddhism, People, Meditation

When you meditate, you focus to clear the mind and to bring the willpower together. But then, toward the end of the session let go, just become eternity.

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Letting Go, Buddhism, Meditation

If negative auric vibrations are not kept to a minimum by using psychic shielding techniques, and if they aren't cleansed from our subtle body through meditation, they will accumulate and eventually become very toxic.

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Psychics, Meditation, Technique

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

As we go deeper and deeper into the world of meditation, we are able to travel along the luminous bands, just like you travel along a highway or road.

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Buddhism, Other Worlds, Meditation

There are those who want to revolutionize the world with meditation. I really don't think that is necessary. The world is already revolutionized.

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Buddhism, Thinking, Meditation

Happiness has to do with how quickly you vibrate. Meditation is a process of speeding up the vibration.

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Happiness, Buddhism, Meditation

Everything you do in meditation is amplified. If you meditate for five minutes with your complete mind focused on happiness, that is like focusing on happiness for several hours as you are walking around.

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Happiness, Buddhism, Meditation